South Africa has a long-standing malaria programme aimed at controlling both the vector and the parasite of the disease. It has been extremely successful as evidenced by the low mortality rate, the low incidence rate (Strebel et al. 1986, Sharp and le Sueur 1996, Ngxongo 1994) and the large areas of the country freed from epidemics in relation to the situation prior to control (Sharp et al. 198...

In this paper I assess the relation between philosophy of chemistry and (general) philosophy of science, focusing on those themes in the philosophy of chemistry that may bring about major revisions or extensions of current philosophy of science. Three themes can claim to make a unique contribution to philosophy of science: first, the variety of materials in the (natural and artificial) world; s...

abstract “wisdom of islamic art” is relatively a full of application, prevalent and concurrently ambiguous combination, that, despite the studies conducted on it, still no clear meaning of it is at hand. due to the existence of this confusion in the meaning, sometimes the wisdom of islamic art, despite the distinction that exists, is considered equal to “philosophy of islamic art.” as the appli...

Teacher education philosophy plays an important role in enhancing the teachers’ awareness of the practices particularly in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This study meant to observe the possible effect of the awareness of teacher education philosophy on EFL teachers’ professional skill in the light of Kumaravadivelu’s postmethod parameters, tapping teachers’ gender, academi...

the principal problem in studying farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: greek political philosophy, iranshahri (persian polis) pre-islamic political thoughts, and islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s trinary category: greek political philosophy/ fighi shari’at-name/ iranian siasat-name. this articl...

one of the most important and disputable problems in philosophy of religion is “the problem of evil”. at the course of the history, theologians have put forward different solutions to this problem. one of them which have been propounded by some western philosophers and almost all islamic philosophers, is called the doctrine of “inexistency of evils” so the main purpose of this article is as fol...