this paper is a farsi translation of the first chapter of thesecond edition of “theory and methods in politicalscience” edited by david marsh and gerry stoker. thischapter was not included in the first edition of the bookpreviously translated by haj yoosefi. the new edition hasmajor differences with the previous one and the otherchapters in the book are written on the basis of the approachexpla...

The term "translational science" has recently become very popular with its usage appearing to be almost exclusively related to medicine, in particular, the "translation" of biological knowledge into medical practice. Taking the perspective that translational science is somehow different than science and that sound science is grounded in an epistemology developed over millennia, it seems imperat...

Some contemporary or relatively recent articles, studied together, seem to suggest that computer science education is in a state of crisis. But, is it? This article examines the arguments. My preliminary findings is that if you examine the arguments from a positivist stance, you may well infer that there is a crisis, but if you view them from a constructivist perspective, the crisis becomes an ...

W. V. Quine is one of the most prominent advocates of the naturalistic approach to epistemology and he argues that epistemology should be naturalized and transformed into a sub-discipline of psychology and hence a chapter in science. In his famous paper " Epistemology Naturalized, " Quine starts to compare epistemology with the logical and set-theoretical studies of the foundations of mathemati...

Courses INTS 4010 Epistemology (4 Credits) An introductory course covering philosophy and history of science, epistemology, causality, and the logic of inquiry as related to international studies. The relation between theory and practical politics is explored, and differences between empirical and normative theory are examined in the context of foundational principles of politics and social sci...

Courses INTS 4010 Epistemology (5 Credits) An introductory course covering philosophy and history of science, epistemology, causality, and the logic of inquiry as related to international studies. The relation between theory and practical politics is explored, and differences between empirical and normative theory are examined in the context of foundational principles of politics and social sci...

This paper presents a seminal work in preparing lecture notes in epistemology of computer science and computer ethics through an open source personal wiki system engine. Our course of epistemology of computer science and computer ethics aims at making graduate students think about the fundamentals of the discipline as a science and as a profession, so we encourage a 'learning by doing' approach...