Political Development in Social Sciences Textbooks: Content Analysis of the High School Texts M. Abtahi, Ph.D.* G.R. Mohammadimehr**   Political development, as an educational objective, could be achieved if certain concepts and values are dealt with in the textbooks. Chief among such concepts and values are rationality, scientific tendencies, law abiding, group work, consultation, ...

(Draft: Please do not cite or quote without permission. Comments welcome.) 1. On the one hand, I think it is fair to say that philosophers recognize a special problem or question about how we are to " interpret " scientific theories only in light of their concerns about whether we are really entitled to believe what those theories say when they are interpreted in what we see as the most natural...

according to abū al-barakāt baghdādī, time and place are a priori conditions of motion; moreover, against the peripatetic philosophers, for whom time is the measure of motion, he holds that time is the measure of existence. nevertheless, he believes that we can define motion on the basis of our intuitive non-scientific concept of time and, by so doing, we can resolve the apparent circularity of...

though plato and sohravardi appearantly have the same view on the essence of human soul and the way in which it belongs to body, there are fundam ental differences in their point of view and their style as well. this paper deals with soul which is believed by both philosophers to be the origin of the human’s soul at first and, then, expresses their idea and reasonings about the occurance and an...

Structural damage detection is a field that has attracted a great interest in the scientific community in recent years. Most of these studies use dynamic analysis data of the beams as a diagnostic tool for damage. In this paper, a massless rotational spring was used to represent the cracked sections of beams and the natural frequencies and mode shape were obtained. For calculation of rotational...

A substantial portion ofB. F. Skinner's scholarship was devoted to developing methods and terms for a scientific study of behavior. Three concepts central to scientific accounts—cause, explanation, and theory—are examined to illustrate the distinction between mechanistic and relational frameworks and radical behaviorism's relationship to those frameworks. Informed by a scientific tradition that...