Collection of the Papers Presented at the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra, Issues in Cotemporary Western Philosophy, Volume 7

This volume is the continuation of the previous one and includes categories and papers on Contemporary Western Schools of Philosophy. These categories consist of the philosophy of language and epistemology, and knowledge and the philosophy of knowledge.

The titles of some of the papers and their writers are as follows:

• Mulla Sadra's Doctrine of Nature and Authority of Nature on Mathematics, Battumur Doljinsurengiin & Otgonbayar Momolyn

• What is Mathematics? Intuitionistic Reflections, Dirk Van Dalen

• Two Referents of Trans-Substantial Motion in Physics, Ali Quli Bayani

• What is an Artifact? Robert P. Crease

• Physics and the Underdetermination Thesis, Alberto Cordero

• Bohr and his Debate with Einstein, Towfic Shomar

• On the Possible Quantum Correlations "Mechanism", Ivan Z. Tsekhmistro

• Chaos and Fundamentalism, Gordon Belot

• Incommensurability, Complementarily and Irreversibility: The Tripod of Scientific Philosophy, E.V. Altekar

• The Principle of Sufficient Reason, Gordon Belot

• The Ideological Background of Lakatos' Conception of Rationality , László Ropolyi

• Philosophy of Social Sciences and Self-Knowledge: The Case of Foucault's History of the Present, Patrick Baert

This volume includes 29 papers, most of which have been written by non-Iranian professors and philosophers. In order to provide a better knowledge of the scientific status of the writers, all of volumes in this series provide a short account of their biographies and works.