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Prof. Dr. Salah Osman
Personal Data
Full Name: Salah Mahmoud Osman Muhammad Date and Place of Birth: 20/10/1963, Alexandria, Egypt Citizenship: Egyptian Marital Status: Married
4 Nada (Female) Noha (Female) Children: 4/6/1993 27/1/1995 Muhammad (Male) Amr (Male) 29/10/1997 2/8/2007
Professor (Chair of the Department of Current Employment: Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University) Specialization: Logic & Philosophy of Science Minufiya University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Gamal Abd Al- Business Address: Naser Street, Shebin El-Kom, Minufiya 32511, Egypt [email protected] E-mail Address: [email protected]
Cell: +20[12]24006539 Phone and Fax: Business Phone: +20[48]2221027 Business Fax: +20[48]2235691
Academic Qualifications
PH. D. Degree from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, in the thesis titled: 1996 The Problem of Continuity and Infinity in Philosophy, Physics, and Mathematics M. A. Degree from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of 1993 Arts, Alexandria University, in the thesis titled: Reason and dialectic in the Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse B. A. Degree from the Department of Philosophy, 1985 Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University.
Employment History
From To Position
Chair of the Department of June 29, 2008 So Far Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University Professor at the Department of March 24, 2008 So Far Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University
Assistant Professor at the Department of January 28, 2003 March 23, 2008 Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University Lecturer at the Department of December 7, 1996 January 27 2003 Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University Assistant Lecturer At the Department of November 6, 1993 December 6, 1996 Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University Demonstrator At the Department of October 8, 1989 November 5, 1993 Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University
Selected Publications
Books Published:
. 2016: Philosophy of Science A to Z (Translation), National Center for Translation, Ministry of Culture, Cairo.
. 2007: Neutrosophy in Arabic Philosophy, with Prof. Dr. Florentin Smarandache, Chair of Math & Science Department, The University of New Mexico, 200 College Road, Gallup, NM 87301, USA. Renaissance High Press, USA, in English.
. 2007: Neutrosophy in Arabic Philosophy, with Prof. Dr. Florentin Smarandache, Chair of Math & Science Department, The University of New Mexico, 200 College Road, Gallup, NM 87301, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
. 2006: Color Realism: Reading in the Essence of Color and the Ways of Consciousness of it, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
. 2005: The Nature of Spatial Boundaries between Geography and Philosophy, the Egyptian Meeting for Invention and Growth, Alexandria, in Arabic.
. 2004: Towards a Philosophy of the Chemistry, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
. 2004: The Illusion of External World between Language and Cognition, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
. 2002: Many-Valued Logic between the Degrees of Truth and the Limits of Knowledge, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
. 2001: Darwinism and Human: the Theory of Evolution from Science to Globalization, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
. 2000: Scientific Model between Imagination and Reality, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
. 1998: Continuity and Infinity between Science and Philosophy, Al Maaref Establishment Press, Alexandria, Egypt, in Arabic.
Journal Publications (Published):
. 2016: Translating into Aranic for The Introduction and the Third and Fourth Chapters, Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction, By Val Dusek. Alexandria, Egypt: The Establishment of Knowledge press (Munsha't al-Ma'arif). (in print).
. 2016: Gottlob Frege' On Sense and Reference, Translation and Comment (in print)
. 2015: A Contemporary Logical View Based on the Theory of Jurisprudential Measurement, National Center of Research in Social and Culture Anthropology, Es-Senia, Oran, Algeria, in English and Arabic.
. 2015: In the Heart of Egypt (A Review of John Bradley's Book), Orbits (Madarat) Journal, Tunisia, No. 23, Summer 2015, pp. 22 – 32.
. 2012: Understanding of Islam in Japan Between Past and Present (A Review of Samir Nouh's Book), Journal of Oriental Studies, Center for Japanese and Oriental Studies, Cairo University & CISMOR, Doshisha University, No. 6, July 2012, pp. 173 – 189.
. 2012: Models and Analogical Inference in Science, AL-MUKHATABAT Journal, Tunisia, No. 3, July 2012, pp. 9 – 59.
. 2011: Islam and Science: from the Creativity and Attractiveness of the Past to the Variables of the Present, Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (CISMOR), Doshisha University, Japan, in English.
. 2006: Science, Philosophy, and Religion as Categories for the Rising of the Arabic Mind, The Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, 66, July 2006, pp. 73 – 94, in English.
. 2006: Neutrosophic Anthology, in Fifth International Anthology on Paradoxism, Editura: OffsetColor, Rm.Valcea, pp. 22 – 28, in Arabic.
. 2004: The Dialectic of Constancy and Motion in Zeno's Paradoxes: a Contemporary Mathematical View, The Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, 66, July 2004, pp. 99 – 139, in Arabic.
. 2003: Science, Philosophy, and Religion as Categories for the Rising of the Arabic Mind, The Service Center for Research Consulting, Division of Translation, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, 15, March 2003, pp. 1 – 27, in Arabic.
. 2001: Semantics of Indexicals and Indirect ( Reported ) Speech, The Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, 58, July 2001, pp. 127 – 166, in Arabic.
. 1999: The Tree of Universe and Counterfactuals in Storrs McCall, The Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, 39, October 1999, pp. 83 – 128, in Arabic. Reviews of Books
. 2014: Obiedat, A. Z., The Marriage between Logic and Nature and the Perennial Generation of Innovation according to Dr. Salah ‘Uthman, Almukhatabat Journal (Philosophical Journal For Logic, Epistemology and Analytical Philosophy), Tunisia, No. 10, April 2014, pp. 176 – 87.
. 2014: Wafi, Amal, Neutrosophy in Arabic Philosophy, a New Book for Salah Osman, Rosaelyousse Journal, August 24, 2014.
Other Articles in Newspapers and Internet
Articles in the Philosophy of Science:
. Abstract Mathematical Entities between Existence and knowledge. . March of Physics between Continuity and Discontinuity. . Mathematical Continuity: from Geometrical Dimensions to Numbers. . Aesthetic Experience and the Ethics of Chemical Practice. . Structure of Chemistry and the Concepts of Scientific Method. . Language of Chemistry: from the Formal Structures to the Experimental Facts. . The Versification of Communication's Poem between Philosophy and Chemistry. . Biological Evolution between Lamarckism and Darwinism. . Color from a Scientific Perspective. . Philosophical Theories on the Essence of Color. . Structure of Eye and Mechanisms of Color Vision. . Geographical Boundaries from a Philosophical Perspective. . Models and Analogical Inference in Science. . Bertrand Russell and Our Knowledge of the External World. . Philosophy of Language: Key Concepts. . Philosophical Darwinism. . Darwinism and the Biological Evolution of Society.
Articles in Contemporary Philosophical Thought:
. The Roots of Globalization: Why it is Americanization, not Globalization? . The Reduction of Dimensions: Marcuse and the Story of the Assassination of the Contemporary Human Rationality. . Injustice in Science, Arts, and Letters (by Florentin Smarandache, trans. into Arabic by Salah Osman).
Articles in the Arab-Islamic Thought:
A Contemporary Reading of the Logic of Islamic Jurisprudential ِ . Measurement (Qiyas al-Ghaib ala al-shahid).
Presentations
. 2007: An Introduction to Neytrosophy in Arabic Philosophy, with Prof. Dr. Florentin Smarandache, Chair of Math & Science Department, The University of New Mexico, 200 College Road, Gallup, NM 87301, USA. (in Minufiya University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, December 14 – 15).
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate Courses:
. General Philosophy. . Modern (Symbolic) Logic. . Methodology. . Philosophical Texts in English Language. . Philosophy of sciences. . Philosophy of History. . Philosophy of Language. . Modern Islamic Thought. . Philosophy of Civilization. . Introduction to Human Sciences. . Introduction to Pure Sciences. . Human Thought.
Graduate Courses:
. Logic and Philosophy of sciences. . Philosophical Research Methods. . Methodology. . Philosophy of Civilization.
Supervision of M. A. and Ph. D. Theses
Title of Theses Details
Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, co-supervisors Prof. Ibn Arabi's Critical Method Dr. Atif Al-Ertaqi and Prof. Dr. Zeinab Afifi Shaker MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, John Austin's Philosophy of Language Minufiya University, co-supervisor Prof. Dr. Hassan Abdul Hamid MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Truth Function in the Three-Valued Minufiya University, co-supervisor Prof. Logic Dr. Muhammad Qasim The Structure of the External World MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, according to Bertrand Russell Minufiya University The Problem of Excluded Middle Law MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, and its Role in the Evolution of the Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr. Logical Systems from Aristotle to the Medhat Nazif Modern Ages MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Globalization as Ideology and the Effect Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr. of the Communications Revolution on it Amin Al-Saadani Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Postmodern Philosophy: a Study of the Minufiya University, co-supervisor Prof. Problem of Scientific Rationality Dr. Mahir Abdul Qadir Paradoxes and its Epistemology Role in Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, the Formation of the Modern Scientific Minufiya University Mind The Problem of Neutrality in the Modern MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Kafr El- and contemporary Logical Systems Sheikh University Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, van Fraassen's Epistemology Minufiya University Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, and its Applied Dimensions Minufiya University The Problem of Concepts between MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Philosophy and Science Minufiya University MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, The Role of Pragmatism in the Formation Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr. of the American Political Mind Amin Al-Saadani MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Roger Garaudy's Humanism Minufiya University Political Dimensions of the Scientific MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Project: Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr. An Analytical - Critical Study Amin Al-Saadani The Concepts of Probability Among Philosophy and Mathematics and Logic: Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, An Analytical Study of the Logic of Minufiya University Scientific Justification The Problem of Neutrality in Many- Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut Valued Logics formats: University An Analytical -Critical Study Scientific Realism in Hilary Putnam's MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, philosophy Minufiya University The Structure of Intellectual Experiences MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, and its Role in the Evolution of Scientific Minufiya University Knowledge MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut Nick Bostrom's Philosophy of technology University MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Kafr El Technological Rationality Sheikh University The Philosophical Dimensions of MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Simulation Technology and Virtual Minufiya University Reality
Theses Discussed in Deferent Universities
Title of Theses Details
Epistemology of Science's Evaluation and Historiography: Analytical - Critical MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Study in the Methodology of Research Shams University, Egypt. Programme
Relation between Individual Will and MA Thesis, at the Faculty of Arts, Biological Bases of Alexandria University, Egypt Human Act
Foundations of Critical Trend and its MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Impact on the Intellectual Reform Vision Minufiya University in the Writing of Zaki Naguib Mahmoud
Ph.D. Thesis at the Women's College, Ain von Wright's Deontic Logic Shams University
Art of the Islamic Call in the Writings of Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic Sayyid Qutb Call, Mansoura, Al-Azhar University
Humanism in Modern Philosophical Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic Thought and its Impact on Contemporary Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University Islamic thought
The Thought and Doctrine of Agakhani Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic Ismailis (Nizari) and the Attitude of Islam Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University Towards it
Methodology between European and Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic Islamic Thought Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University A Comparative Study
The Issue of Justification between Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic Judaism and Christianity, and the attitude Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University of Islam towards it Mind and Body: a Study in the Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Philosophy of Gilbert Ryle Minufiya University
Theory of State in Conservation and Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Liberalism Minufiya University
The Ethical Structure of the Computer MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, System Mansoura University
Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut according to University Herman Weyl
Ph.D. Thesis at the Philosophy of Life and Death among Faculty of Arts, Philosophers and Sufis Minufiya University
Deconstruction Trend and the Issues of Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Feminism Minufiya University
MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Pragmatism's Epistemology Mansoura University
Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic An Analytical Study of some Issues of and Arabic Studies in Alexandria, Al- Faith in Malik bin Nabi's Thought Azhar University
Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut Hilary Putnam's Epistemological Realism University
Ideology of Globalization in the Modern Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Western Thought Minufiya University
Scientific Laws and Theories in the Light Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, of Contemporary science Mansoura University
The Problematic of Absurd Attitude and MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, its Relation to the Ontology and Human Minufiya University existence
The Methodological Tools of the MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Scientific Research on Human Mansoura University
John Rawls' Ideological Dimensions of MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, the Theory of Justice Minufiya University
Just War Ethics in the Political Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Philosophy of Douglas Lucky Minya University
The Ddevelopment of Epistemology from MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Physio- philosophical perspective Mansoura University
Academic Activities
Participated in the Annual Scientific Conferences convened by the . Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, since 1996 till now
Participated in the amendment and development of the Undergraduate . Study Programs, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University
Contributed to the support and development of the College Library, the Postgraduate Programs, and the Cultural Relations through participation in . the Committees of the Library, Postgraduate Studies, and Cultural Relations, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University
Participated in the seminars and conferences convened by the Egyptian
. Philosophical Society
Supervised the Philosopher Family, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, . and contributed to its cultural, social and recreational activities
Participated in the development of the Graduate Study Programs in . accordance with the Credit Hours system, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University
Participate in preparing the regulation of Philosophical and Future Program in accordance with the of Open . Learning System, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University
Participated in the activities of the International Movement of Paradoxism, . and translated some articles of its International Journal into Arabic: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/a/Paradoxism.htm
Taught many courses and participate in the development of its academic . content, Department of Philosophy, since 1996 and so far
Participated in the support of the cultural and teaching activities, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, through
. the ongoing debate with the Research Institutions and Academic Departments abroad via the Internet, and to invite some Professors from American and European Universities to deliver lectures
Participation in Seminars held by the University and College on the development of University Education, as well as
. Symposiums held by the Department of Philosophy in various areas
Conferences and Symposium
International Conference on April 16 – 17, Humanities and Information Technology 2002 Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt International Conference on April 28 – 30, Comparison Literary and 2007 Linguistic Studies Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt International Conference on November 25 – 27, 2007 Citizenship and Egypt's Future Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt International Conference on November 2 – 4, Slums in Egypt: Manifestations 2010 and Remedies Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt Symposium on Egypt after the Revolution of January 25th: Prospects March 6, and Challenges 2011 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt
Symposium and Public Lecture entitled Islam and Science: from the Creativity and November 26 – 27, 2011 Attractiveness of the Past to the Variables of the Present Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (CISMOR), Doshisha University, Japan International Conference on November 2 – 4, Egypt after the Revolution of January 25th: Visions and 2012 prospects Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt
Symposium and Public Lecture entitled November 15 – 16, Logic and balance of human knowledge 2012 Nile Cultural Center for Culture and Mental Science, Beirut - Lebanon International Symposium on Contemporary Civilizational Predicament of the Islamic World, and the Role of Risale-i Nur for Bediüzzaman February 24, 2013 Said Nursî in the Establishment of an Islamic Civilizational Model Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt International Conference on November 4 – 6, Egypt's Identity: Standpoint Towards Sustainable 2014 development Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt
International Symposium on February 23, 2015 The Concept of Religious Tolerance in Japan Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt International Symposium on Philosophy in the Arab world in the early of twenty-one century, with a Paper Entitled: March 11 – 12, A Contemporary Logical View Based on the Theory of 2015 Jurisprudential Measurement National Center of Research in Social and Culture Anthropology, Es-Senia, Oran, Algeria
Symposium on August 30, 2016 Logic as Model and the limits of knowledge Faculty of Science, University of Tanta, Egypt International Conference on November 6 – 8, Humanities crisis in a changing world 2016 Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt
Awards
. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Bahjat Abdul Muta'al Prize for the Distinct Member of the Faculty Stuff, Minufiya University, Egypt, 2007.
. Certificate of Recognition from the Math & Science Department, The University of New Mexico, 200 College Road, Gallup, USA, 2007 – 2008.
. Certificate of Recognition from the International Association of Paradoxism, 2007 – 2008.
Training Courses and workshops
Research Management (R5) November 20 – 22, 2007 Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria University, Egypt
Code of Ethics (P4) November 13 – 15, 2007 Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria University, Egypt
Teaching Evaluation (T5) November 10 – 12, 2007 Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria University, Egypt
Effective Presentation Skills (I1) November 6 – 8, 2007 Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria University, Egypt
Teaching with Technology (T3) November 3 – 5, 2007 Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria University, Egypt
Credit Hours System October 21 – 23, 2007 Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Minufiya University, Egypt
University Teacher Preparation September 2 – 20, 1995 Faculty of Education, Minufiya University, Egypt
January 21 – April 5, English Language (TOEFL) 1993 American Cultural Center, Alexandria, Egypt Workshop on February 15, 2009 Production of E-courses: Mechanisms and Models Faculty of Arts, University of Menoufia Workshop on November 8, 2009 Research Projects Funded by the European Union Faculty of Arts, University of Menoufia
Membership in Scientific Organizations and Journals
Member of . Egyptian Philosophical Association Member of . International Association of Paradoxism Member of Editorial Board of Al-Mukhatbat Journal . (Philosophical Journal for Logic and Epistemology, Tunisia): http://mukhatabat.unblog.fr Advisory Board Member for the Site of . Arab Philosophers http://www.arabphilosophers.com Referee for . Journal of Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University Referee for . World of Thought Magazine (alam al-Fikr), Kuwait Research Fellow (Member of the Steering Committee) . Center for the Study of Conscience, Doshisha University, Japan Member of the Standing Committee for the Upgrades of Professors and . Assistant Professors in Egyptian Universities
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy and History of Sciences Methodology Symbolic Logic Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Chemistry Islamic Thought Philosophy of Physics Philosophy of Mathematics
Internet sites
Personal Site of Prof. Dr. Salah Osman https://drsalahosman.wordpress.com/
Diwan Al-Arab http://www.diwanalarab.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=15481
Arab Philosophers http://www.arabphilosophers.com/Arabic/aphilosophers/acontemporary/aconte mporary.htm
House of Arab writer http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/salah_osman.htm
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3344869.Salah_Osman
Open Library http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3869643A/Salah_Osman
Center for the Study of Conscience, Doshisha University, Japan http://ryoshin.doshisha.ac.jp/en/researcher/
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpt1rpyrTq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYFeOLJF5H0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whsat0muBTg
CISMOR (Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions) http://www.cismor.jp/en/archives/university/lectures-archive/ http://www.cismor.jp/en/2011/11/26/islam-and-science-2/ http://www.cismor.jp/en/2011/?cat=3 http://www.cismor.jp/en/visitors/2011/ http://www.cismor.jp/en/2011/11/26/islam-and-science-3/
Elborkan Journal (An international symposium in Algiers on philosophy in the Arab world):
http://elborkan.com/2015/03/15/%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A8- %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9/
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