Curriculum Vitae

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

Children:

4

Nada (Female)

4/6/1993

Noha (Female)

27/1/1995

Muhammad (Male)

29/10/1997

Amr (Male)

2/8/2007

Current Employment:

Professor (Chair of the Department of

Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya

University)

Specialization: Logic & Philosophy of Science

Business Address:

Minufiya University, Faculty of Arts,

Department of Philosophy, Gamal Abd Al-

Naser Street, Shebin El-Kom, Minufiya 32511,

Egypt

E-mail Address: Salah_osman2002@yahoo.com

Salah_osman@hotmail.com

Phone and Fax:

Cell: +20[12]24006539

Business Phone: +20[48]2221027

Business Fax: +20[48]2235691

Academic Qualifications

1996

PH. D. Degree from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of

Arts, Minufiya University, in the thesis titled:

The Problem of Continuity and Infinity in Philosophy, Physics,

and Mathematics

1993

M. A. Degree from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of

Arts, Alexandria University, in the thesis titled:

Reason and dialectic in the Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse

1985 B. A. Degree from the Department of Philosophy,

Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University.

Employment History

From To Position

June 29, 2008 So Far

Chair of the Department of

Philosophy, Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

March 24, 2008 So Far

Professor

at the Department of

Philosophy, Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

January 28, 2003 March 23, 2008

Assistant Professor

at the Department of

Philosophy, Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

December 7, 1996 January 27 2003

Lecturer

at the Department of

Philosophy, Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

November 6, 1993 December 6, 1996

Assistant Lecturer

At the Department of

Philosophy, Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

October 8, 1989 November 5, 1993

Demonstrator

At the Department of

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

Ibn Arabi's Critical Method

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisors Prof.

Dr. Atif Al-Ertaqi and Prof. Dr. Zeinab

Afifi Shaker

John Austin's Philosophy of Language

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisor Prof.

Dr. Hassan Abdul Hamid

Truth Function in the Three-Valued

Logic

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisor Prof.

Dr. Muhammad Qasim

The Structure of the External World

according to Bertrand Russell

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Problem of Excluded Middle Law

and its Role in the Evolution of the

Logical Systems from Aristotle to the

Modern Ages

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr.

Medhat Nazif

Globalization as Ideology and the Effect

of the Communications Revolution on it

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr.

Amin Al-Saadani

Postmodern Philosophy: a Study of the

Problem of Scientific Rationality

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisor Prof.

Dr. Mahir Abdul Qadir

Paradoxes and its Epistemology Role in

the Formation of the Modern Scientific

Mind

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Problem of Neutrality in the Modern

and contemporary Logical Systems

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Kafr El-

Sheikh University

van Fraassen's Epistemology Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

and its Applied Dimensions

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Problem of Concepts between

Philosophy and Science

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Role of Pragmatism in the Formation

of the American Political Mind

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr.

Amin Al-Saadani

Roger Garaudy's Humanism MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Political Dimensions of the Scientific

Project:

An Analytical - Critical Study

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University, co-supervisor Dr.

Amin Al-Saadani

The Concepts of Probability Among

Philosophy and Mathematics and Logic:

An Analytical Study of the Logic of

Scientific Justification

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Problem of Neutrality in Many-

Valued Logics formats:

An Analytical -Critical Study

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut University

Scientific Realism in Hilary Putnam's

philosophy

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Structure of Intellectual Experiences

and its Role in the Evolution of Scientific

Knowledge

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Nick Bostrom's Philosophy of technology MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut

University

Technological Rationality MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Kafr El

Sheikh University

The Philosophical Dimensions of

Simulation Technology and Virtual

Reality

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Theses Discussed in Deferent Universities

Title of Theses Details

Epistemology of Science's Evaluation and

Historiography: Analytical - Critical

Study in the Methodology of Research

Programme

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Ain

Shams University, Egypt.

Relation between Individual Will and

Biological Bases of

Human Act

MA Thesis, at the Faculty of Arts,

Alexandria University, Egypt

Foundations of Critical Trend and its

Impact on the Intellectual Reform Vision

in the Writing of Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

von Wright's Deontic Logic Ph.D. Thesis at the Women's College, Ain

Shams University

Art of the Islamic Call in the Writings of

Sayyid Qutb

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic

Call, Mansoura, Al-Azhar University

Humanism in Modern Philosophical

Thought and its Impact on Contemporary

Islamic thought

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic

Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University

The Thought and Doctrine of Agakhani

Ismailis (Nizari) and the Attitude of Islam

Towards it

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic

Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University

Methodology between European and

Islamic Thought

A Comparative Study

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic

Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University

The Issue of Justification between

Judaism and Christianity, and the attitude

of Islam towards it

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic

Call, Minufiya, Al-Azhar University

Mind and Body: a Study in the

Philosophy of Gilbert Ryle

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Theory of State in Conservation and

Liberalism

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Ethical Structure of the Computer

System

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Mansoura University

Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics

according to

Herman Weyl

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut

University

Philosophy of Life and Death among

Philosophers and Sufis

Ph.D. Thesis at the

Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Deconstruction Trend and the Issues of

Feminism

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Pragmatism's Epistemology MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Mansoura University

An Analytical Study of some Issues of

Faith in Malik bin Nabi's Thought

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Islamic

and Arabic Studies in Alexandria, Al-

Azhar University

Hilary Putnam's Epistemological Realism Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts, Assiut

University

Ideology of Globalization in the Modern

Western Thought

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Scientific Laws and Theories in the Light

of Contemporary science

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Mansoura University

The Problematic of Absurd Attitude and

its Relation to the Ontology and Human

existence

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

The Methodological Tools of the

Scientific Research on Human

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Mansoura University

John Rawls' Ideological Dimensions of

the Theory of Justice

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minufiya University

Just War Ethics in the Political

Philosophy of Douglas Lucky

Ph.D. Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

Minya University

The Ddevelopment of Epistemology from

Physio- philosophical perspective

MA Thesis at the Faculty of Arts,

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

April 16 – 17,

2002

International Conference on

Humanities and Information Technology

Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt

April 28 – 30,

2007

International Conference on

Comparison Literary and

Linguistic Studies

Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt

November 25 – 27, 2007

International Conference on

Citizenship and Egypt's Future

Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt

November 2 – 4,

2010

International Conference on

Slums in Egypt: Manifestations

and Remedies

Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt

March 6,

2011

Symposium on

Egypt after the Revolution of January 25th

: Prospects

and Challenges

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya

University, Egypt

November 26 – 27, 2011

Symposium and Public Lecture entitled

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

November 2 – 4,

2012

International Conference on

Egypt after the Revolution of January 25th

: Visions and

prospects

Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt

November 15 – 16,

2012

Symposium and Public Lecture entitled

Logic and balance of human knowledge

Nile Cultural Center for Culture and Mental Science,

Beirut - Lebanon

February 24, 2013

International Symposium on

Contemporary Civilizational Predicament of the Islamic

World, and the Role of Risale-i Nur for Bediüzzaman

Said Nursî in the Establishment of an Islamic

Civilizational Model Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt

November 4 – 6,

2014

International Conference on

Egypt's Identity: Standpoint Towards Sustainable

development

Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt

February 23, 2015

International Symposium on

The Concept of Religious Tolerance in Japan

Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt

March 11 – 12,

2015

International Symposium on

Philosophy in the Arab world in the early of twenty-one

century, with a Paper Entitled:

A Contemporary Logical View Based on the Theory of

Jurisprudential Measurement

National Center of Research in Social and Culture

Anthropology, Es-Senia, Oran, Algeria

August 30, 2016

Symposium on

Logic as Model and the limits of knowledge

Faculty of Science, University of Tanta, Egypt

November 6 – 8,

2016

International Conference on

Humanities crisis in a changing world

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

November 20 – 22, 2007 Research Management (R5)

Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria

University, Egypt

November 13 – 15, 2007 Code of Ethics (P4)

Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria

University, Egypt

November 10 – 12, 2007 Teaching Evaluation (T5)

Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria

University, Egypt

November 6 – 8, 2007 Effective Presentation Skills (I1)

Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria

University, Egypt

November 3 – 5, 2007 Teaching with Technology (T3)

Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria

University, Egypt

October 21 – 23, 2007 Credit Hours System

Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Minufiya

University, Egypt

September 2 – 20, 1995 University Teacher Preparation

Faculty of Education, Minufiya University, Egypt

January 21 – April 5,

1993 English Language (TOEFL)

American Cultural Center, Alexandria, Egypt

February 15, 2009

Workshop on

Production of E-courses: Mechanisms and Models

Faculty of Arts, University of Menoufia

November 8, 2009

Workshop on

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/

Facebook

www.facebook.com/D.salah.osman

www.facebook.com/Prof.Dr.SalahOsman

Last Update January 2017