Salah Osman

Professor (Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt)

Dr. Salah Osman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1963. He is married and has four children.
Dr. Salah Osman was educated in Egypt, received his B.A. from Alexandria University in 1985, and his M.A. from the same university in 1993 with the thesis Reason and Dialectics in the Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse. His Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts at Minufiya University in 1996, with a thesis on The Problem of Continuity and Infinity in Philosophy, Physics, and Mathematics (with first class honors).
He started working as a Demonstrator in the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts at Minufiya University in Egypt between 1989 and 1993, then Assistant Lecturer between 1993 and 1996, Lecturer between 1996 and 2003, Assistant Professor between 2003 and 2008, and Professor since 2008 at the same university. He is the Chair of the Department of Philosophy since 2008 until now.
He has published many books, such as:

• Continuity and Infinity between Science and Philosophy (Al-Itisal wa al-Latanahi bayna al-Ilm wa al-Falsafa), The Establishment of Knowledge (Munsha't al-Ma'arif), Alexandria, Egypt, 1998.
• Scientific Model between Imagination and Reality (Al-Namuzaj al-Ilmi bayna al-Khayal wa al-Waqi'), The Establishment of Knowledge (Munsha't al-Ma'arif), Alexandria, Egypt, 2000.
• Darwinism and Human: The Theory of Evolution from Science to Globalization (Al-Darwiniyah wa al-Insan: Nazariyt al-Tatwur menn al-Ilm ila al-Awlama), The Establishment of Knowledge (Munsha't al-Ma'arif), Alexandria, Egypt, 2001.
• Many-Valued Logic between Degrees of Truth and Limits of Knowledge (Al-Mantiq Mut'adid al-Qiyyam bayna Darajat al-Sidq wa Hudud al-M'arifa), The Establishment of Knowledge (Munsha't al-Ma'arif), Alexandria, Egypt, 2002.
• Towards a Philosophy of the Chemistry (Nahwa Falsafa li al-Kimya'), The Establishment of Knowledge (Munsha't al-Ma'arif), Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.
• The Illusion of External World between Language and Cognition (Wahm al-Alam al-Khariji bayna al-Lugha wa al-Idrak), The Establishment of Knowledge (Munsha't al-Ma'arif), Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.
• The Nature of Spatial Boundaries between Geography and Philosophy (Tabi'at al-Hudud al-Makaniyya bayna al-Jughrafiyya wa al-Falsafa), The Egyptian meeting for invention and growth (Al-Multaqa al-Misri li al-Ibda' wa al-Tanmiyya), Alexandria, 2005.
• Color realism: Reading in the Essence of Color and the Ways of Consciousness of it (Al-Waqi'iyya al-Lawniyya: Qira'ah fi Mahiyyat al-Lawn wa Subl al-Wa'iy Bihi), The Establishment of Knowledge (Munsha't al-Ma'arif), Alexandria, Egypt, 2006.

And many articles:

• The Tree of Universe and Counterfactuals in Storrs McCall (Shajarat al-Kun wa Qadaya Munaqadat al-Waqi'), The Journal of Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt, (39), October 1999, pp. 83-128 .
• Semantics of Indexicals and Indirect ( Reported ) Speech (Semantiqa al-Mu'shirat al-Lafdhiyya wa al-Kalam Ghayr al-Mubashir), The Journal of Faculty of Arts, Minufiya University, Egypt, (46), July 2001, pp. 127-166.
• Science, Philosophy, and Religion as Categories for Raising of Arabic mind (Al-Ilm wa al-Falsafa wa al-Din ka Maqulat li Nahdat al-Aql al-Arabi), The service Center for Research Consulting, Division of Translation, Faculty of arts, Minufiya University, Vol. 15, March 2003.
• The Dialectic of Constancy and Motion in Zeno’s Paradoxes: a Contemporary Mathematical View (Jadal al-Thabat wa a-Haraka bayn Darjat al-Sidq wa Hudud al-M]arifa), Journal of Facult of Arts , Menoufia University , Egypt , (58), July 2004,pp. 99 -139.strong text****strong text