Author: Salah Osman
Fuller name: Salah Mahmoud Osman
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Title: Prof. Dr. Salah Osman
Born: October 20, 1963
Bio: **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**