A Response to The Review of The Book “An Introduction to Philosophy of Education in Islamic Republic of Iran”

This research study is an answer to some of the questions and ambiguities presented in the article “rethinking the approach and method of philosophy of education” in the book entitled “an introduction to the philosophy of education in Islamic republic of Iran”. This paper agrees with two of the critiques and added a new critique. The answers are presented in two parts: re-reading the work and re-reading the critique. From the perspective of this study, answering and correcting some of the critiques (16 cases) is related to(1) accurate study of the claims of the text, (2) paying attention to limits, aims and presuppositions, (3) paying attention to criteria of the researcher in categorizations and boundary setting (4) differentiation between the possible and existent  and (5) holistic view. Some of other critiques (7 cases) are answered by re-reading the critique with attention to prevention of conceptual-scientific confusion and the necessity of keeping critique away from the very appraisal of the critique. At the end, the four appraisals, namely, the necessity of differentiation between Islamic training and philosophy of Islamic training, inaccuracy in application of Farakna pattern in inference, lack of explicit categorization of approaches, and inadequate explanation in the meaning of application of philosophy as a structure are accepted.