Volume 18 (2024)
Volume 17 (2023)
Volume 16 (2022)
Volume 15 (2021)
Volume 14 (2020)
Volume 13 (2019)
Volume 12 (2018)
Volume 11 (2017)
Volume 10 (2016)
Volume 9 (2015)
Volume 8 (2014)
Volume 7 (2013)
Volume 6 (2012)
Volume 5 (2011)
Volume 4 (2010)
Volume 3 (2009)
Volume 2 (2008)
Volume 1 (2007)
Number of Articles: 882
Analyzing the alleged Priority of Thought over Language in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy of Language
Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 189-205
Abstract
In the present article relationship of thought and language for the priority aspect, from al-Fārābī’s point of view is discussed. Based on the three meanings of nuṭq (: ... Read More
A Dialectic Approach to the Conception of Beauty and the Natural Aesthetics: an interdisciplinary perspective in focus
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 191-202
Abstract
Nature has aesthetics of its own, what can provoke the human mind into better recognizing the concept of beauty via mental perception. As such, human mind can interact with the nonverbal ... Read More
Deconstruction of Religious Education in the Postmodern Era
Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 199-210
Abstract
In this article, we are trying to show that in the postmodern era, by questioning the ontological foundations of theology and rejecting absolutism and embracing pluralism and relativism, ... Read More
Comparison of Pseudo-Dionysius and Suhrawardi's views on beauty
Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 203-225
Abstract
The writings of Pseudo-Dionysius are a mixture of Christian thought, Late Greek philosophy and mainly neo-Platonic philosophy, which are easily integrated with religion because of his ... Read More
Memory as a Mass-Based Graph: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Simulation Model of Human Memory in Al
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 203-214
Abstract
There are two approaches for simulating memory as well as learning in artificial intelligence; the functionalistic approach and the cognitive approach. The necessary condition to put ... Read More
Critique of Bochenski’s Conception of Methodology in Philosophy
Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 206-221
Abstract
This paper is an examination of Bochenski’s conception of an acceptable methodology for research in philosophy. Generally methodology refers to the building of scientific knowledge, ... Read More
Recent Work on Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology
Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 211-234
Abstract
The paper aims to examine and criticize recent approaches suggested by some virtue reliabilists. To this end, section 2 provides a sketch of Sosa’s triple account of knowledge, ... Read More
The Role of Imagination in Explaining Revelation from the Perspective of Hakim Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra
Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 214-231
Abstract
This study compares and explains the explanation of revelation in minor matters and the role of the Prophet's imagination in this process from the perspective of Ibn Sina and Mulla ... Read More
Beyond Metanarratives and Universal Ideologies: Exploring Postmodernist Educational Concepts for Autonomy in Iranian EFL Context
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 215-230
Abstract
Postmodernism represents skepticism toward metanarratives and universal ideologies that dominated the modernist era. The study focuses on three key postmodernist concepts - alternative ... Read More
A Critical Study of Two Conceptions of Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblance” .
Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 222-241
Abstract
In the Blue Book (pp. 17-18) and in the Philosophical Investigation (§§ 66-67), Wittgenstein offers the idea of ‘family resemblances’ to explain the relation between ... Read More
The Communitarian Critique of the Moral Crisis of Modernity: a study of how moral society is built in McIntyre thought
Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 226-247
Abstract
How ethics and society relate to each other has always been one of the most important questions for social thinkers and philosophers. At the beginning of the so-called Enlightenment, ... Read More
Rethinking The Lockean Approach to The Problem of Personal Identity
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 231-249
Abstract
The problem of personal identity among others may stem from the following question—what does be the person that you are, from one day to the next, necessarily consist of? The ... Read More
A Critical Study of Leonard Swidler’s Ideas of Global Ethics
Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 232-262
Abstract
Global ethics is a need reminded to different researchers by the phenomenon of globalization. Meanwhile some scholars like the Catholic theologian Leonard Swidler seek to present the ... Read More
Al-Fārābī and His Interpretation of Aristotle's Ousia
Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 235-255
Abstract
In ten of his works, Al-Fārābī discusses ousia/substance and its derivatives. Among these works, we frequently encounter quotations from Aristotle and Al-Fārābī's interpretation ... Read More
The Relativity of the Subject of Truth in Alain Badiou’s Philosophy
Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 242-256
Abstract
Badiou offers a concept of the subject that is completely intertwined with event and truth; in his view, the subject is not an isolated and secluded entity that is supposed to contemplate ... Read More
Žižek's Hegelian-Lacanian Reading of the Subject
Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 248-267
Abstract
For Zizek, considering Hegel's philosophy as the culmination of absolute systematization and idealism which ultimately dissolves the diversity of reality into absolute idea and knowledge, ... Read More
The Dēnkard VI: ‘Consequentialism’ and ‘Capitalism’ as Well as Paymān (The ancient Iranian ‘golden mean’)
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 250-266
Abstract
Dēnkard (Acts of the religion), written in Pahlavi, is a summary of 10th-century knowledge of the Mazdean religion and is described by Jean de Menasce on the title page of his ... Read More
The Entanglement of Government Political Philosophy and the Intellectual Foundations of Liberal Economics in the Opinion of Adam Smith
Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 256-276
Abstract
The debates that are being made today under the headings of classical economics and its inherited liberal system emphasize the role of the industrial revolution in the formation of ... Read More
Methods of Racism in Modern Philosophy
Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 257-270
Abstract
The deepest and most rooted form of racism can be found in the Bible which claims the superiority of a race as God's demand or divine destination. But this idea survived in modern philosophy ... Read More
Corona and the Answer to Other's Suffering in the Light of Kant's Duty-Oriented Ethics and Responsibility Approach of Levinas
Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 263-286
Abstract
The corona virus has affected the lives of many people around the world and has caused physical, psychological, economic harm to human societies. Individuals' attitudes toward the sufferings ... Read More
Transcending Otherness: Overcoming Obstacles in the Mystical Journey in Shabestarī’s Rose Garden of Mystery
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 267-282
Abstract
This study explores the distinguished Persian Sufi mystic Shaykh Maḥmūd Shabestarī’s Golshan-e Rāz, or The Rose Garden of Mystery. Adopting a hermeneutic approach, it scrutinizes ... Read More
The Relationship between Pleasure and Happiness from the Point of View of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra
Volume 15, Issue 35 , September 2021, , Pages 268-292
Abstract
From the time human beings are born, they are forever confronted with the phenomena of pleasure and happiness. These two concepts are very close but there are major differences and ... Read More
The Nature of the Soul from Mullā Ṣadrā and John Hick’s Viewpoint
Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 271-284
Abstract
What this essay is to discuss is Mullā Ṣadrā and John Hick’s viewpoint about the "nature of the soul". Mullā Ṣadrā considers the real nature of human beings to be "the ... Read More
Questioning the Relationship between Politics and Ethics: a hypothetical conversation between Arendt and Levinas; ethical politics
Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 277-298
Abstract
This article seeks to demonstrate, through a hypothetical dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, that the essence of politics must be sought beyond "real politics" and ... Read More
Fardid and Nasr on the Confrontation of Western World
Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 283-299