Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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"Moral Certainty", One Concept, Several Perspectives; Evaluation of Two Relative and Absolute Approaches about "Moral Certainty" Based on Wittgenstein's On Certainty

Mohammad Saeed Abdollahi; Mohsen Javadi; Muhammad Legenhausen

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 13-29

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58699.3609

Abstract
  One of the important ethical concepts that has occupied the minds of many philosophers in the past years is the concept of "moral certainty". This means whether there are moral propositions ...  Read More
The Blurred Edges of 'Game'; Responding to McGinn's Challenges on Family Resemblance
The Blurred Edges of 'Game'; Responding to McGinn's Challenges on Family Resemblance

Minoo Hojjat

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 171-189

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59515.3646

Abstract
  In "Truth by Analysis: Games, Names, and Philosophy," Colin McGinn seeks to revitalize the traditional approach to conceptual analysis. He asserts that the definition of a concept involves ...  Read More
A Critical Review of the Mainstream Reading of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: οn Misunderstanding Kripke’s Wittgenstein
A Critical Review of the Mainstream Reading of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: οn Misunderstanding Kripke’s Wittgenstein

Ali Hosseinkhani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 201-221

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.52482.3285

Abstract
  In this paper, I will argue against certain criticisms of Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s sceptical argument and sceptical solution, made especially by Baker and Hacker, McGinn, ...  Read More
How the Idea of the Language of Thought Is Evaluated by Wittgenstein?
How the Idea of the Language of Thought Is Evaluated by Wittgenstein?

Hossein Shaqaqi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 448-466

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56365.3526

Abstract
  In Philosophical investigations, Wittgenstein criticizes many classical and contemporary philosophical theories about language. Here, with a brief presentation of what is called as ...  Read More
A Critical Study of Two Conceptions of Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblance”

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A Critical Study of Two Conceptions of Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblance” .

Mahdi Mohammadi; Asghar Vaezie

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 222-241

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.48418.3014

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
Is the later Wittgenstein Falling into the Abyss of Relativism? an assessment through the lens of critical rationalism
Is the later Wittgenstein Falling into the Abyss of Relativism? an assessment through the lens of critical rationalism

Abdolhamid Mohammadi; Ali Paya

Volume 16, Issue 40 , November 2022, , Pages 208-224

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51248.3180

Abstract
  The later Wittgenstein presents all kinds of knowledge in the form of language games based on forms of life. One of the implications of his later views is that certain language games ...  Read More
A Reflection on Cahill's Interpretation of the Ethical and Cultural Point of Wittgenstein's Tractatus
A Reflection on Cahill's Interpretation of the Ethical and Cultural Point of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Hossein Shaqaqi

Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 389-419

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.47861.2964

Abstract
  According to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, propositions of natural science are all meaningful propositions of language therefore there is no ethical proposition because ...  Read More
Internalism as Distinct Aspect of Phillips’ Religious Epistemology of Wittgenstein
Internalism as Distinct Aspect of Phillips’ Religious Epistemology of Wittgenstein

Zeinab Shakibi

Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 420-447

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47502.2943

Abstract
  As a Wittgensteinian fideist, Phillip’s approach to the epistemology of religious propositions is different from Wittgenstein’s approach. In this paper, first through description ...  Read More
When aesthetics does not lead to an act of environmental conservation
When aesthetics does not lead to an act of environmental conservation

Atoosa Afshari; Mahdi Behniafar

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 189-198

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.41585.2662

Abstract
  This paper examines the relationship between the environmental aesthetics approach backed by knowledge (ecological aesthetics) and the possibility of doing an action in favor of environmental ...  Read More
The Role of Philosopher in Hegel's Phenomenology with a Look at Wittgenstein's View
The Role of Philosopher in Hegel's Phenomenology with a Look at Wittgenstein's View

Jaafar Mazhabi

Volume 13, Issue 29 , January 2020, , Pages 411-428

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.8218

Abstract
  This paper is aimed to address this question: what is the role of the philosopher in transitions experienced by consciousness in Phenomenology? In order to answer that question, ...  Read More
Early Wittgenstein’s View on Goodness, Happiness, and Acceptance of the World
Early Wittgenstein’s View on Goodness, Happiness, and Acceptance of the World

Reza Mosmer

Volume 13, Issue 27 , September 2019, , Pages 293-314

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.31820.2230

Abstract
  Ethics was the major issue in Wittgenstein’s writings from 1916 to the time of publication of the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus. He explicates the notion of “good” ...  Read More
How to Escape Irrelevance: Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy and Borderless Philosophy
How to Escape Irrelevance: Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy and Borderless Philosophy

Robert Hanna

Volume 12, Issue 24 , October 2018, , Pages 55-82

Abstract
   Carlo Cellucci has rightly pointed out that contemporary professional academic philosophy has a serious problem of irrelevance. Performance philosophy and public philosophy are ...  Read More
Assessment of Wittgenstein's Resolution to the Negative Facts
Assessment of Wittgenstein's Resolution to the Negative Facts

Mahdi Asadi

Volume 10, Issue 19 , March 2016, , Pages 45-74

Abstract
  the essay tries to evaluate Wittgenstein's resolution to the riddle of Russell's negative facts. That is, when we say, for example, "Tehran is not the capital of Ireland" is true, what ...  Read More
Tractatus; The beginning of Wittgenstein's therapeutic approach to philosophy
Tractatus; The beginning of Wittgenstein's therapeutic approach to philosophy

Sahar Rouhani; Yousef Nozohour

Volume 9, Issue 16 , May 2015, , Pages 79-95

Abstract
  Wittgenstein is a thinker who considers philosophy as generator of mental confusion on the one hand, and on the other hand desires philosopher as therapist. This two- sided attitude ...  Read More
Fideism in Wittgensteinh’s thought
Fideism in Wittgensteinh’s thought

Mohammad Akvan

Volume 1, Issue 202 , December 2007, , Pages 89-111

Abstract
  Many philosophers and theologians regard wittgensteinian fideism as essentially defining what his view of religion is. significant disputes about the reading of Wittgenstein’s ...  Read More