Journal of Philosophical Investigations
An Evaluation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Using the Inversion Theory of Truth
An Evaluation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Using the Inversion Theory of Truth

Peter Lugten

دوره 17، شماره 45 ، دی 1402، ، صفحه 159-174

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57752.3578

چکیده
  This paper examines the work of Immanuel Kant in the light of a new theory on the nature of truth, knowledge and falsehood (the Inversion Theory of Truth). Kant’s idea that knowledge could be absolutely certain, and that its truth must correspond with reality, is discredited by a dissection of the Correspondence Theory of Truth. This examination of the ...  بیشتر
Is Falsifiability a ‘Blunt Instrument’ for Modern Physics?
Is Falsifiability a ‘Blunt Instrument’ for Modern Physics?

Manjari Chakrabarty

دوره 17، شماره 42 ، خرداد 1402، ، صفحه 298-316

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16589

چکیده
  Modern (theoretical) physics seems to be in deep crisis today as many of its core aspects are not empirically well-confirmed. Heated exchanges among physicists on the scientific status of physical theories with little or, at best, a tenuous connection to possible experimental tests is highly visible in the popular scientific literature. Some physicists (e.g., ...  بیشتر