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Critical thinking and the role of epistemological beliefs
Critical thinking and the role of epistemological beliefs

Ali Eghbali; Zhila kardan halvaeei

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 24 June 2024

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.61480.3755

Abstract
  Objective: The aim of this research was an analytical review of the definition of critical thinking and the importance of teaching it, the concept of epistemological beliefs and their ...  Read More
Functional Fit and the Instrumental Character of Knowledge: Rethinking the Theory of Knowledge with Radical Constructivism
Functional Fit and the Instrumental Character of Knowledge: Rethinking the Theory of Knowledge with Radical Constructivism

Meysam Khanjanian Mian-Poshte

Volume 18, Issue 48 , September 2024, , Pages 185-198

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.61095.3735

Abstract
  Radical constructivism (RC), introduced by Ernst von Glasersfeld, is an instrumentalist theory of knowledge that challenges the notion of knowledge as a picture or representation of ...  Read More
Examining the Weaknesses of Teaching Islamic Philosophy in the Field of Academic
Examining the Weaknesses of Teaching Islamic Philosophy in the Field of Academic

Ebrahim Amrani; Reza Rasouli Sharabiani; Hossein Zare; Gholamhossein Khedri

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 461-482

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59810.3660

Abstract
  The present study examines the weaknesses of teaching Islamic philosophy at the undergraduate level of universities. In this article, focusing on the book Nahayeh al-Hikma, topics of ...  Read More
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Origin of Philosophical concepts from the perspective of Hume and Allameh Tabatabai
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Origin of Philosophical concepts from the perspective of Hume and Allameh Tabatabai

zahra Hatami Nemati; Hossein Nowrouzi; Seyyed Ebrahim Aghazadeh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 179-200

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54889.3456

Abstract
  The review of the works and the writings of philosophers regarding the origin of philosophical concepts and the origin of the concepts and imaginations before it are indicative of the ...  Read More
The Influence of Kant’s Epistemology on Kierkegaard
The Influence of Kant’s Epistemology on Kierkegaard

Soroush Saberi; Ali Karbasizadeh Isfahani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 132-152

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51079.3170

Abstract
  There could be various comparative studies between Kant and Kierkegaard on fields like human knowledge, ethics, faith, art, etc. This paper aims to compare the two philosopher’s ...  Read More
Critical Study of the Epistemological Foundation of Constitutionalism in Face of Modernism
Critical Study of the Epistemological Foundation of Constitutionalism in Face of Modernism

Gholamreza Mansuri

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 479-489

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54505.3428

Abstract
  The encounter of Iranians with the modernism of the West happened for the first time during the constitutional period and through familiarization with the events and political technologies ...  Read More
The Philosophical Foundations of Philosophy for Children (P4C) from Lipman's Point of View: Ontology, Anthropology and Epistemology
The Philosophical Foundations of Philosophy for Children (P4C) from Lipman's Point of View: Ontology, Anthropology and Epistemology

Ali Azadi; Masoud Omid

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 59-77

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.43506.2740

Abstract
  Philosophy for Children (P4C) is a program developed by Matthew Lipman in the context of the philosophy of pragmatism and influenced by new theories of psychology, especially Vygotsky's. ...  Read More
The Study of the Nature, Function and Embodiment of
The Study of the Nature, Function and Embodiment of "Number" in Mythological Consciousness based on the Approach of Ernst Cassirer

MajidReza Moghanipour

Volume 16, Issue 38 , May 2022, , Pages 745-767

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48743.3033

Abstract
  "Myth" is, in the view of the great Neo-Kantianism philosopher Ernest Cassirer, the most primitive and at the same time the most different human methodological method. According to ...  Read More
Metaphysical Foundation of African Epistemology: A Study of the Afemai-Etsako of Edo State in Southern Nigeria
Metaphysical Foundation of African Epistemology: A Study of the Afemai-Etsako of Edo State in Southern Nigeria

Emmanuel Asia; Anthony Asekhauno

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 213-227

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46154.2832

Abstract
  Truth and knowledge are essentially the dictates of some rationality or metaphysical ordainment. By sense experience man is capable of accounting for his past, contemplate his life ...  Read More
Philosophical and Epistemological Foundations of Contextualism in Postmodern Urban design and architecture
Philosophical and Epistemological Foundations of Contextualism in Postmodern Urban design and architecture

Hossein Saadlounia; Mohammad Hassan Yazdani; Ghasem Zarei; Rahim Heydari chianeh

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 328-343

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.42156.2681

Abstract
  In this essay I present a new and empirically-testable strategy for completing quantum mechanics. In recent decades, urban design and architecture disciplines witnessed plenty of theories ...  Read More
Investigating the Problem of Truth in Descartes' Epistemology
Investigating the Problem of Truth in Descartes' Epistemology

Sajedeh Firoozbakht; Mustafa Shahraeini

Volume 15, Issue 34 , May 2021, , Pages 267-283

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.37569.2484

Abstract
  Question of truth and its role in Epistemology is a challenging topic in philosophical thinking. Most of philosophers and researcher accept the meaning of truth as conformity with reality ...  Read More
A Reflection on the Epistemological 'Utility and Necessity' of Discussions of 'The Origin of Ideas and Concepts'
A Reflection on the Epistemological 'Utility and Necessity' of Discussions of 'The Origin of Ideas and Concepts'

Ahmad Hamdollahi

Volume 14, Issue 33 , February 2021, , Pages 97-114

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.35892.2415

Abstract
  In the Hume period and beyond, through some of his views The Idea has been formed in the minds of some scholars that "the explanation of the way in which ideas or concepts originate ...  Read More
The Hypothesis of Theism and the Principle of Simplicity
The Hypothesis of Theism and the Principle of Simplicity

Farid al-Din Sebt; Saeideh Kowkab

Volume 14, Issue 31 , July 2020, , Pages 479-500

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.36327.2436

Abstract
  This paper is a reflection on Richard Swinburne's view on the hypothesis of theism, a view that claims to be the most probable explanation of the universe and tries to prove this claim ...  Read More
Personal or Impersonal Knowledge?
Personal or Impersonal Knowledge?

Susan Haack

Volume 13, Issue 28 , November 2019, , Pages 21-44

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.35720.2399

Abstract
  Reflections on the contrast between the titles of Popper’s Objective Knowledge and Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge led Haack to explore how Polanyi’s ideas might be used ...  Read More
Intuition as a Capacity for a Priori Knowledge
Intuition as a Capacity for a Priori Knowledge

Henry W. Pickford

Volume 13, Issue 28 , November 2019, , Pages 147-169

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.35724.2403

Abstract
  This article lays the groundwork for a defense of rational intuitions by first arguing against a prevalent view according to which intuition is a distinctive psychological state, an ...  Read More
That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy
That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy

Anthony Asekhauno; Wesley Osemwegie

Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, , Pages 13-23

Abstract
  Over the centuries, beginning with the classic Greeks through the trends of the mid-20th century, philosophical enterprise has been intricately and seemingly irretrievably rooted in ...  Read More
A Pragmatic Solution to the Value Problem of Knowledge
A Pragmatic Solution to the Value Problem of Knowledge

John Greco; Sahar Joakim

Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, , Pages 53-67

Abstract
  We value possessing knowledge more than true belief. Both someone with knowledge and someone with a true belief possess the correct answer to a question. Why is knowledge more valuable ...  Read More
چگونه استراوسن میان معرفت‏شناسی، هستی‏شناسی و منطق 
وحدت ایجاد می کند؟
چگونه استراوسن میان معرفت‏شناسی، هستی‏شناسی و منطق وحدت ایجاد می کند؟

Mohammad Reza Abdollahnejad

Volume 6, Issue 11 , November 2012, , Pages 1-14

Abstract
  تحلیل استراوسن نوعی «تحلیل زبانی پیوندگرا» است. او بر پایه این نوع تحلیل به گستره وسیعی از مفاهیم ...  Read More
The necessity of Self-Evident Perceptions in Islamic
Philosophy and their Criterion
The necessity of Self-Evident Perceptions in Islamic Philosophy and their Criterion

Mansour Emanpour

Volume 3, Issue 210 , September 2009, , Pages 27-46

Abstract
  The question of self-evident perceptions (both concepts andjudgments) is among the important and effective subjects in Islamicphilosophy that nowadays can be put forward as "epistemology". ...  Read More
The Epistemological and Idealistic Aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy
The Epistemological and Idealistic Aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy

Mohammad javad Safian; Abdollah Amini

Volume 3, Issue 210 , September 2009, , Pages 75-92

Abstract
  As far as Schopenhauer’s philosophy sees the world as representation,and deals with the way of knowing and the relation between subject andobject, it is consistent with the Kant’s ...  Read More
Karl Popper and Evolutionary Concept of Epistemology
Karl Popper and Evolutionary Concept of Epistemology

Ebrahim Ashni Alvandi; Majid Akbari Dehagi

Volume 2, Issue 205 , December 2008, , Pages 1-22

Abstract
  Epistemology and its formational trend have been always one of the discussions in various parts of science; and nowadays modern sciences have plentiful effects on the process of epistemological ...  Read More
Reason's Critical Analise in Transcendental Philosophy
Reason's Critical Analise in Transcendental Philosophy

Mohsen Kadivar; Maryam Salem

Volume 1, Issue 199 , September 2006, , Pages 155-174

Abstract
  Reasons have classified in tow hierarchy in transcendental philosophy, in length and in width all of them are possible, extensive, unique, independent, eternal, wise, general and not ...  Read More