Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Grasping the Grounds of Thought: The Thing-in-Itself . Actancy and Ecology
Grasping the Grounds of Thought: The Thing-in-Itself . Actancy and Ecology

Otto Paans

Volume 18, Issue 47 , August 2024, , Pages 111-138

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.62685.3833

Abstract
  The Thing-in-Itself has been contentious issue within Kantian philosophy. Initially, it seems like an unfortunate side-effect of Kant’s distinction between phenomena and noumena. ...  Read More
What a World! The Pluralistic Universe of Innocent Realism
What a World! The Pluralistic Universe of Innocent Realism

Susan Haack

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 29-35

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17416

Abstract
  The method of metaphysics: Metaphysics is empirical but depends not, like the sciences, on recondite experience but on close attention to aspects of everyday experience we ordinarily ...  Read More
A Study of the Kantian Veins in Wittgenstein's Early and Later Philosophy
A Study of the Kantian Veins in Wittgenstein's Early and Later Philosophy

Pardis Baghali; Mohammadreza Abdollahnejad

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 1-19

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55406.3476

Abstract
  Despite Wittgenstein's philosophical activities in Britain and his strong inclination towards analytic philosophy, there are also non-analytic elements in his thought which are rooted ...  Read More
The Genesis and Development of the Concept of Substance in Philosophy; from Plato to Hume
The Genesis and Development of the Concept of Substance in Philosophy; from Plato to Hume

Seyyed Masoud Azarfam

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 614-633

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.42613.2703

Abstract
  Substance is one of the fundamental concepts in the history of philosophy that has a history as long as the history of philosophy itself. Although this concept has underwent profound ...  Read More
A Comparative Study of the Subject of Metaphysics by Aristotle and Scotous
A Comparative Study of the Subject of Metaphysics by Aristotle and Scotous

Asghar Fathi; Ali Karbasizadeh

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 453-465

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.42825.2708

Abstract
  At the beginning of the fourth book of metaphysics, Aristotle speaks of knowledge as "existing as existing and its inherent effects" and in other places he refers to this book as "the ...  Read More
Reviving Physicists' Attention to Philosophy in Recent Decades
Reviving Physicists' Attention to Philosophy in Recent Decades

Mehdi Golshani

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 5-19

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.46918.2898

Abstract
  From ancient times until the beginning of the new science, philosophy ruled over the sciences. Subsequently, with the rise of positivism in the first half of the nineteenth century, ...  Read More
The Importance and Role of Metaphysics for Science
The Importance and Role of Metaphysics for Science

Alireza Mansouri; Amir Ehsan Karbasizadeh

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 20-41

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47867.2960

Abstract
  In this paper, we first examine the reasons for opposing metaphysics. While assessing these reasons, we intend to reach a plausible stance regarding the relationship between science ...  Read More
Basic Role of Time in Heidegger's Ontological Interpretation of Kant
Basic Role of Time in Heidegger's Ontological Interpretation of Kant

Ali Aghaeepour; Mahmoud Sufiani

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 709-740

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47501.2944

Abstract
  What is the role of Time in Heidegger's ontological interpretation of Kant? Heidegger's interpretation of Kant is a controversial and different one in current interpretation of Kant's ...  Read More
Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note

Mehdi Golshani

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 1-3

Abstract
      Before the advent of modern science philosophy contained all sciences. The part related to natural and mathematical sciences was called natural philosophy. Another ...  Read More
From Physics to Metaphysics: Islamic Perspective and Contemporary Outlook
From Physics to Metaphysics: Islamic Perspective and Contemporary Outlook

Mehdi Golshani

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 83-91

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46921.2899

Abstract
  Before the advent of Modern Science, philosophy ruled over sciences. But, after the emergence of modern science, with the appearance of philosophers like Locke and Hume, empiricism ...  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
We-problem in Heidegger's Thought
We-problem in Heidegger's Thought

Masoud Zamani

Volume 13, Issue 29 , January 2020, , Pages 239-260

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.8382

Abstract
  "Our Dasein", "our today's Dasein", "our historical Dasein" and the like are idioms that Heidegger uses very often in his works especially during the first years after the publication ...  Read More
The place of psychology according to Aristotle
The place of psychology according to Aristotle

Ahmad Hosseini

Volume 12, Issue 22 , June 2018, , Pages 29-44

Abstract
  A problem concerning Aristotle’s psychology asks where its right place is. Should it be studied in the physics or in metaphysics or some part of it in physics and some other part ...  Read More
Aristotle on the Cause of Being and of Coming to Be
Aristotle on the Cause of Being and of Coming to Be

Sebastian Weiner

Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, , Pages 217-232

Abstract
  This paper considers Aristotle’s distinction between the cause of being and the cause of coming to be. It is intended to show that Aristotle is able to unify both kinds of causes ...  Read More
Kant and the problem of Meaningfulness or Meaningless of Metaphysics
Kant and the problem of Meaningfulness or Meaningless of Metaphysics

Masoud Omid

Volume 10, Issue 19 , March 2016, , Pages 93-113

Abstract
  One of the most important questions on Kant’s philosophy is the meaningfulness or meaningless of metaphysics. This article tries to answer two questions on Kant’s philosophy:Is ...  Read More
Heidegger’s Deconstructive Interpretation of Plato
In the Light of
Platons Lehre Von der Wahrheit
Heidegger’s Deconstructive Interpretation of Plato In the Light of Platons Lehre Von der Wahrheit

Ali Asghar Mosleh; Reza Dehghani

Volume 6, Issue 10 , May 2012, , Pages 159-180

Abstract
  Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato related to turning (Kehre) period of his thought. In the Platons Lehre Von der Wahrheit (which pertains to this period), by interpreting Plato’s ...  Read More