Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Two Aspect Reading on Kant’s Thing in Itself
Two Aspect Reading on Kant’s Thing in Itself

Mahdi Ahmadi; Yousef Nozohour

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 July 2024

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.60297.3695

Abstract
  One cannot assess Kant’s critical project without the consideration of the Transcendental Idealism. This is due to the fact that it is the solution he finds for the perennial ...  Read More
Kant, Quantum Physics and Transcendental Judgments
Kant, Quantum Physics and Transcendental Judgments

Willem McLoud

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 30 May 2025

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.67196.4094

Abstract
  Kant’s philosophy of science has been applied to quantum physics since the time when Niels Bohr formulated his interpretation of quantum physics. In recent years various Kantian interpretations ...  Read More
The Critique of Paul Guyer's Interpretation of the Deduction of Aesthetic Judgments in Kant's Aesthetics
The Critique of Paul Guyer's Interpretation of the Deduction of Aesthetic Judgments in Kant's Aesthetics

Davoud Mirzaei

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 09 June 2025

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.66621.4053

Abstract
  Paul Guyer is one of the most prominent commentators and translators of Kant's works, whose opinions have always been respected by Kant scholars. He offers a unique interpretation ...  Read More
Understanding Brain Rot: A Processual and Philosophical Analysis through Avicenna’s Hierarchy of Intellect
Understanding Brain Rot: A Processual and Philosophical Analysis through Avicenna’s Hierarchy of Intellect

Tri Wi Farma; Abd. Rahman Hamid; Muhammad Akmansyah; Muhammad Afif Anshori

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 28 June 2025

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.67650.4130

Abstract
  This study explores the concept of brain rot and its correlation with Avicenna’s four stages of intellect, offering a philosophical and normative perspective on cognitive decline ...  Read More
Examining and Analyzing Allameh Tabatabei’s Account on Faith within the Framework of Howard Snyder’s Non-doxastic Approach
Examining and Analyzing Allameh Tabatabei’s Account on Faith within the Framework of Howard Snyder’s Non-doxastic Approach

Mahbibeh Pakdel; Abbas Yazdani

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 04 July 2025

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.67297.4105

Abstract
  The aim of this study is to examine Allama Tabatabai’s account on faith and analyze it within the framework of Daniel Howard-Snyder’s non-doxastic approach. Faith is one of the ...  Read More
Seeking a Culturally Relevant Ethic of Care for Mexican/Mexican American Youth: a revolucionista ethic of care and its wily, tactical mechanism of humor
Seeking a Culturally Relevant Ethic of Care for Mexican/Mexican American Youth: a revolucionista ethic of care and its wily, tactical mechanism of humor

Mia Angélica Sosa-Provencio

Volume 19, Issue 51 , June 2025, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.67204.4097

Abstract
  Black and Latina female educators have for centuries prepared children of color to resist dehumanization, claim full citizenship, and transform oppression through culturally specific ...  Read More
Life. Time
Life. Time

Riikka Prattes

Volume 19, Issue 51 , June 2025, , Pages 75-90

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.67423.4112

Abstract
  This article juxtaposes different and conflicting temporalities as configured in the context of care and caring. Weaving together (1) an autobiographical narrative in which I share ...  Read More
The Socio-Political Performances of Care: women activists in Tanzania push for the increase of Tanzanian girls’ age of consent from fifteen years to eighteen years
The Socio-Political Performances of Care: women activists in Tanzania push for the increase of Tanzanian girls’ age of consent from fifteen years to eighteen years

Agnes Phoebe Muyanga

Volume 19, Issue 51 , June 2025, , Pages 103-114

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.67398.4111

Abstract
  Performative care for victims of gender-based violence in Tanzania through established socio-cultural gendered policies that reinforce the disproportionate care labor that women activists ...  Read More
Consequence of Kant's Theory on Mind based on Correspondence Theory
Consequence of Kant's Theory on Mind based on Correspondence Theory

Ramezan Mahdavi-Azadboni

Volume 19, Issue 50 , March 2025, , Pages 193-204

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.61635.3765

Abstract
  In the Modern age, dealing with epistemological issues was at the center of attention. For Kant, epistemology was also the main concern, but what distinguishes Kant from his predecessors ...  Read More
The Importance of an Education-Oriented Approach to Neo-Sadrian Logic and Epistemology in Defining Scientific Terms: a case study on 'Technology'
The Importance of an Education-Oriented Approach to Neo-Sadrian Logic and Epistemology in Defining Scientific Terms: a case study on 'Technology'

Mahdi Gerashi; Ahmad Khalifeh

Volume 19, Issue 50 , March 2025, , Pages 437-464

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2025.65527.3987

Abstract
  Objective: The Academic Community Has Long Been Grappling with The Chronic Issue of Establishing a Precise, Comprehensive, And Cohesive Definition of Technology and Some Scholars Even ...  Read More
Critical Thinking and the Role of Epistemological Beliefs
Critical Thinking and the Role of Epistemological Beliefs

Ali Eghbali; Zhila Kardan Halvaeei

Volume 18, Issue 49 , December 2024, , Pages 111-130

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

Abstract
  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 role in ...  Read More
Investigating the Applications and Challenges of Metaverse in Education: A Systematic Review
Investigating the Applications and Challenges of Metaverse in Education: A Systematic Review

Asadollah Khadivi

Volume 18, Issue 49 , December 2024, , Pages 193-218

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.62124.3787

Abstract
  Objective: The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the applications and challenges of metaverse in education.Methods: This research was qualitative and its ...  Read More
The Elucidation of the Concept of Kant's Aesthetic Form and Its Relation to Roger Fry and Clive Bell's Thought
The Elucidation of the Concept of Kant's Aesthetic Form and Its Relation to Roger Fry and Clive Bell's Thought

Ali Salmani; Sepehr Salimi

Volume 18, Issue 49 , December 2024, , Pages 293-310

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.60754.3720

Abstract
  Kant is known as the pioneer of artistic formalism. Art critics and commentators on Kant's works have also confirmed this claim. Kant discusses the form first in the critique of pure ...  Read More
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Foundations of the Critique of Metaphysics in the Philosophical Thoughts of Kant and Carnap
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Foundations of the Critique of Metaphysics in the Philosophical Thoughts of Kant and Carnap

Amin Navakhti Moghaddam

Volume 18, Issue 49 , December 2024, , Pages 405-432

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.62948.3906

Abstract
  Metaphysics has a long-standing history in philosophy. Although it does not date back as far as philosophy itself, it has always been a fundamental part of philosophical systems and ...  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
The Mathematical Basis of the Phenomenal World
The Mathematical Basis of the Phenomenal World

Bernard Riley

Volume 18, Issue 47 , August 2024, , Pages 161-188

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.62355.3811

Abstract
  In the Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant said that cognition (objective perception) is acquired in the unity of sensibility (the receptivity of the mind to receive empirical representations ...  Read More
"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 philosophy of laughter in Moliere’s Theatre (the case study: The Miser)
The philosophy of laughter in Moliere’s Theatre (the case study: The Miser)

Mohammad MOHAMMADI-AGHDASH; Vahid NEJAD MOHAMMAD

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 345-362

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58981.3624

Abstract
  The exploration of laughter’s philosophical significance within the realm of performing arts, particularly the French classical theatre of the seventeenth century, reveals a profound ...  Read More
The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims
The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims

Anthony Etuk

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, , Pages 116-127

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.57961.3587

Abstract
  Scientific scepticism, fundamentally, questions the veracity and epistemic value of claims not supported by scientific evidence. Motivated by the assumption that only the empirical ...  Read More
A Review of the Theory of
A Review of the Theory of "The Spirit of Meaning" with Emphasis on Al-Ghazali's Point of View

Ahmad Fazeli; Hediye Omidzamani

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, , Pages 147-158

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57943.3585

Abstract
  Considering the fact that the words in the intra-religious attitude are considered in two ways, the first is towards jurisprudential words and the second is a rational and conceptual ...  Read More
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

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, , Pages 159-174

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

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More
Analytical Study of the Role of the Industry of Religion of Ibn Khaldun, Discipline and Technology of the Self of Foucault in Power Domination
Analytical Study of the Role of the Industry of Religion of Ibn Khaldun, Discipline and Technology of the Self of Foucault in Power Domination

Gholamreza Mansouri

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, , Pages 175-190

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56104.3511

Abstract
  In some point of view, neither Michel Foucault nor Ibn Khaldun are considered philosophers in the conventional classifications, but both are very  important in intellectual and, ...  Read More
Memory as a Mass-Based Graph: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Simulation Model of Human Memory in Al
Memory as a Mass-Based Graph: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Simulation Model of Human Memory in Al

Mahdi Mollakazemiha; Hassan Fathzadeh

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, , Pages 203-214

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53850.3387

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
Justifying Ockham’s Razor within Betz’s Theory of Dialectical Structures
Justifying Ockham’s Razor within Betz’s Theory of Dialectical Structures

Seyyed Mohammad Mahdi Etemadoleslami Bakhtiari

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 63-88

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53882.3389

Abstract
  According to Ockham’s razor, assumptions must not be unnecessarily multiplied. While this principle is widely accepted, its justification is controversial. More precisely, we ...  Read More
A Reflection on Rorty's Claim about Religion: religion as a conversation stopper
A Reflection on Rorty's Claim about Religion: religion as a conversation stopper

Nabiollah Soleimani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 330-353

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53693.3377

Abstract
  Rorty claims that metaphysicians and religious scholars agree with the separation of the public sphere (politics) from the private sphere (religion). While metaphysicians try to find ...  Read More