Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Volume 17 (2023)
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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 , December 2023, , 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 , December 2023, , 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 , December 2023, , 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 , December 2023, , 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 , December 2023, , 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
The Justification of Sensory Experience and Religious Experience in Alston's Intellectual System; Controversies and Responses
The Justification of Sensory Experience and Religious Experience in Alston's Intellectual System; Controversies and Responses

Masoumeh Mahmoudi; Abdollah Salavati

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 695-716

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.52266.3264

Abstract
  Introduction, Alston by distinguishing two explanatory views of sensory experience; that means, the direct and indirect justification point of view is based on the belief that sensory ...  Read More
Immanence is Volatile! a critique on reading Hjelmslev’s Theory of Language as “Critique of Pure Linguistic Reason”
Immanence is Volatile! a critique on reading Hjelmslev’s Theory of Language as “Critique of Pure Linguistic Reason”

Mohammad Amin Shakeri

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 66-88

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50430.3138

Abstract
  In his critical reading of the book Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, Safaie (2021), referring to a Kantian epistemology and several other approaches, considers Hjelmslev’s ...  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
Recent Work on Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology
Recent Work on Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology

Mohammad Hossein Mohamad Ali Khalaj

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 211-234

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52233.3260

Abstract
  The paper aims to examine and criticize recent approaches suggested by some virtue reliabilists. To this end, section 2 provides a sketch of Sosa’s triple account of knowledge, ...  Read More
Kant's Theory of Knowledge and its Inherent Contradiction: examining the Kant's theory of knowledge based on Kant's own criterion in formation of knowledge
Kant's Theory of Knowledge and its Inherent Contradiction: examining the Kant's theory of knowledge based on Kant's own criterion in formation of knowledge

Mohammad Aslani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 299-319

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50366.3120

Abstract
  In his theory of knowledge, Kant presents an exclusive method for obtaining science by applying categories to the data of sensory intuition. "A priori synthetic propositions" are those ...  Read More
Epistemological Explanation of Sense Experience in Cartesian Thought
Epistemological Explanation of Sense Experience in Cartesian Thought

Seyyed Mostafa Shahraieni; Mojtaba Jalili

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 634-649

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56427.3528

Abstract
  It seems that in Cartesian thought the possibility of sense experience cannot easily be put forward because of the theoretical foundations of his philosophy. He, in his masterpiece, ...  Read More
Examining the Concept of Mind and the Status of Reason in Hume's Belief on Causality with a Naturalistic Approach
Examining the Concept of Mind and the Status of Reason in Hume's Belief on Causality with a Naturalistic Approach

Leila Khodami; Yousef Shaghoul; Reza Sadeqi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 695-714

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51013.3162

Abstract
  In discussing Hume's view of causality, it has been generally focused on its negative aspects and skeptical results. Whereas, according to naturalistic interpretation, Hume's purpose ...  Read More
An Analysis of the User's Interpretation of the Product; Comparative Study of Experience Design and Reception Hermeneutic
An Analysis of the User's Interpretation of the Product; Comparative Study of Experience Design and Reception Hermeneutic

Seyyed Ali Faregh; Mahshid Barani

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, , Pages 310-323

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52112.3250

Abstract
  The product resulting from the design process can be depicted as a text carrying the meaning whose readers are its users. Among the prominent theories dealing with the category of the ...  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
Examining the Approach of Training the Mind based on the Perspective of Transcendental Wisdom with Emphasis on Strengthening Imagination in Children's Education
Examining the Approach of Training the Mind based on the Perspective of Transcendental Wisdom with Emphasis on Strengthening Imagination in Children's Education

Akbar Panahi Dorcheh

Volume 16, Issue 40 , November 2022, , Pages 33-51

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52574.3298

Abstract
  During the last two decades, the discussions related to "theory of children's mind" and the teachings related to the process of "mind training" have been widely promoted in the intellectual ...  Read More
Comparative Conceptualization of the Issue of Free will and Authority in Education Based on the
Comparative Conceptualization of the Issue of Free will and Authority in Education Based on the "Suspicious Human" Pattern

Ehsan Ahmadi Khaveh; Mohammadreza Sarnadi; Ali Alamolhoda; Mahdi Mahmodi

Volume 16, Issue 40 , November 2022, , Pages 149-167

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52170.3256

Abstract
  The discussion about the issue of will and its role in human life has a long history. In the field of Islamic civilization, the roots of this debate go back to the first half of the ...  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 Comparative Study of the
A Comparative Study of the "Haghighat-e Muhammadiy" from the Perspective of Mulla Sadra and Adam Kadmon from Perspective of Muses De-Leon

‍‍Nasrin Tavakoli; Ahad Ganjalikhani; Valiyullah Saki

Volume 16, Issue 40 , November 2022, , Pages 292-305

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51442.3199

Abstract
  The purpose of this article is to examine the similarities and differences between the hagheeghat-e muhammadiya and Adam Kadmon, from the point of view of Mulla Sadra Muslim and Deleon ...  Read More
Discourse of Indigenous Humanities or Global Humanities
Discourse of Indigenous Humanities or Global Humanities

Amin Navakhti Moghaddam; Seyyed Mokhtar Mousavi

Volume 16, Issue 40 , November 2022, , Pages 445-463

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52719.3333

Abstract
  There are two grand discourses about human sciences: first, universal discourse of human sciences, which is rooted in discussion related to humanities and natural sciences and prescribes ...  Read More
Truth and Infallibility in Nishida's
Truth and Infallibility in Nishida's "Absolutely Contradictory Self-Identity Logic" and Mulla Sadra's "Formal-Intuitive Logic"

Hassan Rahbar; Khalil Hakimifar; Hamid Eskandari

Volume 16, Issue 40 , November 2022, , Pages 581-596

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51646.3214

Abstract
  The Ultimate goal of philosophizing, at least in classical philosophy, is to receive infallible truth. Philosophers with different points of view and intellectual bases try to build ...  Read More
To Prepare for New Approach to Philosophy of Education: the requirement of technological developments in this age
To Prepare for New Approach to Philosophy of Education: the requirement of technological developments in this age

Seyyed Mahdi Sajjadi

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 27-39

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52983.3342

Abstract
  Philosophers of education today are faced with the basic question of how to speak of an efficient system of philosophy of education and how to save it from the stagnant state of inaction ...  Read More
Reggio Emilia: a postmodern approach to early childhood education
Reggio Emilia: a postmodern approach to early childhood education

Seyyed Amir Ghasemtabar

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 40-58

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52571.3297

Abstract
  The current research was conducted with the aim of explaining and interpreting the approach of Reggio Emilia based on the basic assumptions and beliefs of postmodern philosophy. Analytical-inferential ...  Read More
A comparative study of Merleau-Ponty and Arnheim's views in the field of visual perception and explaining its approach in art education (with a phenomenological approach)
A comparative study of Merleau-Ponty and Arnheim's views in the field of visual perception and explaining its approach in art education (with a phenomenological approach)

Somayeh Chatrayi; Marzieh Piravi Vanak; Nader Shayganfar; Parisa Darouei

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 254-268

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51713.3218

Abstract
  Many attempts to understand the nature of perception and its phenomena have been the result of the thoughts of phenomenologists and Gestalt psychologists. Maurice Merleau-Ponty and ...  Read More