Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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A Criticism and Evaluation of the Modern Mathematical Platonism
A Criticism and Evaluation of the Modern Mathematical Platonism

Hossein Bayat

Volume 12, Issue 23 , September 2018, , Pages 1-19

Abstract
  Some mathematical philosophers believe that we can achieve a new and better version of mathematical Platonism, by eliminating defects of original Platonism. According to Brown's ...  Read More
Joseph de Maistre and Retributionist Theology
Joseph de Maistre and Retributionist Theology

Gabriel Andrade

Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, , Pages 1-12

Abstract
  Joseph de Maistre is usually portrayed as Edmund Burke’s French counterpart, as they both wrote important treatises against the French Revolution. Although Maistre did share many ...  Read More
Scientistic Philosophy, No; Scientific Philosophy, Yes
Scientistic Philosophy, No; Scientific Philosophy, Yes

Susan Haack

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 4-35

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.13834

Abstract
  If successful scientific inquiry is to be possible, there must be a world that is independent of how we believe it to be, and in which there are kinds and laws; and we must have 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
Fichte’s Role in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Chapter 4
Fichte’s Role in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Chapter 4

Paul Redding

Volume 17, Issue 45 , December 2023, , Pages 11-28

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17474

Abstract
  In this paper I return to the familiar territory of the Lord-Bondsman "dialectic" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in order to raise the question of the relation of Hegel's use of ...  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
Language without communication intention
Language without communication intention

Galen Strawson

Volume 12, Issue 24 , October 2018, , Pages 15-54

Abstract
  This paper argues that a language can exist and flourish in a community even if none of of the members of the community has any communication intentions; and that reference to the notion ...  Read More
Esmaeil Sa'adati Khamseh
Esmaeil Sa'adati Khamseh

Esmaeil Sa'adati Khamseh

Volume 5, Issue 8 , May 2011, , Pages 16-57

Abstract
  In addition to his famous theoretical works on cognitive powers, moral principles and the power of judgment, Kant has studied man from a historical and pragmatic point of view. Kant's ...  Read More
The Question of Pideia of Subjectivity
The Question of Pideia of Subjectivity

Masoud Omid

Volume 16, Issue 40 , November 2022, , Pages 16-32

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52466.3282

Abstract
  The foundation of our world is based on subjectivity. In such a world and from the perspective of subjectivity, although a person is not born a subject, he becomes a subject. But reaching ...  Read More
The Concept of Play in Gadamer as an Alternative for Aesthetic Consciousness
The Concept of Play in Gadamer as an Alternative for Aesthetic Consciousness

Abdollah Amini; Yusof Shagul

Volume 5, Issue 9 , November 2011, , Pages 17-41

Abstract
  The main subject of this paper is to scrutinize the concept of "play" in Gadamer’s aesthetics. The main question is to what extent Gadamer’s concept of play, in the realm ...  Read More
Judgment and Knowledge
Dr. Jalal Peikani
Judgment and Knowledge Dr. Jalal Peikani

Jalal Peikani

Volume 4, Issue 219 , November 2010, , Pages 17-31

Abstract
  According to the common view, as we know, knowledge, in the entire history of western epistemology, was defined as the justified true belief that the judgment is one of its constituents. ...  Read More
Burhan-e Siddigin in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy in Comparison With Ontological Argument of Anselm and Descartes
Burhan-e Siddigin in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy in Comparison With Ontological Argument of Anselm and Descartes

Reza Akbarian; Ali Mokhberr Dezfuli

Volume 1, Issue 202 , December 2007, , Pages 17-58

Abstract
  In the history of philosophy, Burhan-e siddiqin as a way for proving the God from God has singular position among proofs of God. This argument originates essentially from Holy Quran ...  Read More
Study of Behavior and Behaviorism in Wittgenstein’s Thought
Study of Behavior and Behaviorism in Wittgenstein’s Thought

Morteza Afsahi; Mohammadreza Abdollahnejad; Mahmoud Sufiani

Volume 14, Issue 33 , February 2021, , Pages 17-29

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.39799.2556

Abstract
  In this article, we will deal with Wittgenstein’s view concerning the nature of mental states. As we know, Wittgenstein's position in this respect has been regarded by some of ...  Read More
Ibn Arabi and Molla Sadra; 
On Knowledge and its Role in Human Perfection
Ibn Arabi and Molla Sadra; On Knowledge and its Role in Human Perfection

Morteza Shajari; Zahra Gozali

Volume 7, Issue 13 , December 2013, , Pages 19-46

Abstract
  Knowledge (perfect and absolute knowledge), according to Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra, in term of its obvious concept and its hidden existence or truth is an existential truth. There is ...  Read More
Women Status According to Spinoza and Kant's Thought
Women Status According to Spinoza and Kant's Thought

Fatemeh Bakhtiyari

Volume 14, Issue 30 , May 2020, , Pages 20-37

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.32096.2246

Abstract
  Spinoza, Dutch philosopher of the seventeenth century, and Kant, the hero of enlightenment, have dealt with women and their differences with men in their works. In a few places, Spinoza ...  Read More
Logical Paradoxes
Logical Paradoxes

Reza Rasouli Sharabiani

Volume 1, Issue 199 , September 2006, , Pages 21-43

Abstract
  Logical paradoxes are self vicious reference sentences that are there lies contradiction in assumption of both its truthfulness and its falsity, hence. For the reason that logical paradoxes ...  Read More
Generalizability in Kant's ethics, Theoretical and Practical Examination of the First Formula in Kant's ethics
Generalizability in Kant's ethics, Theoretical and Practical Examination of the First Formula in Kant's ethics

Ali Akbar Ahmadi Aframjani; Hamzeh Hojjat Hatampouri

Volume 12, Issue 25 , February 2019, , Pages 21-41

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.8037

Abstract
  Abstract Immanuel Kant presents several formulations of the categorical imperative, first of which is called “Formula of Universal Law” containing the well-known generalizability ...  Read More
From Analytic Philosophy to an Ampler and More Flexible Pragmatism:

Muhammad Asghari talks with Susan Haack
From Analytic Philosophy to an Ampler and More Flexible Pragmatism: Muhammad Asghari talks with Susan Haack

Muhammad Asghari; Susan Haack

Volume 14, Issue 32 , December 2020, , Pages 21-28

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.41496.2658

Abstract
  In this interview, which took place in July 2020, Muhammad Asghari, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tabriz, asked eleven questions (via email ...  Read More
Temporarily of Consciousness and Historicity of Consciousness: Husserl’s Withdrawal of Transcendental Project
Temporarily of Consciousness and Historicity of Consciousness: Husserl’s Withdrawal of Transcendental Project

Alireza Hassanpoor

Volume 10, Issue 18 , August 2016, , Pages 21-35

Abstract
  In this essay through a brief sketch of Husserl’s thesis about time-consciousness, especially concentrating on its third level, it has been argued that a turn has been taken during ...  Read More
Rereading Mulla Sadra's Personality Theory from the Perspective of Allport's Trait Personality Theory
Rereading Mulla Sadra's Personality Theory from the Perspective of Allport's Trait Personality Theory

Maryam Ahmadi; Sahar Kavandi; Mohsen Jahed; Javad Salehi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 21-44

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54945.3454

Abstract
  Anthropology in psychology under the title of "personality theories" has been able to be effective in the field of behavioral studies and interpersonal relationships. The need to explain ...  Read More
Freedom and the possible worlds from the viewpoint of Leibniz
Freedom and the possible worlds from the viewpoint of Leibniz

Mohammad Ali Ejei; Amrolla Moeen

Volume 2, Issue 205 , December 2008, , Pages 23-53

Abstract
  One of the most important topics in Leibniz's thoughts is thoughs is the nature of freedom. Here, he attempted to develop an analysis of freedom by which he can show how God and human ...  Read More
The Need for the Dualist View to Combat Extremism: How the Dualist View Can Combat Extremis?
The Need for the Dualist View to Combat Extremism: How the Dualist View Can Combat Extremis?

Alistair J. Sinclair

Volume 9, Issue 17 , December 2015, , Pages 23-52

Abstract
  This paper argues that we will never get rid of the extremist mentality unless the dualist view prevails and is taught as part of the educational system. The dualist view takes account ...  Read More
The Decline of Subjectivism and Emergence of Perspectivism in Nietzsche's Thought
The Decline of Subjectivism and Emergence of Perspectivism in Nietzsche's Thought

Aminallah Arjang

Volume 13, Issue 27 , September 2019, , Pages 23-49

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.33954.2341

Abstract
  In this article, we have tried to show that subjectivism has emerged out of the ethics; it is intended to redeem the human from the fate of Gods and take him to autonomy. By Socrates, ...  Read More
Hume and the Problem of Induction
Hume and the Problem of Induction

zahra Esmaeili; Mohammad Hakkak

Volume 15, Issue 34 , May 2021, , Pages 23-40

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.40138.2581

Abstract
  The scope of this research is the study of Hume's solution for the problem of induction. The philosophers still wonder whether they could determine unobserved instances based upon similar ...  Read More
Gadamer’s Critical views of Husserl
Gadamer’s Critical views of Husserl

Alireza Azadi

Volume 9, Issue 16 , May 2015, , Pages 23-42

Abstract
  Husserl, besides Dilthey and Heidegger, is one of the most important philosophers who had big influence on Gadamer and is the philosopher who is frequently referred to in his works. ...  Read More