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A Platonic Critical Study of TV as a Poet
A Platonic Critical Study of TV as a Poet

Hassan Ahmadizadeh

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 522-545

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46427.2859

Abstract
  The quarrel between Plato and the poets in the Utopia and try to exclude them from there is a very important subject in the Republic. He in the book III explains the limits for poems ...  Read More
Is Falsifiability a ‘Blunt Instrument’ for Modern Physics?
Is Falsifiability a ‘Blunt Instrument’ for Modern Physics?

Manjari Chakrabarty

Volume 17, Issue 42 , June 2023, , Pages 298-316

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16589

Abstract
  Modern (theoretical) physics seems to be in deep crisis today as many of its core aspects are not empirically well-confirmed. Heated exchanges among physicists on the scientific status ...  Read More
Transformation and Transcendence of Artistic Form in Plato's Aesthetic Theory
Transformation and Transcendence of Artistic Form in Plato's Aesthetic Theory

Camellia Talei Bafghi; Maryam Soltani Kouhanestani

Volume 14, Issue 32 , December 2020, , Pages 316-331

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2018.8016

Abstract
  Nowadays, although our aesthetic ideas are based on modern theories and perspectives that have pervaded the art, the root of western tradition of art dates back to Greek and Roman art ...  Read More
The Power of Music for Farabi: A Case Study as to Gender
The Power of Music for Farabi: A Case Study as to Gender

Nadia Maftouni

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 319-327

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46639.2876

Abstract
  Abu Nasr Farabi focuses on influence of the music on emotions and emotional problems including extreme emotions and moods. But how effective is music in changing a specific emotional ...  Read More
A comparative Study of Aesthetics  in Plato's Thought and Suhrawardi's Wisdom
A comparative Study of Aesthetics in Plato's Thought and Suhrawardi's Wisdom

Maryam Imanizadeh Sharifpour; Seyyed Rahmatollah Mousavi Moghaddam; Seyyed Sadegh Zamani

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 383-394

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52041.3248

Abstract
  Throughout history, philosophers have looked at existence with a new perspective and have been able to revolutionize the history of philosophy with their theories. Among these philosophers ...  Read More
The Relationship between Theoria and Praxis in Plato's Philosophy from the Viewpoint of Heidegger and Gadamer
The Relationship between Theoria and Praxis in Plato's Philosophy from the Viewpoint of Heidegger and Gadamer

Kazem Hani

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 399-417

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59165.3635

Abstract
  Although Aristotle is the first philosopher who separates theoretical and practical wisdom from each other, but before Aristotle, Plato also paid attention to the separation or non ...  Read More
On the Problem of Relation without Relata
On the Problem of Relation without Relata

Aboutorab Yaghmaie

Volume 14, Issue 33 , February 2021, , Pages 404-425

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.38275.2506

Abstract
  The claim that there can be relations without relata, submitted by the radical ontic structural realist, mounts a serious challenge to her: on the one hand, the world is constituted, ...  Read More
How the Idea of the Language of Thought Is Evaluated by Wittgenstein?
How the Idea of the Language of Thought Is Evaluated by Wittgenstein?

Hossein Shaqaqi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 448-466

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56365.3526

Abstract
  In Philosophical investigations, Wittgenstein criticizes many classical and contemporary philosophical theories about language. Here, with a brief presentation of what is called as ...  Read More
Aesthetics of Tourism according to Kant`s Attitude to the Nature in Critique of Judgment
Aesthetics of Tourism according to Kant`s Attitude to the Nature in Critique of Judgment

Farideh Afarin; Bita Abde Nikfarjam

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 546-579

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46631.2875

Abstract
  interaction between sciences and philosophy In this research, we intend to examine Immanuel Kant's definition of nature in his critique of judgment in both parts, i.e., aesthetics ...  Read More
Is it more reasonable for a critical rationalist to be non-religious?
Is it more reasonable for a critical rationalist to be non-religious?

Jeremy Shearmur

Volume 17, Issue 42 , June 2023, , Pages 317-331

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16590

Abstract
  This paper argues that it is not reasonable for a critical rationalist to be a religious believer in the Abrahamic tradition. The argument is distinctive, in that it takes seriously ...  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
Theory of Knowledge in Islamic Intellectual Tradition
Theory of Knowledge in Islamic Intellectual Tradition

Hossein Valeh

Volume 14, Issue 32 , December 2020, , Pages 332-356

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.28176.2042

Abstract
  Early Muslim philosophers, theologians, logicians and experts in jurisprudence understand knowledge as “firm true belief supported by evidence”. They consider conjectures ...  Read More
Investigating the evolution of the theological attitude of the rule of grace to the issue of inclusivism in salvation (Allameh Tabatabai and Javadi Amoli)
Investigating the evolution of the theological attitude of the rule of grace to the issue of inclusivism in salvation (Allameh Tabatabai and Javadi Amoli)

Zeinab Yousefi; Mohammad Ali Akhgar; Abbas Ahmadi Saadi

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 395-409

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51889.3233

Abstract
  İn this article, by analyzing the views of Allameh Tabatabai and Javadi Amoli on the theological-philosophical rule of grace in the issue of "inclusiveness in salvation", how this ...  Read More
Criterion for Movie Evaluation by Martin Heidegger’s Idea in His Essay “The Origin of the Work of Art”
Criterion for Movie Evaluation by Martin Heidegger’s Idea in His Essay “The Origin of the Work of Art”

Mahdi Homayouni; Asghar Fahimifar; Hamidreza Mahboubi Arani

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 418-438

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56096.3510

Abstract
  According to Martin Heidegger, the work of art reveals the truth. But this is not in every work of art, but only in a real art! But which work has the possibility of accepting the title ...  Read More
The Ideal Political System in Carl Schmitt’s Political Philosophy
The Ideal Political System in Carl Schmitt’s Political Philosophy

Mahdi Sadeghi AhangarKelaie; Saeed Eslami; Behrouz DeilamSalehi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 467-487

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56825.3542

Abstract
  The issue of the nature of the state is one of the most important issues in political philosophy, and any interpretation of it will follow an interpretation of government ends, ideal ...  Read More
Helmuth Plessner;  a Philosophical Anthropology of Biological Provenance
Helmuth Plessner; a Philosophical Anthropology of Biological Provenance

Ehsan Karimi Torshizi

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 580-606

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46234.2843

Abstract
  Helmuth Plessner, beside Max Scheler and Arnold Gehlen, is known as one of the great founders of new philosophical anthropology movement. From among new anthropological theories, however, ...  Read More
Is it more reasonable for a Critical Rationalist to be non-Religious? Belief and Unbelief in a Post-secular Era
Is it more reasonable for a Critical Rationalist to be non-Religious? Belief and Unbelief in a Post-secular Era

Ali Paya

Volume 17, Issue 42 , June 2023, , Pages 332-351

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16591

Abstract
  In modern times many militant atheist thinkers and activists have tried to promote the idea that religions, as well as religious ways of life, are one of the main, if not the main source ...  Read More
The Position of Sense in Ibn Sina's Epistemology (The Empiricism of Avicenna)
The Position of Sense in Ibn Sina's Epistemology (The Empiricism of Avicenna)

Mostafa Momeni

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 344-356

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.41079.2639

Abstract
  Philosophers consider sense as a means for true cognition. In spite of the fact that Islamic philosophy are generally regarded as rational philosophy, it does not mean that they do ...  Read More
The importance of proportion in architecture and music with a Focus on Plato Thoughts
The importance of proportion in architecture and music with a Focus on Plato Thoughts

Fattaneh Jalalkamali; Hossein Ardalani

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 410-421

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49888.3109

Abstract
  The existence of rhythm, harmony and symmetry in architecture and music shows us, these two artists have a lot in common. The buildings left from ancient times to the buildings that ...  Read More
A Research on the Writing of Philosophical Texts in Persian Language in the Region of Azerbaijan with an Emphasis on the 6th to 8th Lunar Centuries
A Research on the Writing of Philosophical Texts in Persian Language in the Region of Azerbaijan with an Emphasis on the 6th to 8th Lunar Centuries

Mikael Jamalpour

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 439-460

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59442.3642

Abstract
  Since its establishment and formation by the advanced philosophers, especially Hakim Abu Nasr Farabi, Islamic philosophy has experienced various changes, one of which is "change of ...  Read More
The Problem of Morality in Soft and Hard Legal Positivism
The Problem of Morality in Soft and Hard Legal Positivism

Ataollah Salehi; Mahdi Balavi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, , Pages 488-506

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59000.3627

Abstract
  The law is the reason and guide for human behavior; therefore, it is a normative social practice. But what conditions should a norm have to be called a law and what is its relationship ...  Read More
Phenomenal Consciousness; a Challenge to Physicalism
Phenomenal Consciousness; a Challenge to Physicalism

Samad Hosseini; Abbas Yazdani

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 607-626

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49453.3081

Abstract
  The undeniable success of neuroscience in explaining human mental states, which in the past were explained in terms of supernatural concepts, has led many modern-day scientists and ...  Read More
The Problem of Certainty in Religion and Science: Two Critically Rational Solutions to the Feynman Dilemma
The Problem of Certainty in Religion and Science: Two Critically Rational Solutions to the Feynman Dilemma

Shuja Zaidi

Volume 17, Issue 42 , June 2023, , Pages 352-373

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16592

Abstract
  The influential physicist Richard Feynman became interested in the relationship between religion and science during a mid-career phase. He proposed that their interface was embroiled ...  Read More
Foucauldian Panopticism in Donald Barthelme’s “Subpoena”
Foucauldian Panopticism in Donald Barthelme’s “Subpoena”

Fatemeh Mozaffari; Akram Pouralifard

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, , Pages 357-368

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47286.2921

Abstract
  Some of Donald Barthelme’s works have been undeniably influenced by Michel Foucault’s socio-political philosophy, however, few scholars have explored such concepts in his ...  Read More
The Secular Nature of Modern Sciences
The Secular Nature of Modern Sciences

Ahad Ganjalikhani; Mahdi Meshki

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 422-436

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51496.3204

Abstract
  The relationship between science and its foundations and its influence on thought and worldview and how science is influenced by its foundations are important issues in the philosophy ...  Read More