Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Vico's Critique of Cartesian Thought as one of the most important beginings of the emergence of historical thinking
Vico's Critique of Cartesian Thought as one of the most important beginings of the emergence of historical thinking

Maryam Darbanian; Bijan Abdolkarimi

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 561-576

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.41232.2650

Abstract
  As a pioneer of historical thinkers, Vico laid out the origins of his historical thought in his critique of Cartesian mathematicalism. Descartes' effort, is not to attain the truth, ...  Read More
Comparative Study of the Theoretical Foundations of the Ash'arites and the Transcendent Wisdom about
Comparative Study of the Theoretical Foundations of the Ash'arites and the Transcendent Wisdom about "Creation Ex nihilo"

Hossein Vahabpour; Seyed Ebrahim Aghazadeh; Tavakkol Kouhi Giglou

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 856-879

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46975.2904

Abstract
  How to create and consequently the creation theory of ex nihilio it has been one of the main challenges between Islamic philosophers and theologians. Numerous interpretations in this ...  Read More
The Evolutionary Process in Lamarckism and Darwinism: similarities and differences
The Evolutionary Process in Lamarckism and Darwinism: similarities and differences

Sayyed Mojtaba Hosseini; Alireza Mansouri

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 577-593

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47295.2927

Abstract
  It is a widely held view that the inheritance of acquired characteristics plays an important role in Lamarck's ideas about evolution, and there are some counter-instances against it. ...  Read More
Explaining, Analyzing and Measuring a Typical form in the Philosophy of Ibn Sina and Suhrawardi
Explaining, Analyzing and Measuring a Typical form in the Philosophy of Ibn Sina and Suhrawardi

Hossein Falsafi

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 880-902

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48315.3004

Abstract
  The question of what a form is and whether it is substance or breadth is one of the basic questions in ancient and Islamic philosophies and the answer to it has been one of the most ...  Read More
Hegemony of Silence: a Hegelian-Lacanian reading of the relationship between silence and language in Molavi's thought
Hegemony of Silence: a Hegelian-Lacanian reading of the relationship between silence and language in Molavi's thought

Ali Hassanzadeh; Mahmoud Sufiani

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 594-609

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48663.3028

Abstract
  In the present article we try to trace back what we call the "hegemony of silence" in some of Molavi's verses and poems. The advocates of the "hegemony of silence" over-value silence ...  Read More
Comparative Study of the Concept of God in the Book Uthulujiyya and Rasa`Il Al-Kindi Al-Falsafiyya
Comparative Study of the Concept of God in the Book Uthulujiyya and Rasa`Il Al-Kindi Al-Falsafiyya

Hassan Abbasi Hosseinabadi

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 903-926

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.45405.2788

Abstract
  The philosophical God is explained by philosophical concepts and terms such as ‘being, cause’, ‘pure Act’ that in addition to them, in Uthulujiyya have also ...  Read More
Subjectivity and Genius as Condition of Possibility and Possibility of Fine Art in Architectonic of System of Kant's philosophy
Subjectivity and Genius as Condition of Possibility and Possibility of Fine Art in Architectonic of System of Kant's philosophy

Hadi Salari; Ali Salmani

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 610-625

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.49089.3060

Abstract
  We argue in this paper on art as the fine art in architectonic of system of Kant's philosophy. Here be shown that Kant had unitary image from his architectonic of system of philosophy ...  Read More
Angels and the Theology of Salvation in the Bible: The Interpretive approach of Saint Augustine
Angels and the Theology of Salvation in the Bible: The Interpretive approach of Saint Augustine

Ali Moradi; Sahar Kavandi

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 927-951

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47204.2924

Abstract
  Angels play a central role for Augustine in the Bible and, consequently, in the doctrine of salvation. In his works, he seeks to design a structure to explain the ontological position ...  Read More
Comparing Martin Heidegger’s and Ali Shariati’s Views of Technology
Comparing Martin Heidegger’s and Ali Shariati’s Views of Technology

Seyyed Javad Miri; Hossein Rouhani

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 626-642

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48484.3018

Abstract
  As one of the most prominent thinkers of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger has made fundamental criticisms of the subjectivism of the modern world. He critically examines the ...  Read More
Universal and Particular in Plato's Works
Universal and Particular in Plato's Works

Amir Hossein Saket

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 952-973

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48161.2995

Abstract
  Since early times, Plato’s ideas have been assumed as universal entities as opposed to the particulars. More exact analysis of Plato’s terminology, however, shows the contrary. ...  Read More
Alain Badiou and Subtractive Ontology in Kant
Alain Badiou and Subtractive Ontology in Kant

zahra namayandegi; Ali Fath taheri

Volume 12, Issue 25 , February 2019, , Pages 231-252

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.8009

Abstract
  Abstract Undoubtedly, Kant is one of the most effective figures in the history of western philosophy because he created a great evolution in this history by his so-called Copernican ...  Read More
Comparative and Critical Study of the Concept of Freedom  in the thought of Kant and Heidegger
Comparative and Critical Study of the Concept of Freedom in the thought of Kant and Heidegger

Issa Mousazadeh; Ali Aghaiepour; Mostafa Abedi Jigheh

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 643-657

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48246.3002

Abstract
  In a sense, freedom is one of the most important concepts in the history of philosophy, which plays a fundamental role in the thought of philosophers, but like many other concepts, ...  Read More
Scientific Realism and Anti-realism in Quine’s Philosophy
Scientific Realism and Anti-realism in Quine’s Philosophy

Amir Hajizadeh

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 974-996

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47950.2970

Abstract
  In this essay, we try to address a fundamental issue in the philosophy of science, namely the conflict between realism and antirealism in Quine's philosophy. There seems to be an inner ...  Read More
Kundera: action as Novel issue;  an Arendtian reading of  Kundera's  approach to novel history
Kundera: action as Novel issue; an Arendtian reading of Kundera's approach to novel history

Aref Danyali

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 658-677

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49132.3064

Abstract
  A main issue in Arendt writings is impossibility of action in modern bureaucratic society. Milan Kundera argued that a novel’s fundamental problem is action. This study discusses ...  Read More
Intention beyond Idealism and Realism
Intention beyond Idealism and Realism

Homayoun Dahaqin; Bijan Abdolkarimi; Mohammad Shokri

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 997-1026

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.44129.2750

Abstract
  Husserl's departure for the rejecting of the duality (subject and object) inherent in the nature of the Western metaphysical tradition is the transcendental structure of consciousness. ...  Read More
Philosophical Systems of Post-Corona from Confrontation Perspectives of Realism, Liberalism and Critical Theory; 
Condemned Scenarios, Platform and Harriet
Philosophical Systems of Post-Corona from Confrontation Perspectives of Realism, Liberalism and Critical Theory; Condemned Scenarios, Platform and Harriet

Arsalan Ghorbani Sheikhneshin; Hamid Ahmadinejad

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 678-695

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50567.3139

Abstract
  Theories based on philosophical foundations and with the capacities of ontology, epistemology and methodology can be very useful in Futures Study research. Considering this, the aim ...  Read More
Underdetermination and Ontic Structural Realism
Underdetermination and Ontic Structural Realism

Saeed Masoumi

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 1027-1051

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.38918.2525

Abstract
  One of the most important arguments against scientific realism is underdetermination, so realists should address the argument satisfactorily and give an appropriate response to it. ...  Read More
Movement in the Immaterials on Base of Islamic Philosophy
Movement in the Immaterials on Base of Islamic Philosophy

Yahya Normohamadi Najafabadi

Volume 12, Issue 25 , February 2019, , Pages 253-283

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.8012

Abstract
  Undoubtedly, Kant is one of the most effective figures in the history of western philosophy because he created a great evolution in this history by his so-called Copernican revolution ...  Read More
Investigating the Philosophical Basis of
Investigating the Philosophical Basis of "Design" as a Technological Activity, considering the implicit meanings in the intertextual concept of "Techne"

Seyyed Ali Faregh; Yasaman Hajian Foroushani

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 696-711

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.48107.2990

Abstract
  According to "Design" theorists, ambiguity in essence and meaning has posed various challenges to this scientific field, and since a lack of understanding of the functions and philosophical ...  Read More
From the Idea of God in Classical Metaphysics to Nietzsche's Alternative Design
From the Idea of God in Classical Metaphysics to Nietzsche's Alternative Design

Mahmoud Izadpanah; Bijan Abdolkarimi; Reza Davari Ardakani; Babak Abbasi

Volume 15, Issue 37 , December 2021, , Pages 1052-1074

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48413.3012

Abstract
  Nietzsche believed that metaphysicians considered their beliefs to be true and gave their ideas an objective truth. Nietzsche claims that all human values and beliefs, including belief ...  Read More
Agamben and Philosophical Archaeology
Agamben and Philosophical Archaeology

Hamidreza Mahboubi Arani; Abbas Jamali

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 712-729

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.48852.3055

Abstract
  Methodology has a special place for every thinker, and this may be even more prominent in the humanities. This article seeks to examine the philosophical methodology of the contemporary ...  Read More
Examining the Role of Practice in the Completion of Theoretical Reason in the Views of the Prophets (Al-Kindi, Farabi and Ibn Sina)
Examining the Role of Practice in the Completion of Theoretical Reason in the Views of the Prophets (Al-Kindi, Farabi and Ibn Sina)

Mohammadaslam Raeisi; Morteza Keshavarz; Mohammadali Akhgar

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 730-743

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51095.3166

Abstract
  In this article, the opinions of peripatetics, such as Al-Kindi, Farabi, and Ibn Sina, are examined under the role of practice in the completion of theoretical reason.the method of ...  Read More
Recognition of the Broken Windows Theory in
Recognition of the Broken Windows Theory in "Dwelling" of Modern City; semiotics and content analysis from "The Sacrifice" by Andrei Tarkovsky

MohammadReza Pourmohammadi; Farhad Barandak

Volume 16, Issue 39 , September 2022, , Pages 744-765

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49260.3069

Abstract
  The basic problem of urban man today is to live in an unbalanced and alien world; A world in which many parts are formed outside the sphere of human discretion and action. Since the ...  Read More
Untranslatability of Theories with Different Vocabularies
Untranslatability of Theories with Different Vocabularies

Mahdi Hatef

Volume 12, Issue 25 , February 2019, , Pages 285-305

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.8018

Abstract
  Abstract The controversial idea of incommensurability in Kuhn’s works was gradually replaced by the translatability thesis, for which two distinct arguments could be formulated. ...  Read More
The ontology of Finitude in Heidegger and Foucault’s Philosophy
The ontology of Finitude in Heidegger and Foucault’s Philosophy

Jamal Ghoreyshi Khorasgani; Ali Karbasizadeh Isfahani; Yousef Shaghool

Volume 15, Issue 34 , May 2021, , Pages 300-326

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.31480.2214

Abstract
  In this article, we analyze the basic role of finitude in Heidegger and Foucault’s philosophy. We argue that finitude makes possible Heidegger’s concept of being and the ...  Read More