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Mehdi Golshani

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 1-3

Abstract
      Before the advent of modern science philosophy contained all sciences. The part related to natural and mathematical sciences was called natural philosophy. Another ...  Read More
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
Philosophy, Science, Capitalism and Truth
Philosophy, Science, Capitalism and Truth

Slavoj Žižek

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 36-52

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.13837

Abstract
  Fascinated by the recent scientific progress, even some philosophers today claim that philosophy is dead and that natural sciences (quantum cosmology, cognitive sciences) can answer ...  Read More
Research Paper
How to Complete Quantum Mechanics, or, What It’s Like to Be a Naturally Creative Bohmian Beable
How to Complete Quantum Mechanics, or, What It’s Like to Be a Naturally Creative Bohmian Beable

Robert Hanna

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 53-71

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.13839

Abstract
  In another essay, I’ve argued by means of a formal analogy between (i) the incompleteness of Principia Mathematica-style systems of mathematical logic (logico-mathematical incompleteness) ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Interaction of Science and Philosophy in the Present Age Two Dutch Philosophers: 
Herman Philipse and Hans Achterhuis
The Interaction of Science and Philosophy in the Present Age Two Dutch Philosophers: Herman Philipse and Hans Achterhuis

Hans Dassen

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 72-82

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.13840

Abstract
  Herman Philipse considers “religious beliefs, faith and religion [to be] incompatible with science or reason”; he defines religion scientifically and specifically rejects ...  Read More
Research Paper
From Physics to Metaphysics: Islamic Perspective and Contemporary Outlook
From Physics to Metaphysics: Islamic Perspective and Contemporary Outlook

Mehdi Golshani

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 83-91

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46921.2899

Abstract
  Before the advent of Modern Science, philosophy ruled over sciences. But, after the emergence of modern science, with the appearance of philosophers like Locke and Hume, empiricism ...  Read More
Research Paper
Philosophical Reflections on New Foundations of Mental Health: The Personality Modulation Clinic
Philosophical Reflections on New Foundations of Mental Health: The Personality Modulation Clinic

Alireza Farnam; Masumeh Zamanlu; Bahareh Deljou; Arash Mohagheghi

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 92-103

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48474.3017

Abstract
  To date, of essential goals in psychiatry and establishment of future medical centers is creating therapeutic environments with the aim of improving clinical outcomes, preventing the ...  Read More
Research Paper
Philosophy of Science Meets the Scientific Research: Metatheorizing expertise theories in Cognitive Psychology
Philosophy of Science Meets the Scientific Research: Metatheorizing expertise theories in Cognitive Psychology

Alireza Monajemi

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 104-114

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48331.3006

Abstract
  An obvious feature of the development of the philosophy of science during the past decades is an increasing specialization and fragmentation that have led to reduced impact of philosophy ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Study on Philosophical Intuition and Thought Experiment: Kripke's Critical encounter with Reductive Physicalism
A Study on Philosophical Intuition and Thought Experiment: Kripke's Critical encounter with Reductive Physicalism

Ali Sanaee

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 115-131

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48019.2985

Abstract
  In philosophy, many reflections and categories were the result of intuition and thought experiments. Intuition is defined as direct, immediate, and non-inferential knowledge accompanied ...  Read More
Research Paper
Coronavirus Crisis and Philosophizing
Coronavirus Crisis and Philosophizing

Hamidreza Ayatollahy

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 132-141

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46876.2893

Abstract
  The mind prepares for questioning during fundamental transformation in the course of human life. The Coronavirus Crisis brought about a fundamental change in human life that had not ...  Read More
Research Paper
Psychology and Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty
Psychology and Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty

Jalil Babapour

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 142-150

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48355.3008

Abstract
  The purpose of this article is to examine the close connection between the science of psychology, especially Gestalt psychology, and phenomenology in the thinking of twentieth-century ...  Read More
Research Paper
Foundations of Quantum Approaches to Consciousness
Foundations of Quantum Approaches to Consciousness

Hamid Faghanpour Azizi; Mehdi Golshani; Kourosh Nozari

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 151-170

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48108.2991

Abstract
  As generally accepted, consciousness or mind and material brain are closely related to each other; but how? Quantum mechanics is a new pathway to understand the hard problem of consciousness ...  Read More
Research Paper
German Idealism and the Origins of Pure Mathematics: Riemann, Dedekind, Cantor
German Idealism and the Origins of Pure Mathematics: Riemann, Dedekind, Cantor

Ehsan Karimi Torshizi

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 171-188

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47964.2971

Abstract
  When it comes to the relation of modern mathematics and philosophy, most people tend to think of the three major schools of thought—i.e. logicism, formalism, and intuitionism—that ...  Read More
Research Paper
When aesthetics does not lead to an act of environmental conservation
When aesthetics does not lead to an act of environmental conservation

Atoosa Afshari; Mahdi Behniafar

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 189-198

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.41585.2662

Abstract
  This paper examines the relationship between the environmental aesthetics approach backed by knowledge (ecological aesthetics) and the possibility of doing an action in favor of environmental ...  Read More
Research Paper
Realist Fiction as the Rightful Genre of our Time: Realist Fiction after the Postpositivist Intervention
Realist Fiction as the Rightful Genre of our Time: Realist Fiction after the Postpositivist Intervention

Firouzeh Ameri

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 199-212

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.36379.2435

Abstract
  Realist fiction, which had a pivotal place in 19th. Century literature, has lost its central position in the contemporary literary scene as modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism ...  Read More
Research Paper
Metaphysical Foundation of African Epistemology: A Study of the Afemai-Etsako of Edo State in Southern Nigeria
Metaphysical Foundation of African Epistemology: A Study of the Afemai-Etsako of Edo State in Southern Nigeria

Emmanuel Asia; Anthony Asekhauno

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 213-227

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46154.2832

Abstract
  Truth and knowledge are essentially the dictates of some rationality or metaphysical ordainment. By sense experience man is capable of accounting for his past, contemplate his life ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Rise of the
The Rise of the "Other" and the Fall of the "Self":from Hegel to Derrida

Mohammad Asghari; Bayan Karimy

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 228-244

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46252.2844

Abstract
  Since time immemorial, due to its metaphysically grounded perspective, western philosophy has not been able to detach itself from the egoistic outlook, and thus, the interaction with ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Relationship between Psychology and Phenomenology: an analysis based on Husserl’s views
The Relationship between Psychology and Phenomenology: an analysis based on Husserl’s views

Maryam Bakhtiarian; Fatemeh Benvidi

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 245-258

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48054.2982

Abstract
  The relationship between an independent scientific discipline called psychology with phenomenology that presents the methodology and method together is an excuse for investigating the ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Seven Earths and Seven Heavens in the Light of Jung, Maslow and Hindu Psychology
The Seven Earths and Seven Heavens in the Light of Jung, Maslow and Hindu Psychology

Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 259-269

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.45484.2793

Abstract
  The Holy Quran tells of Allah creating seven heavens and seven earths. These have been traditionally identified cosmologically with seven stars etc. or geographically with seven lands. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Redefining Cartesian Reductionism in Biological Issues with Big Data, such as COVID-19 Worldwide Pandemic, Using Formalism based on the Intermediate Attitude of Rationalism and Empiricism
Redefining Cartesian Reductionism in Biological Issues with Big Data, such as COVID-19 Worldwide Pandemic, Using Formalism based on the Intermediate Attitude of Rationalism and Empiricism

Mohammad Boudaghi; Farnaz Mahan; Ayaz Isazadeh

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 270-286

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47423.2935

Abstract
  Reduction is a concept first introduced by Descartes in explaining his view of the rationalization of philosophy through mathematics. He seeks to consider length, breadth, and depth ...  Read More
Research Paper
Aristotle on Ontological Pluralism
Aristotle on Ontological Pluralism

Mohammad Hossein Esfandiari; Morteza Hajhosseini; Seyyed Mohammad Ali Hodjati

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 287-306

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.41741.2666

Abstract
  Aristotle has repeatedly stated in his works that 'being has several senses'. Is this to be regarded as his pluralistic ontology, an approach that seems to be too nascent? If so, how ...  Read More
Research Paper
Explanation of Stephen Hawking’s fallacy of the Big Bang Theory and denial of the existence of God
Explanation of Stephen Hawking’s fallacy of the Big Bang Theory and denial of the existence of God

Mikaeel Jamalpoor; Mir Mehdi Behboodi Tolon

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 307-318

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47386.2933

Abstract
  Hawking emphasizes the big bang theory as a practical theory, thus answering the question of how the universe began. It has been emphasized by Stephan Hawking. He, according to this ...  Read More
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
Hegel's Absolute as Negativity
Hegel's Absolute as Negativity

Mazdak Rajabi

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 369-383

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.46312.2850

Abstract
  The relation of the many and the one, difference and identity, multiplicity and unity, particularity and universality, and finally that of negativity and negativity of negativity through ...  Read More
Research Paper
Khaqani’s Late Style: The Mada’in Qasida
Khaqani’s Late Style: The Mada’in Qasida

Rebecca Ruth Gould

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 384-399

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.13845

Abstract
  This article discusses Khaqani Shirvani’s poem Aivan-i Mada’in (The Mada’in Qasida), from the vantage points of literary history and the theory of ruins. The Mada’in ...  Read More
Research Paper
Tracing the Black Sun in the Derridean Khôral Mise en Abyme: elliptical reflections on the “word-space-flesh”
Tracing the Black Sun in the Derridean Khôral Mise en Abyme: elliptical reflections on the “word-space-flesh”

Bahareh Saeedzadeh; Amir Nasri

Volume 15, Issue 36 , November 2021, Pages 400-416

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2019.29527.2117

Abstract
  This paper reflects the inversion between the discourse on the Good and that on the khôra in view of the deconstructionist paradigm of the khôral mise en abyme as portrayed ...  Read More