Journal of Philosophical Investigations
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Research Paper
The Erosion of Academic Virtue
The Erosion of Academic Virtue

Susan Haack

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.15763

Abstract
  Haack articulates something of what she takes the moral demands of academic life to be, calling for such virtues as industry, honesty, realism, patience, and consideration. She then ...  Read More
Research Paper
From the Conflict of the Faculties to the Reconciliation of Knowledge and Nature at Kantian University and Its Lessons for Iran's Higher Education
From the Conflict of the Faculties to the Reconciliation of Knowledge and Nature at Kantian University and Its Lessons for Iran's Higher Education

Reza Mahoozi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 19-33

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.39775.3347

Abstract
  In the early works of the eighteenth-century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, besides explaining the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of various sciences, has illustrated ...  Read More
Research Paper
Educational Time Based on Heidegger's Approach to Temporality
Educational Time Based on Heidegger's Approach to Temporality

Felora Askarizadeh; Ahmadali Heydari

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 34-48

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.53557.3367

Abstract
  In this article, an attempt has been made to analyze the issue of time in education. First, to explore the nature of this concept, the distinction between the temporality of Being [Temporality] ...  Read More
Research Paper
Philosophy of Islamic Education: environmental and behavioral pathology of children's religious education
Philosophy of Islamic Education: environmental and behavioral pathology of children's religious education

Jalil Jalili

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 49-61

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52370.3275

Abstract
  This study was conducted with the aim of environmental and behavioral pathology of religious education of children. The research method was descriptive and content analysis. Studies ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Investigation into Teachers’ Perception of (Postmodern) Postmethod Pedagogy
An Investigation into Teachers’ Perception of (Postmodern) Postmethod Pedagogy

Hossein Sabouri; Mina Mahboubi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 62-73

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52919.3341

Abstract
  This study investigates into teachers’ perceptions in order to find out whether they are thinking beyond the concept of method. Specifically speaking, the underlying goal is to ...  Read More
Research Paper
Political Conception of Islamic Education: Revisiting al-Afghani’s Ideas on Education
Political Conception of Islamic Education: Revisiting al-Afghani’s Ideas on Education

Keyvan Bolandhematan

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 74-86

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51602.3211

Abstract
  Traditionally, Sufis, jurists, philosophers, and theologians, are known as different schools of Islamic thought, each of which has its own approach to Islamic education. However, from ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Challenges of Higher Education in Nigeria Vis-À-Vis Hegel’s Model of Development: a critical analysis
The Challenges of Higher Education in Nigeria Vis-À-Vis Hegel’s Model of Development: a critical analysis

Wesley Osemwegie

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 87-101

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51398.3196

Abstract
  This work takes a critical and cursory look at the term ‘education’ as well as the challenges of higher education in Nigeria. The paper explicates these issues from Hegel’s ...  Read More
Research Paper
Comparative Comparison of Self-control and Piety from the Perspective of Psychology and Islamic Education
Comparative Comparison of Self-control and Piety from the Perspective of Psychology and Islamic Education

Somayyeh Ram

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 102-119

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52517.3290

Abstract
  The main Purpose of this study is to explore the Nature of piety from an anthropological perspective by reflecting on the Qur'an and comparing piety construct with self-control. Methodologically, ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Human Soul Is Immaterial
The Human Soul Is Immaterial

Mahdi Golshani

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 120-132

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.48727.3032

Abstract
  Since old times the two dimensionalities of human beings, i.e., their having a material body and an immaterial soul (spirit), has been a controversial problem. In the Abrahamic religions, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Frommian Biophilic Ethics in Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich
Frommian Biophilic Ethics in Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich

Ahad Mehrvand; Naser Karmatfar

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 133-147

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47628.2949

Abstract
  Ilene Philipson, the Californian born sociologist and licensed psychologist, asserts that Erich Fromm is the second widely read psychoanalyst in the world standing after Freud. Fromm ...  Read More
Research Paper
Rene Descartes’s Cogito Argument Reconsidered
Rene Descartes’s Cogito Argument Reconsidered

Sajjad Amirkhani Shahraki; Ahad Faramarz Gharamaleki; Abdolrasoul Kashfi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 148-163

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.39955.2562

Abstract
  Asking from the truth of Cogito as the basis of knowledge, this paper tries to analyze all possible answers in Descartes’ philosophy. Inductively, four possible answers are open ...  Read More
Research Paper
Coincident Objects and The Grounding Problem
Coincident Objects and The Grounding Problem

Ataollah Hashemi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 164-173

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49651.3095

Abstract
  Pluralists believe in the occurrence of numerically distinct spatiotemporally coincident objects. They argue that there are coincident objects that share all physical and spatiotemporal ...  Read More
Research Paper
Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis
Online Forums Can Alleviate the Care Crisis

Mahdi Khalili; Saeedeh Babaei

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 174-188

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.44055.2747

Abstract
  In the context of the care crisis in modern medicine, the existential needs of patients are not sufficiently satisfied. One idea to address the crisis is that physicians should be educated ...  Read More
Research Paper
Analyzing the alleged Priority of Thought over Language in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy of Language
Analyzing the alleged Priority of Thought over Language in al-Fārābī’s Philosophy of Language

Narges Zargar

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 189-205

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.44223.2751

Abstract
  In the present article relationship of thought and language for the priority aspect, from al-Fārābī’s point of view is discussed. Based on the three meanings of nuṭq (: ...  Read More
Research Paper
Critique of Bochenski’s Conception of Methodology in Philosophy
Critique of Bochenski’s Conception of Methodology in Philosophy

Benedict Michael Shamijah; Edoh Sunday Odum

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 206-221

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.45849.2821

Abstract
  This paper is an examination of Bochenski’s conception of an acceptable methodology for research in philosophy. Generally methodology refers to the building of scientific knowledge, ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Critical Study of Two Conceptions of Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblance”

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A Critical Study of Two Conceptions of Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblance” .

Mahdi Mohammadi; Asghar Vaezie

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 222-241

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.48418.3014

Abstract
  In the Blue Book (pp. 17-18) and in the Philosophical Investigation (§§ 66-67), Wittgenstein offers the idea of ‘family resemblances’ to explain the relation between ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Relativity of the Subject of Truth in Alain Badiou’s Philosophy
The Relativity of the Subject of Truth in Alain Badiou’s Philosophy

Zahra (sara) Namayandegi; Ali Fath Taheri; Alinaghi Baqershahi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 242-256

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50398.3123

Abstract
  Badiou offers a concept of the subject that is completely intertwined with event and truth; in his view, the subject is not an isolated and secluded entity that is supposed to contemplate ...  Read More
Research Paper
Methods of Racism in Modern Philosophy
Methods of Racism in Modern Philosophy

Reza Sadeghi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 257-270

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.33443.3192

Abstract
  The deepest and most rooted form of racism can be found in the Bible which claims the superiority of a race as God's demand or divine destination. But this idea survived in modern philosophy ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Nature of the Soul from Mullā Ṣadrā and John Hick’s Viewpoint
The Nature of the Soul from Mullā Ṣadrā and John Hick’s Viewpoint

Hossein Mohammadi; Abdolrasoul Kashfi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 271-284

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51391.3195

Abstract
  What this essay is to discuss is Mullā Ṣadrā and John Hick’s viewpoint about the "nature of the soul". Mullā Ṣadrā considers the real nature of human beings to be "the ...  Read More
Research Paper
Perception of Religious “Other” and the Quality of Its Narration in the Cultural Context of Iran
Perception of Religious “Other” and the Quality of Its Narration in the Cultural Context of Iran

Sahar Alizadeh Niri; Alireza Sadeghi; Yousef Adib; Mostafa Ghaderi

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 285-301

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51854.3230

Abstract
  Human cultural vision in religious rituals and ceremonies of different religions, denominations and sects is of such a difference that this difference sometimes puts them in complete ...  Read More
Research Paper
Farabi’s Perspective on Global Peace
Farabi’s Perspective on Global Peace

Nadia Maftouni; Seyyed Mohammadreza Azarkasb

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 302-309

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52000.3243

Abstract
  Does it sound plausible to obtain a strategy for global peace in Farabi’s political philosophy? Put another way, could we procure a common language leading to peace among all ...  Read More
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
Derrida's Deconstruction and Environmental Graphics:  Examination and Analysis Case Study of the Mental Image of Tourists in Isfahan
Derrida's Deconstruction and Environmental Graphics: Examination and Analysis Case Study of the Mental Image of Tourists in Isfahan

Samira Feyzi; Fuad Habibi; Abbas Masoudi; Seyyed Sadegh Zamani

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 324-347

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52118.3252

Abstract
  Background and Aim: Derrida's Deconstruction has key elements in the schema that affect current realms of environmental graphics. The challenges in current urban life require that graphic ...  Read More
Research Paper
Merleau-Ponty, Theology and GOD
Merleau-Ponty, Theology and GOD

Douglas Low

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 348-372

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52913.3338

Abstract
  Somewhat surprisingly, a number of scholars have recently claimed to find an implied theology in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. This surprising because the author does not state ...  Read More
Research Paper
Soren Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith: political implications
Soren Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith: political implications

Hossein Rouhani

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 373-385

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.53176.3353

Abstract
  Soren Kierkegaard, as one of the leading anti-philosophers of the school of existentialism, employs an ironic and groundbreaking approach to find fault with rationalism, abstract thinking, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Critical Consideration on God's Essence and His Features in Open Theism
Critical Consideration on God's Essence and His Features in Open Theism

Eisa Mohammadinia; . Seyed Mohammad Ali Dibaji

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 386-398

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47230.2916

Abstract
  Open Theism, as a new perspective in theology, has attracted attention of many scholars and mainly claims that some teachings of classical theism are not in accordance with Scripture ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Philosophy of Teachers’ Power based on Leech’s Politeness Maxims in Iranian Context
The Philosophy of Teachers’ Power based on Leech’s Politeness Maxims in Iranian Context

Mohammad Zohrabi; Samira Akbarzadeh Rashed

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 399-422

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54115.3403

Abstract
  The philosophy of education is an important issue in learning and teaching. Also, the relationship between teachers’ power and abilities can tremendously influence the learners. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Reflecting the Hero's Confusion in Sartre's Existentialist Attitude: conditions of appearance and characteristics
Reflecting the Hero's Confusion in Sartre's Existentialist Attitude: conditions of appearance and characteristics

Esmaeil Baniardalan; Ataollah Koopal; Saeideh Ajorbandian

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 423-437

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.53808.3384

Abstract
  The current article discusses the issue that the hero in Sartre's existentialist attitude lives alone and confused in an absurd world where moral foundations are not very important. ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Notion of Causality in Edo Metaphysics: a hermeneutico philosophical study
The Notion of Causality in Edo Metaphysics: a hermeneutico philosophical study

Emmanuel Asia

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 438-459

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.45489.2795

Abstract
  One of the most important and most discussed problems of traditional and contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science is the problem of causality. The problem has generated a ...  Read More
Research Paper
The History of Education in Old Tabriz City and its Philosophy in the Qajar Era (from the Maktabs to formation of the new schools)
The History of Education in Old Tabriz City and its Philosophy in the Qajar Era (from the Maktabs to formation of the new schools)

Mehri Basnas

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 460-470

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54029.3399

Abstract
  Education in the Qajar era had been considered in Iran, especially in Tabriz. Most kind people tried to help scientific development and performed many educational and cultural efforts. ...  Read More
Virtues and Value: How Virtue Theory Plugs a Gap in Practice-Consequentialism
Virtues and Value: How Virtue Theory Plugs a Gap in Practice-Consequentialism

Robin Attfield

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 471-478

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.15860

Abstract
  What confers their value on genuine virtues, it is argued, consists in the intrinsic value that instantiating them in thought and action standardly brings about. This granted, virtue ...  Read More
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
Abstraction of the Soul and the Presence Abstracts in Dream From; the psychological and philosophical perspective with an emphasis on the views of Carl Gustav Young
Abstraction of the Soul and the Presence Abstracts in Dream From; the psychological and philosophical perspective with an emphasis on the views of Carl Gustav Young

Mikaeel Jamalpour

Volume 16, Issue 41 , January 2023, Pages 490-501

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55076.3464

Abstract
  Describing the abstract of the Soul in the words of rational and logical philosophers is the expression of ancient philosophy and the implementation of a new ontological view. Psychology, ...  Read More