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Research Paper
A Study of the Kantian Veins in Wittgenstein's Early and Later Philosophy
A Study of the Kantian Veins in Wittgenstein's Early and Later Philosophy

Pardis Baghali; Mohammadreza Abdollahnejad

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 1-19

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55406.3476

Abstract
  Despite Wittgenstein's philosophical activities in Britain and his strong inclination towards analytic philosophy, there are also non-analytic elements in his thought which are rooted ...  Read More
Research Paper
Studying Aristotelian Syllogism according to Implicative and Conductive Accounts
Studying Aristotelian Syllogism according to Implicative and Conductive Accounts

Hamideh Bahmanpour; Morteza Hajhosseini; Gholamreza Zakiani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 20-46

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50808.3153

Abstract
  Aristotelian Logic, the oldest system of reasoning, has always been come into focus. The Syllogism as the focal issue amid Aristotle’s logic has caused many controversial discussions. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Analysis of Danto's Historical-Hegelian Narrative of the Transfiguration of the Commonplace into Artwork
Analysis of Danto's Historical-Hegelian Narrative of the Transfiguration of the Commonplace into Artwork

Farid Rahnama; Amir Nasri

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 47-65

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50535.3133

Abstract
  Arthur Danto in order to achieve the definition of art, while rejecting previous views and clearly opposing the essentialism of the concept of art, seeks a new explanation in challenging ...  Read More
Research Paper
Immanence is Volatile! a critique on reading Hjelmslev’s Theory of Language as “Critique of Pure Linguistic Reason”
Immanence is Volatile! a critique on reading Hjelmslev’s Theory of Language as “Critique of Pure Linguistic Reason”

Mohammad Amin Shakeri

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 66-88

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50430.3138

Abstract
  In his critical reading of the book Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, Safaie (2021), referring to a Kantian epistemology and several other approaches, considers Hjelmslev’s ...  Read More
Research Paper
Reductionism or Emergentism?
Reductionism or Emergentism?

Ahmad Ebadi; Mohammad Mahdi Amousoltani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 89-111

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49598.3093

Abstract
  The goal of science is to explain reality and the world, and the goal of philosophy is also ontology. Philosophical views on scientific opinions and scientific opinions have had a direct ...  Read More
Research Paper
Socrates-Plato's Ethical System and the Critique of Sophistic Morality in Classical Greece
Socrates-Plato's Ethical System and the Critique of Sophistic Morality in Classical Greece

Alireza Shafieyoun; Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 112-131

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47877.2962

Abstract
  Greek society was in the search for virtues and prosperity, at the end. In their traditional teachings, only the virtues obtained from the gods' attention and related to society were ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Influence of Kant’s Epistemology on Kierkegaard
The Influence of Kant’s Epistemology on Kierkegaard

Soroush Saberi; Ali Karbasizadeh Isfahani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 132-152

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51079.3170

Abstract
  There could be various comparative studies between Kant and Kierkegaard on fields like human knowledge, ethics, faith, art, etc. This paper aims to compare the two philosopher’s ...  Read More
Research Paper
From Functionalism to Embodiment in Philosophy of Mind
From Functionalism to Embodiment in Philosophy of Mind

Tohid Hadinejad; Mahdi Behniafar

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 153-175

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49508.3084

Abstract
  In recent decades, Functionalism has become a standard approach towards philosophy of mind and cognitive science, Functionalism is inspired by computer science and against prior theories ...  Read More
Research Paper
Analytical Investigation of Herder's Bildung Idea and Inference of the Conceptual Components of Education Based on It
Analytical Investigation of Herder's Bildung Idea and Inference of the Conceptual Components of Education Based on It

Masoud Pirouti‌ Aghdam; Seyyed Jalal Hashemi; Seyyed Mansour Maraashi; Masoud Safaei Moghadam

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 176-198

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.54253.3413

Abstract
  This study aimed to analyze the concept of Bildung, which is based on Herder's concept. Accordingly, it is possible to provide new conceptual components for the education system. Herder ...  Read More
Research Paper
Deconstruction of Religious Education in the Postmodern Era
Deconstruction of Religious Education in the Postmodern Era

Neda Mohajel; Muhammad Asghari

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 199-210

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57665.3577

Abstract
  In this article, we are trying to show that in the postmodern era, by questioning the ontological foundations of theology and rejecting absolutism and embracing pluralism and relativism, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Recent Work on Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology
Recent Work on Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology

Mohammad Hossein Mohamad Ali Khalaj

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 211-234

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52233.3260

Abstract
  The paper aims to examine and criticize recent approaches suggested by some virtue reliabilists. To this end, section 2 provides a sketch of Sosa’s triple account of knowledge, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Al-Fārābī and His Interpretation of Aristotle's Ousia
Al-Fārābī and His Interpretation of Aristotle's Ousia

Hamid Khosravani; Hamidreza Mahboubi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 235-255

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.46749.2882

Abstract
  In ten of his works, Al-Fārābī discusses ousia/substance and its derivatives. Among these works, we frequently encounter quotations from Aristotle and Al-Fārābī's interpretation ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Entanglement of Government Political Philosophy and the Intellectual Foundations of Liberal Economics in the Opinion of Adam Smith
The Entanglement of Government Political Philosophy and the Intellectual Foundations of Liberal Economics in the Opinion of Adam Smith

Ayat Mulaee; Farshid Bandeh Ali

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 256-276

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50449.3125

Abstract
  The debates that are being made today under the headings of classical economics and its inherited liberal system emphasize the role of the industrial revolution in the formation of ...  Read More
Research Paper
Questioning the Relationship between Politics and Ethics: a hypothetical conversation between Arendt and Levinas; ethical politics
Questioning the Relationship between Politics and Ethics: a hypothetical conversation between Arendt and Levinas; ethical politics

Hossein Mesbahian

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 277-298

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50475.3126

Abstract
  This article seeks to demonstrate, through a hypothetical dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, that the essence of politics must be sought beyond "real politics" and ...  Read More
Research Paper
Kant's Theory of Knowledge and its Inherent Contradiction: examining the Kant's theory of knowledge based on Kant's own criterion in formation of knowledge
Kant's Theory of Knowledge and its Inherent Contradiction: examining the Kant's theory of knowledge based on Kant's own criterion in formation of knowledge

Mohammad Aslani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 299-319

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50366.3120

Abstract
  In his theory of knowledge, Kant presents an exclusive method for obtaining science by applying categories to the data of sensory intuition. "A priori synthetic propositions" are those ...  Read More
Research Paper
A New Formulation for Damascius' Critique on the Neoplatonic Transcendent Principle
A New Formulation for Damascius' Critique on the Neoplatonic Transcendent Principle

Mohammad Habibollahi; Ahmad Asgari

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 320-337

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51688.3217

Abstract
  Perhaps assuming a principle which is beyond reason and being is the most characteristic of the Neoplatonic thought. This principle is absolutely ineffable and no epithet deserves it. ...  Read More
Research Paper
Human-Centered City in Modern Philosophy
Human-Centered City in Modern Philosophy

Farhad Barandak; Fereidoun Babaei Aghdam; Hassan Mahmoudzadeh

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 338-363

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.50394.3122

Abstract
  With the advent of the so-called "philosophical revolution", it is clear that without the necessary procedures and issues of thought, any science is merely a continuation of the accepted ...  Read More
Research Paper
Illusionism on Mind Problem
Illusionism on Mind Problem

Siamak Abdollahi; Mansour Nasiri

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 364-383

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51469.3202

Abstract
  Nowadays, theories of the philosophy of mind, are divided into illusionist and non-illusionist. In relation to the Mind Problem (MP), Illusionism of Soul (IS) considers soul and all ...  Read More
Research Paper
Universal and Particular in Aristotle's Works
Universal and Particular in Aristotle's Works

Amir Hossein Saket

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 384-399

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52162.3259

Abstract
  Evidently the greek terms καθόλου and καθ’ ἕκαστον appeared first in Aristotle’s ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Study on Place and Conditions of Interfaith Dialogue
A Study on Place and Conditions of Interfaith Dialogue

Pegah Jamshidi; Qodratollah Qorbani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 400-417

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.54583.3434

Abstract
  Suppose the supreme religion as a reality includes the whole life of every human being. In this case, it is appropriate that we go beyond a comparative theology depending on dialogue ...  Read More
Research Paper
Senses of Taste and Smell from the Perspective of Transcendental Theosophy and Neuroscience
Senses of Taste and Smell from the Perspective of Transcendental Theosophy and Neuroscience

zohreh Salahshour Sefisangi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 418-435

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.46826.2886

Abstract
  The sense of taste and smell is one of the senses that has been considered by Islamic philosophers such as Mulla Sadra and neuroscientists. In philosophy and neuroscience, taste and ...  Read More
Research Paper
Productive Imagination in Painting from Ricoeur's Point of View
Productive Imagination in Painting from Ricoeur's Point of View

Mohammad Sadegh Gheysari; Amir Maziar

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 436-451

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49320.3072

Abstract
  The study of imagination has always had a significant role in the study of art and aesthetics. And imagination plays a central role in Ricoeur's philosophical system; a subject that ...  Read More
Research Paper
Critics on the Formalistic Attitude to the Arts
Critics on the Formalistic Attitude to the Arts

Sheyda Nasiri; Marzieh Piravi Vanak

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 452-467

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.48966.3051

Abstract
  When Immanuel Kant, in the third minute of his critique of the power of judgement, discussed the beautiful thing as something whose face and form have an infinite finality, the way ...  Read More
Research Paper
Swinburne's Confirmation Inductive Argument as the Best Explanation of Theism
Swinburne's Confirmation Inductive Argument as the Best Explanation of Theism

Abbas Yazdani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 468-488

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47927.2967

Abstract
  Can atheistic explanations scientifically explain the world and humans? Can theistic deductive arguments provide a rational explanation of the world? Many philosophers of contemporary ...  Read More
Research Paper
Divine Conceptualism as a Response to Challenge of Platonism  and Its Critique by Craig
Divine Conceptualism as a Response to Challenge of Platonism and Its Critique by Craig

Tayyebeh Shaddel; Hossein Atrak

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 489-509

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49686.3102

Abstract
  Divine Conceptualism is a solution to the problem that Platonism poses for theism. This view is put forward by Alvin Plantinga and Greg Welty, two contemporary American philosophers, ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Neo-Thomistic Responce to the Problem of Animal Suffering: review and evaluation of keltz perspective
A Neo-Thomistic Responce to the Problem of Animal Suffering: review and evaluation of keltz perspective

Maryam Soufie; Mohammad Mohammadrezai; Majid Dehghan

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 510-531

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49664.3098

Abstract
  Animal suffering and the problem of evil have recently received much attention as a challenge to theism, Keltz seeks to answer this problem with a Neo-Thomistic perspective. This paper ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Analysis and Assessment of Creativity as an Ultimate in Whitehead’s Philosophy
An Analysis and Assessment of Creativity as an Ultimate in Whitehead’s Philosophy

Rostam Shamohammadi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 532-552

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.48527.3020

Abstract
  Alfred North Whitehead believes that in all philosophical systems there is an ultimate which is their foundation. In his philosophy of organism which becoming and process have primacy, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Plato on the Threshold of Modern Era: fathers of modern Plato scholarship from Ficino to the Marburger Scholars
Plato on the Threshold of Modern Era: fathers of modern Plato scholarship from Ficino to the Marburger Scholars

Hanif Amin Beidokhti

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 553-573

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49067.3066

Abstract
  Although Plato has always been revered throughout the history of philosophy, the general trend of philosophy up to the modern era was Aristotelian. Even the Neoplatonists, with the ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Study of Chantepie’s Phenomenology of Religion and the Evaluation of its Critics
A Study of Chantepie’s Phenomenology of Religion and the Evaluation of its Critics

Susan Anjom-e Rouz; Ghorban Elmi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 574-595

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.47860.2963

Abstract
  Most of scientists of religion sometimes consider Chantepie de la Saussaye to be the founder of the phenomenology of religion. This study first explains Chantepie's view of the phenomenology ...  Read More
Research Paper
Examining the Discontinuous Imaginal Universe from the Perspective of Henry Corbine's Phenomenology in the Story of the Teenager 
Based on the Story Sorena and The Fire Vest By Muslim Naseri
Examining the Discontinuous Imaginal Universe from the Perspective of Henry Corbine's Phenomenology in the Story of the Teenager Based on the Story Sorena and The Fire Vest By Muslim Naseri

Shokoufeh Darabi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 596-613

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52629.3312

Abstract
  Henri Corbine is a French philosopher who he connected Husserl's phenomenology with Islamic philosophy, especially the wisdom of Sheikh Eshraq and Mulla Sadra. The discontinuous imaginal ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Genesis and Development of the Concept of Substance in Philosophy; from Plato to Hume
The Genesis and Development of the Concept of Substance in Philosophy; from Plato to Hume

Seyyed Masoud Azarfam

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 614-633

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.42613.2703

Abstract
  Substance is one of the fundamental concepts in the history of philosophy that has a history as long as the history of philosophy itself. Although this concept has underwent profound ...  Read More
Research Paper
Epistemological Explanation of Sense Experience in Cartesian Thought
Epistemological Explanation of Sense Experience in Cartesian Thought

Seyyed Mostafa Shahraieni; Mojtaba Jalili

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 634-649

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56427.3528

Abstract
  It seems that in Cartesian thought the possibility of sense experience cannot easily be put forward because of the theoretical foundations of his philosophy. He, in his masterpiece, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Haecceitism and Essentialism: Identity and Distingtion
Haecceitism and Essentialism: Identity and Distingtion

Meysam Ghaeidvand; Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 650-673

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51581.3208

Abstract
  Essentialism and Haecceitism are theories to explain the issue of individuality in objects. Some philosophers consider these two schools of philosophy to be one, and others oppose this ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Comparative Comparison of the Philosophical Contexts of the Two Stories of
A Comparative Comparison of the Philosophical Contexts of the Two Stories of "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" and "Robinson Crusoe"

Masoumeh Bahari Jouibari; Ali Sattari; Maryam Banahan Ghomi; Afsaneh Naraghizadeh

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 674-694

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51746.3221

Abstract
  The purpose of this research was to compare the philosophical contexts in the story of Hayy bin Yaqzan and the story of Robinson Crusoe. The research method was descriptive-analytical ...  Read More
Research Paper
Examining the Concept of Mind and the Status of Reason in Hume's Belief on Causality with a Naturalistic Approach
Examining the Concept of Mind and the Status of Reason in Hume's Belief on Causality with a Naturalistic Approach

Leila Khodami; Yousef Shaghoul; Reza Sadeqi

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 695-714

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51013.3162

Abstract
  In discussing Hume's view of causality, it has been generally focused on its negative aspects and skeptical results. Whereas, according to naturalistic interpretation, Hume's purpose ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Critical review of Persian Translation of Two Chapters of the History of Islamic Philosophy ed. by: S. H. Nasr & O. Leaman
A Critical review of Persian Translation of Two Chapters of the History of Islamic Philosophy ed. by: S. H. Nasr & O. Leaman

Majid Sadremajles

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, Pages 715-741

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57628.3575

Abstract
  Present article tries to review and appreciate the Persian translation of two chapters of the History of Islamic Philosophy. This book edited by S. H. Nasr and O. Leaman and printed ...  Read More