Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Volume 18 (2024)
Volume 17 (2023)
Issue 45 articles
Vol. 17, Issue 45 (Winter 2023)
Issue 44 articles
Volume 17, Issue 44 (Autumn 2023)
Issue 43 articles
Vol. 17, Issue 43, Summer 2023
Issue 42 articles
Special İssue: Critical Rationalism
Volume 16 (2022)
Volume 15 (2021)
Volume 14 (2020)
Volume 13 (2019)
Volume 12 (2018)
Volume 11 (2017)
Volume 10 (2016)
Volume 9 (2015)
Volume 8 (2014)
Volume 7 (2013)
Volume 6 (2012)
Volume 5 (2011)
Volume 4 (2010)
Volume 3 (2009)
Volume 2 (2008)
Volume 1 (2007)
Research Paper
Praxis and the Reflection of Non-Representational Self in Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology
Praxis and the Reflection of Non-Representational Self in Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology

Mehrdad Ahmadi; Mohammadreza Asadi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54444.3421

Abstract
  Aristotle assumed Praxis as a comportment with beings which differs from both production and Theoria. Praxis as true action means doing for the sake of doing and not for an end out ...  Read More
Research Paper
Rereading Mulla Sadra's Personality Theory from the Perspective of Allport's Trait Personality Theory
Rereading Mulla Sadra's Personality Theory from the Perspective of Allport's Trait Personality Theory

Maryam Ahmadi; Sahar Kavandi; Mohsen Jahed; Javad Salehi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 21-44

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54945.3454

Abstract
  Anthropology in psychology under the title of "personality theories" has been able to be effective in the field of behavioral studies and interpersonal relationships. The need to explain ...  Read More
Research Paper
Ways to Reach the Supreme Being in Mullah Sadra's Thought
Ways to Reach the Supreme Being in Mullah Sadra's Thought

Mokhtar Arhami; Saeed Geravand; Mansour İmanpour

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 45-62

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52506.3288

Abstract
  In Mullah Sadra's thought and transcendental wisdom, ways have been introduced to reach the supreme truth, which is the ultimate goal of man in the process of self-perfection. These ...  Read More
Research Paper
Justifying Ockham’s Razor within Betz’s Theory of Dialectical Structures
Justifying Ockham’s Razor within Betz’s Theory of Dialectical Structures

Seyyed Mohammad Mahdi Etemadoleslami Bakhtiari

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 63-88

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53882.3389

Abstract
  According to Ockham’s razor, assumptions must not be unnecessarily multiplied. While this principle is widely accepted, its justification is controversial. More precisely, we ...  Read More
Research Paper
Linguisticality is not Merely Expressing the Experiences; the relationship between language and understanding according to Gadamer
Linguisticality is not Merely Expressing the Experiences; the relationship between language and understanding according to Gadamer

Abdollah Amini

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 89-107

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58041.3590

Abstract
  The focus of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics is the issue of understanding, and more precisely, the way understanding occurs in our encounter with the world as a "text". Gadamer ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Evolutions of Science According to the Three Philosophical Journeys; the originality of nature, the originality of existence of gradational oneness and the originality of existence of personal oneness
The Evolutions of Science According to the Three Philosophical Journeys; the originality of nature, the originality of existence of gradational oneness and the originality of existence of personal oneness

Ali Babaei

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 108-129

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53905.3419

Abstract
  Mulla Sadra has experienced three philosophical journeys: the originality of nature, the originality of existence of gradational oneness and the originality of existence of personal ...  Read More
Research Paper
"Ethics of care", a Branch of Virtue Ethics or an Independent Approach in Ethics? a review of Michael Slote and Virginia Held's perspective

Esmaeel Biokafi; Ahmad Fazeli

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 130-149

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54474.3429

Abstract
  The ratio of ethics of care and ethics of virtue is one of the questions facing experts of ethics of care, the answer to which has important consequences for ethics of care. Michael ...  Read More
Research Paper
Sophia οf the Earth: Paintings of Shiraz-Behbahan School from Henry Corbin’s Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Point of View Referring to the Mazdeic Texts
Sophia οf the Earth: Paintings of Shiraz-Behbahan School from Henry Corbin’s Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Point of View Referring to the Mazdeic Texts

Monireh Panjtani; Mahdi Mohammadzadeh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 150-178

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55014.3457

Abstract
  Focusing on five symbolic painting works from Golchin Asha’r of the Shiraz-Behbahan school dating back to 1398, the current study attempts to approach the world of meaning of ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Origin of Philosophical concepts from the perspective of Hume and Allameh Tabatabai
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Origin of Philosophical concepts from the perspective of Hume and Allameh Tabatabai

zahra Hatami Nemati; Hossein Nowrouzi; Seyyed Ebrahim Aghazadeh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 179-200

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54889.3456

Abstract
  The review of the works and the writings of philosophers regarding the origin of philosophical concepts and the origin of the concepts and imaginations before it are indicative of the ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Critical Review of the Mainstream Reading of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: οn Misunderstanding Kripke’s Wittgenstein
A Critical Review of the Mainstream Reading of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: οn Misunderstanding Kripke’s Wittgenstein

Ali Hosseinkhani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 201-221

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.52482.3285

Abstract
  In this paper, I will argue against certain criticisms of Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s sceptical argument and sceptical solution, made especially by Baker and Hacker, McGinn, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Rhetoric and Its Relationship with Politics in Aristotle's Thought
Rhetoric and Its Relationship with Politics in Aristotle's Thought

Fatemeh Raygani; Ali F ath Taheri; Alinaqi Baghershahi; Meysam Sefidkhosh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 222-241

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52677.3326

Abstract
  Rhetoric, being among five arts of logic (i.e., Sana’at Khams), is a persuasive yet uncertain art. However, philosophers consider it as a non-philosophical and invalid art. In ...  Read More
Research Paper
Explaining the Concepts of Substance, Attribute, and Mode in Spinoza's Philosophy Using the Opinions of Philosophers before Her (based on Wolfson's interpretation)
Explaining the Concepts of Substance, Attribute, and Mode in Spinoza's Philosophy Using the Opinions of Philosophers before Her (based on Wolfson's interpretation)

Javad Rabiee; Yousef Nozohour

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 242-260

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55832.3496

Abstract
  This article explores the concept of substance, attributes, and modes in Spinoza's "Ethics" by examining them through the perspectives of ancient Greek and medieval philosophers, as ...  Read More
Research Paper
Application of Treatment of Envy and Fear Based on Islamic Ethics in Logotherapy and CBT
Application of Treatment of Envy and Fear Based on Islamic Ethics in Logotherapy and CBT

Fatemeh Rahiminezhad; Raham Sharaf; Loghman Ebrahimi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 261-279

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55857.3498

Abstract
  In Islamic ethics, it is very important to pay attention to the spiritual dimension of man and the role of moral vices in jeopardizing mental health. In this regard, Islamic sages have ...  Read More
Research Paper
Mullā Ṣadrā on the Reference of Philosophical Secondary Intelligibles
Mullā Ṣadrā on the Reference of Philosophical Secondary Intelligibles

Tayyebeh RezaeiRah; Bahram Alizadeh; Mahmoud YousofSani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 280-295

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57819.3582

Abstract
  Mullā Ṣadrā offers two different views regarding the references of the philosophical secondary intelligibles. According to the first view, philosophical secondary intelligibles ...  Read More
Research Paper
Architecture and Eloquence; Re-reading of
Architecture and Eloquence; Re-reading of "Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture 1750-1950" by Peter Collins, Based on Jacques Derrida's Strategy of Deconstruction

Hanieh Zendehbad; Mohammad Mansour Falamaki; Abdolkarim Rashidian; Shadi Azizi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 296-311

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53906.3391

Abstract
  Only difference exist in the language‌. It should not be unheeded that it is the difference which usually determines affirmative phrases where difference is counterbalanced in their ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Emergence of the Absolute by Genius in the Work of Art in Schelling's Early Philosophy of Art
The Emergence of the Absolute by Genius in the Work of Art in Schelling's Early Philosophy of Art

Ali Salmani; Sepehr Salimi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 312-329

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55906.3499

Abstract
  Schelling's goal is to find a total consciousness for human; therefore, in the philosophy of nature, he tries to reach from the real to the ideal. On the other hand, the conscious spirit ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Reflection on Rorty's Claim about Religion: religion as a conversation stopper
A Reflection on Rorty's Claim about Religion: religion as a conversation stopper

Nabiollah Soleimani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 330-353

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53693.3377

Abstract
  Rorty claims that metaphysicians and religious scholars agree with the separation of the public sphere (politics) from the private sphere (religion). While metaphysicians try to find ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Freudian-Lacanian Interpretation of Formation Process of Plato's Metaphysics
A Freudian-Lacanian Interpretation of Formation Process of Plato's Metaphysics

Ali Sanaee

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 354-371

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56987.3555

Abstract
  This article deals with the imaginary and symbolic function of the psyche, and the Real as the main categories of Lacan's thought, which was achieved by the logical extension of Freud's ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Critical Study of Thomas Nagel's View on Absurdity
A Critical Study of Thomas Nagel's View on Absurdity

Vahid Sohrabifar

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 372-389

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.51591.3209

Abstract
  One of the crucial debates on the meaning of life is the question of absurdity. Is life of human beings has a unifying, valuable, and purposeful ground? one of the thinkers who present ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Perfection of Humanity and Its Realationship with Definition of Humanity from Mulla Sadra's Point of View
The Perfection of Humanity and Its Realationship with Definition of Humanity from Mulla Sadra's Point of View

Morteza Shajari

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 390-408

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57241.3566

Abstract
  Various definitions of humanity have been expressed in Islamic culture; Such as a physical substance with a duty, a talking animal, a single soul, an animal in love, and a living being; ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Analysis on Foucault's View on the Relationship between  Metaphilosophy and Modernity
An Analysis on Foucault's View on the Relationship between Metaphilosophy and Modernity

Malek Shojaei

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 409-424

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58859.3616

Abstract
  Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a French postmodern philosopher, has reflected on the nature of philosophy and its relationship with modernity in his various books. This article is based ...  Read More
Research Paper
Evaluation of the Argument of
Evaluation of the Argument of "Unconceived Alternatives" from the Perspective of Bhaskar's Critical Realism

Amir Sharifipour; Mostafa Taqavi; Maryam Poustforush

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 425-447

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56603.3536

Abstract
  Scientific realism has always faced continuous criticisms from scientific anti-realists. Kyle Stanford's "unconceived alternatives" argument can be seen as a late and troublesome version ...  Read More
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
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
Research Paper
A Study of Distinctions between Meaningfulness of Life and Happiness from the Point of View of Thaddeus Metz
A Study of Distinctions between Meaningfulness of Life and Happiness from the Point of View of Thaddeus Metz

Mahdi Sanei; Eynollah Khademi; AmirHossein MansouriNouri; Mohsen Hosseini

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 507-528

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.52791.3336

Abstract
  Thaddeus Metz has tried to show that the meaning in life, like morality and happiness, is one of the normative categories of life and emphasizes the distinction between the meaning ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Role of Accidental Lights in Sadrian System of Emanation
The Role of Accidental Lights in Sadrian System of Emanation

Ali Sedaghat; Hassan Fathzadeh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 529-549

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53415.3362

Abstract
  Clarifying the nature of accidental lights is one of the main parts of Suhrawardi’s emanative structure. Having elaborated the way these lights illuminate and the role they play ...  Read More
Research Paper
Heidegger's Time in the Play
Heidegger's Time in the Play "Waiting for Godot"

Mahmoud Soufiani; Hossein Asl Abdollahi; Mohammad Farahmand; Ebrahim Danesh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 550-577

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.53989.3397

Abstract
  The question of time has always been one of the greatest questions of philosophers and physicists throughout history. Undoubtedly, every philosophical thought is manifested in different ...  Read More
Research Paper
Explaining the Relationship between Hegelian Subjectivity and Human Society and Political Situation Based on
Explaining the Relationship between Hegelian Subjectivity and Human Society and Political Situation Based on "The Phenomenology of the Spirit"

Mostafa Abedi Jige

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 578-596

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55625.3482

Abstract
  As Hegel claims in the phenomenology of the soul, subjectivity as the fate of the history of consciousness aims to show how the soul tries to establish a dialectical relationship between ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Classical Theory of Causal Explanation under the Razor of John Searle
The Classical Theory of Causal Explanation under the Razor of John Searle

Mahdi Abdollahi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 597-617

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57069.3560

Abstract
  Regarding the analysis of voluntary action, there are two general attitudes in Western philosophy: causal explanation and non-causal rational explanation. The first view has been the ...  Read More
Research Paper
Loving in the desired city;  Adaptation of Plato thought in
Loving in the desired city; Adaptation of Plato thought in "Syposium: and Sohrawardi in "Fi Haqiqat al-Eshq"

Rouhollah Oshriyyeh; Abbas Bakhshandeh Bali

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 618-633

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.54182.3409

Abstract
  Love is one of the few effective common topics in philosophy, art, mysticism. It can be believed that the greatest Greek philosopher who spoke extensively about love is Plato. His view ...  Read More
Research Paper
Against Noë’s Perspectivism
Against Noë’s Perspectivism

Faraz Attar

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 634-655

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56171.3515

Abstract
  According to Noë’s perspectivism, the basic objects of perceptual experiences are perspectival properties of a scene, rather than their actual properties. This concept of ...  Read More
Research Paper
Conceptualization of
Conceptualization of "System"; Heidegger's interpretation from Schelling's point of view

Elham Karimi Douraki; Mohammad Meshkat

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 656-676

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57594.3573

Abstract
  The present article considers Heidegger's thinking about the concept of "system" in Schelling's treatise on Freedom (1809). Heidegger's thoughtful reference to Schelling's treatise ...  Read More
Research Paper
Deconstruction of Power, Resistance and Subjectivity; a comparative analysis of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault
Deconstruction of Power, Resistance and Subjectivity; a comparative analysis of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault

Bayan Karimi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 677-694

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56090.3509

Abstract
  This article aims to reassess the concepts of power, resistance, and subjectivity by examining the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. At first glance, it seems that these two ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Justification of Sensory Experience and Religious Experience in Alston's Intellectual System; Controversies and Responses
The Justification of Sensory Experience and Religious Experience in Alston's Intellectual System; Controversies and Responses

Masoumeh Mahmoudi; Abdollah Salavati

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 695-716

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.52266.3264

Abstract
  Introduction, Alston by distinguishing two explanatory views of sensory experience; that means, the direct and indirect justification point of view is based on the belief that sensory ...  Read More
Research Paper
Reflection in Analytical and Continental Philosophy; Nihilism, a legacy of the age of enlightenment
Reflection in Analytical and Continental Philosophy; Nihilism, a legacy of the age of enlightenment

Hamed Mavaniehei; Mohammad Raayat Jahromi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 717-735

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56520.3532

Abstract
  The present article, while emphasizing the field and time leading to the emergence of analytical and continental philosophy, tries to study the main and fundamental origins of their ...  Read More
Research Paper
Epistemological Independence of Ethics and its Ontological Dependence on Religion
Epistemological Independence of Ethics and its Ontological Dependence on Religion

Ramazan Mahdavi Azadboni

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 736-750

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55053.3461

Abstract
  A significant issue among philosophical issues is to determine the relationship between ethics and religion. Traditionally it was believed that ethics is based on religion and there ...  Read More
Research Paper
Analyzing the Position of the Practical Dimension of Human Existence in the Perspective of Farabi and Allameh Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari Tabrizi
Analyzing the Position of the Practical Dimension of Human Existence in the Perspective of Farabi and Allameh Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari Tabrizi

Mohammad Mahdavi; Maryam Samadieh; Seyyed Hossein Olyanasab

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 751-765

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59018.3626

Abstract
  The practical dimension of human existence is related to his actions; Actions that shape his personality and with the guidance of practical wisdom can be transformed into wise actions ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Analysis of Kant's Viewpoint on the Criterion of Moral Value Based on Henson and Herman's Interpretations
An Analysis of Kant's Viewpoint on the Criterion of Moral Value Based on Henson and Herman's Interpretations

Ali Asghar Hashemzadeh

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 766-786

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56859.3547

Abstract
  Kant argues that an action is morally worthy only if it is done not from inclination or self-interest but from duty. In the Groundwork, he provides examples to illustrate that the presence ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Closedness of Development in Davari’s Thought and the Metaphysics of Science
The Closedness of Development in Davari’s Thought and the Metaphysics of Science

MohammadReza Amiri Tehrani

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 787-806

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58871.3617

Abstract
  According to Westernization theory of R. Davari Ardakhni, the only way to get rid of underdevelopment is to undergo modernization, although underdevelopment phenomena has emerged in ...  Read More
Research Paper
Encountering the
Encountering the "Other" and the Emergence of Fundamental Peace in the Imperialism Subject from the Point of View of Levinas

Hamedeh Rastaei

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 807-823

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.58737.3611

Abstract
  The topic of this paper is the investigation and analysis of the fundamental peace that occurs in the light of the encounter with the "Other" in the imperialist subject. Levinas presents ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Necessity of Teaching Philosophy for Children and Its Role in Promoting Students' Creative Thinking and Social Skills
The Necessity of Teaching Philosophy for Children and Its Role in Promoting Students' Creative Thinking and Social Skills

Hoseein Aflakifard; Mohammad GhalehNoei

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 824-840

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55051.3460

Abstract
  One of the primary objectives of the philosophy education program for children is to improve the conditions for teaching thinking in educational systems. The aim of this program is ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Comparative Study of Alienation from Allameh MohammadTaqi Ja’fari and Martin Heidegger’s Point of View
A Comparative Study of Alienation from Allameh MohammadTaqi Ja’fari and Martin Heidegger’s Point of View

Jalil Jalili; Saeed Niazi

Volume 17, Issue 44 , November 2023, Pages 841-856

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59312.3640

Abstract
  Paying attention to the issue of the death of authenticity and alienation of man is one of the most important issues that contemporary man is dealing with ignorning it causes that according ...  Read More