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Research Paper
The Objectivity of Science
The Objectivity of Science

Howard Sankey

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 1-10

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17473

Abstract
  The idea that science is objective, or able to achieve objectivity, is in large part responsible for the role that science plays within society. But what is objectivity? The idea of ...  Read More
Research Paper
Fichte’s Role in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Chapter 4
Fichte’s Role in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Chapter 4

Paul Redding

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 11-28

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17474

Abstract
  In this paper I return to the familiar territory of the Lord-Bondsman "dialectic" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in order to raise the question of the relation of Hegel's use of ...  Read More
What a World! The Pluralistic Universe of Innocent Realism
What a World! The Pluralistic Universe of Innocent Realism

Susan Haack

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 29-35

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17416

Abstract
  The method of metaphysics: Metaphysics is empirical but depends not, like the sciences, on recondite experience but on close attention to aspects of everyday experience we ordinarily ...  Read More
Research Paper
Rewriting Heidegger
Rewriting Heidegger

Thomas Sheehan

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 36-59

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17365

Abstract
  Two traps currently ensnare Heideggerian scholarship: the “language trap” and the “being trap”. To avoid them, the text argues we should follow Heidegger’s ...  Read More
Research Paper
Love, On the Univocity of Rawls’s Difference Principle
Love, On the Univocity of Rawls’s Difference Principle

Alain Boyer

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 60-71

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17366

Abstract
  A double ambiguity has been charged against Rawls’s difference principle (DP). Is it Maximin, Leximin, or something else? Usually, following A. Sen, scholars identify DP with ...  Read More
Research Paper
Image, Time, and Photography Based on Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
Image, Time, and Photography Based on Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics

Sam Ghazanfari; Farideh afarin

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 72-89

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.47066.2909

Abstract
  In Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (KPM), Heidegger shows how the initial image-making power of the imagination is pictorial in the pure image of time. He further clarifies the ...  Read More
Research Paper
Philosophical-Psychological Approach to Culture and Education
Philosophical-Psychological Approach to Culture and Education

sandeep sandeep; Ponung Nonang

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 90-98

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.60258.3691

Abstract
  Education is a continually developing activity, it shapes the way an individual develops their attitudes, thoughts and behavior. Education is not just about being literate but it is ...  Read More
Research Paper
Ethics Based on Primacy of Existence (Aṣālat al-Wujūd) with a Focus on Mullā Sadrā's Primacy of Existence
Ethics Based on Primacy of Existence (Aṣālat al-Wujūd) with a Focus on Mullā Sadrā's Primacy of Existence

Hossein Atrak; Manouchehr Shaminejad

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 99-115

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59945.3668

Abstract
  This research endeavors to introduce a novel concept in ethics, namely ethics based on the primacy of existence, drawing upon Aṣālat al-wujūd, the theory of the primacy of existence ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims
The Deficits of Scientific Scepticism: Revisiting the Higher Values of Contextualistic Pluralism in Justification of Truth and Knowledge Claims

Anthony Etuk

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 116-127

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.57961.3587

Abstract
  Scientific scepticism, fundamentally, questions the veracity and epistemic value of claims not supported by scientific evidence. Motivated by the assumption that only the empirical ...  Read More
Research Paper
“Everything is Full of Gods”; Theologia - Muthologia and the Beginning of the Ancient Greek Political Thought
“Everything is Full of Gods”; Theologia - Muthologia and the Beginning of the Ancient Greek Political Thought

Mahdi Fayyaz; Rouhollah Eslami; Hossein Athari; Mohammad Ali Taghavi

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 128-146

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59262.3638

Abstract
  The primary objective of this article is to elucidate that a comprehensive understanding of Greek political thought necessitates an examination of its origins in Ancient Greece. Traditional ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Review of the Theory of
A Review of the Theory of "The Spirit of Meaning" with Emphasis on Al-Ghazali's Point of View

Ahmad Fazeli; Hediye Omidzamani

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 147-158

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57943.3585

Abstract
  Considering the fact that the words in the intra-religious attitude are considered in two ways, the first is towards jurisprudential words and the second is a rational and conceptual ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Evaluation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Using the Inversion Theory of Truth
An Evaluation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism Using the Inversion Theory of Truth

Peter Lugten

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 159-174

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57752.3578

Abstract
  This paper examines the work of Immanuel Kant in the light of a new theory on the nature of truth, knowledge and falsehood (the Inversion Theory of Truth). Kant’s idea that knowledge ...  Read More
Research Paper
Analytical Study of the Role of the Industry of Religion of Ibn Khaldun, Discipline and Technology of the Self of Foucault in Power Domination
Analytical Study of the Role of the Industry of Religion of Ibn Khaldun, Discipline and Technology of the Self of Foucault in Power Domination

Gholamreza Mansouri

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 175-190

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.56104.3511

Abstract
  In some point of view, neither Michel Foucault nor Ibn Khaldun are considered philosophers in the conventional classifications, but both are very  important in intellectual and, ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Dialectic Approach to the Conception of Beauty and the Natural Aesthetics: an interdisciplinary perspective in focus
A Dialectic Approach to the Conception of Beauty and the Natural Aesthetics: an interdisciplinary perspective in focus

Abbas Mehrpooya; Ali Asghar Morovat

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 191-202

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59217.3633

Abstract
  Nature has aesthetics of its own, what can provoke the human mind into better recognizing the concept of beauty via mental perception. As such, human mind can interact with the nonverbal ...  Read More
Research Paper
Memory as a Mass-Based Graph: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Simulation Model of Human Memory in Al
Memory as a Mass-Based Graph: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Simulation Model of Human Memory in Al

Mahdi Mollakazemiha; Hassan Fathzadeh

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 203-214

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.53850.3387

Abstract
  There are two approaches for simulating memory as well as learning in artificial intelligence; the functionalistic approach and the cognitive approach. The necessary condition to put ...  Read More
Research Paper
Beyond Metanarratives and Universal Ideologies: Exploring Postmodernist Educational Concepts for Autonomy in Iranian EFL Context
Beyond Metanarratives and Universal Ideologies: Exploring Postmodernist Educational Concepts for Autonomy in Iranian EFL Context

Vahid Norouzi larsari

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 215-230

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.60268.3692

Abstract
  Postmodernism represents skepticism toward metanarratives and universal ideologies that dominated the modernist era. The study focuses on three key postmodernist concepts - alternative ...  Read More
Research Paper
Rethinking The Lockean Approach to The Problem of Personal Identity
Rethinking The Lockean Approach to The Problem of Personal Identity

Taiwo Wesley Osemwegie; Ike Odimegwu

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 231-249

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.29464.2110

Abstract
  The problem of personal identity among others may stem from the following question—what does be the person that you are, from one day to the next, necessarily consist of? The ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Dēnkard VI: ‘Consequentialism’ and ‘Capitalism’ as Well as Paymān (The ancient Iranian ‘golden mean’)
The Dēnkard VI: ‘Consequentialism’ and ‘Capitalism’ as Well as Paymān (The ancient Iranian ‘golden mean’)

Shirzad Peik Herfeh

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 250-266

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.59245.3636

Abstract
  Dēnkard (Acts of the religion), written in Pahlavi, is a summary of 10th-century knowledge of the Mazdean religion and is described by Jean de Menasce on the title page of his ...  Read More
Research Paper
Transcending Otherness: Overcoming Obstacles in the Mystical Journey in Shabestarī’s Rose Garden of Mystery
Transcending Otherness: Overcoming Obstacles in the Mystical Journey in Shabestarī’s Rose Garden of Mystery

Rasoul Rahbari Ghazani

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 267-282

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.57232.3565

Abstract
  This study explores the distinguished Persian Sufi mystic Shaykh Maḥmūd Shabestarī’s Golshan-e Rāz, or The Rose Garden of Mystery. Adopting a hermeneutic approach, it scrutinizes ...  Read More
Research Paper
Fardid and Nasr on the Confrontation of Western World
Fardid and Nasr on the Confrontation of Western World

Hossein Rouhani

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 283-299

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.55151.3467

Abstract
  Regarding the way of facing the West and modernity, Ahmed Fardid is among the thinkers who, by adopting a philosophical and judgmental approach, rejects modernity, philosophy, and western ...  Read More
Research Paper
Commonalities of the Abrahamic Religions in the Worldview of Science:  Metaphysical Presuppositions of Science
Commonalities of the Abrahamic Religions in the Worldview of Science: Metaphysical Presuppositions of Science

Maryam Shamsaei; Mahdi Golshani

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 300-316

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.58674.3608

Abstract
  The Abrahamic religions include the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All of these religions consider Abraham as their ancestor, and they consider science ...  Read More
Research Paper
Beyond the Bodily View and Psychological View of Human Beings: Human Beings are Rational Animals
Beyond the Bodily View and Psychological View of Human Beings: Human Beings are Rational Animals

Khanh Trinh

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 317-329

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59858.3662

Abstract
  We are... So, to reframe the inquiry: who are we on a metaphysical level? Which aspects of ourselves are the most universally representative of who we are? How do we fare in the face ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Philosophy of Teacher Immunity: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives
The Philosophy of Teacher Immunity: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives

Mohammad Zohrabi; Abdolreza Khalili

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 330-346

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.59889.3664

Abstract
  Teacher factors encompass the teachers’ cognitive and affective characteristics that are likely to affect their instructional efficacy. Language teacher immunity is one of the ...  Read More
Research Paper
Flourishing and Essential Capacities
Flourishing and Essential Capacities

Robin Attfield

Volume 17, Issue 45 , January 2024, Pages 347-360

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17517

Abstract
  I have previously argued that human flourishing partly consists in the ability to exercise essential human capacities, many of which are non-distinctive and shared with other animals. ...  Read More