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Number of Articles: 19
Full text of , Volume 11, Issue 21, Fall & Winter 2017, journal of Philosophical Investigations Page 1-242
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017
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Table of Content, Volume 11, Issue 21, Fall & Winter 2017, Page 1-242 Read More
Joseph de Maistre and Retributionist Theology
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 1-12
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Joseph de Maistre is usually portrayed as Edmund Burke’s French counterpart, as they both wrote important treatises against the French Revolution. Although Maistre did share many ... Read More
That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 13-23
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Over the centuries, beginning with the classic Greeks through the trends of the mid-20th century, philosophical enterprise has been intricately and seemingly irretrievably rooted in ... Read More
Philosophical Rationalism in Shia Kalam
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 25-38
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One important question that the emergence of philosophical or rational Kalam has raised is what rationalism in the so-called Kalami (theological) schools actually means. This paper ... Read More
Ontology of Time in Cinema; a Deleuzian reading of Still Life and Prince Ehtejab with an emphasis on the concept of Time-Image*
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 39-52
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Gilles Deleuze, the notable post-modern philosopher, in his two-volume cinematic books Cinema 1: movement-image (1986) and Cinema 2: time-image (1989) recognizes two major periods in ... Read More
A Pragmatic Solution to the Value Problem of Knowledge
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 53-67
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We value possessing knowledge more than true belief. Both someone with knowledge and someone with a true belief possess the correct answer to a question. Why is knowledge more valuable ... Read More
On the logic of permissibility of belief
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 69-74
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I criticise bi-conditional formulation of the norm of the normativity of belief thesis which holds that truth is both the necessary and sufficient condition for the permissibility of ... Read More
Paradox and Relativism
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 75-80
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Since the time of Plato, relativism has been attacked as a self-refuting theory. Today, there are two basic kinds of argument that are used to show that global relativism is logically ... Read More
Ibn Tufail as a SciArtist in the Treatise of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 81-91
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Ibn Tufail as a scientist as well as an artist exposes the issues of human anatomy, autopsy, and vivisection and, thereby, could be regarded as a SciArtist. SciArt might be defined ... Read More
The Relationship between Two Secular and Theological Interpretations of the Concept of Highest Good in Kant: with respect to the criticism of Andrews Reath’s paper “Two Conceptions of the Highest Good in Kant”
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 93-107
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Discussing two common critiques on theological interpretations of the concept of the highest good in Kant’s moral philosophy in his paper, Two Conceptions of the Highest Good ... Read More
What’s behind meaning?
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 119-145
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The paper addresses the main questions to be dealt with by any semantic theory which is committed to provide an explanation of how meaning is possible. On one side the paper argues ... Read More
Moderate Morality: an interest-based contractarian defense & its applied result in the political ethics of international relations
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 147-161
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What is morality’s scope? Should all our actions be evaluated morally? Is it necessary to be causally responsible for harm to have a responsibility to reduce it? Is there a morally ... Read More
The Necessity of Considering Folk Ethics in Moral Philosophy
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 163-174
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Contemporary ethics and moral philosophy need a kind of revision due to their negligence in human moral capacities, ordinary life, and humans’ expectations of ethics. The assumptions ... Read More
Kant and Demystification of Ethics and Religion
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 175-190
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Kant's demystification is meant to put away any metaphysical and revealed elements from ethics and religion. Kant, fulfilling this, first argues that metaphysical questions of reason, ... Read More
Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 191-204
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The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s ... Read More
Comparative Study of Aquinas and Kant‘s Narration of Ethics and Theology
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 205-215
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Since Kant is a son of his time, his thought is originally rooted in the Enlightenment. The distinction between theoretical and practical reason, formal and material conscientiousness, ... Read More
Aristotle on the Cause of Being and of Coming to Be
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 217-232
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This paper considers Aristotle’s distinction between the cause of being and the cause of coming to be. It is intended to show that Aristotle is able to unify both kinds of causes ... Read More
Phenomenology of love: the destructive and constructive nature of love
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 233-242
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Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss ... Read More
A Reflection on Kristeva's Approach to the Structure of 'Language'
Volume 11, Issue 21 , December 2017, Pages 109-118