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Insights from Social Epistemology for Thinking about the Demarcation Problem

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 05 May 2024

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The problem of diagnosing science from pseudoscience- widely known as the Demarcation Problem- has both theoretical and practical significance in philosophy of science. While for decades ... Read More

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A Hermeneutic Analysis of Mencius'Philosophizing about Politics

ali aqajani

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 1-27

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Mencius is one of the most important master philosophers in the Chinese paradigm and the Confucian tradition, and the article analyzes his philosophizing about politics based on Skinner's ... Read More

The Fundamental Place of Metaphor in Philosophy Reflected upon by Different Meanings of “Radical Metaphor” in Cassirer's Philosophy

vahid ahmadi; Mohammadreza Beheshti

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 29-51

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In first part of this article, we ask after historical and philosophical underground of metaphor. This underground is accentuated when we set the stage for a contrast. This contrast ... Read More

A Critique of Proving the Substantial Movement by Means of Subordination, Affair (Shaʾn) and Causality

Mahdi Assadi

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 53-78

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Mullā Ṣadrā’s most famous reason to prove the substantial movement (al-ḥarakat al-juharīyyah) is the one that persists in the existence of a special relation between the ... Read More

Delay in Poetic Existential Thinking from the Point of View of Late Heidegger

Hossein Esfandiar; Ali Fallahrafie

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 79-100

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In his philosophical studies, Heidegger opens a new approach to thinking, which is different from metaphysical thinking, and he refers to it as "existential thinking". According to ... Read More

Right to Punish in the Philosophy of Hobbes: Foundations and Effects

Shayan Akbari; Ahmad Hajidehabadi; Hassan Alipour; Ahmad fallahi

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 101-126

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Understanding the fundamental concepts and institutions of criminal law rights is examined from a philosophical-historical perspective. The discussion of the foundations of state punishment ... Read More

Nietzsche's "Will to Power": A Psychological Interpretation and its Ethical Implications

MUHAMMADHOSSEIN امامی; ahmad Fazeli; Hossein Mesbahian

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 127-161

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Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of "will to power" stands as a cornerstone of his philosophy, yet its interpretation remains a contentious issue. Among the various proposed interpretations, ... Read More Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of "will to power" stands as a cornerstone of his philosophy, yet its interpretation remains a contentious issue. Among the various proposed interpretations, the ontological, metaphorical, and psychological perspectives each offer distinct understandings of this complex concept. While definitively establishing the "correct" interpretation is challenging due to the complexities of Nietzsche's writing and expression, this essay argues that the psychological interpretation aligns more effectively with the core tenets of his thought. The essay begins by providing a concise overview of the metaphysical, metaphorical, and psychological interpretations of "will to power." Acknowledging the inherent uncertainty in interpreting Nietzsche's ideas, it argues that the psychological interpretation, emphasizing the "will to power" as an intrinsic human drive for self-overcoming and growth, resonates more strongly with the broader themes of Nietzsche's philosophy, particularly perspectivism. Furthermore, the essay delves into the ethical implications of the psychological interpretation. It addresses concerns that this interpretation might endorse oppression and autocracy as necessary outcomes of the "will to power." Through careful analysis, the essay demonstrates how the psychological interpretation, when understood accurately, does not inherently support such harmful practices. In contrast, it highlights how this interpretation, emphasizing self-mastery and individual responsibility, can potentially contribute to moral development and a pursuit of excellence. Finally, the essay emphasizes the importance of understanding the foundational concepts of his philosophy, such as perspectivism, for accurately interpreting his ideas. By prioritizing evidence-based analysis and nuanced understanding, we can navigate the complexities of Nietzsche's thought and appreciate its enduring relevance in contemporary discussions about ethics, individual responsibility, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.

The Interpretation of Forgiveness Meaning as the Being in the Place of Thereness and Discovering the Understanding of the Potentiality-for-Being in Ricoeur’s Narrative Structure: In the Time of Love Movie

sarvenaz torbati

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 163-188

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The present article with the aim of interpretation and reviving the meaning of forgiveness is reading Ricoeur’s “Thereness” of forgiveness. Therefore, according to ... Read More

Critical Review of a Critique of the Semantics of Non-Truth-Functional System; How are Causal, Conceptual and Logical Relations Formulated and Evaluated?

Morteza Hajihosseini; Mohammadhosein Esfandyari

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 189-222

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The two propositions "If the sun rises, the sky is bright" and "If it rains, the ground is wet" can be formulated in classical logic to yield the following conclusion "If the sun rises, ... Read More

Examining Fayyazi’s Criticisms of the Famous Interpretation of the Theory of Mental Existence

Mohammad Hosseinzadeh

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 223-243

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Among the interpretations of mental existence, only a few of them have ruled on the existential contradiction between the acquired knowledge and mental existence; Gholamreza Fayyazi’s ... Read More

“Self” in Suhrawardi: Methodological Analysis

sohrab haghighat

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 245-263

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The discovery of "Self", the essence of “Self’ and the relationship between man and "Self" have a special place in the philosophy of illumination. The main issue in this ... Read More

What is Identity? Wittgenstein's Theory on Identity Propositions

MUSA S. DIBADJ

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 265-284

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The significance of identity propositions in Wittgenstein's logic surpasses that of any other proposition, whether simple or definite. It is through identity propositions that we can ... Read More

Lacan's Critique of Kantian Ethics from Sade's Point of View

Alireza Zamiri; Ahmad Fazeli; Hassan Fatzade

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 285-305

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One of the common criticisms of Kant's moral theory is the excessive attention to reason and its absoluteness in the moral law. In such a way that neglecting other elements involved ... Read More

Hegel`s Phenomenology of Spirit and the Problem of the Kantian Thing-in-itself

Afshin Alikhani Dehaqi; Mohammad Meshkat; Mohammad Javad Safian

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 307-326

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The concept of the thing in itself in Kant's philosophy is the element which deprives us of knowing the thing as it is in itself. Hegel, who believed that knowledge is limited by nothing ... Read More

From Efficient Causal Necessity to Teleological Determinism in Metaphysics of Ε, Θ, Λ and Nicomachean Ethics

SEYEDAMIRALI MOUSAVIAN

Volume 22, Issue 1 , October 2024, , Pages 327-348

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The diversity of opinions regarding determinism stems from the multidimensional nature of Aristotle’s works and thinking. In Aristotle’s ethics, despite the presence of ... Read More The diversity of opinions regarding determinism stems from the multidimensional nature of Aristotle’s works and thinking. In Aristotle’s ethics, despite the presence of a general principle of necessity, determinism is treated differently than it is in his logical, physical, and metaphysical works. Metaphysics E 3 suggests that if the generation of all things is not necessary, then there exist principles and causes that arise and perish without undergoing a determined process of generation or decay. The fact that not everything is necessary implies that some causes and principles lack the dunamis (power) as a necessary condition for their generation and destruction, and thus their occurrence is accidental. Aristotle’s road map for negating strict and absolute necessity within the causal chain is to appeal to the possibility of incidental and accidental things or events. To this end, Aristotle adopts the strategy of acknowledging the necessity of incidental causes or, as it might be expressed, "the necessity of the unnecessary." Accidental events also aim to achieve a purpose, and according to Frede, they do not fall outside the realm of definite prediction. This article seeks to depict the contribution of both efficient and final causes within the causal structure of reality through the framework of causal necessity. The relationship between efficient causation and necessity, as well as the concept of efficient causal necessity in Aristotle’s metaphysics, can be understood through the concept of causal powers. If one analyzes the causal chain from the future to the past, an unrealized final cause, by virtue of final causality and causal influence, renders earlier events in the causal chain logically and predictably necessary. Ultimately, we aim to demonstrate that the interpretation of Metaphysics E 3 is consistent with both the analysis of the necessity of efficient and final causes, based on different assumptions, and the arguments supporting teleological determinism, including the imitation of nature by art.

Critiques, Editing, and Epistemology of Testimony

Seyyed Mohsen Eslami

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 1-14

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The relationship between the author and the authored text is important from various aspects. Parts of the ethics of research and writing dealing with plagiarism and ghostwriting may ... Read More

Tracing Suhrawardi's Theory of the Immateriality of Imagination in the Works of Ibn Sina

Ali Asghar Jafari Valani; Donya Asadi Fakhrnezad

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 15-36

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Sheikh Eshraq, by acknowledging the existence of various faculties for the soul and considering imagination as one of these faculties, he has aligned his perspective with Ibn Sina's ... Read More Sheikh Eshraq, by acknowledging the existence of various faculties for the soul and considering imagination as one of these faculties, he has aligned his perspective with Ibn Sina's view. Ibn Sina contends that all soul faculties, except the rational faculty, are material. Therefore, according to Ibn Sina, imagination, besides having its own material nature, is also impressed in a material locus. The faculty of imagination, based on the functions of "combination and elaboration," provides the necessary forms and meanings for reason to achieve intellectual perception. On the other hand, Sheikh Eshraq rejects the concept of the imaginative faculty and imaginal forms in the sense intended by Ibn Sina, considering imaginary forms as suspended images not located in any place or space. Although these forms occasionally manifest in appearances, those appearances should not be considered the actual place or space of those forms. In other words, Suhrawardi attributes imaginative perception, like all perceptions, to the immediate knowledge of the soul. Despite adhering to Ibn Sina regarding the corporeality of imagination, Suhrawardi views imaginal forms as independent, remaining, and existing in the "Greater Imagination" (Khayal Mutaqaddim). Although he designates the imaginative faculty as material, he doesn't find compatibility between the perceiver and the perceived and believes that the soul engages in perceiving imaginal forms through examples. Therefore, it seems that while Suhrawardi aligns with Ibn Sina's perspective to some extent, he diverges in various aspects of the imagination discourse. The researcher concludes that Suhrawardi's foundational thoughts in this discussion are rooted in his critical considerations of Ibn Sina's statements. Sheikh Eshraq, albeit not in a detailed and organized manner but generally, pays attention to the simplicity of imagination as the basis for criticisms in some of his works such as "Al-Mabahith" and "Tebi'at" in "Al-Shifa

Ibn Sina on The Role of The Estimative Faculty in Action

Saeed Hassanzadeh; Mohammad Saeedimehr; Reza Akbari

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 37-60

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From Ibn Sina's point of view, the estimative faculty is one of the most important cognitive principles of action. The prior perception of action, the use of composite imagination for ... Read More

Aesthetics Arguments from the Perspective of C .S. Louis

Maryam Seif; Farah Ramin

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 61-78

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While discussions on beauty in the works of philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoreans, and others have been documented, it became a significant epistemological domain from the ... Read More

The Classification of Intelligibles According to Avicenna

javad soufi; Mahdi Azimi

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 79-102

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After the classification of intelligibles into first intelligibles, secondary philosophical intelligibles and secondary logical intelligibles, was presented by Mirdamad and confirmed ... Read More After the classification of intelligibles into first intelligibles, secondary philosophical intelligibles and secondary logical intelligibles, was presented by Mirdamad and confirmed and consolidated by Mulla Sadra, the final point of view in the classification of intelligibles has been considered until today. However, there are differences in the views of those regarding the philosophers who lived before Mirdamad, such as Avicenna. Some hold that Avicenna believes in the threefold classification of intelligibles in such a way that the secondary intelligibles is equal to the logical secondary intelligibles but although he knew the philosophical second intelligibles, he did not put an independent term for them. On the other hand, another point of view says that Avicenna believes in a dual division, and in his opinion, the first intelligibles are not only first intelligibles that known as substantive concepts, but also considered philosophical concepts that known as secondary philosophical intelligibles in addition to substantive concepts, and in his opinion, the secondary intelligibles are the same logical secondary intelligibles. According to this research, avicenna classified intelligibles into two categories, first and secondary, in a primary division, not the triple classification that some have thought and not the dual division that is assumed in the second view, but in the way that he classified intelligibles into two categories, first and second, in a primary classification Then, some secondary intelligibles are discussed in logic from the perspective of what associate to them that is achieving the our logical goal, otherwise according to him The proof and how they exist are discussed in philosophy. They are therefore essentially secondary philosophical intelligibles (to use well-known phrase) and accidently logical secondary inelligibles. As a result, according to Avicenna not only the secondary inelligibles not equivalent to the secondary logical intelligibles but includes them and philosophical concepts

"The Metaphysics of Evil"; An Ontological Interpretation of the System of Freedom

Ahmad Ebadi; Elham Sadat Karimi Douraki

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 103-125

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The Philosophical investigations in to the Essence of Human freedom (1809) is an ontological research about freedom as human nature, which acknowledges the positive and determining ... Read More

Whatness "Active Intellect" in Ibn Bajjah's Theory of Intellect

hasan abasi hossein abadi

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 127-148

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Active Intellect" in Ibn Bajjah's Philosophy is important in epistemology, ethics and human happiness. Therefore, the topic of "active intellect" is discussed in different ways. "Truth ... Read More

Hajhosseini's Non-Truth-Functional Semantics

Asadollah Falahi

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 149-166

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Mortaza Hajhosseini introduced two truth-functional and non-truth-functional systems in the second edition of his book Two Non-Classical Logic Systems, A New Outlook on Elements of ... Read More

An Analysis of the Transcendental Philosophy Achievements on Shiite Ijtihad: the Case Study of Existential Unity

Ali larijani; Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad; Mohammad Hossein MotahariFarimani

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 167-190

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This paper is to investigate the possibility of the lack of influence of philosophical research in the issuance of jurisprudence rulings (Ahkam al-fiqhiyah) and its purpose is to prove ... Read More

Considerations about Form in Avicenna's Hylomorphism and Kite Fine's Hylomorphism

Hamideh Mokhtari

Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 191-219

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According to the theory of "Hylomorphism", the structure of material objects is composed of two components, matter and form. "Avicenna" and "Kit Fine" believe in Hylomorphism. The main ... Read More

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