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Volume 22 (2024)
Issue 2 March 2025, Pages 1-266
Issue 1 October 2024, Pages 1-356
Volume 21 (2023)
Volume 20 (2022)
Volume 19 (2021)
Volume 18 (2020)
Volume 17 (2019)
Volume 16 (2018)
Volume 15 (2017)
Volume 14 (2017)
Volume 13 (2016)
Volume 12 (2014)
Volume 11 (2013)
Volume 10 (2012)
Volume 9 (2011)
Volume 8 (2010)
Volume 7 (2009)
Volume 6 (2008)
Volume 5 (2007)
Volume 4 (2006)
Volume 3 (2005)
Volume 2 (2004)
Volume 1 (2002)

FALSAFEH

The Iranian Journal of Philosophy, University of Tehran

Managing Director:

Gholamhossein Karimi Doostan (Professor, University of Tehran)

Editor-in-Chief:

Hossion Ghaffari (Associate Professor, University of Tehran)

Executive Manager:

Moharam Bastani

Publisher: University of Tehran

Editorial Board (in alphabetical order):

Rouhollah Alemi (Associate Professor, University of Tehran, Iran)

Gholamreza Awani (Professor, Iranian Institute of philosophy)

Reza Davari Ardakani (Professor, University of Tehran, Iran)

Hubert Drefus (Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA)

Mohammad Ali Ezhei (Professor, University of Isfahn, Iran)

Seyyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini Beheshti (Assistant Professor, University of Tehran, Iran)

Mohammad Ilkhani (Associate Professor, Shahid-Beheshti University, Iran)

Mohsen Jahangiri (Professor, University of Tehran, Iran)

Mahmoud Khatami(Professor, University of Tehran)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Professor, George Washington University, USA)

Shahram Pazoki (Associate Professor, Iranian Institute of philosophy)

Alvin Plantinga (Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA)

Nasrollah Pourjavadi (Professor, University of Tehran, Iran)

Richard Swinburn (Professor, University of Oxford, UK)

Seyyed Hamid Talebzadeh (Associate Professor, University of Tehran, Iran)

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Heidegger's approach to proving the external world based on his interpretation of Aristotle's φύσις
Heidegger's approach to proving the external world based on his interpretation of Aristotle's φύσις

Husain Azadmanjiri; Manjid Mollayousefi; Mohammad Hasan Heidari

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 1-23

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.319142.1006585

Abstract
  Proving the external world is one of the issues that have been a concern of Heidegger since the beginning of his career. Throughout the course of his philosophical thought, Heidegger ...  Read More
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Critical Assessment of the Nature of Moral Propositions from the Perspective of the Mohaqiq Isfahani
Critical Assessment of the Nature of Moral Propositions from the Perspective of the Mohaqiq Isfahani

Hossein Ahmadi

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 25-43

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.384393.1006857

Abstract
  Ethical propositions such as "justice is necessary" are considered “mashhurat” (well-known or commonly accepted beliefs), which are propositions that gain general acceptance ...  Read More
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Infinity in Descartes' Philosophy
Infinity in Descartes' Philosophy

Ali Ardeshir Larijani

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 45-59

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.388276.1006876

Abstract
  Generally, Descartes is considered a philosopher who played a significant role in the foundation of modern philosophy and is also regarded as the one who paved the way for scientific ...  Read More
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Rorty and
Rorty and "Cartesian Anxiety" The Critical Capacity of Richard Rorty’s Socio-Political Perspective

Iman Rahim Nasirian; Abdurrazzaq Hesamifar

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 61-81

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.385937.1006865

Abstract
  According to Rorty's point of view, there is no authority called Truth to measure social values; established practices in society are not based on Truth but are dynamic products of ...  Read More
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Insights from Social Epistemology for Thinking about the Demarcation Problem
Insights from Social Epistemology for Thinking about the Demarcation Problem

Zahra Zargar

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 83-109

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2024.365813.1006801

Abstract
  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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The Contrast of Form with Aesthetic Ideas in the Critique of Judgment
The Contrast of Form with Aesthetic Ideas in the Critique of Judgment

ali salmani

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 111-131

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.372575.1006818

Abstract
  Form is one of the challenging terms in the Kant's Critique of Judgment. In his Critique of Pure Reason, he discusses in the transcendental aesthetics of form in relation to a priori ...  Read More
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State as a Work of Art (Schiller's Aesthetic Point of View in Relation to Romanticism)
State as a Work of Art (Schiller's Aesthetic Point of View in Relation to Romanticism)

sayed Hamid Talebzadeh; hasan mehrnia; Fatemeh Delavari Parizi

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 133-156

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.382541.1006854

Abstract
  The discussion about the state has been a serious and challenging topic throughout human life, especially in the modern era. Therefore, at a time when this discussion has had many ups ...  Read More
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Is Socrates a Prophet? (In Light of the Views of His Contemporaries and the Main Commentators)
Is Socrates a Prophet? (In Light of the Views of His Contemporaries and the Main Commentators)

Hossein Ghaffari; Parham Elyasi Boroujeni

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 157-190

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2024.382230.1006851

Abstract
  Everybody acknowledges the importance of Socrates’ role and influence on the history of philosophy, as well as on the culture of humanity. He is also considered to be the first ...  Read More
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Mulla Sadra and the Issue of Human Authorities in the Arc of Descent
Mulla Sadra and the Issue of Human Authorities in the Arc of Descent

ali karimiyan

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 191-211

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.386968.1006868

Abstract
  Although it is difficult to reach the definitive opinion of Mulla Sadra in the field of anthropology, and sometimes one has to reach the "judgments" of his point of view from among ...  Read More
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Analysis of Dialectical Components of Plato and Hegel in Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
Analysis of Dialectical Components of Plato and Hegel in Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics

Asghar vaezi; Parvin Izadi

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 213-241

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.384728.1006859

Abstract
  Dialectic as a method in philosophical thought and reasoning plays a pivotal role in the philosophies of Plato and Hegel. Plato, particularly in dialogues such as Republic and Sophist, ...  Read More
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The Relationship Between Self-Consciousness and Consciousness of External World, Concerning the New Approaches in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciences
The Relationship Between Self-Consciousness and Consciousness of External World, Concerning the New Approaches in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciences

Fatemeh Abbasi; Hossein Zamaniha

Volume 22, Issue 2 , March 2025, Pages 243-264

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.365290.1006797

Abstract
  Nowadays, discussion about self-consciousness as one of the fundamental kinds of consciousness, has received special attention especially in the field of philosophy of mind and cognitive ...  Read More
Bergson’s Footsteps in Heidegger’s Interpretation of Time
Bergson’s Footsteps in Heidegger’s Interpretation of Time
Volume 21, Issue 2 , March 2024, , Pages 221-236

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2023.349685.1006750

Abstract
  At the beginning of Being and Time, Bergson's name comes alongside Aristotle’s name when Heidegger tried to distinguish the concept of temporality from traditional time. Now, ...  Read More
Descartes’ Pineal Gland: The Seat of the Soul
Descartes’ Pineal Gland: The Seat of the Soul
Volume 12, Issue 1 , August 2014, , Pages 19-38

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2014.51915

Abstract
  Explanation of the relationship between soul and body is one of the most important concerns of Dualist philosophers. Even though the Dualism goes back to Plato, Rene Descartes, a French ...  Read More
Peirce's Semiotics in the light of His philosophy, Epistemology and His Vision of pragmatism
Peirce's Semiotics in the light of His philosophy, Epistemology and His Vision of pragmatism
Volume 9, Issue 2 , March 2012, , Pages 5-37

Abstract
  This paper presents the most important features of Peirce's semiotics, including the emergence process of signs, their ways of signifying, as well as their practical dimensions. The ...  Read More
A comparative of Aesthetics in Plato, And Descartes’ Philosophy
A comparative of Aesthetics in Plato, And Descartes’ Philosophy
Volume 11, Issue 1 , September 2013, , Pages 67-83

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2013.36401

Abstract
  Descartes' absolutist rationalism makes a gap between human perception and the physical word. As a result, there will be a separation between his rational approach to the word and that ...  Read More
Aesthetics in Mulla Sadra’s philosophy
Aesthetics in Mulla Sadra’s philosophy
Volume 9, Issue 2 , March 2012, , Pages 137-162

Abstract
  Aesthetics, nowadays, is regarded as a branch of philosophy which studies  Beauty and art. This research is about aesthetics from Mulla Sadra's viewpoint. In the works of this ...  Read More
Research Paper
The possibility or impossibility of linguistic incommensurability in comparative researches
The possibility or impossibility of linguistic incommensurability in comparative researches

Hasan Ahmadizade

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 15 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.389819.1006884

Abstract
  Researchers in comparative studies believe that the most challenging obstacle facing scholars in this field is, first and foremost, the possibility or impossibility of comparability ...  Read More
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The Other and epistemic confrontations: a comparative study of the views of Ibn Arabi and Paul Feyerabend
The Other and epistemic confrontations: a comparative study of the views of Ibn Arabi and Paul Feyerabend

Jalal Abdollahi; Hamedeh Rastaei

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 15 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.387463.1006872

Abstract
  The purpose of this article is to compare the approach of Ibn Arabi and Feyerabend in facing the "other" and epistemic confrontations. Despite the background and historical ...  Read More
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The Phenomenological Concept and Function of Temporal Intuition of Essence in Descartes and Husserl
The Phenomenological Concept and Function of Temporal Intuition of Essence in Descartes and Husserl

Abdolreza safari

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 20 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.387264.1006870

Abstract
  Based on the descriptive-analytical method, this article focuses on the phenomenological function of intuition of essence in Descartes and Husserl. Although the author introduces intuition ...  Read More
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A Rereading of Plato's and Aristotle's Educational Philosophies in Light of Davidson's Concept of the "Relational Self"
A Rereading of Plato's and Aristotle's Educational Philosophies in Light of Davidson's Concept of the "Relational Self"

Kamrun Shahbazi; Mohammad Hassan Karimi; Babak Shamshiri; Amin Izad panah

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 18 May 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.389644.1006881

Abstract
  To illustrate the distinct and nuanced educational system that arises from a relational perspective ‎on the concept of "self." ‎This article attempts to first, analyze ...  Read More
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Plato's Parmenides: Logical Groundwork of Methexis in the Dialectic of One and Many
Plato's Parmenides: Logical Groundwork of Methexis in the Dialectic of One and Many

Amir Samsami

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 18 May 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.389680.1006882

Abstract
  The Parmenides is not fundamentally intended to reject, revise, or even correct the dogmatic presuppositions regarding the hypothesis of Ideas. Rather, its aim is to bring those presuppositions ...  Read More
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The strife over Bacon’s legacy
The strife over Bacon’s legacy

mohammadreza behashti

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.403849.1006957

Abstract
  Francis Bacon's ideas, as one of the harbingers of modern science, have been the source of many philosophical reflections in various philosophical fields, especially in the field ...  Read More
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The heavenly Seas in Irānšahr Philosophy and Islamic Mysticism
The heavenly Seas in Irānšahr Philosophy and Islamic Mysticism

nasrullah pourjavadi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.396476.1006899

Abstract
  In his book Kitab al-Şaydana, Abu Rayḥān Bῑrūnῑ, when recalling the weakness of the Persian language in comparison to the Arabic language, states that the Persian language ...  Read More
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The Construct of God and Existential Sameness. An Interpretation of the Status of the Divine in Fundamental Ontology and the Necessity of Heidegger’s Turn
The Construct of God and Existential Sameness. An Interpretation of the Status of the Divine in Fundamental Ontology and the Necessity of Heidegger’s Turn

Ahmad Rajabi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.400151.1006941

Abstract
  In this paper, I aim to demonstrate what the construct of God means in Heidegger’s thought, how it relates to the structure of fundamental ontology, and in what way—given Heidegger’s ...  Read More
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The Divine Being, the Subject of quest The guiding Principle of fundamental Intuition According to Sheikh Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrā
The Divine Being, the Subject of quest The guiding Principle of fundamental Intuition According to Sheikh Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrā

Alireza Saati

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.399005.1006925

Abstract
  The flow of Divinity in the chains of existence is considered the foundation of mysticism. Sheikh Najm al-Din Kubra’s emphasis on this issue, in the form of a doctrine, marked the ...  Read More
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The Transition from Soul to Mind in Meditations on First Philosophy
The Transition from Soul to Mind in Meditations on First Philosophy

mostafa shahraeini

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.396518.1006905

Abstract
  The Cogito is considered the hallmark of Descartes’ intellectual system, with which a great transformation occurred in the history of philosophical thought. The essence of the Cogito ...  Read More
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Development Means Building
Development Means Building

mohammadjavad safian

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.396576.1006906

Abstract
  “Development Means Building” is not a theory of development. Nor is it a critique of development theories. It is not even presenting any alternative development solutions. It is ...  Read More
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Absolute Essence (lā bi šarṭ) as a metaphysical Nature in the view of Avicenna
Absolute Essence (lā bi šarṭ) as a metaphysical Nature in the view of Avicenna

Sayyed Hamid Talebzade

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.403846.1006956

Abstract
  It is well known that essence has different validity. Essence, when considered externally and mixed with distinguishing accidents, is called mixed essence (bi šarṭi šei’), and ...  Read More
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Explaining the Difference between "Eternity" and "Duration" Based on the Internal Structure of Definition and the Abstraction of "Time" in Spinoza’s Ethics
Explaining the Difference between "Eternity" and "Duration" Based on the Internal Structure of Definition and the Abstraction of "Time" in Spinoza’s Ethics

Vahab Ghorbani; Mohammad Taghi Tabatabaei

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.404663.1006959

Abstract
  In this article, we examine three concepts—eternity, duration, and time—in Spinoza’s philosophy, particularly in his Ethics. Contrary to most prominent interpretations, the concept ...  Read More
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Suspicious position of the Propositional Attitudes in New Philosophy of Mind (logical atomism to eliminative materialism)
Suspicious position of the Propositional Attitudes in New Philosophy of Mind (logical atomism to eliminative materialism)

zahra Ghezelbash

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.405149.1006961

Abstract
  Propositional attitudes (beliefs, desires) have always been one of the serious challenges of the modern philosophy of mind, and there is still a deep disagreement about the knowledge ...  Read More
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The answer to the problem of evil based on some Avestan texts and narrations from Ishrāqī wisdom
The answer to the problem of evil based on some Avestan texts and narrations from Ishrāqī wisdom

sara ghezelbash

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.399063.1006930

Abstract
  The problem of evil, as one of the most important issues in the philosophy of religion, is based on the assumption that if God is omnipotent and absolutely good, He should have prevented ...  Read More
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Iranian Nationalism and Western Modernism in the Early Decades of the Last Century
Iranian Nationalism and Western Modernism in the Early Decades of the Last Century

reza mahoozi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.399010.1006926

Abstract
  Although some historians and researchers attribute the story of Iranians’ familiarity with modern philosophies to the Nasserite period, the familiarity of those who went to Europe ...  Read More
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The Dialectic of the Universal and the Particular: Poetry in the Views of Plato and Aristotle
The Dialectic of the Universal and the Particular: Poetry in the Views of Plato and Aristotle

fatemeh minayi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.399070.1006931

Abstract
  We know that Plato and Aristotle’s views on the issue of universals differ. Simply put, Plato placed universals beyond the sensible world, while Aristotle sought them in this world. ...  Read More
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Francis Bacon: Science and Power
Francis Bacon: Science and Power

shahin awani

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.396462.1006897

Abstract
  The period from the 16th century to the first half of the 17th century marks a turning point in religious, philosophical, and scientific life, particularly in England. In addition to ...  Read More
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The Relationship Between Common Engineering Education and the Grandeur of the Natural Environment
The Relationship Between Common Engineering Education and the Grandeur of the Natural Environment

MSADEGH ZAKERI

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.396489.1006901

Abstract
  Strategic planners are concerned about the destruction of life on Earth. Since the essential substance of life, with all its importance, is nothing but the environment, the aim of this ...  Read More
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Getting to know Ibn Fanārī, a follower of Ibn Arabī's school in Anatolia
Getting to know Ibn Fanārī, a follower of Ibn Arabī's school in Anatolia

sepideh nosrati

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.399072.1006932

Abstract
  Fanari was among the first scholars who, with the title of Sheikh al-Islam, endeavored to propagate and promote the school of Ibn Arabī in Anatolia. Şā’in al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammad ...  Read More
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Philosophical Criticism and Philosophy Education
Philosophical Criticism and Philosophy Education

Mir abdulhossein naqibzadeh

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.22059/jop.2025.399094.1006934

Abstract
  The diversity of philosophies can be seen, in Nietzsche’s words, as the diversity of cities in which one can reside for a while or at least visit, but eventually, one might leave ...  Read More
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University of Tehran

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Javad Asghari

Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Hamid Talebzadeh

Associate Editor:
Mohammad Taghi Tabatbaei Zahra Ghezelbash

Manager:
Maryam Moghadam

Editorial Board:
Gholamreza Awani Mohammad Ilkhani Shahram Pazoki Alvin Plantinga Nasrollah Pourjavadi Reza Davari Ardakani

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