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The Paradox of Determinism and Practice: A Compatibilist and Phenomenological Defense of Lived Agency within Causal Closure
Nima Behrang, Ebrahim Azadegan
This paper examines the "Paradox of Determinism and Practice": how an agent can commit to physical causal closure while sustaining deliberate practice without reducing it to an illusion. Applying conceptual and phenomenological analysis, we demonstrate that this paradox arises from conflating the absence of physical alternate possibilities with the lack of guidance control. Drawing upon the stochastic accumulator model, neuroscientific timing data fail to invalidate long-term reflective intentions. Furthermore, through interventionist and proportional causation, the macro-level efficacy of practice is established against Kim's causal exclusion challenge. Synthesizing Fischer and Ravizza's guidance control with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the lived body, practice is articulated as expanding the bodily "I can" horizon and transforming interpretive context. Ultimately, following Hobart, causal stability is shown to be the foundational condition for deliberate practice and lived human agency.
Three-Layered Architecture of Self-Consciousness
J. Heydarian
The thought experiments of Avicenna's "Flying Man" and Jackson's "Mary's Room" are among the most important philosophical formulations concerning consciousness, yet they have often been examined independently. This research asks whether these two experiments address a single problem or reveal different layers of self-consciousness. Employing a descriptive-analytical method and conceptual reconstruction, the study elucidates their relationship within the framework of the "Architecture of Self-Consciousness." Findings indicate that the "Flying Man" pertains to immediate self-awareness and the condition for the possibility of a conscious subject, while "Mary's Room" uncovers phenomenal consciousness and the epistemic value of first-person experience. The paper proposes a three-layered model comprising immediate self-awareness, phenomenal consciousness, and reflective self-knowledge, arguing that these experiments are not rivals but mutually complementary, each illuminating a distinct level of the architecture of self-consciousness. This framework facilitates systematic dialogue between Islamic philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind.
Language, Truth Theory, and Some Solutions to the Liar Paradox in Persian-Language Journals
Siavash Ahmadzadeh
In the literature on the Liar Paradox appearing in Persian-language journals, there are cases in which it is claimed that solutions to the paradox have been found, whether independently or within the Islamic tradition. In this paper, we will show that the proposed solutions to the modern Liar Paradox—which is derived using the diagonalization lemma in arithmetic—are ineffective. The modern formulation of the Liar Paradox challenges ordinary intuitions about truth and logic in a far more fundamental way. Consequently, it cannot be resolved simply by taking certain stances on the semantics of natural language, nor can it then be claimed that the proposed solution performs better than modern solutions.
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Is Logic Exceptional as a Science?
Morteza Moniri
In this article, we address the question, “Is classical logic a scientific theory?” and, if so, “Is logic revisable like other scientific theories or is it an exception among them?” Another question we consider is, “Can the difference between two rival logics be reduced to a difference in the meaning of their logical constants?” The view we defend in this article is that the relation between intuitive logic and symbolic logic is like the relation between our intuitive understanding of space and time and modern physical scientific theories. Although physical theories are revisable, they must ultimately be examined in terms of our intuitive understanding of space and time. At the same time, at some levels inaccessible to the five human senses, it is possible for these two levels to contradict each other. Furthermore, we show that the classical contradiction is not definable in intuitionistic logic and therefore, the difference between the two logics is fundamental.
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The Claim to Historicity and the Possibility of Validity: Intrahistorical Self-Transcendence as a Condition of Possibility
Hamidreza Saadat Niaki
Acknowledging the historicity of understanding brings validity to a critical juncture. If validity requires transcending understanding’s historical horizon, historicity forfeits its foundation. Yet if every claim is reduced to the historical conditions of its emergence, the claim to historicity cannot sustain its validity. The issue is not an external relation between historicity and validity, but a tension internal to the logic of the claim to historicity. Immanent analysis shows that preserving historicity’s philosophical standing presupposes understanding’s critical return to its historical horizon. This article formulates this possibility as “intrahistorical self-transcendence,” arising from historicity’s internal logic, not an external principle. Yet intrahistorical self-transcendence is only the condition of possibility of validity, not a sufficient account. The article therefore introduces “the irreducible” as understanding’s normative dimension and argues that validity, though arising within history, cannot be reduced to its historical conditions, but requires responsiveness to reasons and objections and openness to revision.
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The Puzzle of Moral Supervenience and the Divide and Conquer Strategy: A Platonic Defense of Moral Non-Naturalism
Mohammad Ali Yousofipour
Despite its significant advantages in explaining normativity, moral non-naturalism has consistently grappled with the enigma of "supervenience"—the necessary covariation and dependence of moral facts on natural facts. To resolve this challenge, Fogal and Risberg proposed the "Divide and Conquer" (DC) strategy, which addresses the supervenience puzzle by combining the explanatory roles of particular natural facts and general moral principles. However, Harjit Bhogal has confronted this strategy with a devastating dilemma, arguing that moral principles fail the "difference-making" condition. He claims that appealing to these principles merely displaces the mystery of supervenience onto the unexplained necessity of bridge laws. Aiming to defend moral non-naturalism, this study demonstrates that Bhogal's critique holds only if the metaphysical nature of moral principles is overlooked. In this article, the DC strategy is reconstructed based on "Platonic metaphysics" and the acceptance of moral properties as inherently "second-order properties." The outcome of this reconstruction reveals that the necessity governing bridge laws within a Platonic framework is not a "modal miracle," but rather the logical and metaphysical entailment of second-order properties. This theoretical synthesis not only rescues non-naturalism from the deadlock of supervenience but also provides an independent argument for the coherence and validity of Platonic non-naturalism.
The absurdity of Life and Suicide
M.M. Fallah
This article raises a claim different from the common attitude toward the relationship between the absurdity of life and suicide. In the common attitude, one believes that one commits suicide if and only if his life becomes absurd. This can be objected to in two ways: a priori and posterior. In the first path, to analyze this proposition, we should obtain a proper notion about the concepts of absurdity of life and suicide. After this clarification, we can reflect on the relation between these two concepts. In the second path, we should find two kinds of cases: (1) mentioning suicides that are committed by ones with meaningful lives, (2) considering some absurd lives which did not end up committing suicide. Thus, rejecting the aforementioned proposition a priori and posterior, we can mention new relations between life's absurdity and suicide. This article aims to first scrutinize accounts around death and second justifying lives worth living different from common attitudes around the meaningfulness of lives. In this article, we will only evaluate this contradiction by referring to western-christen thinkers, and we will show that unlike the common attitudes, suicide is not necessarily based on deep thoughts about life.
Graham Priest on Reconstruction of Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics in Modern Logic
K. Farsian, S.M.A. Hodjati
In this paper, we will try to reconstruct Hegel’s logic and metaphysics through modern logic. Graham Priest has claimed that we can read Hegel’s logic with the paraconsistent approach to logic, specially Dialetheism; he calls Hegel a Dialetheist. At first, we report Priest’s account of Hegel’s dialectic and his notion of dialectical contradiction; also, we try to analyze Priest’s argument for calling Hegel a Dialetheist. To achieve the proper comparison between Hegel’s logic and Dialetic one, we explain, non-technically, the simple semantics of a Dialetic logic. Furthermore, finally, we establish a criticism of Priest’s account to reopen the question about Hegel’s being Dialetheist.
Analysis of Rorty's Point of View Regarding the Separation of the Private Sphere from the Public Sphere
N. Soleimani, A. Fath Taheri, Sh. Peyk Herfeh
Challenging the entire western philosophical tradition, which in his opinion has caused useless theoretical dualisms throughout the history of philosophy, Rorty wants to attempt to deconstruct and eliminate these dualisms in the context of redemptive literary culture. By creating a dividing line between the private and public spheres, Rorty wants to specify the contribution and involvement of philosophers in presenting theoretical and philosophical views and to say that the political sphere does not need to acquire foundations from the individual criteria of the private sphere. It is as if Rorty wants to prevent the philosopher's ambitions and interference with theorizing by reducing philosophy to literature. In fact, he believes in the distinction between private and public spheres or politics, the philosopher's tool is imagination and his intellectual sphere is literary culture and his place is the private sphere. Assuming the acceptance of pragmatic criteria, doesn't this division of a person in two completely different areas make him a dual personality? Can this intellectual stance be reasonable and acceptable?
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The Gabriel Marcel on Inauthenticity; a Critical Study
Z. Malakoutikhah, M.J. Safian
The notion of the characteristics of an ignoble human being in Gabriel Marcel's thought revolves around components such as establishing an I - s/he relationship with others, unpreparedness and unopenness in relations with others, and presence in the realm of having. To that end, it will become clear that by establishing an I-you relationship, being present to other human beings in the realm of being becomes noble, but by examining Marcel's ideas it became clear that the dominance of science and technology over human beings paved the way for the formation of a mass society and further, it intensifies the functional view of human, and as a result all these factors, increases the intensity and speed of ignobility of contemporary mankind. In this study, which aimed to explain the factors of nobelity and ignobility from Gabriel Marcel's point of view, it became clear that he believes to emerge from unoriginality. a human being should be able to freely choose, to accept responsibility, to communicate with the secret and to have characteristics such as love, loyalty, faith and hope.
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Could it be that the Burden of Proof is not on Theist?
H. Ghadiri, S.K. Vahabi
In his classic paper on the philosophy of religion entitled ‘The Presumption of Atheism’, Antony Flew, relying on a traditional legal rule, extracts a methodological rule according to which the burden of proof in the problem of God’s existence is non-restrictedly on the Theist. Here we argue that from another legal rule in Islamic jurisprudence, we can extract another methodological rule that, in contrast to Flew’s rule, is context-dependent; so, applying this new rule, we can imagine that in some situations, the burden of proof would be on atheist. Since there are some historical evidence for the relationship or even identification of that traditional rule and this Islamic rule, it could be concluded that Flew’s rules, too, should be context-dependence. Hence, his non-restricted claim about the burden of proof in the problem of God’s existence will be rejected.
The Requirement of Voluntary Act in Criminal Law and Attempts at Its Moral Justification
H. Mahboobi Arani
For a crime to be realized, the defendant is judged as a criminal with moral and legal liability, deserving to be punished properly; Anglo-American legal theory appeals to the Requirement of Voluntary Act (RVA), a necessary and comprehensive requisite. According to this requisite, the criminal act has consisted of Mens rea and Actus reus, with voluntary acts as the Actus reus in its restricted conception. Moral and legal philosophers have attempted to provide various moral explanations for the RVA, particularly utilizing theories of action philosophy. In this paper, I introduce the RVA as it is articulated in Anglo-American legal theory (in first two parts) and then illustrate and review five different possible moral rationales that could be deduced. Finally, I will conclude my paper with some hints about my preferable view and set forth questions concerning the very validity of such attempts at philosophically moral justification.
A critique on the belief of Wonder: the beginning of philosophy and arguing for Surprise: the origin of abductive inference
M. Zaker
The article’s main aim is to investigate the relationship between wonder and philosophical thoughts and between surprise and abductive thoughts. We critique the Platonic belief that philosophy begins from wonder and argue that the explanatory and normalizing function of knowledge in societies and naturalistic ontology neutralizes the astonishment and makes ineffective its impact on philosophical thoughts. In contrast, we argue that the genesis of philosophical thought is due to deep speculation and introspective temperament of the mind and skeptical exploration of the existing knowledge and beliefs. Abduction has been the recent research subject of various disciplines. Next, the paper is devoted to a new investigation of abductive inference, subjective abduction, and its relationship with the emotion of surprise and dramatic events. We explain this amazing mental ability regarding subjective estimation of probability and intuitive expectation. At last, some fallacies arising from abductive reasoning are discussed.
Cryptic Cosmology in the Mystical Stories of Sheikh Eshraq
A. Elyasi, M. Akhlaghi
Even today, Sheikh Eshraq's cryptic stories can be a great guide to us. In the sense that they can make human beings and show us the world around them. Because Sheikh in these stories regularly seek to represent the hierarchy of the universe and the position of the human in his proof that the human soul was the abstract light that originated in the set of existence. But the material body that belongs from the sacred universe has fallen to the darkness of the material universe, and it has been captured there. Then happiness comes back to its original itself. So, to identify more the main place soul of human speech in these cryptic stories, he has arranged the quadruple hierarchy of the universe based on the problem of the sulk and love between lights in the form of secret and the form of detailed that consist of universe wisdom, universe egos, objects, and purgatory universe and example universe among these factors Sheikh Eshraq emphasized the universe or imagination. It is the storytelling scene of his cryptic.
Application of Rumi and Gabriel Marcel's Views in Hope Therapy
N. Nazarnejad, F. Golshan Roghani, M. Shoaakazemi
The present study is interdisciplinary in applying philosophy through its collaboration with psychology and literature. This article examines hope according to the two great thinkers; Rumi, a Muslim mystic and writer, and Gabriel Marcel, a Christian existentialist philosopher. The purpose of this study is to provide a basis for the work of philosophical counselors and psychotherapists. For this reason, the views of Richard Snyder, the theorist and founder of hope therapy in contemporary psychology, are also introduced in the present study to bring Rumi and Marcel's views on hope closer to the topics of hope therapy, and the similarities are derived from being used by philosophical advisors. According to the findings of this research, the hope that Rumi speaks of is a clear and guiding hope that, if used properly, can become a positive moral trait in human beings; The hope that arises from man's need for God and will always be the way to man's spiritual progress. Marcel also considers hoping a tool for faith and closeness to the higher being, which causes a person to be spiritually ready to serve other human beings. This spiritual preparation frees man from the snare of the shattered world of which Marcel speaks. By comparing Snyder's theory of hope and Rumi's view of hope, we find similarities between the views of these two philosophers in the components of hope. The examination of Snyder's theory of hope and Marcel's view of hope also reveals the intellectual similarity of the two thinkers on the vital role of hope in life. Athir al-Dīn al-Abharī and some contemporaries on Conditional Logic
A. Fallahi
Athir al-Dīn al-Abharī was the only Avicennan logician who denied the validity of conditional syllogism. He was also the first who doubted in the validity of conversion and contraposition of conditionals and dispensed with them. In the contemporary era, after 1968, some logical consequence systems have evolved under the title ‘Conditional Logic’, which rejected the validity of the same rules. A similarity between al-Abharī’s system and these contemporary’s is in their commitment to Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens. Analyzing the reasons that the two groups provided for denying conditional syllogism reveals that their rejections were rooted in their novel interpretations of ‘strict conditional’. On al-Abjarī’s view, the strict conditional ‘whenever A then B’ means that ‘A implies B in all assumptions in which the implication between A and B is possible’. On the contemporary conditional logicians’ view, the conditional proposition ‘if A then B’ in natural languages means that ‘other things being equal, A implies B’. The two interpretations are common in the fact that in addition to the assumption of antecedent, they both assume matters which are somehow related to the antecedent, and this is the common root for both groups to deny the validity of conditional syllogism.
Murphy’s Holistic Physicalism on Mind Problem
S. Abdollahi, M. Nasiri
Based on the interaction between science and religion, Nancy Murphy turns to a special version of non-transitive physicalism that uses empirical science, physicalism, and the Bible to formulate her holistic physicalism; A middle position between essential dualism and illusionism that defines humans as spiritual beings and hides the problem of the mind within it. Murphy brings the soul into holistic physicalism with his theological assumptions and not with scientific evidence and philosophical arguments. The distinguishing feature of non-transmission physicalism from transmission physicalism is the attention to the explanatory gap in the issue of supervenience. Holistic physicalism has not filled this gap and has only changed the form of the problem from explaining the relationship between human parts to explaining the relationship between human dimensions. Therefore, combining the universal and weak perceptions of supervenience, along with the positive and negative teachings of holistic physicalism, that is, the use of pure holistic physicalism and avoiding introducing theological presuppositions in a philosophical theory, can be used to solve the problem.
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Source of the Contradiction in the Kripke Puzzle
M.A. Yousefi Poor
One of the most important issues in the reference section of the philosophy of language is the sense of the proper names. Two main figures in this discussion are Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege and John Stuart Mill. Frege has posed several puzzles against Mill's view. One of the puzzles is the puzzle of the belief context. the puzzle of the belief context implies that Mill's view of proper names is incorrect because it entails an account of the Substitution Principle (S) which is the origin of contradiction in the belief context. (S) is accounted in two ways. Frege shows in his puzzle that S1 is responsible for contradiction in belief context. Since Mill’s view entails S1, it is responsible for contradiction. But if Frege’s view of proper names is accepted, since the referent of proper names in belief context is identical with the sense of proper name in ordinal context, S2 which is more intuitive than S1 is not violated in any context. Kripke, a prominent advocate of Millie's view, shows the puzzle of the belief context can be reproduced even if Frege's view of the sense of the proper names is accepted. He designs his first puzzle by two intuitionally true principles (Disquotation and Translation), and designs his second puzzle by only Disquotation Principle. David Sosa, a proponent of Frege's view, claims that He has been able to revive Frege's puzzle against Mill, which Kripke believes he was able to neutralize with two similar puzzles. On his opinion, intuitionally true Hermeneutic principle is violated in the context of belief only if Millian view is accepted. In this paper, after explaining Sosa's proposal, a concern have been proposed about it. The concern is related to the analytical nature of line 7 of Frege’s puzzle, line of 8 of Kripke’s first puzzle, and line of 7 of Kripke’s second puzzle. Sosa believes that these lines are analytic. Nevertheless, according to the scenario of puzzles, being analytic of these lines is not clear. Because of this unclarity, Steinberg claims that these lines are responsible for contradiction.
Phronesis and its Relationship with Theoretical Wisdom According to Aristotle
H. Roshani Rad
In Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle divides the soul into two fundamental parts, the knowing part and the calculating part, the virtue of the first part is theoretical wisdom (Sophia) and the virtue of the second part is practical wisdom (Phronesis). This distinction is based on the ontological distinction between becoming and stability because the subject of practical wisdom is the realm of changeable affairs and the subject of theoretical wisdom is eternal affairs. In this research, we will first show that the intuitive intellect or Nous is the connecting factor of these two realms: Nous receives the ultimate principles from both sides, in the framework of theoretical knowledge, Nous knows the most general concepts of eternity and in the framework of Practical wisdom receives the partial individual. We will also argue that practical wisdom is the agent of realization of theoretical wisdom: Phronesis is the power of receiving the highest good, that is, the life according to the Sophia. The interpretation of the relationship between Phronesis and Sophia as a “necessary – end” suggests a way out of two conflicting interpretations of Aristotle’s ethics- the rationalist and holistic interpretation of happiness – which we will address.
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Some Remarks on Teaching Logic in Higher Education Institutions
M.M. Haeri
In different branches of science, the word 'logic' can denote different scientific activities. Logic courses taught in humanities departments and the ones taught in engineering departments only share similar course titles, several preliminary definitions, and examples. This raises the question about the nature of logic and the purpose for teaching it to students of different academic majors in higher education institutions. Normally, the answer would be that logic, similar to other courses, equips students with tools or skills they will need in their studies. But what are these tools and skills, and what is the best method for teaching them to students of different academic majors? This article aims to answer this question by examining the three major options: Aristotelian logic, first-order predicate classical logic, and informal logic. I try to demonstrate philosophical and psychological reasons in favor of teaching informal logic as the main material in introductory courses in logic, specifically introductory courses aimed at students who do not major in logic.
The Problem of Emanation in Farabi; From Aristotelian- to Independent Works
H. Ahmadizade
Surveying the problem of emanation in Farabi's view, has some difficulties like that does for Farabi this problem is a fundamental problem in metaphysics or a secondary one? In this issue we are confronted with two main difficulties: one is that some scholars doubted to two Farabi's works that he discussed there the problem of emanation, mean Fosus Al-hekam and Ouoon Al-masael. They cannot say that these two books certainly are Farabi's books. But the more difficult problem is that Farabi's views on the problem of emanation are different in his works. It seem that some of Farabi's books are basically written in the Aristotelian context and some of his books are from his personally views. In addition, there is another difficulty: Farabi discussed the problem of emanation in some of his books that are not basically metaphysical but are psychological. In the present article, we try to survey these difficulties in Farabi's works.
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Intelligible Forms, Inherence and the Materiality of the Soul
A. Zadyousefi
According to Avicenna's theory of knowledge, intellectual knowledge in human beings is explained via the inherence of intelligible forms in the soul. In this paper, I will show that the inherence of intelligible forms in the soul is at odds with the soul's immateriality.
Explaining the Ontological Differences between Islamic Transcendent Philosophy and Emergentism on the Soul-Body Problem
M. Toossi Saeidi, S.H. Hosseini
Emergentism bears similarities to the Islamic Transcendent Philosophy about the relationship between the soul and the body. At the same time, despite these similarities, there seem to be fundamental differences in the ontological picture of these two. The main issue of this paper is to identify these differences. The result of this effort can be summarized as saying that the ontological foundations of Emergentism are consistent with scientific findings, while this is not the case with Transcendent Philosophy, and that there are fundamental differences between the ontological picture of Transcendent Philosophy and Emergentism in relation to the soul and the body relation; Differences rooted in the contradiction between the classical or Aristotelian image of the world and the new scientific image of the that.
A Critical Look on Polkinghorne's Point of View; Insufficiency of Uncertainty Principles in Physics to Explain Divine Agency
F. Barzegar Tabrizi, S.M.A. Dibaji
In the philosophy of religion, Divine Agency has been related to how God does his action in the human world and the physical world. Polkinghorne has presented a particular method to answer this question. His theological approach has been a combination of Classical Theology and Process Theology. On the one hand, he has said that the God defined in Classical Theology is too unavailable, and on the other hand, he has criticized the Process approach to God. Polkinghorne has established that Epistemology is equal to Ontology, and based on this fact, he has explained his Critical Realism. In his view, the guaranty of reality is not to understand it but is its objectivity. Uncertain situations in Modern Physics presented in Einsteinian Relativity, Quantum Theory, and Chaos Theory is the main areas Polkinghorne has constructed his specific theory about Divine Agency on them.
Argument of Matter and Form on the Unity of the Reasoner and Reasonable and the Analysis of the Suspicion of Allegory and Confiscation
M.R. Ershadinia
One of Hakim Sabzevari's arguments on the reasoner and reasonable :union: of matter and form is the argument, in which he considers the ontological principles of matter, form, and soul on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has put the view of Sadra's psychology as the basis for the completion of this argument. In order to distort all the arguments of Hakim Sabzevari, a published article accusing Hakim of gross confusion in recognizing the basic contents of philosophy. In this regard, in refuting the argument of matter and form, that article has turned to two major accusations. On the one hand, Hakim has been accused of using allegorical syllogism instead of argumentative syllogism, and on the other hand, it has condemned Hakim for the objection of confiscation. The analysis shows that this argument is based on total unity and that article has been distorted both in terms of reporting and in judgment, it has deviated to adopt illogical positions.
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Analytic Thomism; History, Challenges, and Lessons
S.M. Eslami
Thomism has had a continuous history from the 13th century, and some think it is unique in this regard. Each time, it experienced different forms and took different approaches, as in the twentieth century, there are also transcendental Thomists and existentialist Thomists. However, it took longer for analytic philosophy and Thomism to have interaction, and it did not happen until the attempts by Peter Geach, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Anthony Kenny. Then, in the 1990s, John Haldane, drawing on these works, coined the term Analytic Thomism. Here I explore this movement by focusing on some of its aspects. First, we will see the historical phases of Thomism. Then, we review the roots of analytic Thomism as we know it now. After looking at some examples of the works done in this tradition, some challenges for analytic Thomism are presented and discussed. By way of conclusion, a few remarks about “Analytic Islamic philosophy” are discussed.
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