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Research Paper
Reconstructing Ibn Sina's “the Potential” Resolution to the Intentionality to the Past and the Future Based upon a Kind of Minimalist Holism

Mehdi Assadi

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 7-37

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.39902.1687

Abstract
  Ibn Sina says that if we have a piece of knowledge about the past or the future, then our knowledge is “potentially” about the external world. But he does not clarify the meaning of this “potentiality”. We show that if we take Ibn Sina's “the potential” view as the ...  Read More

Research Paper
Comparative Study of Physics Parallel Worlds and Possible Worlds of David Lewis

maryam parvizi; Mohammad Ali Ashouri Kisomi

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 39-62

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.57102.1924

Abstract
  At first glance, it seems that we can find similarities between the possible worlds proposed by Lewis and the theory of parallel worlds in physics. Both of these theories point to the possibility of the existence of worlds other than the one we live in. After Everett's theory, physicists’ attention ...  Read More

Research Paper
Later Wittgenstein on Understanding as a Matter of Mind

Abolfazl Sabramiz

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 63-86

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.61490.1986

Abstract
  “What is understanding” is an important question in Later Wittgenstein's works. To examine what understanding is and his positive discussion of understanding, Wittgenstein first shows what understanding is not. According to him, in common sense, understanding is a special mental state that ...  Read More

Research Paper
Justifiability of John Rolls's Theory of Justice, Examination of Habermas Critique and Search for Answers based on the Role of General Facts

Marzieh Foroozandeh; Saeed Zibakalam Monfared; Hossein Mesbahian

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 87-112

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.58328.1942

Abstract
  John Rawls's theory of justice is one of the most famous views in the political philosophy of the twentieth century. Contemporary German philosopher Yurgen Habermas believes that Rawls cannot justify this theory. Because the justification for this theory is based on some special premises that can not ...  Read More

Research Paper
An Internal Incompatibility in Internal Realism

Hamed Ghadiri

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 113-133

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.47209.1771

Abstract
  During the 80s, Hilary Putnam developed a metaphysical viewpoint called 'internal realism'. Its slogan said, "the mind and the world together make up the mind and the world." According to Putnam, internal realism has two elements: 1) conceptual relativity and 2) seeing truth as idealized rational assertability. ...  Read More

Research Paper
Analysis and Evaluation of Contemporary Western Problems on Craig's Arguments in the Smallness of the Proof of Occurrence

Amirhossein Ghaffarifar; Ahmad Karimi; Abdulrahim Soleimani Behbahani

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 135-159

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.62537.2003

Abstract
  Huduth Cosmological argument is one of the proofs of Divine existence, which mostly applied by theologians. Believing in the createdness of the universe, theologians support the argument, while philosophers reject it because they think that the universe is eternal. A prominent philosopher in the west ...  Read More

Research Paper
Aesthetic Nature of Mode of Production: On Marx and Ranciere

Sareh Amiri; Amir Maziar

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 161-181

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2022.49348.1805

Abstract
  In this paper, we aim to investigate the aesthetic dimensions of Marx’s theory through the lens of Ranciére’s conception of “the sensible”. To this aim, we begin with the generic idea of the production and the alienated senses in Marx’s early writings to see how his ...  Read More

Research Paper
Profitability of Philosophy for Organizations and Firms

Narges Nazarnezhad; Maryam Asgari

Volume 17, Issue 67 , September 2021, Pages 183-210

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2021.62492.2002

Abstract
  The current paper is on applied philosophy and is the outcome of an interdisciplinary philosophy and management research project. The paper advocates the presupposition that philosophy may help managers of organizations improve the efficiency and profitability of the collections under their control by ...  Read More