• Tracing the Black Sun in the Derridean Khôral Mise en Abyme: elliptical reflections on the “word-space-flesh” 

  سعیدزاده, بهاره؛ نصری, امیر (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  This paper reflects the inversion between the discourse on the Good and that on the khôra in view of the deconstructionist paradigm of the khôral mise en abyme as portrayed by Jacques Derrida and later elaborated on by ...

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• Khaqani’s Late Style: The Mada’in Qasida 

  گولد, ربکا روث (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  This article discusses Khaqani Shirvani's poem Aivan-i Mada'in (The Mada'in Qasida), from the vantage points of literary history and the theory of ruins. The Mada'in Qasida is a product of Khaqani's “late style" in multiple ...

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• Hegel's Absolute as Negativity 

  رجبی, مزدک (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  The relation of the many and the one, difference and identity, multiplicity and unity, particularity and universality, and finally that of negativity and negativity of negativity through reason and history is the core of ...

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• Foucauldian Panopticism in Donald Barthelme’s “Subpoena” 

  مظفری, فاطمه؛ پورعلی فرد, اکرم (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Some of Donald Barthelme's works have been undeniably influenced by Michel Foucault's socio-political philosophy, however, few scholars have explored such concepts in his works, especially the theme of “panopticism." The ...

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• Philosophical and Epistemological Foundations of Contextualism in Postmodern Urban design and architecture 

  سعدلونیا, حسین؛ یزدانی, محمد حسن؛ زارعی, قاسم؛ حیدری چیانه, رحیم (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  In this essay I present a new and empirically-testable strategy for completing quantum mechanics. In recent decades, urban design and architecture disciplines witnessed plenty of theories and school development. Primarily, ...

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• The Position of Sense in Ibn Sina's Epistemology (The Empiricism of Avicenna) 

  مومنی, مصطفی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Philosophers consider sense as a means for true cognition. In spite of the fact that Islamic philosophy are generally regarded as rational philosophy, it does not mean that they do not assume epistemological value for ...

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• Aristotle on Ontological Pluralism 

  اسفندیاری, محمدحسین؛ حاج حسینی, مرتضی؛ حجتی, سید محمد علی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Aristotle has repeatedly stated in his works that 'being has several senses'. Is this to be regarded as his pluralistic ontology, an approach that seems to be too nascent? If so, how can this newfound approach in ontology ...

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• The Seven Earths and Seven Heavens in the Light of Jung, Maslow and Hindu Psychology 

  جونجونوالا, بهارات (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  The Holy Quran tells of Allah creating seven heavens and seven earths. These have been traditionally identified cosmologically with seven stars etc. or geographically with seven lands. We provide an alternative interpretation ...

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• Metaphysical Foundation of African Epistemology: A Study of the Afemai-Etsako of Edo State in Southern Nigeria 

  آسیا, امانوئل؛ آسئخااونو, آنتونی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Truth and knowledge are essentially the dictates of some rationality or metaphysical ordainment. By sense experience man is capable of accounting for his past, contemplate his life and predict his future and all of reality, ...

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• Realist Fiction as the Rightful Genre of our Time: Realist Fiction after the Postpositivist Intervention 

  عامری, فیروزه (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Realist fiction, which had a pivotal place in 19th. Century literature, has lost its central position in the contemporary literary scene as modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism have raised some serious challenges ...

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• When aesthetics does not lead to an act of environmental conservation 

  افشاری, آتوسا؛ بهنیافر, مهدی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  This paper examines the relationship between the environmental aesthetics approach backed by knowledge (ecological aesthetics) and the possibility of doing an action in favor of environmental conservation. It seems that ...

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• German Idealism and the Origins of Pure Mathematics: Riemann, Dedekind, Cantor 

  کریمی ترشیزی, احسان (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  When it comes to the relation of modern mathematics and philosophy, most people tend to think of the three major schools of thought—i.e. logicism, formalism, and intuitionism—that emerged as profound researches on the ...

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• Foundations of Quantum Approaches to Consciousness 

  فغانپور عزیزی, حمید؛ گلشنی, مهدی؛ نوذری, کوروش (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  As generally accepted, consciousness or mind and material brain are closely related to each other; but how? Quantum mechanics is a new pathway to understand the hard problem of consciousness and its relation to the brain. ...

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• A Study on Philosophical Intuition and Thought Experiment: Kripke's Critical encounter with Reductive Physicalism 

  سنایی, علی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  In philosophy, many reflections and categories were the result of intuition and thought experiments. Intuition is defined as direct, immediate, and non-inferential knowledge accompanied by a sense of certainty. The thought ...

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• Philosophy of Science Meets the Scientific Research: Metatheorizing expertise theories in Cognitive Psychology 

  منجمی, علیرضا (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  An obvious feature of the development of the philosophy of science during the past decades is an increasing specialization and fragmentation that have led to reduced impact of philosophy of science outside the sphere of ...

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• From Physics to Metaphysics: Islamic Perspective and Contemporary Outlook 

  گلشنی, مهدی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Before the advent of Modern Science, philosophy ruled over sciences. But, after the emergence of modern science, with the appearance of philosophers like Locke and Hume, empiricism which relied only on sense data became ...

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• The Interaction of Science and Philosophy in the Present Age Two Dutch Philosophers: Herman Philipse and Hans Achterhuis 

  داسن, هانس (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Herman Philipse considers “religious beliefs, faith and religion [to be] incompatible with science or reason"; he defines religion scientifically and specifically rejects religious doctrine. He describes reason “… as the ...

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• How to Complete Quantum Mechanics, or, What It’s Like to Be a Naturally Creative Bohmian Beable 

  هانا, رابرت (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  In another essay, I've argued by means of a formal analogy between (i) the incompleteness of Principia Mathematica-style systems of mathematical logic (logico-mathematical incompleteness) and (ii) the incompleteness of the ...

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• Philosophy, Science, Capitalism and Truth 

  ژیژک, اسلاوی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Fascinated by the recent scientific progress, even some philosophers today claim that philosophy is dead and that natural sciences (quantum cosmology, cognitive sciences) can answer questions which were once considered a ...

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• Editor’s Note 

  گلشنی, مهدی (دانشگاه تبریزUniversity of Tabriz, 2021-10-23)

  Before the advent of modern science philosophy contained all sciences. The part related to natural and mathematical sciences was called natural philosophy. Another part was metaphysics which death with the most fundamental ...

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