19 found

View year:

  1.  2
    Intelligence Understood as the Agent of Human Life.Jaume Agusti-Cullell - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (2):279-308.
    Throughout history, humanity has sought security—first in submission to supernatural powers in preindustrial times, and later, in the pursuit of knowledge in modern times. Yet history, with all its suffering, has shown that both approaches are flawed. In this work, I argue that true security can only be ensured through the development of a healthy and creative intelligence, understood as an active agent of human life. Thus, intelligence, rather than knowledge, is fundamental. Intelligence is interactive; it develops through human interactions (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  2. Reid, Duncan: Time We Started Listening: Theological Questions Put to Us by Recent Indigenous Writing. 114 pp. Adelaide: ATF Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1925679809. AUD 26.98. [REVIEW]Daniel Kisliakov & Nikolai Kostin - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (2):265-269.
    Duncan Reid’s book is a timely piece on the developing field of Australian Indigenous theology. The key is listening to uncover what is unspoken, inasmuch as it is a path to uncovering implicit meaning. Reid derives this meaning theologically. It can help “save Australia”. The approach noted by Reid is helpful in looking beyond analytic approaches to thought. This requires balance: as a reduction to identity politics, but as an ontological belonging, an opening into new knowledge, such as with fire (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  3. Human Origin—The Seventh Time Using the Philosophical Principles of Cosmic Origin to Thinking the Theoretical Contradiction between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.Samo Liu - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (2):309-337.
    The universe created humanity. Humans possess perception and feeling. They have subjective consciousness and have created language, words, numerical information tools, coordinate systems, and science. Humanity exists, feeling both the utmost happiness and the deepest suffering in the universe. As humanity becomes increasingly formidable, its existence form, through material philosophy thought, emerges as a primary threat to its survival. Only by living and existing can humanity study and understand what matter, existence, and humanity truly are. This paper discusses the origin (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  4.  11
    Is There Such a Thing as a Good Death?Ashutosh Sharma - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (2):270-278.
    This paper examines the concept of a "good death" through various philosophical lenses. It deconstructs traditional ethical frameworks, including deontological, utilitarian, and virtue ethics approaches, revealing their limitations in addressing the deeply personal nature of death. The essay argues for a perspective that views death as a final act of self-affirmation and meaning making. It explores historical conceptions of honorable death and challenges conventional morality. The paper concludes that a "good death" transcends universal principles or utilitarian calculations, instead resonating with (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  5.  2
    The Position of Oppose Bookism in Mao Zedong Thought.Hongguan Chu - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):227-235.
    The Western model of modernization has become the new dogmatism, and we should oppose it from the actual situation of China to go our own way in the practice of the Chinese path to modernization. The dogmatism is also called bookism. It means that theory is divorced from practice. Oppose Bookism is a book that criticizes dogmatism by Marxist method, which was written by Mao Zedong (Mao Tse Tung, 1893-1976). This article explores the position of this book in Mao Zedong (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  6.  3
    Truth as Normative Power.Yafeng Dang - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):6-18.
    Ever since Aristotle proposed the definition of truth, people have not stopped discerning the concept of truth. Different from the traditional correspondence theory of truth, the modern understanding of the concept of truth emphasizes the role of justification. In the context of pragmatism, Bernstein agrees with the role of justification in understanding truth and appreciates Rorty’s cautionary usage of truth to advance the work of understanding truth, but at the same time, proposes that the concept of truth contains the dimension (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7.  1
    Accurate Predictions of Gravity without Mass, Null Dark Matter Results, Muon Precession and Solutions to the Hubble Tension, Final Parsec Problem, Information Paradox, Inter Alia: A 3.5-Year Status Report on the Probabilistic Spacetime Theory. [REVIEW]Dennis M. Doren - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):98-125.
    The Probabilistic Spacetime Theory (PST) was first referenced in 2020 and published in complete form in 2021. The theory exists to facilitate developments in modern cosmology through specific predictive and explanatory assertions, both to drive and interpret research discoveries. This article describes an extensive appraisal of the theory’s demonstrated predictive accuracy and explanatory efficacy during its 3.5-year lifetime. The theory was found to have forecasted multiple astrophysical and cosmological findings such as black hole expansion without mass, gravity without mass, an (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8.  4
    What Is the Physical Nature of a Surface?—Implications for Production of Contingent Entities from Fundamental Entities.Roger Granet - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):159-173.
    Surfaces have been much studied, but no consensus has been reached about the actual physical nature of the surface of a three-dimensional, mind-independent physical object. I analyze, from a common sense or “folk” perspective, the surface of a physically-extended simple in a space containing no other objects. From this, I propose the novel idea that a surface is not a part of an object or its outside but instead is made of two components: 1) the object as a unit whole, (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  9.  1
    A Rationale for Irrationality, Based on Breuer’s “Momentous Discovery”.Bob Johnson - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):206-216.
    This paper starts by reviewing how little we understand, rationally, about oxygen and about the way we breathe generally, and how we moved from using gills to lungs. The central flaw in 2) scientific reasoning is that overinsistence on tangible “solutions” has led to neglect of the vital distinguishing feature of homo sapiens—the mind. Once 3) rational reasoning is brought centre stage, some of its intrinsic defects are reviewed. Using these points, 4) irrational reasoning is then considered, especially in relation (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  10.  7
    Research on the Theoretical Evolution of Revolutionary Subject.Yuyao Kang - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):217-226.
    The problem of revolutionary subjects has always been a core problem within Marxist philosophy. In the classical Marxist philosophy, the revolutionary subject is naturally endowed with the working class, and the working class was identified as the bourgeois gravedigger. However, in the post-war capitalist society, the working class’s living conditions greatly improved, forcing many Marxists to rethink the revolutionary subject. Many studies on the subject of revolution have emerged. The aim of this research is to sort out these theories and (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  11.  1
    Critical Realism and Organizational Culture—Framing Schein’s Model of Studying Organizational Culture by Using Critical Realism Philosophy. [REVIEW]Wadih Nizar Khaddour - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):77-97.
    This paper presents the two opposing viewpoints for studying organizational culture and clarifies the lack they contain through understanding the philosophies encompassing them. We have verified that this discussion between the two perspectives is a discussion between positivists and interpretivists. We believe that critical realism philosophy provides a way out of the controversy by presenting its ontology that is characterized by structure, difference, and change and by standing against the reduction of ontology to, or its dissolution in, epistemology. This ensures (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  12. Reflection on Science Philosophy—Fourth Reflection on the Contradictions between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Using the Cosmic Origin Principle.Samo Liu - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):19-40.
    The previous three articles have discussed scientific ontology, resolving the contradictions between quantum mechanics and relativity using the cosmic origin philosophical framework, and interpreting the principles of natural philosophy through physics. Aristotle established material philosophy and material science, relegating the philosophical concepts of cosmic ontology and the cosmic origin to metaphysics and theology. As a result, philosophy was divided into first philosophy and second philosophy as scientific considerations. When material science developed into the ontology of the universe, able to explain (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  13.  1
    Space and Time—The Sixth Time Using the Philosophical Principles of Cosmic Origin to Solve the Theoretical Contradiction between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.Samo Liu - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):181-205.
    Space and time are linguistic, words, and numerical descriptions that humans use to represent the domains and processes of human and material existence. They form the fundamental questions of human philosophical thought. Some 2500 years ago, the philosophy of the cosmic origins contemplated space and the existence within it. Aristotle’s philosophy of matter pulled human philosophical inquiry down from the heavens to the earth, initiating the exploration of material philosophy and material science (Russell, 2017). This shift set aside the concept (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  14. The Pinnacle of Science or the End of Scientific Thought? —The Fifth Discussion of the Theoretical Contradictions between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Using Cosmic Origin Philosophy.Samo Liu - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):41-63.
    Quantum mechanics and relativity spurred the Third Industrial Revolution, presenting no contradictions in applied engineering but significant theoretical discord. The electronic computer, another major achievement of this era, transformed humanity through the rise of information networks, marking information science as another critical outcome of the revolution. Matter transforms into energy, energy into matter, and mechanics serve as profound conduits for information, even enabling the creation of robots. Modern physics now faces interpretative divides, having seemingly overlooked philosophy and information science’s foundational (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  15.  2
    The Universe Consists of Charge and Entropy: Mind and Matter Are Negative Entropy.James A. Morris - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):64-76.
    Information is the reduction of uncertainty, and uncertainty is equivalent to entropy. Thus, information is negative entropy. Concepts from information theory can be used to analyse physiological and psychological processes and to probe the nature of abstract ideas such as consciousness and vitality. A previously published model of the Universe indicates that it consists of charge and entropy. Since entropy is energy, then charge and energy are enough to explain the whole of nature. The building blocks of molecules (neutrons, protons (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16. How the Universe Works. Part II. Philosophical Content and Physical Nature of Electromagnetic Energy and Its Generation. Electric Current. [REVIEW]Vasyl Oryabko - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):236-264.
    Electromagnetic energy is one of the most common types of energy mastered by mankind, which is widely used in all spheres of human existence. But to our great surprise, there is still no solid explanation of its physical nature, the nature of electric current, nor the physical nature of its generation, distribution, and use of electric current. A number of their key properties are also not known. There is no scientific interpretation of the physical nature of electromagnetic energy, and the (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  17.  1
    Parfit, Self and Unity. Przemysł & aw Paleczny - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):126-158.
    The paper presents an effort to connect two ideas that are underrated in Derek Parfit’s analysis of David Wiggins’ split-brain thought experiment. Firstly, it argues that the original person, whose brain is divided, survives as only one of the two human beings obtained by the division. For Parfit, it seems hopelessly hard to determine which one of the two is the initial person. The second idea is the unity of consciousness. For Parfit, the best-known approach to the idea is Cartesianism, (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18.  3
    Formal Logical Arguments in Islamic Law.Rehan Rafique - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):174-180.
    Apart from the knowledge of specialists in the field of Islamic law, the perception of Islamic law, for the most part, is that of a law with no structure and, therefore, no logical consistency. This depiction is often theorized by using the term Kadijustiz. In this essay, I seek to undermine this view and propose that Islamic legal theorists developed a systematic process of employing formal logic in Islamic law. I argue that these arguments exist, were negotiated regarding the nuances (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  19.  3
    Measurement Problem and Non-Locality: An Alternative Interpretation.Pierre Sabatier - 2025 - Open Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):1-5.
    The Measurement problem and Non-locality are classical problems in Quantum Mechanics and still unsolved in spite of the many proposed solutions. A new interpretation is proposed here, based on the idea that they are closely related problems. But it requires that we consider space and time not as objective mediums but as features of our representation of reality, as Kant explained more than two centuries ago.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
 Previous issues
  
Next issues