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Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in philosophy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of philosophy. "Op…
Paweł Pruski
Pondering the question of free will in the context of probability allows us to take a fresh look at a number of old problems. We are able to avoid deterministic entrapments and attempt to look at free will as an outcome of the entire decision-making system. I…
Andreas Georgallides
In this article, I examine whether the Tractarian objects include universals. I suggest that the Tractatus does not support a realist view—namely that apart from including particulars, objects also include universals—or a nominalist view—that is, that objects…
Oluwasegunota F. O. Bolarinwa, Ucheoma C. Osuji
This paper explores the impacts of political elitism in Nigeria. This is in formed by our past experiences and present realities of Nigerian political elites that play exclusionary politics which this paper interrogates. It argues the thesis that there is nee…
Shiro Ishikawa
Recently we proposed the linguistic Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is called quantum language or measurement theory. This theory is valid for both quantum and classical systems. Thus, we think that quantum language is one of the most po…
Bowen Zha
This paper revisits Heidegger’s views on science and examines the relationship between science and thinking. Science, dominated by metaphysical subject-object thinking, understands beings (Seiende) as an object while forgetting the Being (Sein), and for Heide…
Richard Startup
The extent of confusion between symbols and that which is symbolised is examined across five institutional spheres. Religion is the institution most marked by confusion of this type; indeed in some respects the symbolic mess age of religion may be the extent…
Javier S. Castresana
Boredom is a characteristic of today’s society. At the individual level and at the social level, the Western countries suffer from boredom. There are extrin sic and intrinsic causes that can lead to boredom. In general, the state of boredom is reached when th…
Oumarou Mazadou
In post-colonial Africa, political rulers aimed at achieving national integration, unity and development for their peoples. Yet, the experience, several years after the independence, is at the same time bitter and thought-provoking. Nationalism has failed to…
Ziqing Zhang, Yingshan Zhang
Hilbert (David Hilbert, 1862 - 1943 a.d) is a well-known German mathematician. He introduced 23 of the most important problem for twentieth century mathematicians to study, this is the famous “Hilbert 23 problems”. Hilbert’s sixth mathematical conjecture has…
Dean Lubin
If God is omniscient and exhaustive knowledge of the future is possible, then God knows (and in fact knew a long time ago) what we will do in the future. But is this compatible with our future actions being free? I address this question by responding to an ar…
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Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in philosophy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of philosophy. "Op… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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