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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…
Chang He
For laying the foundation for human knowledge, Kant distinguished the ontological world from the phenomenal world. Kant put freedom in the ontological world to make its existence possible, and relied on the moral practice according to the pure rational. By cr…
Robert Murray Jones
We examine a series of developments in mathematics used in quantum physics. These include Hilbert space. We then examine how several developments in mathematics can be u s ed in application to Quantum physics.
Shane Andre
The problem of evil has been around for centuries but as yet no consensus exists as to its significance for atheism or theism. After a brief historical review, I focus on the debate between two leading contemporary philosophers, Rowe and Plantinga, and argue…
Georges-Auguste Legault, Suzanne K.-Bédard, Jean-Pierre Béland, Christian A. Bellemare, Louise Bernier, Pierre Dagenais, Charles-Étienne Daniel, Hubert Gagnon, Monelle Parent, Johane Patenaude, 1 1, 1 1
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has shed more light on the difficulty of making health care decisions integrating scientific knowledge and values associated to life and death issues, human suffering, quality of life, economic losses, liberty of movement, etc.…
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Somsikov, Svetlana Nikolaevna Azarenko
The question of constructing an evolutionary picture of the world based on the results obtained by extending classical mechanics is considered. The expansion of mechanics arose as a result of taking into account the role of the structure of bodies in their dy…
Josh Adler
What does it mean to keep an “open mind”? In casual conversation it’s a popular phrase with enough common sense to negate much need for debate about what the speaker means. Someone with an open mind might be considered considerate, equanimous, empathetic, a g…
Keith Burgess-Jackson
This article is a work of metaethics; it is on , but not in , normative ethics. My aim is to explain how one goes about defending a normative ethical theory. Specifically, it is to explain how one goes about providing (what I call) “a complete defense” of a n…
Huaruo Chen, Ya Wen
The Ministry of Education of China put forward the concept of “core literacy system” for the first time in the “Opinions on Comprehensively Deepening Curriculum Reform and Implementing the Fundamental Tasks of Moral Education” issued in 2014. This is a new ed…
Jan-Erik Lane
The social sciences in a wide sense and the Humanities share one major focus, namely the acting person. The greatest social scientist in modern times argued that human action had to modelled as purposeful, driven by means and ends (Weber, 2012) . Is Max Weber…
Amos Avny
The feeling of uncontrolled confusion that envelops the Western world of today was the main reason for working on this thesis. The current COVID-19 pandemic came just in time to increase this sense of obscureness. This essay follows the first part of the work…
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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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