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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…
Mohammad Ahmadi
Aristotle’s Rhetoric presents a number of internal inconsistencies, many of which stem from its nature as a compilation of lecture notes developed over several decades. As a result, the terminology employed across different sections is not always consistent,…
Ding Hong, Kaiyuan Le
This paper investigates the multifaceted debates in contemporary musical ontology, arguing that the field is undergoing a paradigm shift from metaphysical inquiries into what a musical work is to a focus on the methodological and phenomenological frameworks t…
Nathalie Bulle
The main challenge to mental causation arises from the causal exclusion argument proposed by Jaegwon Kim, which involves the principles of causal closure of the physical domain and non-overdetermination. The central aim of this article is to counter this argu…
Wioletta Rebecka
This article develops a politicized understanding of betrayal trauma through the framework of War Rape Survivors Syndrome (WRSS). Rather than a diagnostic category, WRSS functions as an analytical and clinical lens for understanding wartime sexual violence. C…
Maria da Conceição Camps
In this paper, we discuss the role of sense knowledge, experience, and so-called experiential science in the Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima ( DA ) of the 1598 Jesuit Course of Coimbra, to highlight their importance both in the discovery and articulation o…
Samo Liu
Humans are created by the universe, and in turn, they use language, writing, numbers, science, and coordinate systems to create all “man-made existences” such as science, philosophy, and religion. Humans do so out of necessity for survival and existence. Huma…
Colin Anthony Smith MacNairn
This essay addresses personal identity and its role in sustaining moral responsibility. Against reductionist accounts, namely Derek Parfit’s, which tie identity to degrees of psychological continuity, I argue that such views weaken the foundations of responsi…
Elise Annett, James Giordano
The accelerating development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems necessitate a critical examination of the boundaries between computation, cognition, and consciousness. This essay contends that as AI increasingly emulates tasks of human jud…
Cecilia Sen-Sze Lo, Edward Chi-Fai Lo
Consequentialism is a prominent normative ethical theory that evaluates the moral rightness of actions solely by their outcomes. While intuitively appealing in its focus on promoting good consequences, consequentialism faces several foundational challenges. T…
Joaquin Kyle Vincent Saavedra
This paper argues that Mahayana Buddhist ethics, particularly the concept of “compassionate violence,” can be used to justify revolutionary violence against oppressive political and economic structures in the modern Philippines. The author analyzes Buddhist t…
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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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