The 104th issue of the scholarly quarterly Journal of Philosophical-Theological Research, Fall 2025, has been published in Persian and English by the University of Qom in collaboration with the Iranian Association for Philosophy of Religion. Since its inception in 1999, the journal has pursued a specialized approach to Islamic philosophy and theology, disseminating original research and fostering scholarly discourse at both national and international levels.
This issue was published under the editorship of Dr. Zahra Khazaei, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Qom.
The international editorial board includes Charles Taliaferro, Nancey Murphy, Edward Wierenga, Ishtiyaque Haji, John Greco, Roger Crisp, Vincent Brümmer, Henk Bakker, Stephen Palmquist, and Reinhard Hesse. The domestic editorial board consists of Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, Ahmad Beheshti, Mohsen Javadi, Mohammad Zabihi, Hamidreza Ayatollahi, Einollah Khademi, Jafar Shanazari, and Zahra Khazaei.
Articles in this issue address topics such as:
- “Theism and the Cumulative Argument;”
- “Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism?”
- “Stump and Hoffman on the Efficacy of Petitionary Prayer: A Comparative Review;”
- “Wittgensteinian Reflections on Justice with an Emphasis on Critique of Plato and the Aristotelian–Aquinian Theory of ‘Analogy’,”
- “A Defense of the Realism of Time: Analysis and Critique of McTaggart’s Theory of Non-Realism in the Metaphysics of Time,”
- “Ibn Bājja’s (Avempace) Reading of the Theory of Grace,”
- “Incompatibility of Theories of Fiction in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy with Theories of Myth.”
Full articles are available at: https://pfk.qom.ac.ir/?lang=en.
