Boulder Colorado

Professor Matjaz Potrc at the campus of Boulder University and then in Sink restaurant at the University Hill, August 2011. Here is the link to the RoME 11 conference photos as prepared by Alastair Norcross:
http://anorcross.smugmug.com/Events/CU-Events/RoMEIV/18486689_5q5DBc#1426526847_P6D3kxD
 

Pavia deontic symposium

Potrc lecturing at the occasion of Pavia deontic symposium. In company of Marini and Di Lucia.

Pavia July 2011 symposium

Potrc with Conte and Pavia deontic symposium organizers. Below photo of that symposium participants,

Wuerzburg University Alumni Prof Potrc Matjaz

Professor Matjaz Potrc was invited as Wuerzburg University alumni to the EU-India symposium. The upper picture shows Potrc delivering his lecture. In the picture above then, Potrc is greeted by the Wuerzburg Buergermeister. Picture below shows Professor Potrc with Professor Prasad J. Theruvathu, Provost of the convent of the Karmeliten Basel Switzerland, India Kerala, whose speciality is philosophy of Cusanus: he was interested to learn from Matjaz that Cusanus spent some time in vicinity of Bled in Slovenia. Here is the link to more photos from the EU-India alumni Wuerzburg gathering: http://www.alumni.uni-wuerzburg.de/berichte_und_bilder_ueber_und_von_alumni_veranstaltungen/

Baumgartners and Matjaz Potrc

Elizabeth Baumgartner, Matjaz Potrc and Wilhelm Baumgarther in the Residenz Wuerzburg garden at the time of July 2011 EU-India symposium where Prof Potrc was invited as Wuerzburg University alumni. After this meeting they spent some time with symposium participants and organizers in the cellar of the Wuerzburg Residenz.

Uwe Peters and Potrc

Matjaz Potrc with Uwe Peters in Koeln at the time of Koeln Epistemology of philosophy symposium, July 2011.

Chalmers zombie picture

Here is Chalmers zombie picture, sitting in Koeln Biergarten vis-a-vis Matjaz Potrc, and drinking what? -- beer.

Horgan and Potrc in Koeln

Horgan and Potrc in Koeln at the time of July 2011 Epistemology of philosophy symposium. They also discussed with Schaffer, Chalmers.

Potrc, Horgan and Searle

Professor Matjaz Potrc with Terry Horgan and John Searle at occasion of June 2011 Milano symposium party. Searle really enjoyed Horgan-Potrc presentation.

Henderson at Bled

Matjaz with Henderson in Ljubljana at the time of the June 2011 Bled epistemology symposium.

Radgona Veber symposium

Matjaz with Venanzio Raspa, Emanuele Marini and Seppo Sajama at the Radgona Veber symposium. Profesor Potrc delivering his paper in Radgona.

Summer 2011 continued

After Bled, Milano and Koeln conferences with Terry, I then joined a Wuerzburg EU-India gathering, where I was invited as alumni. After that, I visited Pavia conference on deontic matters where I successfully presented my paper written for that occasion. Finally, I was in Boulder Colorado for a couple of weeks, at the 2011 RoME conference, as the only European participant that was selected for presentation at this prestigious gathering of ethicists. My and Vojko's paper on moral particularism and basic-derived reasons pluralistic Rossian approach that we propose was well accepted by the audience, and especially interesting was the follow-up discussion with McNaughton and Rawling (by the way, I also chaired their paper where Alastair Norcross was a commentator). It was a pleasure to visit Boulder again, where this time I even tried out some mountain hike.
   Pictures show Matjaz in Boulder at the University Hill, discussing with Hille and Rawling after his paper presentation, and strolling through Boulder farms market.

Wrapping it up

End of May and beginning June 2011 there was a successful Bled conference on Virtue epistemology and understanding. I presented a paper with Terry Horgan. Henderson nicknamed Pencilneck was there as well. Some of the lectures should be published by Videoloectures by now (look for Potrc, Horgan, Dereta). Then Terry and myself went to the Milano San Raffaelle University where we presented our paper on Metaphysically lightweight posits to Searle, who enjoyed our performance very much. After that, we went to Koeln, to a conference on Epistemology of philosophy, where we met Chalmers and others. I stayed in Koeln with Uwe Peters.

Man and World

Man and World was the Rijeka conference where on May 20th, 2011 Prof. Potrc presented a version of his and Strahovnik Reasons and Generalities paper. Here he is at Trsat with Takashi Yagisawa and Michael Watkins.

Venanzio Raspa on fictionalism and on the theory of moral value

Professor Venanzio Raspa delivered interesting lectures on fictional entities, from the ontological and emotional point of view, and on the theory of moral value, such as it was developed by Meinong and his Slovene pupil France Veber. Professor Raspa from the University of Urbino, Italy, was guest of Professor Potrc at the Ljubljana Department of philosophy in the week of May 17-18, 2011. Photos show Professors Potrc and Raspa at the Ljubljanica river side and then Prof. Raspa celebrating his birthday.

Professor Potrc Budapest AvH success

Professor Potrc took part at the May 6th-8th, 2011 Budapest Alexander von Humboldt East and South European humanities meeting. He presented successfully his What is philosophy? paper and participated in discussion. Here he is in front of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Potrc busy schedule

Professor Potrc is lecturing here in his and Professor Strahovnik Moral philosophy class. Here are some forthcoming stations at his successful professional voyage in the year 2011. First, a presentation of his What is philosophy? paper at the Budapest Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung meeting. Then, hosting Venanzio Raspa Ljubljana lectures. After that, Rijeka symposium presentation of his Reasons paper. After that, Bled symposium presentation on Contextualism and skepticism at the international conference, co-authored by Terry Horgan, Followed by accepted presentation of his Metaphysically lightweight posits at the Milano Searle conference and Spring school. Then, taking part in the Cologne Germany symposium with Chalmers, Schaffer and other participants. As an alumni of the University of Wuerzburg, he then also takes part at the EU-India workshop in that city. Followed by accepted paper presentation and special invitation at the Deontic Pavia specialized workshop. An important success is presentation of Potrc and Strahovnik paper at the Boulder Colorado Rocky Mountains Ethics conference, for this paper was accepted in harsh competition, and it turns out to be the only European authorship at that prestigious conference.

Vojko Strahovnik and Matjaz Potrc Boulder Colorado success

Vojko Strahovnik and Matjaz Potrc are lecturing on Moral philosophy in preparation for writing their paper on Reasons and generalities. They just learned about their big success, namely that their paper was accepted for presentation at Rocky Mountains Ethics symposium in Boulder Colorado this year, in a harsh competition. In fact, they will be the only Europeans at this prestigious conference. Vojko and Matjaz are depicted here on May the 4th 2011 during their Moral philosophy class.

Veber Gornja Radgona international symposium

Tadej Pirc and his Gornja Radgona friends organized a memorable France Veber symposium on April 16th, 2011. Matjaz Potrc is depictured here with Venanzio Raspa, Emanuele Marini and Seppo Sajama. Besides to these Veber experts, there were Vojko Strahovnik, Bojan Zalec and Andrej Ule. An excellent occasion to celebrate 120 years since Veber's bitrh. Ethics, esthetics and other areas were covered; an event that will certainly stay in Veber heritage memory. The publication of contributions is envisioned.

Ciphermatics project with Chinaglia

Ruggero Chinaglia and Matjaz met February 5th in Ljubljana, and they sketched the following collaboration project. Matjaz writes a short presentation of his relevance/ciphermatics understanding, with the aim to apply it to his inclusive disjunction treatment of ontology, epistemology and ethics. A collaboration between Padova and Ljubljana may then ensue. The ultimate aim would be, for Matjaz, to write a simple book about the ciphermatics/philosophy intersection, along the lines according to which he already developed the three mentioned areas of philosophy.
   Under the following link (besides to a number of Matjaz other papers) the draft of the paper entitled The Moment that Counts is posted (the draft is a first sketch of the relevance/cipher approach, as applied to the special discourse of philosophy):

http://www2.arnes.si/~supmpotr/clanki.html