Matjaz in Berlin for 2015 New Year

Matjaz is in Berlin end of December 2014 where the plan is to join New Year 2015 festivities at Brandenburger Tor together with Venanzio Raspa.

After the morning run

Matjaz enjoys his autumn surroundings after morning run and stretching,

Boulder photos

Some more photos of Matjaz during the Rocky Mountains Ethics 7 conference, August 2014: at the Boulder County Farmers' Market, in Sink, at the campus

Boulder RoME 2014

Matjaz presented the paper, written together with Vojko Strahovnik, on Cognitivist Expressivism as Revolutionary Proposal, at the Rocky Mountains Ethics conference. Inspiring discussion following the paper was followed by several encounters, somewhere around error theory and consequentialism. Matjaz now thinks that scalar consequentialism (Norcross) is right in promoting a unique value as illuminating encountered thick moral concepts entangled situations. It was nice to meet several friends. Some photos from the conference are on this Alastair link:
http://anorcross.smugmug.com/Events/CU-Events/RoME-VII
And here is Matjaz in The Kitchen, Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado:

By the way, this message was composed in The Cup, Pearl Street, Boulder, a nice environment.

Wuerzburg alumni trip

Professor Potrc visited alumni Wuerzburg sustainability session, following Michaela Thiel invitation. He met Elisabeth and Wilhelm Baumgartner, was sitting at the Wuerzburg Residenz Brunnen, with a view at his office in the background, drank a glass of local wine at the Alte Muehle close to the Main bridge, and in the evening in vicinity there helped German soccer team to win by watching the match at the Mainufer.

Bled 2014 Ethics

Bled 2014 conference on ethics was a great event. Here are some participants that took a hike around Talez (Elinor Mason, Matjaz Potrc, Hallie Liberto, Jonathan Pugh, Eugene Mills; photo taken by Alastair Norcross). Matjaz presented his paper on Moral judgment.

David Armstrong

Just learned about the demise of David Armstrong, an Australian philosopher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malet_Armstrong

I have met him on several occasions, and had some discussions with him. He was at a Bled conference that I co-organized. Armstrong was a friend of U.T. Place, Australian identity theory originator from Leeds and a friend of mine.

From Bled to Boulder

Professor Matjaz Potrc prepares his presentation about Moral Judgment for Bled ethics symposium that he co-organizes, June 2-6, 2014. His and Vojko Strahovnik paper on revolutionary cognitivist expressivism was accepted for Rocky Mountains Ethics (RoME) 2014 August conference. Congrats!

Philacronym

 “The idea is to come up with a single sentence that summarizes the most important thing(s) you need to know about a particular philosopher where the first letter of each word, in order, spells the philosopher’s name.”

Monist
Attitude
Towards
Jell-o
And
Zeno.

Pluralist
Ought
Truth 
Realism
Challenge.

Rudolf Haller

I took part at the Haller conference in Arizona and spent some time there with various people, among them Sylvan. I delivered a lecture in Graz where Haller told me that my externalist minded ecologist approach is rather Berkley like. Haller came to Ljubljana and delivered lectures there as I invited him. I met him on several other occasions at Graz (Meinong conference is one example) and at Kirchberg symposia. Chisholm, Lehrer and many others came to Ljubljana through Haller's assistance. Professors Gombocz and Haller supported Slovene-Austrian international conferences with Davidson and others. Some years ago I felt an urge to visit Haller in Vienna and talk with him, which then unfortunately did not happen. Today I learned about the demise of Rudolf Haller whom I thought about as my friend.
Matjaz