October 2017 encounters

October 2017 Professor Potrc met Tabea; they talked about their phenomenological objectivity project. He also met his sister Marjetica Potrc.

Zero Point Reference: Conscious Philosophy new Matjaz Potrc book

Professor Matjaz Potrc just published his new August 2017 book entitled

Zero Point Reference: Conscious Philosophy

Book may be ordered at Amazon





Reference is a philosophical topics whose aim is to determine our relation to the objective world, to the items in this world. A look at the treatments of the problem of reference shows however that they all center at the zero point, the conscious perspective enabling our living in the world. Consciousness or phenomenology thus becomes important as the very basis of relation to objectivity. Agentive involvement of the referential agent goes along with it. Frege, Russell, Kripke and other authors are briefly reviewed, as is their impact upon analytic philosophy. Space of reasons is proposed as a counterbalance to the space of causes. Topics such as art, beautiful patterns, free will and first of all the characteristics of the experiential world are discussed, as is the Dasein's being-in-the-world. Reism is proposed as being compatible with austere realism monistic metaphysical project, with the basic distinction between the ontic, whatever one finds in the world, and between the ontology, the ultimate constitution of reality.

Professor Potrc in boulder CO August 2017

Boulder photos

Professor Potrc in Boulder Colorado August 2017: in front of The Cup where he drank coffee and typed, at the skip bus stop Heidelberg south Boulder station, in the famous Sink restaurant where Robert Redford used to be a waiter. By the way, professor Potrc watched solar eclipse in the south Boulder on August 21st.

Matjaz Potrc at the Rocky Mountains Ethics 2017 conference

Professor Potrc took part at the 2017 Rocky Mountains Ethics conference in Boulder Colorado with a successful presentation.

Professor Potrc in the South Boulder, CO, and in the famous Sink restaurant.

Potrc and Biro and Carlos Kleiber

Philosophers Matjaz Potrc and John Biro visited Konjsica, the resting place of Carlos Kleiber June 2017.

Philosophers in a barrel

Terry Horgan and Matjaz Potrc were sitting in a barrel in Trebnje on June 10th 2017. What a philosophical inspiration!

Horgan and Potrc work on Epistemic virtue

End of May 2017 and beginning of June professors Terry Horgan and Matjaz Potrc work together on their soon to happen Bled conference presentation on Epistemic virtue.

Searle conference and other stuff

On May 22th 2017 professor Potrc presented his paper about Objectivity of the brain in a vat at the international Rijeka Searle conference, meeting Searle and many others. This semester went well with students and with collaboration with professor Strahovnik. Bled conference on virtue epistemology is near, as well as planned collaboration with Terry Horgan. Professor Potrc established Bled conference quite some time ago with John Biro who also joins this year; Sarah Wright is organiser. 

Professor Potrc work environment

Professor Potrc in  his work room, with Oeltjen painting of his paternal grandfather in the background. Just finished a draft of Relevant Belief paper arguing that the reduction of belief actually reveals genuine judgment.

Berlin New Year 2017

Professor Potrc spent the New Year 2017 time in Berlin, visiting parliament and the surrounding of recent attack, as shown in the pictures. The very new year festivities happened at the Hansaviertel bridge.