On May 20th Nicole Speletic from New York performed a dance introduction and moving of the body explanation, comparing new with older styles of the artist dance. The session succeeded in University building and was organized by Vojko Strahovnik. Nicole, Matjaz and Vojko have a project to write a paper on phenomenology of dance, two preparatory drafts of which you can find at Matjaz domaca stran under clanki/articles. Nicole is spending some time in Slovenia. Drawing on the heritage of her roots she recently became a citizen of Slovenia. Congratulations, Nicole!
On May 19th 2009 Matjaz Potrc presented his paper on Transvaluating Frankfurt to Juergen Habermas in Pecs Hungary. Habermas replied and commented, and so did Agnes Heller, Robert Brandom among others. Matjaz started by delineating his commitment to the existence of a mind and language independent world, then stressed his indirect correspondence normative and contextual approach to truth and argued for the qualitative and narrow account of free will conditions that may be achieved in the experiential world of my brain in a vat duplicate. Habermas mentioned the background basis of the Lebenswelt. Frankfurt cases in the discussion of free will center at the self as a source of action, dismissing phenomenology of free agency. Is the quality achievable in renaissance approach and what is its relation to the enlightenment? The Habermas conference was organized by Janos Boros from Pecs University.
On May 10th Matjaz took a walk at Dobrca mountain, to the top, and even a little bit further to the one of the most interesting sightseeing spots in Slovene mountains. It was sunny, with some patches of snow. This must be the uebermenschen-point-of-view I guess.
Drustvo za analiticno filozofijo (DAF: Analytic Philosophy Society) has Monday meetings as one of its basic activities. On May 11th we discussed Morphological rationalism, but in overall we prepare ourselves for Bled conferences, by reading and discussing chosen texts. This year's international Bled conference (June 1-6) will be on Virtue epistemology and value. The photo figures Vojko Strahovnik and Matjaz Potrc as two core constitutive members of Monday meetings.
Professor Niels Oeffenberger from Bergisch-Gladbach Germany came to Ljubljana in order to talk about the coming into being of the many-valued logic. This event took place on Tuesday, April 21st 2009 at Filozofska fakulteta. Symposium was entitled Frane Jerman in vecvrednostna logika. It was inspired by the book of Frane Jerman: Med logiko in filozofijo: logika in filozofija v delu Jana Lukasiewicza. Participants commened on Jerman on Lukasiewicz, on determinism, on logic and reality, on many-valued logic, and on deontic logic. Symposium was organized by Vojko Strahovnik. Danilo Suster delivering his talk.
