Juergen Habermas

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.

Hundred free papers and a dancing performance

http://www2.arnes.si/~supmpotr/clanki.html     By clicking at the just given link you can find hundred free papers written by Prof. Matjaz Potrc. One among these papers is a draft on the topics of Phenomenology of dancing. Nicole Speletic, a philosopher and a fine dancer from NY contributed her own draft. Nicole will talk and dance on Wednesday May 20th at 13:45h (1:45p) at the main building of University of Ljubljana (Kongresni trg), as a guest of Potrc and Strahovnik. First picture shows Matjaz at a Ljubljana pub, and the second one at a teashop close to Ljubljanica river.

Mountain view

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 and some plans

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.

Here are some plans for next couple of months: Vojko and Matjaz will present their paper on Habermas treatment of free will, and Habermas will respond. Matjaz and Terry Horgan will take part in Dubrovnik Attention and Bled symposia. Matjaz and Vojko will present their paper on Meinongian ought-beliefs at the Rocky Mountains Ethics (or RoME) conference, all by invitation.

Origins of Many-Valued Logic

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.

Emanuele Marini and Venanzio Raspa

Venanzio Raspa delivered a lecture on Non-Aristotelian logic and another one on Meinongian aesthetics and ontology, on March 23rd and 25th in Ljubljana. We had nice time together. I tried to push for Meinongian monism on two counts: in the area of ideal objects, there is superset of all properties, and there is an immense ordered range of possible objects; all this is parsimonious. In the area of the empirical world, infima are bought just for reason of antirelativism according to Raspa. This I see as a reductio of parts and an actual acceptance of monism. Now Raspa asks: what is the relation between ideal and empirical realms? Emanuele Marini from Milano is fluent in Slovenian language, he had contacts to Raspa, but met him for the first time in Ljubljana. Emanuele is writing a book on France Veber, where the main point is affirmation of Veber's enlargements of objects to desiderativa and dignitativa, a distinction specifying Brentano's Gemuetsbewegungen and adopted by Meinong. I stressed that this goes together with another important Slovene philosopher, Ernst Mally (born in Kranj with career in Graz), the originator of the deontic logic. Both Slovene philosophers Veber and Mally pushed for extenstion of the area of objects of the higher order. The lower photo shows myself with Raspa, the upper photo with Marini. 

Venanzio Raspa on Meinong

I met Venanzio in Germany at a Dresden semiotic congress conference in the section dedicated to Meinong. He paid German organizers the fee for publishing my paper that never appeared in print. Now Professor Raspa from Urbino University Italy will be my guest at the Ljubljana University, Filozofska fakulteta, Askerceva 2, Ljubljana, room 434. On Monday, March 23rd, 11:20am-1pm he will deliver a lecture on At the Origin of New Logic: the Imaginary Non-Aristotelian Logic of N.A. Vasilev. On Wednesday March 25th he will talk on Aesthetic and Ontology: Fictional and Aesthetic Objects from a Meinongian Point of View, at 2:40p-4:20p and 6:50p-8:30p. The photo shows Marjetica and Frane.