Celebrating Elvis and Matjaz Potrc

On the late afternoon or early evening on Sunday August 15th 2010 people started to gather in order to celebrate Elvis at the Graceland. At the same time, close to Elvis first home in Memphis (not opened to the public, but in reconstruction, that Matjaz has already visited), people were invited to gather to welcome Matjaz Potrc arrival to the famous Tennessee town.
Photo: Matjaz in front of the first Elvis Memphis home.

Memphis

Good to be in Memphis with John and Nancy, had some discussions on priority monism and phenomenology of categorization.

Denver

Matjaz is in Denver on the way from Boulder Rocky Mountains Ethics (RoME 2010) conference where he successfully presented Moral Dilemmas and Vagueness Vojko Strahovnik co-authored paper, to Memphis, looking fwd to meet John Tienson.

Vagueness and Moral Dilemmas Boulder RoME

Matjaz presented his and Vojko Strahovnik paper on Vagueness and Moral Dilemmas to the RoME Rocky Mountains Ethics symposium audience, with useful feedback, on August 6th, 2010.

Boulder trip

From Budapest Matjaz flew over Amsterdam to Houston and came to Denver in the evening, taking a bus to Boulder. The goal is to deliver a presentation at the 2010 RoME conference, of the paper on Vagueness and Moral Dilemmas, written together with Vojko Strahovnik. After the conference, Memphis TN is on schedule, with the plan to visit John Tienson.

Matjaz Potrc and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Matjaz visited his friend Wilhelm Vossenkuhl in Muenchen Germany on July 14th, 2010. They spoke about a plan to work and publish on moral particularism, a situated way of thinking according to Willi, as related to his Muenchen University Ethics research institute in Department of Philosophy. They spoke about some historic memories, such as the Lehrer symposium, Bayreuth visit (where Matjaz produced a collection of his papers), Muenchen philosophy of science and logic legacy, Stuttgart, Willi's lecture in Ljubljana and many more. A pilot lecture in Muenchen by Matjaz and Vojko is envisaged this winter. Matjaz shortly visited Hofbraukeller, but had a Weizenheffebeer only on his safe return home. In an Italian restaurant close to University a Viennese waiter commented on Matjaz memories of his learning Viennese dialect at the age of twelve in a working families environment in a big house in the middle of Vienna with cows on the ground. In fact, horses were kept in old Vienna in sub-terrain catacombes, said the waiter. Willi commented that Matjaz may be of German origin, as his grandgrandfather came from Sudetenland, as told by Matjaz uncle Francek. A quite warm day in Munich.

Challenging Moral Particularism Paperback

Routledge will bring the paperback edition of Challenging Moral Particularism, the now standard book edited by Potrc, Strahovnik and Lance, into production. Congratulations!