Man and World

Man and World was the Rijeka conference where on May 20th, 2011 Prof. Potrc presented a version of his and Strahovnik Reasons and Generalities paper. Here he is at Trsat with Takashi Yagisawa and Michael Watkins.

Venanzio Raspa on fictionalism and on the theory of moral value

Professor Venanzio Raspa delivered interesting lectures on fictional entities, from the ontological and emotional point of view, and on the theory of moral value, such as it was developed by Meinong and his Slovene pupil France Veber. Professor Raspa from the University of Urbino, Italy, was guest of Professor Potrc at the Ljubljana Department of philosophy in the week of May 17-18, 2011. Photos show Professors Potrc and Raspa at the Ljubljanica river side and then Prof. Raspa celebrating his birthday.

Professor Potrc Budapest AvH success

Professor Potrc took part at the May 6th-8th, 2011 Budapest Alexander von Humboldt East and South European humanities meeting. He presented successfully his What is philosophy? paper and participated in discussion. Here he is in front of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Potrc busy schedule

Professor Potrc is lecturing here in his and Professor Strahovnik Moral philosophy class. Here are some forthcoming stations at his successful professional voyage in the year 2011. First, a presentation of his What is philosophy? paper at the Budapest Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung meeting. Then, hosting Venanzio Raspa Ljubljana lectures. After that, Rijeka symposium presentation of his Reasons paper. After that, Bled symposium presentation on Contextualism and skepticism at the international conference, co-authored by Terry Horgan, Followed by accepted presentation of his Metaphysically lightweight posits at the Milano Searle conference and Spring school. Then, taking part in the Cologne Germany symposium with Chalmers, Schaffer and other participants. As an alumni of the University of Wuerzburg, he then also takes part at the EU-India workshop in that city. Followed by accepted paper presentation and special invitation at the Deontic Pavia specialized workshop. An important success is presentation of Potrc and Strahovnik paper at the Boulder Colorado Rocky Mountains Ethics conference, for this paper was accepted in harsh competition, and it turns out to be the only European authorship at that prestigious conference.

Vojko Strahovnik and Matjaz Potrc Boulder Colorado success

Vojko Strahovnik and Matjaz Potrc are lecturing on Moral philosophy in preparation for writing their paper on Reasons and generalities. They just learned about their big success, namely that their paper was accepted for presentation at Rocky Mountains Ethics symposium in Boulder Colorado this year, in a harsh competition. In fact, they will be the only Europeans at this prestigious conference. Vojko and Matjaz are depicted here on May the 4th 2011 during their Moral philosophy class.

Veber Gornja Radgona international symposium

Tadej Pirc and his Gornja Radgona friends organized a memorable France Veber symposium on April 16th, 2011. Matjaz Potrc is depictured here with Venanzio Raspa, Emanuele Marini and Seppo Sajama. Besides to these Veber experts, there were Vojko Strahovnik, Bojan Zalec and Andrej Ule. An excellent occasion to celebrate 120 years since Veber's bitrh. Ethics, esthetics and other areas were covered; an event that will certainly stay in Veber heritage memory. The publication of contributions is envisioned.

Ciphermatics project with Chinaglia

Ruggero Chinaglia and Matjaz met February 5th in Ljubljana, and they sketched the following collaboration project. Matjaz writes a short presentation of his relevance/ciphermatics understanding, with the aim to apply it to his inclusive disjunction treatment of ontology, epistemology and ethics. A collaboration between Padova and Ljubljana may then ensue. The ultimate aim would be, for Matjaz, to write a simple book about the ciphermatics/philosophy intersection, along the lines according to which he already developed the three mentioned areas of philosophy.
   Under the following link (besides to a number of Matjaz other papers) the draft of the paper entitled The Moment that Counts is posted (the draft is a first sketch of the relevance/cipher approach, as applied to the special discourse of philosophy):

http://www2.arnes.si/~supmpotr/clanki.html