David Armstrong

Just learned about the demise of David Armstrong, an Australian philosopher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malet_Armstrong

I have met him on several occasions, and had some discussions with him. He was at a Bled conference that I co-organized. Armstrong was a friend of U.T. Place, Australian identity theory originator from Leeds and a friend of mine.

From Bled to Boulder

Professor Matjaz Potrc prepares his presentation about Moral Judgment for Bled ethics symposium that he co-organizes, June 2-6, 2014. His and Vojko Strahovnik paper on revolutionary cognitivist expressivism was accepted for Rocky Mountains Ethics (RoME) 2014 August conference. Congrats!

Philacronym

 “The idea is to come up with a single sentence that summarizes the most important thing(s) you need to know about a particular philosopher where the first letter of each word, in order, spells the philosopher’s name.”

Monist
Attitude
Towards
Jell-o
And
Zeno.

Pluralist
Ought
Truth 
Realism
Challenge.

Rudolf Haller

I took part at the Haller conference in Arizona and spent some time there with various people, among them Sylvan. I delivered a lecture in Graz where Haller told me that my externalist minded ecologist approach is rather Berkley like. Haller came to Ljubljana and delivered lectures there as I invited him. I met him on several other occasions at Graz (Meinong conference is one example) and at Kirchberg symposia. Chisholm, Lehrer and many others came to Ljubljana through Haller's assistance. Professors Gombocz and Haller supported Slovene-Austrian international conferences with Davidson and others. Some years ago I felt an urge to visit Haller in Vienna and talk with him, which then unfortunately did not happen. Today I learned about the demise of Rudolf Haller whom I thought about as my friend.
Matjaz

Happy 2014!

Wishing happy 2014 to all my friends.
Matjaz

Urbino lectures

Professor Potrc delivers two lectures at the University of Urbino, Italy on November 27 and 28, 2013 in Erasmus exchange program:
Nonconciliation in rational disagreement
Just distribution of resources

Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo

in collaborazione con

Scuola di Lettere, Arti, Filosofia

nell’ambito dello Scambio Erasmus

con l’Università di Ljubljana

Matjaž Potrč

 (Università di Ljubljana)

terrà due seminari su 

Nonconciliation in Peer Disagreement:

Its Phenomenology and Its Rationality

mercoledì, 27 novembre 2013, h 16.00

Palazzo Albani, Aula B 3

Towards Morphological Consequentialism

giovedì, 28 novembre 2013, h 14.00

Palazzo Albani, Aula C 3

Professor Venanzio Raspa and Professor Matjaz Potrc in Urbino end November 2013

Matjaz Potrc member of Nomologica series scientific committee

Professor Matjaz Potrc is member of the scientific committee of

NOMOLOGICA. Collana di studi e testi fondata e diretta da Amedeo Giovanni Conte e Paolo Di Lucia

Here is the link:

Nomologica series