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McDowell and Brandom on observational knowledge
(Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theatre and Film Research of the Center for Research in Art, 2021)
In this paper, I will analyze whether John McDowell’s critique of Robert Brandom’s account of observational knowledge is a success. First, I will present Brandom’s view of observational knowledge. Then I will lay out the ...
Education and the good life: Petrarch's insights and the current research on well-being
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
According to Petrarch, the main goal of the liberal arts is to help us live a good life and become wise, virtuous, and serene. This is also something achieved via true Christian faith. In this paper, my goal is twofold. ...
The Number Ten Reconsidered: Did the Pythagoreans Have an Account of the Dekad?
(Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, Berlin, 2020)
We critically reconsider an old hypothesis of the role of the dekad in Pythagorean philosophy. Unlike Zhmud, we claim that: 1) the dekad did play a role in Philolaus' astronomical system, and 2) Aristotle did not project ...
Sosa's Safety Condition and Problem of Philosophical Skepticism
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
This paper aims to show that Sosa's theory of knowledge based on safety condition can provide a convincing response to the problem of philosophical skepticism. With regard to that, it is divided in three sections. The first ...
Logical Reasoning and Expertise: Extolling the Virtues of Connectionist Account of Enthymemes
(Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb, 2021)
Cognitive scientists used to deem reasoning either as a higher cognitive process based on the manipulation of abstract rules or as a higher cognitive process that is stochastic rather than involving abstract rules. I ...
Content Extraction, Ontological Mootness and Nominalism: Difficulties on the Easy Road
(Springer, Dordrecht, 2021)
In his latest bookAboutness, Stephen Yablo has proposed a new 'easy road' nominalist strategy: instead of engaging in the hard work of paraphrasing a scientific theory which presupposes numbers in a nominalistically ...
Observation, Experiment, and Scientific Practice
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2021)
Ian Hacking has argued that the notions of experiment and observation are distinct, not even the opposite ends of a continuum. More recently, other authors have emphasised their continuity, saying it is futile to distinguish ...
Vitgenštajnova ideja porodičnih sličnosti i Vajcov decizionizam u estetici / Wittgenstein's idea of family resemblances and Weitz's decisionism in aesthetics
(Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za filozofiju, Beograd, 2011)
Even though Ludwig Wittgenstein, as far as we know, did not (explicitly) maintain some particular position on the nature of art and the possiblity of defining works of art, he had a great influence in analytic aesthetics. ...
Public equality, democracy and justice
(Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2015)
This paper examines the principle of public equality which, according to the view Thomas Christiano defends in his book The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits, is of central importance for social ...
Zdravorazumska psihologija, eliminativizam i sadašnjost konekcionizma / Folk Psychology, Eliminativism, And The Present State of Connectionism
(Beograd : Srpsko filozofsko društvo, 2021)
Pre trideset godina, Vilijem Remzi, Stiven Stič i Džozef Geron su u zajedničkom radu izneli argument u prilog sledećeg kondicionala: ako konekcionistički modeli koji implementiraju paralelno distriburirano procesiranje ...