Volume 75 (2020), 2

This paper presents and evaluates Brown’s analysis of the concept of hate speech. His analysis is seen as a valuable contribution to the discussion about the adequate definition of the term hate speech as an ordinery concept, which Brown understands as an equivocal idiom and family resemblance concept. However, as far as the concept of hate speech as a legal term… Read more

Arguments formulated in a natural or scientific language usually allow for various different reconstructions. Alternative reconstructions may pertain to different approaches to inference and argumentation (such as classical predicate logic, Bayesian epistemology and many others). However, how are we to select one from among various available reconstructions? The… Read more

In the framework of presenting a genealogy of phenomenological philosophy in the Central European context, the article will demonstrate a convergent relation between phenomenology and Prague structuralism and will examine specific topics which derive from this relation. In the first part we address the concepts of attitude, constitution and language, and, in the… Read more

The paper Hamann and Herder on Metacriticism. A Contribution to the History of Concepts deals with a general context of the origin and extension of the neologism “metacriticism”. The history of this term begins in 1784 when German writer and philosopher J. G. Hamann used it to name his conception of Immanuel Kant’s Critic of Pure Reason. However, Hamann provided… Read more

The following text presents a philosophical and linguistic attempt to propose a cognitive-semantic tool allowing for a more precise definition and clarification of the meanings and structures of the terms beauty and aesthetic experience. The presented analysis stems from Gärdenfors’s theory of conceptual spaces and the premise that beauty and aesthetic experience… Read more

This article presents a posthumanist analysis of Alex Garland’s 2014 movie Ex Machina with a specific focus on how the story, plot and style present posthumanist themes. The central issues discussed herein include the narrative and visual representation of the social and ethical questions related to the process of creating artificial intelligence with a humanoid… Read more