Volume 68 (2013), 8

The paper sheds light on the social turn, i.e. a turn to the social dimensions of scientific knowledge, as observed in current philosophy of science. This turn is discussed in the context of the main debates about science in the 20th century philosophy. After the domain, in which the turn is taking place, is identified, the author proceeds to the indication of its… Read more

Following the distinguished contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou the author asks the question: What does it mean to change the world? Similarly, he proceeds from more abstract ontological presuppositions of the change (world, being, existence, identity) to the philosophy of political change focusing on the reach and character of the change in question.… Read more

The paper deals with the anthropological-ethical problems as articulated in the sketches of the Slovak philosopher Teodor Münz published in the 1990s in the journal Filozofia. Its focus is on Münz’s radical approach to human reason, his demystification of its capacities and consequently his innovative understanding of human condition. In addition to that Münz’s… Read more

Gettier’s problem, which initiated and significantly co-defined the patterns of solving the epistemological problem of justification, is being discussed by the philosophers now for fifty years. In the first part of the paper the point at issue is explained, it’s philosophically most interesting moments being innovatively reconsidered. The second part offers an… Read more