Volume 64 (2009), 10

The journal Prúdy (1909 – 1914; 1922 – 1938) served the liberal-democratic part of the Slovak intelligentsia as a platform for promoting Masarykian ideology. The young intellectuals grouped around it were familiar with the progressive thinking of that time and promoted the positivist realistic attitude and world-view. Similarly to Czech intellectuals the Slovak… Read more

The paper deals with the structure of the philosophy curriculum in Royal Academy in Presburg at the turn of the 20th century. It presents the philosophical systems of three professors of the Academy, who were important representatives of the Hungarian philosophy of that time: the positivism of Imre Pauer, an original philosophical system of Ákos Pauler and the… Read more

The paper examines the fundamental concepts of the political publicist Miloš Štefanovič, which in the 1980ies and 1990ies suggested the transformation of Slovak political thinking as well as abandoning the voluntarily adopted passive attitude. Štefanovič developed a consistent conception of national politics based on self-respon- sible, independent, bottom up… Read more

The article deals with the articulation of the model of empirical science (i.e. the model of hypothetical confirmationism) in I. Hrušovský’s writings. Further, it examines Hrušovský’s conception of the development of scientific knowledge as related to his concept of “radical revision” (corresponding to scientific revolution). The authors draw mainly from Hrušovský… Read more

The paper offers a discussion of the views of intuitive realists on the philosophy of psychology, which the author sees as related to their respective philosophical conceptions. According to the author there were no responses to the intuitivist interpretation of the psychic phenomena from the side of the psychologists of that time. The responses came, however,… Read more

After the revolutionary year 1848 both Slovak and Czech political representations faced the same challenge in their searching for a new constitutional order, although their respective state-forming activity differed. In this context the overlapping conceptions of Ján Palárik and Karel Havlíček Borovský are worthy consideration. They both underline the strategy of… Read more

The paper offers a description of the second project (after the publication of 10 volumes of Philosophical Anthology 1965 – 1977) of the translations of the books of influential philosophers into Slovak. The project has been carried out in the time of strict political normalization and neodogmatism. In spite of the political conditions the editors managed to… Read more