Volume 55 (2000), 10

The paper is a study of the establishment of the theoretical, human and institutional presuppositions of the development of modern methodology of sciences in Slovakia 1946-1962. It focuses particularly on the examnination of V. Filkorn´s scientific and educational work, who was drawing on the previous and contemporary activity of S. Felber and I.Hrušovský. In that… Read more

Peirce is clearly Americaś candidate for a place on the roster of the great philosophers. The issues in the philosophy of science, epistemology and the philosophy of mind that were central to his philosophical project just happen to be ones that are still on the center stage on the contemporary philosophical scene. Peirce nowhere gives us a unified official… Read more

The author offers an outline of the contemporary pragmatist scene in American philosophy. He shows the continuity and common features of classic and recent pragmatisms of which the most crucial are antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism. In his analysis he distinguishes two main currents of neopragmatist philosophy: 1. post-analytic (Rortyan), and 2. neo-… Read more

The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the historical development of classical algebra from Al Chwárizmí to Lagrange and to analyse the fundamental epistemological shifts, which occurred in the understanding of basic algebraic concepts. The paper opens with a general characteristics of algebraic thought as conceptualisation of motor schemes. That puts algebra into… Read more

During the last 30 years Hayden White raised in his work many problems concerning writing history which became the subject of discussions among historians, philosophers of history and literature theorists. On the basis of metaphorical expressions used in historical narratives and following his analysis of the great classics of the historiography of the 19th… Read more