Ročník 63 (2008), 8

The paper deals with the relationship between human nature and culture, taking into account the return of the philosophical anthropology back into the intellectual discourse and indicating the motifs of this paradoxical return. The linkage between human nature and culture is examined as related to the position of the human species in nature, as well as to the… Čítať ďalej

The theory of the social fact faces the problem of differentiating between the ontological, epistemological and methodological aspects of the social fact. The discussion of the problem began when the naive realism has been criticized, and resulted in contrasting ontological constructivism and critical or scientific realism. A fact is the state or a change of the… Čítať ďalej

The aim of the paper is to present Davidson’s account of events and to show his semantic way of approaching this metaphysical issue. The author outlines Davidson’s views on action sentences and other parts of natural language, which led him to postulating a special variable for events, i.e. in event ontology. Second, the author gives a brief summary of the most… Čítať ďalej

The paper deals with a new physical conception of the world as developed in the recent theory of strings. In a brief introduction the author outlines the history of searching for the „corner-stones“ of the reality beginning with ancient conceptions up to the relativity and quantum physics. The latter, however, proved as incomplete and excluding each other. Among… Čítať ďalej

The article deals with the question, if, taking the validity of Hume’s thesis for granted, it is legitimate to deny the cognitive claim of ethics. The author draws on Wittgenstein’s differentiating between using the ethical terms in their absolute and relative senses. Using these terms in a relative sense is applied to their ethical using. The author intention is… Čítať ďalej

It is alleged that the causal inertness of abstract objects and the causal conditions of certain naturalized epistemologies precludes the possibility of mathematical knowledge. This paper rejects this alleged incompatibility, while also maintaining that the objects of mathematical beliefs are abstract objects, by incorporating a naturalistically acceptable account… Čítať ďalej