Volume 55 (2000), 7

The aim of the paper is to present James Woodwardś conception of the philosophy of science as it has been developed during last two decades in his essays. Compared with B. van Fraassen, N. Cartwright or W. C. Salmon the views of J. Woodward are not so popular. According to the author, however, they represent an important contribution to the contemporary philosophy… Čítať ďalej

The main task of the paper is to show Bachtin's rendering the "external" and the "internal" problematic in his Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, by which he meant the pertaining limits between ourselves and the world, between the individual - psychological ("spiritual") and the social. The author argues, that these are not two distinctive… Čítať ďalej

The paper examines the importance of the relationship between evaluation a and knowledge in the environmental thinking. It focuses on the impact of the scientific knowledge on the value structures, as well as on the process of creation an acceptance of values, especially of those having existential meaning and ontological status. The author (she) sheds light also… Čítať ďalej