Volume 67 (2012), 7

The paper deals with the so-called predicates of taste. There seems to be the following conflict concerning such predicates: Let “… P…” be a sentence involving a predicate of taste, P. It may happen that one speaker, A, utters “… P…” and another one, B, utters “It is not the case that … P…” without contradicting each other. On the other hand, it may also happen… Čítať ďalej

The demarcation of science is discussed in a wider context of differentiating the elements of scientific knowledge from non-scientific or pseudoscientific cognitive fields. The traditional epistéme/doxa approach fails in differentiating the scientific from non-scientific. To resolve the problem of demarcation the arguments of the demarcation relation have to be… Čítať ďalej

Attributing tautologism to the principle of natural selection is one of widely used arguments against the scientific status of the evolutionary theory. The paper outlines one of the common versions of this objection and offers a possible answer drawing on the structure of the principle of natural selection.

For the time being the quantum gravitation theory is a hypothetical theory having its objective the unification of general theory of relativity (GTR) and the field quantum theory (FQT) into one system with a single language describing and explaining the structures, properties, relations, development and laws of the universe. The ontological basis of the future… Čítať ďalej

The paper is focused on Sen’s analysis of how the concepts such as utility, material resources, capabilities, freedom or social functioning are related to each other (as these are used in explanations of human well-being and welfare). The question is, whether, regarding human well-being and welfare, there is such a concept among them which should have the priority… Čítať ďalej

The paper discusses the concept of rule and its role in understanding and defining social facts. On the background of the main objections against Winch’s conception of rule as the necessary and sufficient means for identifying a social phenomenon (M. Hollis, J. Bohmann, M. Gilbert) it questions the analogy between the linguistic activity, the Wittgensteinian… Čítať ďalej