Monday, October 18, 2010

Seppo Sajama v sredo 3. novembra ob 14:40h in 18:50h

Finski filozof Seppo Sajama bo v Ljubljani predaval in se pogovarjal s profesorjem Potrcem v sredo 3. novembra 2010. Ob 14:40h bo govoril o svojem razmerju do slovenskega filozofa Vebra, ob 18:50h pa bo predstavil svojo izbrano temo. Oboje se bo dogajalo na Filozofski fakulteti, Askerceva 2, soba 434.
Seppo je poslal naslednje zacetne misli:

2:40h: Najprej bo podal svoj pogled na Vebra, in sicer o (a) estetiki, (b) zadevanju, (c) modelu duha od predstav do misli.

6:50h: Za drugo predavanje napoveduje nekaj o psiholoskem ozadju zmernosti, ki je lastna le ljudem, ki si lahko zamislijo dve ali vec moznosti za dejanje. Vprasanje zadeva temelje svobodne volje: intencionalnost zavesti. Tukaj je skrajsan povzetek, ki ga je poslal:
     TEMPERANCE AND TOLERANCE
 1. Some comments on the word "temperance"
 2. Plato on temperance
 3. Tolerance in the liberal state
 4. Differences between tolerance and temperance
 5. Can temperance be excessive?
 6. Why be temperate?
 7. Is temperance voluntary?
 8. Is ethics subjective?
 9. The naturalistic foundation of ethics
 10. What is a rational plan of life?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Jesenska hoja po gozdu

Jesen je prijetna za gozdne sprehode.

Pomembnost duha, predstave

Prof. Gerard O'Brien bo imel v sredo, 13 oktobra 2010 v sobi 434 na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani dve predavanji. Sledita povzetka v angleskem jeziku, kot ju je predavatelj poslal vnaprej. Prvo predavanje bo ob 14:40h:

1. How Does Mind Matter?

Nothing could be more obvious than that minds matter. Specifically, nothing could be more obvious than that mental phenomena—beliefs, desires, thoughts, perceptions, and so forth—have a causal impact on behaviour. Yet it has proved notoriously difficult to explain how this can be so. The problem of mental causation takes a number of forms in the philosophy of mind. One of these arises from the widely held thesis that the representational properties of mental phenomena are not determined by the intrinsic properties of brains. In this lecture I will explain how this version of the mental causation problem arises. I will then suggest that the apparent insolubility of this form of the problem stems from the “referential” conception of mental content that dominates the philosophy of mind. Once we recognise we are not obliged to accept this conception, and moreover that there is an alternative conception available, some elbow room is opened up for exploration. I will conclude the lecture by briefly exploring the space created by this alternative conception of mental content.

Drugo predavanje bo ob 18:50h, prav tako v sobi 434:


2. Reviving Mental Representation in Cognitive Science

Several lines of argument have lately converged to make trouble for representation in the philosophy of cognitive science. The charge, in a nutshell, is that mental representation no longer earns its explanatory keep, and hence that it’s time to discard this troublesome concept. This lecture will begin with a brief explanation as to why mental representation is on the endangered list in cognitive science. It will then proceed by exploring the nature of representation in connectionist models of cognition. The general aim will be to determine whether representation does play an important explanatory role in these models, and hence whether the recent calls to dispense with this concept are justified.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Praznovanje

Matjaz je praznoval rojstni dan v druzinskem krogu, ter z Vojkom in Danilom. Voscilo mu je med drugim poslal Dale Jacquette.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Pocitniske vijuge, pesem

Zacel pocitnice sem te na Bledu kjer nravi razvnele so razpravo,
od tam sem na Bavarsko sel kjer s starim prijateljem spet stkal sem navezavo,
se prej v Kelmorajnu prijatelju zdravniku zapel sem slavo,
cez luzo z Vojkom pozela na nravnem srecanju sva uspeh,
po Memphisu pri Tiensonu spocil sem se na Samosu na grskih tleh.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Kopriva, Dutovlje in Branka Jurca

V Koprivi na Krasu sem obiskal svoje sorodnike. V Dutovljah smo se pogovarjali o zapuscini moje mame Branke Jurce. To zapuscino bodo obdelali v Dutovljah s podporo iz Sezane. Ze letos je predvidena manjsa razstava v okviru prireditve v Dutovljah. Leta 2014 je predvideno znanstveno srecanje ob stoletnici rojstva, s pregledom otroske, najstniske, crticne in druge proze ter delovanja. Ker je bila Branka uciteljica, pisateljica, rojena v Koprivi, bi bilo primerno poimenovanje osnovne sole po njej.