Current Projects

International Projects

Program: Between-Academies Agreement (MAD)

Current Challenges in Contemporary Phenomenological Research of Subjectivity
Project coordinator: Mgr. Róbert Karul, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2016 to 31.12.2018
Resources of Phenomenology in the Central European Context
Project coordinator: Mgr. Jaroslava Vydrová, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2016 to 31.12.2018

National Projects

Program: APVV

Philosophical Anthropology and the Contemporary Civilizational Situation
Project coordinator: Mgr. Róbert Karul, PhD.
Duration: 01.07.2016 to 30.06.2020

Program: SASPRO

Proper Names: Why Go Presuppositional?
Project coordinator: Dr. habil. Zsofia Zvolenszky
Duration: 12.01.2016 to 31.12.2018

Program: VEGA

Fictionalism in Philosophy and Science
Project coordinator: prof. Mgr. Marián Zouhar, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2016 to 31.12.2019
Phenomenon of Culture in Philosophical Reflection
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. František Novosád, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2016 to 31.12.2019
Problems of reception and reflection of the history of philosophical and political thinking in Slovakia: a multifocal approach
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. Tibor Pichler, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2017 to 31.12.2018

Upcoming Events

ISSUES ON THE (IM)POSSIBLE VII
30.05.2019 to 31.05.2019

Filozofia - Current Issue

Szapuová, M. Facts and Values: On the Problem of Value Neutrality of Science
Abstract: The paper deals with the fact-value distinction within the context of the value-free ideal of science. Drawing on some views of H. Putnam and J. Searle the author criticizes the...
Rönnedal, D. The Aporia of Perfection
Abstract: In this paper, I introduce a new aporia, the aporia of perfection. This aporia includes three claims: (1) Ought implies possibility, (2) We ought to be perfect, and (3) It is not...
Urban, P. - Koubová, A. The Relational Account of Moral Subjectivity between the Ethics of Care and Donald Winnicott’s Theory of Play
Abstract: How can we consider human subjectivity as ethical, granted that human beings are essentially interdependent, self-opaque, vulnerable and ambivalent in their attitudes? The aim of...
Smolková, E. On the Question of Hans Jonas’s Influence on Current Ethics
Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the death of Hans Jonas. The article investigates ethical principles formulated by Jonas which still have influence on modern...
Buraj, I. Manipulation as Power, Manipulation and Freedom
Abstract: Manipulation as a specific form of power is characterized by a close connection with freedom. This makes it a very complicated and at the same time unusually interesting concept (...
Hanyš, M. Gender, Privacy, Intersubjectivity: On J. S. Mill’s The Subjection of Women
Abstract: The study argues that Mill’s essay The Subjection of Women is a significant contribution to his ethical and socio-political thought. For his practical philosophy, the text...
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Organon F - Current Issue

Guerco, N.Lo Some Remarks on the Mill-Frege Theory of Names
Abstract: In a recent paper García-Carpintero (2017) argues that proper names possess, in addition to their standard referential truth conditional content, metalinguistic descriptive senses...
Hunt, M.William Conciliationism and Fictionalism
Abstract: This paper offers fictionalism as a new approach to the problem of reasonable disagreement discussed in social epistemology. The conciliationist approach to reasonable disagreement...
Moreno, L.F. Should a Causal Theory of Reference Borrowing Be a Descriptive-Causal Theory?
Abstract: In a reference theory a distinction can be made between a theory of reference fixing and a theory of reference borrowing. M. Devitt and K. Sterelny, and especially the former, have...
Glavaničová, D. The Free Choice Principle as a Default Rule
Abstract: It is quite plausible to say that you may read or write implies that you may read and you may write (though possibly not both at once). This so-called free choice...
Arzroomchilar, E. - Novotný, D.D. Verbeek on the Moral Agency of Artifacts
Abstract: One of the important questions discussed by philosophers of technology has to do with the moral significance of artifacts in human life. While many philosophers agree that artifacts...
Salgueiro, A.Blanco Theories of Reference and Linguistic Relativity
Abstract: The challenge to traditional theories of reference posed by experimental philosophers puts the focus on the question of diversity, cultural and linguistic, on the one hand, and...
Kuzma, K. Returning to a Tension within Grice’s Original Account of Nonnatural Meaning
Abstract: It has become a commonplace to regard Grice’s project in “Meaning” as plagued by circularity, and almost as prevalent to dismiss such charges as unfounded. Much of the controversy...
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