National Projects: Finished

Program: APVV (SRDA)

Comparison of utilitaristic and deontologic systems of ethics in the research of stem cells
Duration: 01.01.2006 to 31.12.2009

Program: SAS Centre of Excellence

Centre of Excellence for Research on Citizenship and Participation: Facing the Challenges of 21st Century - COPART
Duration: 01.01.2007 to 31.12.2010
Centre of Excellency on the research of the key questions of the modern Slovak history
Duration: 01.01.2007 to 31.12.2010

Program: SASPRO

The Scope of Formal Semantics
Project coordinator: Fredrik Haraldsen, PhD.
Duration: 01.07.2015 to 31.08.2017
What ‘Fallacy’ Means to Other-Disciplined Peers
Project coordinator: Dr. habil. Frank Zenker
Duration: 05.02.2016 to 31.07.2017

Program: VEGA

Existence, Sociality and Ethos of Action: Phenomenological Challenges and Existential Contexts
Project coordinator: doc. Mgr. Martin Muránsky, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2014 to 31.12.2017
From phenomenology to metaphysics and reflection of contemporary crisis of art and society
Project coordinator: Mgr. Jozef Sivák, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2012 to 31.12.2014
Intentionality, Affectivity, Existence in an Intersubjective Situation
Project coordinator: doc. Mgr. Martin Muránsky, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2011 to 31.12.2013
Intersubjectivity - methodical aspects and structures in global situation
Project coordinator: doc. Mgr. Martin Muránsky, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2008 to 31.12.2010
Language and determination of meaning in communication
Project coordinator: prof. Mgr. Marián Zouhar, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2012 to 31.12.2015
Language, semantics, context
Project coordinator: prof. Mgr. Marián Zouhar, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2009 to 31.12.2011
Methodological and philosophical problems of natural sciences, social sciences and humanities
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. Jozef Viceník, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2009 to 31.12.2012
Methodology and philosophy of social sciences - an attempt of synthesis
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. Jozef Viceník, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2006 to 31.12.2008
Multifocal research of the history of Slovak Philosophical Thought in the 19th and 20th centuries
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. Tibor Pichler, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2010 to 31.12.2013
New forms of order in society - philosophical analysis
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. František Novosád, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2012 to 31.12.2015
Phenomenological Noematics and Perspectives of Phenomenology
Project coordinator: Mgr. Jozef Sivák, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2015 to 31.12.2017
Phenomenology in dialogue with contemporary philosophy and science
Project coordinator: Mgr. Jozef Sivák, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2006 to 31.12.2008
Phenomenology in dialogue with contemporary philosophy and science II
Project coordinator: Mgr. Jozef Sivák, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2009 to 31.12.2012
Philosophy and cosmology - philosophical and methodological foundations of recent cosmological theories
Project coordinator: PhDr. Ján Dubnička, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2006 to 31.12.2008
Probes into the history of Slovak philosophical thinking
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. Tibor Pichler, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2007 to 31.12.2009
Processes of Reception and Apropriation in Philosophical Thinking of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Slovakia in Transnational Context
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. Tibor Pichler, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2014 to 31.12.2016
Reference, quantification, predication
Project coordinator: prof. Mgr. Marián Zouhar, PhD.
Duration: 01.01.2006 to 31.12.2008
Society: forces of cohesion and of destruction
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. František Novosád, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2009 to 31.12.2011
The nature of human consciousness (theoretical and methodological investigations)
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. Silvia Gáliková, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2008 to 31.12.2010
Values and norms in connection with legitimity issues
Project coordinator: prof. PhDr. František Novosád, CSc.
Duration: 01.01.2006 to 31.12.2008

Filozofia - Current Issue

Slováček, P. Polemos as Carl Schmitt’s Response to the Modernity Crisis
Abstract: The aim of the article is to show what place the fight (polemos) occupies in a broader context marked out by the theory of the political, political theology, and the...
Stewart, J. Hegel’s Criticism of Schleiermacher and the Question of the Origin of Faith
Abstract: Hegel’s criticism of Schleiermacher represents an important episode in his general critical campaign against Romanticism. In this article I explore his objections to Schleiermacher’s...
Sváčková, K. The State of Nature in Rousseau’s Philosophy
Abstract: The paper examines Rousseau’s approach to the classical “state of nature” conception. Is Rousseau’s system coherent or not? For Rousseau, the state of nature seems to be a...
Palenčár, M. Pascal’s philosophy of Human Finitude: Fundamental Characteristics
Abstract: The French thinker Blaise Pascal was not only a gifted scientist, but also an author of many brilliant essays on man and God, which later inspired many philosophers and theologians....
Kalaš, A. - Škvrnda, F. From Zoroaster to Socrates: Ancient Philosophy and Magic in the 5 th and 4 th Centuries B.C. (II)
Abstract: The second part of the study analyses Platoʼs ambivalent use of magical terminology. On the one hand, magic is a synonym for sophistry and trickery. On the other hand, the...
Rozemberg, A. Memory, Recognition and Personal Identity in Classical Indian Philosophy
Abstract: The problems of the self (ātman) and personal identity over time were thoroughly analyzed in the classical Indian philosophy. The Buddhist philosophers rejected the...
Taliga, M. Falsification and the Paradox of Inference
Abstract: The paradox of inference is based on the thesis that inferences cannot be both deductively valid and useful because an inference, in order to be useful, must advance us to a new...
Zouhar, M. The Fiction of Fictionalism
Abstract: Fictionalism about fictional entities is an antirealist approach. It suggests that statements of literary criticism are to be understood in the same way as are fictional statements....
Gahér, F. Deductive and Abductive Retrodictions and Predictions
Abstract: Differentiating between formal positions condition and the conditioned (i.e. if-vector) as well as between the content’s exemplars (occuring in these positions, i.e. vector of...
Sedová, T. Methodological Relevance of the Concept of Culture
Abstract: The contribution deals with defining the phenomenon of culture and its concept from the perspectives of philosophy as well as special sciences. With regard to the philosophical...
Bánovský, J. Direct Perception, Social Cognition and Interactive Turn
Abstract: The paper aims to scrutinize the assumption of direct perception, which plays a crucial role in the interactive approach to social cognition. I try to show that the interactive...
Cmorej, P. How Concepts Develop (II)
Abstract: The contribution draws on the polemic on the issue in the journals Filozofia (1990 1993) and Organon F (1995 – 2002) which seemed to be terminated by three articles...
Feješová, Z.Cepková The Methodological Basis of Social Constructivism: S. J. Schmidt
Abstract: The article focuses on premises and consequences of social constructivism promoted by S. J. Schmidt. The methodological sources of this theory are natural sciences, the theory of...
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Organon F - Current Issue

Bíba, O. - Paitlová, J. Grundprobleme, or Popper Meets Kant
Abstract: First part of the text presents a historical excursion searching for the genesis of Popper’s philosophical views in the interwar Vienna. It analyzes the actual writing process and...
Briciu, A. On Context Shifters and Compositionality in Natural Languages
Abstract: My modest aim in this paper is to prove certain relations between some type of hyper-intensional operators, namely context shifting operators, and compositionality in natural...
Duží, M. - Macek, J. Analysis of Time References in Natural Language by Means of Transparent Intensional Logic
Abstract: In this paper, we deal with sentences containing time references like ‘five years ago’, ‘three years older’, ‘in five seconds’. It turns out that such sentences are pragmatically...
Materna, P. On Tichý’s Attempt to Explicate Sense in Terms of Turing Machines
Abstract: In Tichý (1969), it is shown that semantics of natural language can be pursued procedurally. Tichý supported his argument by defining elementary functions of logic (truth functions,...
Lipski, J. Radical Rationalization Accommodates Rampant Irrationality
Abstract: According to a classic position in analytic philosophy of mind, we must interpret agents as largely rational in order to be able to attribute intentional mental states to them....
Vallée, R. Fictional Names and Truth
Abstract: By addressing fictional names head on, we risk going back to familiar, ordinary names intuitions and missing what is specific about them. I propose a different strategy. My view is...
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