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

Upcoming Events

XXVIIe Université d’été de l’Association Jan Hus: Homme nouveau, homme ancien
01.07.2018 to 06.07.2018
Australasian Association of Philosophy 2018 Conference
08.07.2018 to 12.07.2018

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  Methods of Metaphysics and Natural Sciences: On their Similarities and Differences
Abstract: Contemporary metametaphysics studies foundations and methodology of metaphysics. There are two basic positions when it comes to comparing methods of metaphysics and natural sciences...
  Philosophy of History between Prescribing and Describing
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  On the Nature of Philosophy: A Historical-Pragmatist Point of View
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  Eddy Zemach’s Meta-Aesthetic Solution of the Dispute between Classification and Evaluation Concept of Art
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  The Importance of the Principle of Subsidiarity for MacIntyre's Vision of Politics
Abstract: This paper explores how a viable politics of the common good depends on the principle of subsidiarity. First, it offers a description and assessment of Alasdair MacIntyre's Catholic...
  Backtracking Counterfactuals
Abstract: The article discusses the enigmatic backtracking counterfactuals. It offers an explanation according to which in the case of the latter the negative time direction is due to their...
  The Temporality of (New) Media
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to give some consideration to a 2016 book entitled The temporality of new media (ed. by Tomáš Dvořák). The book is a contribution to a more appropriate and...
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Organon F - Current Issue

  Kripkean Essentialist Argument and Its Generalization
Abstract: In this paper I examine the argument by H. Beebee and N. Sabbarton-Leary that Brian Ellis’s scientific essentialism is based on the “abuse” of the necessary a posteriori. I...
  Truths, Facts, and Liars
Abstract: A Moderate Anti-realist (MAR) approach to truth and meaning, built around the concept of knowability, will be introduced and argued for in this essay. Our starting point...
  Inferentialism without Normativity
Abstract: In this paper we argue that inferentialist approach to meaning does not, by itself, show that meaning is normative in a prescriptive sense, and that the constitutive rules argument...
  Reflected View on the Personal Afterlife
Abstract: In this paper, I try to argue that, from the methodological position of reflected equilibrium, it seems to be reasonable to build a theory of personal identity that enables a person...
  Self-organization, Autopoiesis, Free-energy Principle and Autonomy
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to extend the discussion on the free-energy principle (FEP), from the predictive coding theory, which is an explanatory theory of the brain, to the problem...
  Mathematical Models as Abstractions
Abstract: The paper concerns a contemporary problem emerging in philosophy of science about the explanatory status of mathematical models as abstractions. The starting point lies in the...
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