{"title":"Williams’ contextualism as a critique of epistemological realism","authors":"Milos Bogdanovic","doi":"10.2298/THEO1901091B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/THEO1901091B","url":null,"abstract":"Although Williams? contextual thesis is above all a critique of one way of\u0000 interpreting contextualism in epistemology, viz., simple conversational\u0000 contextualisam, I will argue that this thesis has also been a very\u0000 successful means for the critique of a standpoint on which that\u0000 interpretation, and the entire traditional epistemology rests -\u0000 epistemological realism. Accordingly, in spite of certain weaknesses in\u0000 Williams? position pointed out by his critiques, in this paper I will try to\u0000 show that, by interpreting the problem of scepticism as first and foremost a\u0000 methodological necessity of epistemological realism, Williams succeeds in\u0000 offering an enlightening diagnosis of the sceptical paradox problem which is\u0000 at the centre of epistemology traditionally construed.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115266126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A counterexample to Lewis's theory of counterfactuals","authors":"V. Djordjevic","doi":"10.2298/theo0604039d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo0604039d","url":null,"abstract":"The counterexample to Lewis's theory is meant to show that absolute similarity, which is a crucial notion on which the theory is based, leads to unsolvable problems and should be abandoned.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117171264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Descartes’s Holenmerism: From metaphysics to phenomenology","authors":"M. Vuletic","doi":"10.2298/theo2103053v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2103053v","url":null,"abstract":"Descartes talks about the presence of immaterial soul in material body in\u0000 multiple places in his writings and letters. Interpreters do not agree\u0000 whether he had in mind substantial holenmeric presence of the soul or mere\u0000 operational presence of the powers of the soul. I discuss both views in this\u0000 paper, and argue that neither is plausible. The former turns out to be\u0000 poorly motivated in the context of Descartes?s other metaphysical\u0000 commitments and insufficiently textually supported. The latter is\u0000 incompatible with Descartes?s understanding of the union of mind and body. I\u0000 then offer reasons for the claim that Descartes, when talking about the\u0000 presence of soul in body, puts forth a phenomenological rather than a\u0000 metaphysical thesis.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"44 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120915433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The violent intentionality of sublime","authors":"Igor Cvejić","doi":"10.2298/theo1902053c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo1902053c","url":null,"abstract":"The main question in this paper is if (and how) in Kant?s theory of sublime the object could be integrated into an emotional experience. In order to understand this problem, the ambivalent Kant?s claims will be addressed: (1) about the object as sublime and (2) that correctly understood it is not an object, but the state of the subject which is sublime. The latter thesis could be even strengthened with accompanying claim about formlessness of the object, which implies that this object can not be a part of conscious experience. Further, I will discuss Kant?s thesis about a subreption of a respect for the object instead of for the idea of humanity in our subject, as well as various interpretations of it. In the final part of the paper, I will introduce alternative interpretation which could give us a more plausible outline about the intentionality of the feeling of sublime. My claim is that Kant uses language available to him in order to state that in sublime there is no object of cognition in conscious experience. However, the object is constituted as an object of the violent emotional intentionality - sensibility brought under ideas of reason.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121250031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response-dependence and aesthetic realism: Zangwill and Pettit","authors":"Monika Jovanović","doi":"10.2298/theo2202077j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2202077j","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I discuss the application of the response-dependence thesis in\u0000 aesthetics. When we apply this thesis in aesthetics, we arrive at the view\u0000 that aesthetic properties are in some way, epistemologically or\u0000 ontologically, dependent on the response of an observer. Even though all\u0000 defenders of the response-dependence thesis adopt the same formula, they\u0000 interpret it in different, even mutually incompatible ways. We can see how\u0000 such contrasting readings can be widely divergent when we compare two\u0000 well-known aesthetic papers which adhere to the response-dependence thesis:\u0000 the Philip Pettit?s paper on the possibility of aesthetic realism, and the\u0000 Nick Zangwill?s paper on the ontological status of beauty. After I\u0000 critically examin and compare the views argued in these papers, I will try\u0000 to answer a more general question of whether a response-dependence thesis,\u0000 in its original form, can help us better understand the ontological and the\u0000 epistemological status of aesthetic qualities.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127103995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The apple doesn’t fall far: A word on artistic method","authors":"Srdjan Sarovic","doi":"10.2298/theo2102161s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2102161s","url":null,"abstract":"This essay represents an inquiry concerning the method in the arts; as such,\u0000 it is intended for the affirmation of its significance. Firstly, the concept\u0000 of artistic method will be explained in view of its relations with poetic\u0000 impulse and the technical aspect of art creation, and then associated to\u0000 Longinus?s understanding of the sublime. In between these two opposites,\u0000 artistic method is seen as dependent from poetical impulse, while governing\u0000 technical side of the creation process. Since it defines the manner of their\u0000 selection and use, artistic method gives meaning to the medium and technical\u0000 practices constituting the making of the artwork. On the other side,\u0000 artistic method springs from the poetic impulse and has to be in accordance\u0000 with it. Such proposed meaning of the concept of artistic method will be, in\u0000 the second part of this essay, illustrated with examples of my own artistic\u0000 practice, being its place of origin.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127150770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The problem of unconscious perceptual states","authors":"Mirjana Sokić","doi":"10.2298/theo1903095s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo1903095s","url":null,"abstract":"According to the traditional view-most commonly associated with G. E. Moore-\u0000 the relation between our perception and consciousness is conceptually\u0000 necessary. This paper argues against this view. The first part of the paper\u0000 discusses the concept of unconscious perception, as well as several\u0000 interesting phenomena in the recent clinical literature that give us\u0000 persuasive evidence against the thesis that, as a matter of conceptual or a\u0000 priori necessity, perception cannot occur without consciousness. The second\u0000 part of the paper provides a thorough critical analysis of the two popular\u0000 positions in the philosophy of perception-namely, representationalism and\u0000 relationalism- in order to determine whether and how successfully they can\u0000 account for the claim about the existence of unconscious perceptual states.\u0000 I conclude that, at least in the context of the philosophical debate about\u0000 unconscious perception, there are strong reasons to favour the\u0000 representationalist account.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116625143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art as the setting itself to work of the truth of beings in the light of new publications of Heidegger’s manuscripts","authors":"Nebojša Grubor","doi":"10.2298/THEO1902009G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/THEO1902009G","url":null,"abstract":"The paper follows the thesis that the Heidegger?s distinction between\u0000 presenting the beings and production of being from the book ?In addition to\u0000 his own publications? (2018) proves that the expression ?beings? from\u0000 Heidegger?s definition of art as the setting-itself-to-work of the truth of\u0000 beings from the essay ?The Origin of the Work of Art? (1936) can have a\u0000 threefold meaning: beings as beings represented in the work of art (relevant\u0000 for representational arts), beings as an artwork itself (relevant for both\u0000 representational and non-representational arts) and, finally, beings as\u0000 beings as a whole.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130399876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetics, emotions, culture and media","authors":"Divna Vuksanović","doi":"10.2298/theo2202145v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2202145v","url":null,"abstract":"The text re-examines, in principle, the status of emotions in the\u0000 contemporary aesthetic environment. When it comes to our aesthetic\u0000 environment - we will talk about it from two mutually pervasive points of\u0000 view: the first position is, at first glance, somewhat broader and concerns\u0000 the sphere of culture in the aesthetic key, while the second builds on the\u0000 previous and refers to the so-called. media culture. If today it is possible\u0000 to separate these two plans of thinking about aesthetic experience\u0000 (originating either from the field of culture or from the media), and in the\u0000 context of thinking about emotions that participate in the aesthetic\u0000 experience related to culture (art), ie media, it seems that with the\u0000 standardized products of today?s world of culture and media, superficial\u0000 emotionality, often equal to kitsch dominates our common aesthetic space.\u0000 And if it is not about the aesthetic phenomena of kitsch, in general, a\u0000 rational (managerial) approach to culture and media is at work, which almost\u0000 completely replaces the emotional way of creating an aesthetic experience in\u0000 our age.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124466140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability profile of an information source: The most basic version","authors":"A. Nedeljkovic","doi":"10.2298/theo2001107n","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2001107n","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is an attempt at analyses and reconciliation of some\u0000 prima facie confronted theories of reliability in the context of formal\u0000 theories of coherence. Formal coherentists attempted to show that there is\u0000 an epistemologically interesting connection between coherence of an\u0000 information set and reliability of information sources. Amongst these\u0000 authors there are divisions and differences concerning the nature of\u0000 coherence, as well as the nature of reliability. On the one side, we have\u0000 before us probabilistic coherentists who support a statistical understanding\u0000 of reliability. On the other side we have supporters of explanatory\u0000 coherence who see reliability as a dispostition. There are two goals that we\u0000 shall attempt to achieve in this paper: to present and explain some ideas of\u0000 reliability, without going into fine detailes and depths of theories in\u0000 which they were formulated and to show that those ideas about reliability\u0000 are not that irreconcilable as they might appear, but that they together can\u0000 form something that we shall call ?reliability profile of an information\u0000 source?, ?the most basic version?, or shorter: RPISbasic.","PeriodicalId":374875,"journal":{"name":"Theoria, Beograd","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126344966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}