Archive for the ‘filosofia actiunii’ Category

A puzzle about actions

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

Here is a philosophical puzzle with respect to actions:
(1) If A is an action, then there is an event, E, such that A is identical to E.
(2) S is the agent of action A only if S causes E (A = E).
(3) An event can only be caused by another event.
(4) Persons are not events.

Therefore:
(5) A person can never be the agent of an action.

Also:
(6) S is the agent of an action only if S is a person.

Therefore:
(7) Actions do not have agents.
But:
(8) Actions do have agents.

[Also, one could write down “living being” instead of “person” in (4) and (6) and still infer (7)]

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Anscombe – Intention (cursul meu opțional)

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

Am completat pagina cursului meu cu înregistrările întâlnirilor de anul acesta.

Deviant Hinge Epistemology and Epistemic Angst

Monday, April 22nd, 2019

La sfârșitul săptămânii trecute am participat la Topics in Analytic Philosophy 3 cu o conferință cu acest titlu. Slide-urile se găsesc aici.

Un draft al textului pe baza căruia mi-am susținut prezentarea se găsește aici:
Deviant Hinge Epistemology and Epistemic Angst – second draft

Sfârșit de semestru

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018

Am ținut în acest semestru un curs opțional, dedicat cărții doamnei Anscombe, Intention. Pagina cursului conține, pentru fiecare întâlnire, traducerea paragrafelor discutate (am reușit să parcurg toată cartea) și înregistrările audio ale discuțiilor.

În semestrul al doilea…

Monday, March 26th, 2018

În semestrul al doilea mă ocup de un singur curs opțional, dedicat cărții doamnei Anscombe – Intention. Sper să produc o traducere de lucru a întregii cărți până la sfârșitul semestrului. Mai multe (inclusiv înregistrări audio) aici: http://bit.ly/anscombe.

Cercetari filosofice 111

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Am scris asta inițial pe Facebook, dar m-am gândit să o păstrez și aici.

Mi-am închipuit următorul schimb de replici:
A: Listening to you play the piano is a torture.
B: So this is your confession!

(Wittgenstein, PU, §111: “Fragen wir uns: Warum empfinden wir einen grammatischen Witz als tief. (Und das ist ja die philosophische Tiefe.)”)

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Random notes from 2017

Saturday, January 20th, 2018

I will just leave them here:

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Psychology and responsibility

Friday, May 5th, 2017

Some notes written about one year ago. I did revise them, but nothing is publishable.

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Aristotle and the Dependence of Rational Action on Knowledge

Saturday, November 26th, 2016

This was the title my presentation at 2400 Aristotle.
Here are the slides.
Here is the (unedited) audio.

Empirical actions (and some other things)

Thursday, March 10th, 2016

This is mainly an (yet unsuccessful) attempt to develop what I understood as a Wittgensteinean suggestion here for how we could justify claims of the form ‘I know that p’, where p describes what is happening in the speaker’s environment, by performing certain empirical actions. Since these are my personal notes, some other thoughts are intermixed. If you have any feedback, please leave a comment bellow.

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