Cercetari filosofice 111

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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Un exercițiu pentru pian

February 19th, 2018

Partitura arată așa:

Înregistrarea audio e aici.

Concepţia lui Martin Luther despre purgatoriu

February 16th, 2018

La sfârșitul anului trecut am ținut o scurtă prezentare cu acest titlu în cadrul conferinței Reformation and Modernity (Bucharest, November 17-18, 2017).

Am folosit aceste slide-uri.
Înregistrarea audio a prezentării e aici.

O amintire din 2013

February 15th, 2018

De la Libraria Humanitas de la Cișmigiu. Făceam ordine prin niște cd-uri vechi și am descoperit-o astăzi. 🙂

Aici.

Random notes from 2017

January 20th, 2018

I will just leave them here:

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Surprise!

December 28th, 2017

[The fact that there are people finding the existence of the Universe (or of an Universe attuned for the apparition of intelligent beings) surprising could motivate this conceptual investigation.]

A box is labeled “Surprise”. What should it contain, in order for the content to be adequate to the label (or the label to be right)? Something which one does not expect to find in a box, perhaps. Sure, the box could contain some living creature answering to the name of ‘Surprise’, but that is besides the point.

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Familia, parintii, copiii

May 25th, 2017

Am lucrat anul trecut la o carte de filosofie pentru copii. Cartea cuprinde o serie de dialoguri imaginare cu o cititoare sau un cititor de 10-12 ani. Aici se gasesc doua discutii – una despre familie, alta despre obligatiile copiilor fata de parinti. Ele vin in continuarea unor reflectii din 2013, pe care le-am postat aici.

Other notes on actions, knowledge and language

May 8th, 2017

Also from last year (see previous post).

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Psychology and responsibility

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

November 26th, 2016

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