"Пиша, когато има с кого"

Асистираното самонаследяване на писателя-маргиналист

Author(s): Todor Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

I will present the final stage of my study on socioanalytic conversations that I have had with a Bulgarian marginalist writer as a man who turns to creating literature in a situation when he ‘has no one to turn to’. There are the problems of reliability of the obtained data (especially those in the direct autobiographical narrative): firstly as a possible product of the author’s imagination and hence the need for developing methods of literary socioanalysis, secondly because of the effects of personal closeness between the conversers, and thirdly in relation to the endogenous look at the case that is provided by this very closeness. IN the course of socioanalytic conversations and later in the process of analyzing the data from them, the need came up of complementing the initial hypothesis that ‘he writes when he has no one to turn to’, The presentation of his smaller texts before a reading and understanding audience has its doubtless therapeutic role but the work of creating and publishing larger works is more important for overcoming his fractal identity. It came out that this work goes along not only with the underlying presumption ‘he writes when there is someone for who to do it’ (strictly speaking, it is valid also for his smaller texts) but mostly ‘he writes when there is with who to do it’. His successful self-inheritance took place with this last principle, and hence one can make direct conclusions about future therapeutic techniques that go beyond this particular case.

"Просяк бях, направо просяк"

Бездомничеството и "убягващата ни социална уязвимост"

Author(s): Dimitar Panchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This article is based on the ‘Roma, homelessness, inequality’ research study, which is a part of the “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and the work with the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol. The article focuses on a craftsman from the neighborhood of ‘Stolipinovo’ and his life history as a homeless man in France, where he decides to leave shortly after suffering a work-related accident. The choice of a research case is dictated, on one hand, by the experience of the craftsman as a homeless person and, on the other, by his distinctive position as ‘The Carpenter of Stolipinovo’, which he occupies in the social space of the neighborhood. Secondly, this choice is dictated by the singularity and exclusivity of this experience, because, although homeless, this experience is undoubtedly marked by the presence of a place that he nevertheless inhabits, to which he returns several times, and which is maintained and renovated over time by the locals with whom he shares a common physical space. In this sense, the unprivileged position of the homeless, i.e. the lack of any opportunity to invest in the future, even the ability to plan in the short term, is more like a landmark vector of a biographical trajectory that serves as a starting point and, at the same time this moment of fractured experience, as the data shows, always is thought about relationally, because even in the position of a homeless person, at least according to the constructed narrative, he loses neither his distinctiveness nor his biographical illusio, contrary to what is expected, even though homelessness is thought of as one of the extreme forms of social vulnerability and social inequality. Hence the definition of his experience as a form of ‘elusive social vulnerability".

"Ти не знаеш какво е мъчение..."

Социоаналитични аспекти на уязвимостта при социалистическия човек

Author(s): Rositsa Lubenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Аs starting point of this text served me the hypothesis that social suffering in the so-called socialist man exist which I reached as a conclusion through my work in the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and by the use of the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol . Based on the empirical data gathered during the two-year project, I will try to highlight some of the socioanalytical aspects of the specific vulnerability of the socialist man and to prove that social suffering is a consequence of the habitualisation of the long-lasting state of vulnerability posed by the characteristic socialist governmental measures. The suffering of the people who lived under socialism is a result of the restricted access to certain positions and identities and the inability to invest in them, but also because of their retrospective self-experience as a victim of the political environment and governmental measures. This vulnerability remains symptomatically relevant due to the public's failure to recognize and misunderstand the significance and severity of the experience of the "ordinary" socialist man.

"Тридесет и една...": Извеждане на индикатори на "малкото страдание" през казуса на нереализирания висшист

Author(s): Diana Apostolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This article presents my work on exploring the specific figure of "ordinary" social suffering introduced as a problem by Pierre Bourdieu, but in the context of post-Bourdieu socioanalytical theory, focusing your attention on the case of the "unrealized university graduate" and more specifically on the case of a young woman who lost her biographical illusio, on which I was working in the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and using the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol. In the course of this article I will discuss the results of my research on the fragility of the human being-project and the specific form of suffering that its loss causes. Applying the micro-perspective of socioanalysis to A.'s specific case as an “unrealized university graduate”, I will attempt to address the following important problem: through A.'s existential knowledge of the suffering she experiences as an individual who has to coerce her will to objectivity and continue to exist “in spite of herself”, as well as by observing her unique situation of suffering and vulnerability, I will attempt to differentiate certain" diagnostic criteria "through which little suffering is represented in her story, and to determine whether she applies and what strategies for overcoming her vulnerability and suffering.

"Тук вече никой не живее"

Социоаналитични измерения на уязвимостта при "обезселеното село"

Author(s): Desislav Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article presents the results of the socioanalytical work conducted on “The Desolated village” – a case study developed as part of the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability”. The central methodological frame relies on the socioanalytical protocol attached as an Appendix to the text. The first part of the paper offers a brief description of the case and its overall context. The second one thematizes the problem of the psychopathologies of everyday life. The focus of this section falls on the practicological data, which, thought the use of non-classical intentional analysis, is extracted from the functioning of the quantifier “no one” found in the respondents’ narratives. Then, using the gathered socioanalytical insights, a detailed outline of the respondents’ experience is offered. The last section deals with the loss and regaining of the biographical illusio. Through the application of a multimodal analysis the strategies for overcoming the vulnerability and self-inheritance are examined.

"Що на мене...?" - уязвимост при болния като социоаналитичен проблем

Author(s): Denica Nencheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The aim of this text is to present the results from the socioanalytical work conducted as part of the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability”. The case study “The ill persons’ suffering” focuses on the life of a woman with breast cancer. The presented empirical fragments will be analyzed thought the analytical and methodological frame set out by the Project of socioanalytical protocol. The first part of the article outlines the context of the study. The following segment will offer some of the characteristic forms of social vulnerability in the respondent’s experience. The focus will be the on the peculiar existential duality in which on one had the illness becomes a habitualized part of everyday life, while on the other it still manages to enter-again and disrupt it anew. The next section will look at the way in which the respondent presents and makes sense of her experience in narrative form. The conclusion will then offer an explication of some of the strategies for self-inheritance and overcoming of the vulnerability.

#Foodporn: fetishized sharing of food and its images

Author(s): Francesco Piluso / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Once translated into images, food acquires a broader meaning. Food is no longer merely something to eat, but to show, share and look at. The increasing amount of images and pictures of dishes on our social networks, associated with hashtags such as #foodporn, expresses this renewed social, communicative and provocative function of food. However, the exhibition of these images is quite ambivalent when it comes to establishing determined patterns of visual and social relationships with and between users. The aim of this article is to analyze and attempt to provide mediation to this ambivalence. The pornographic exposition of food images no longer presupposes a transitive form of consumption by the user, but becomes pure and self-reflexing spectacle. The images are obscene (Baudrillard [1981] 1994) and characterized by an excess of transparency on their object which abolishes any form of seduction (Baudrillard [1979] 1990). Barthes ([1980] 1981) defines this kind of image as unary. Pornographic images are an emblematic example. In terms of their self-evident objectivity, these pictures lack any punctum, any piercing sign of a relationship with or openness to the observer (see Eco 1962; 1979). Nevertheless, behind their apparent transparency, the images are always products of specific perspective cuts, and still able to convey mystery, meaning and involvement. The unary image of food is a further fragment in a series of multiple perspectives on the same object. Such potentiality is actualized in our (social) media culture in which sharing and continuous remediation of images and pictures of food constitute a complex storytelling of the object. This, in turn, fosters further participation by the users. The ambivalence between the indifference of the pornographic image and the involvement in the serialization of the detail is synthetized by the notion of fetishism (Baudrillard [1972] 2019). The social (and) media scenery seems to exemplify and radicalize a sort of commodity fetishism, in which social relationships between users are shaped and mediated by (social) media relationships between images of food.

(rec.) Michał Adamczyk. Wiedza – wiara – racjonalność. Jana Franciszka Drewnowskiego program logizującej modernizacji myśli filozoficzno – teologicznej, Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II, Lublin 2015

Author(s): Anna Kozanecka-Dymek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

25 Years In Contradiction (University of Glasgow, 7-9/12/2012)

Author(s): Martin Vacek / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

25 Years In Contradiction (University of Glasgow, 7-9/12/2012)

50 rokov Katedry logiky a metodológie vied Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave

Author(s): František Gahér / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2013

50th Anniversary of the Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University in Bratislava

50–60-ті роки ХІХ ст. в історії університетської філософії

Author(s): Igor Pecheranskyi / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 3/2010

Social and cultural peculiarities of "ignominious" period in the history of the university philosophy of 50-60th of XIX century are opened in the article. It was the time when philosophy lecturing in universities was stopped and lecturing of logic and psychology was replaced. The functioning of university professorate was displaced on the teachers and disciples of spiritual academies.

A Causal-Mentalist View of Propositions

Author(s): Jeremiah Joven Joaquin,James Franklin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

In order to fulfill their essential roles as the bearers of truth and the relata of logical relations, propositions must be public and shareable. That requirement has favoured Platonist and other nonmental views of them, despite the well-known problems of Platonism in general. Views that propositions are mental entities have correspondingly fallen out of favour, as they have difficulty in explaining how propositions could have shareable, objective properties. We revive a mentalist view of propositions, inspired by Artificial Intelligence work on perceptual algorithms, which shows how perception causes persistent mental entities with shareable properties that allow them to fulfill the traditional roles of (one core kind of) propositions. The clustering algorithms implemented in perception produce outputs which are (implicit) atomic propositions in different minds. Coordination of them across minds proceeds by game-theoretic processes of communication.

A Comparative Analysis of the Concept of Implication in Some Contemporary Logical Systems and Their Origins in Antiquity

Author(s): Doroteya Angelova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

This article examines the main characteristics of the concepts of implication in relevant, connexive and paraconsistent logics and discusses the origins of these concepts in Antiquity. It is made a comparative analysis between the meaning of this connective in the three logics in regard to their correspondence to the conditional “if…., then….” used in natural language and presents arguments that the notion of implication, proposed by relevant logic, provides the most adequate formal explication of the conditional connective in the mentioned sense.

A Critical Thinking Approach to Globalisation and Culture

Author(s): Steluța Stan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The diverse and complex cultural consequences of the present time have been subject to various studies. The new non-material digital forms of communication make the global cultural flows to move easier and more freely around the globe, a phenomenon that has been associated with many cultural consequences. Major theses, such as homogenization (standardization around a Western or American pattern), polarization (resistance to cultural conformity or standardization and emergence of cultural alternatives), and hybridization have been used as relevant analysis criteria. Having in mind the final objective (respectful contact with other cultures and successful intercultural communication), the present study, as part of a larger enterprise, is an introduction to a critical thinking approach to cultural awareness and the need for a cultural paradigm shift.

A Discriminative Ontology for Future Selves

Author(s): Juraj Odorčák / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

The article presents a critique of the commonly held assumption about the practical advantage of endurantism over perdurantism regarding the problem of future-directed self-concern of a person. The future-directed self-concern of a person crucially depends on the possibility of the right differentiation of diverging futures of distinct persons, therefore any theory of persistence that does not entail a special non-branching relation of a person to only their future self seems to be counterintuitive or unrealistic for practical purposes of personal persistence. I argue that this pragmatic rationale about future-directed self-concern is equally challenging for both theories of persistence. Moreover, I indicate, that both of these theories fall and stand on the practical feasibility of hidden ontological presuppositions about specific second-order notions of concerns of persons for their future.

A Few Comments on the Linda Problem

Author(s): Adam Olszewski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This paper discusses an experiment in cognitive psychology called the Linda problem. Firstly, some natural conditions for the correctness of the interpretation of psychological experiments (such as the Linda problem) are formulated. The article is essentially a critique of the interpretation of the results of the Linda problem experiment provided by Kahneman and Tversky as well as – indirectly – their concept of heuristics. It is shown that the interpretation provided by Kahneman and Tversky does not meet the aforementioned conditions for correctness. The main argument is justified utilizing such rules of rationality as conditional probability and Grice’s conversational maxims. It is also pointed out that this argument can be reformulated in terms of the intuitive system of reasoning.

A formal reconstruction of the notions of belief, utterance and trust

Author(s): Robert Piechowicz / Language(s): English Issue: 68/2020

Problem of epistemic activity and their relationship with language is very well known in philosophy. Undertaking this challenge in this article we shall present some logical constructions apparent in these issues. More precisely we want to describe some difficulties of formal reconstruction of the notion of belief and utterance and try to find broader perspective appointed by notion of trust. To realize this goals article shows how non-formal assumption about doxa affects on its formal construction. Then, logic of utterances—mainly based on Conversational Implicatures theory—and its relation to doxastic systems is discussed and, finally, article shows that more accurate description of these two notions needs broader perspective created by BIT system proposed by Ch-J. Liau.

A General Model of Neutrosophic Ideals in BCK/BCI-algebras Based on Neutrosophic Points

Author(s): Rajab Ali Borzooei,Hashem Bordbar,Florentin Smarandache,Young Bae Jun / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

More general form of (∈, ∈ ∨q)-neutrosophic ideal is introduced, and their properties are investigated. Relations between (∈, ∈)-neutrosophic ideal and (∈, ∈ ∨q(kT ,kI ,kF ))-neutrosophic ideal are discussed. Characterizations of (∈, ∈∨q(kT ,kI,kF ))-neutrosophic ideal are discussed, and conditions for a neutrosophic set to be an (∈, ∈∨q(kT ,kI ,kF ))-neutrosophic ideal are displayed.

A Heuristic Approach to Possibilistic Clustering for Fuzzy Data

Author(s): Dmitri A. Viattchenin / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2008

The paper deals with the problem of the fuzzy data clustering. In other words, objects attributes can be represented by fuzzy numbers or fuzzy intervals. A direct algorithm of possibilistic clustering is the basis of an approach to the fuzzy data clustering. The paper provides the basic ideas of the method of clustering and a plan of the direct possibilistic clustering algorithm. Definitions of fuzzy intervals and fuzzy numbers are presented and distances for fuzzy numbers are considered. A concept of a vector of fuzzy numbers is introduced and the fuzzy data preprocessing methodology for constructing of a fuzzy tolerance matrix is described. A numerical example is given and results of application of the direct possibilistic clustering algorithm to a set of vectors of triangular fuzzy numbers are considered in the example. Some preliminary conclusions are stated.

A ještě jedna nepřesnost

Author(s): Marie Duží / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2003

Souhlasím s kritikou Bělohradovy argumentace, kterou provedl výše Pavel Materna a chtěla bych doplnit, že ve zmíněném (jinak velice kvalitním příspěvku) je ještě jedna nepřesnost.