O presente trabalho é a versão, ligeiramente modificada, em língua portuguesa, de um original alemão redigido em meados de 1979. O texto original contou a colaboração, e a crítica de Ulf Wolfgramm, então meu colega no Curso de Filosofia da Freie Universitaet-Berlin. O artigo é uma abordagem crítica à obra de kurt Huebner intitulada Kritik der wissenschaftlichen Vemunft (Crítica da razão científica). Mais precisamente, ao décimo primeiro capítulo desta obra, por sua vez intitulado Kritik am Wahrheitsbegriff in der Popperschen Philosophie (...) und der Wahrheitsbegriff der historistischen Theric der empirischen wissenschaften (Crítica ao conceito de verdade na filosofia de Popper e o conceito de verdade da teoria historística das ciências empíricas). Neste capítulo, de significado central para a obra, o autor, inicialmente, critica a versão poperiana da teoria da verdade de Tarski. A seguir, ele contrapõe sua própria concepção da verdade à de Popper. Estabelecer critérios, destinados a permitir uma avaliação da crítica de Huebner, é o primeiro passo dado neste trabalho. [...] Palavras-chave: Crítica; Kurt Huebner; Razão Científica; Avaliação crítica; Teoria Crítica. (shrink)

De acordo com o regimento da revista Educação e Filosofia, um de seus objetivos é "veicular textos de caráter científico e didático nas áreas..." de educação e filosofia. Nos seminários e atividades acadêmicas afins, a importância do aprendizado e da prática da redação de relatórios de discussões advém, sobretudo, de sua eficácia como instrumento de controle e fixação dos resultados do trabalho em equipe. Apesar de sua utilidade, contudo, praticamente inexistem textos publicados com a finalidade de mostrar o que é, (...) ou pode ser, um relatório de discussão. O texto que ora apresento é a tradução, com várias modificações, de um original alemão que pretende relatar a discussão ocorrida no dia 17 de novembro de 1980 em um seminário do Curso de Filosofia da Freie Universitaet - Berlin. A obra que serviu de base à discussão foi o Tractatus bgico-phibsophicus de Ludwig Mttgenstein. A edição, objeto de minhas referências no relatório é da Suhrkamþ, Frankfurt, 1976. Devido à diversidade de fonas que pode assumir um bom relatório, meu objetivo não é o de estabelecer um padrão. O que desejo é oferecer um exemplo que, se consultado, poderá se mostrar útil. [...] Palavras-chave: Relatório; Tractatus; Wittgenstein. (shrink)

The three-yearly conference of Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) has taken place in Bergamo, the 15th, 16th and 17th December 2010. The charming venue has been the former convent of Sant’Agostino, nowadays University of Bergamo. The conference program has been structured distinguishing plenary and parallel sessions: the first ones were 40 minutes long and designed for international guests: S. Abramsky from the Wolfson College of Oxford, A. Hagar from Indiana University, P. Janich from Philipps Universitaet of (...) Marburg and S. Okasha from University of Bristol. The complete program of the conference can be downloaded here: . We followed all the plenary sessions, and the first part of our report concerns them. There is just the exception of professor S. Psillos’ talk, which was indeed programmed, but didn’t take place due to greek unrest of the last December. The second part of our report concers the parallel sessions, that were 20 minutes long and designed for concurrent talks split between subject areas. We will keep this division into areas in our report and we chose four talks per area. However, it must be said that we had not watch the parallel sessions completely, since their being simoultaneous. This means that our review of the conference will be perspective, both because of subjective standpoint and because of the mentioned limitation. Still we hope we can offer a quite complete picture of the three-days conference, as we hope this overview may be considered as a general review of it. Just a few words must be still said to introduce to our review. The structure of each review will consists in a presentation of the talk’s author(s) (which we faithfully copy hereinafter) followed by a brief remark by us. Since many compliments could be surely done to the SILFS’ organization and to the University of Bergamo, an overall effect seems hard to be drawn, because of some arising perplexities. Although these are just our shared impressions about the conference, we think they must be remembered. One could note outward that the conference have had three official languages: English, French and Italian. Apparently, this is something that has not been justified since French has been useless and Italian has often prevented the comprehension by foreigner attendance. Many defections have taken place, something that could be said about the conformity with the program (in spite of the high number of speeches). Of course these defections have been caused by different reasons, but they become an indication of lack of professionalism as the number grows. Coming to an estimation of the inner issues, first we are seriously puzzled about the selection criterion (if any) which the SILFS has chosen the invited speakers with. One can notice that excellent talks have been put together to shallow speech without substantial scientific commitment. One has to keep in mind that who is just worthless, much lowers the general level. The topics have been various, although many were historical reconstruction and the "historiographic" approach in the study of Philosophy of Science seems therefore prevailing. Those talks whose subject was Logic and its applications, have been the highest-quality ones, by the fact that they were close to contemporary researches. More specifically, we would like to quote those concerning Quantum Computation and Logic of Quantum Mechanics. Talks of Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science were first-rate works, too, having showed high proficiency, though even specialistic topics were often technically handled, to the detriment of laymen (as us). (shrink)

Review of Michael Oberhausen; Riccardo Pozzo (Editors). Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der Universitaet Koenigsberg (1720–1804). (Forschungen und Materialen zur Universitaetsgeschichte, 1.) 2 volumes. lxviii, 778 pp., illus., indexes. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1999.