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Postoji li „naučni pogled na svet“? Kritička beleška
No full textIn this brief note, a concept of the ‘scientific worldview’ is examined.
In particular, contrary to some of the most often misconceptions regarding
the concept, it will be argued (1) that there cannot be a ‘scientific
worldview’ in the traditional sense of a Weltanschauung if science is taken
in its strictest sense, (2) that the remaining ontological and epistemic skeleton
cannot be a single unified picture of the world (Weltbild), and (3) that
the supposed ‘truth’ of these remaining pictures cannot be unambiguously
grounded either in the methodology of science, although the methodology
itself can be explanatory and predictively adequate and successful, or in the
technological success that is associated with science
Architecture Between Landscape And Infrastructure: Tilva Roš – Red Hill Of Bor 44° 5ʹ 32.68ʹʹ N, 22° 6ʹ 04.55ʹʹ E
No full textThis paper will question contemporary contingencies of scenery, arguing that overall image of landscape holds fluidity that overcomes limits of any particular structure. It issues the post-industrial landscape of Bor, the town situated upon one of the biggest copper mining grounds in Europe with continuous infrastructural flow for the purpose of copper mining development. Relation between architecture and landscape will be interpreted through wider scope of perspective in terms of morphology, structure and infrastructure. This paper argues that infrastructure and ground should be perceived as single matter, with the aim to construct a contemporary sensibility towards perceiving nature itself
Horizontal integrity control and fighting corruption in public service
No full textPrevencija korupcije je interes i dužnost koje država ima u sprečavanju korupcije. Ujedno, programi prevencije korupcije zasnovani su i na ekonomskoj logici, jer je iznos potrebnih investicija niži nego što je to iznos troška krivično-pravne reakcije države. Razmatrajući savremeni pristup prevenciji korupcije u javnom sektoru, autori u ovom tekstu istražuju mesto etičke kompetencije javnog službenika u okvirima profesionalnih standarda rada javne službe koje određuju zahtevi ekonomičnosti, efikasnosti i delotvornosti.
Suzbijanje korupcije u javnom sektoru tradicionalno se zasniva na kontroli i normiranju. Iako je utvrđivanje standarda i uspostavljanje mehanizama neophodno, iskustvo je pokazalo da ono nije dovoljno, a očekivanja građana od javne službe odnose se i na postojanje odgovarajuće infrastrukture, jer nijedan mehanizam nije dovoljan da samostalno obeshrabruje svakovrsne transgresije pravila.
Tradicionalna vertikalna kontrola putem reakcija institucija koje raspolažu represivnim ovlašćenjima pokazala se kao neprimerena i, čak, kao kontraproduktivna u borbi protiv korupcije. A uspešna horizontalna kontrola koja se odvija u samim institucijama, podrazumeva odgovarajuće kapacitete infrastrukture u okviru kojih izgrađena etička kompetencija javnog službenika predstavlja ključan element. Zbog toga je jačanje etičke kompetencije javnog službenika, zajedno sa formiranjem vrednosne kulture javnog sektora, u središtu svakog uspešnog programa prevencije korupcije.
Corruption prevention constitutes both an interest and a duty of the state. Corruption-prevention programmes also follow logic of economy given that prevention requires less investments if compared to state's repressive reaction related costs. Authors focus corruption in public sector prevention by examining contemporary approach based on ethical competence of public servants. Fighting corruption in the public sector tradicionally is founded on controll and normative regulation that often falls into prerogatives proliferation. Although it is necesssary to set standards and establish mechanisms, pratice showed that it is not sufficient. Expectation of citizens strech to setting adequate infrastructure since there is not a single mechanism that could discourrage myriad trassgressions of rules. Tradicional vertical oversight employed by institutions with repressive powers, has proven to be inadequate, and even, counter-productive in fighting corruption. A succesful horizontal control is based in instituitions themselves, and it regulary involves a functional infrastructure with ethicaly competent public servants as a key element. Therefore, every succesful prevent corruption programme must be around strenghtening ethical competences of public servants
Coding Architecture: Digital Urbanities in New Media Art
No full textThroughout the history, cities have always been regarded as sites or centers of accumulation of political, economic, cultural, social and material resources. Today, in the age of ubiquitous computing, information and communication technologies have radically changed the role of cities as centers, transforming them into multiple nodes in the networks of dynamic data and communication flows, or into overexposed cities (P. Virilio). In other words, cities have entered a new mode of existence as non-geographic entities or “meta-cities” (W.Gibson) in which buildings are hardware and software is the way of life. In this paper, I will show how the convergence of digital and material spaces has affected the notions of architecture and urbanism and collapsed the boundaries between urban and rural, public and private, center and margin, near and far, here and there, etc. Through several examples of futuristic architectures in SF as well as through new media art practices which directly affect urban landscapes, I will discuss the notions of liquid or trans-architecture (M. Novak), relational architecture (R. Lozano-Hemmer) and living architecture (R. Armstrong) which, unlike traditional architectural practices, open up a space for renegotiations and newly emergent couplings between, reality and virtuality as well as between nature and artifice
Brandom, Vitgenštajn i intersubjektivnost
No full textThe introductory part of the article deals with general features of
Brandom’s social pragmatic position. The central part considers Brandom’s
interpretation of Kripke’s conception of social character of rules, as well as
Habermas’ critique of Brandom’s conception of I-thou and I-we types of intersubjectivity.
In the final part the author is surveying Brandom’s interpretation
of Wittgenstein’s understanding of intersubjectivity, as well as of norms and
rules in general. According to the author, Brandom treats intersubjectivity as
immediate communication, while neglecting the role of socially and historically
shared norms. Also, Brandom rejected justification of rules by past application,
and, by emphasizing the key role of inferential and practical consequences
of accepted rules, he considered pragmatic attitudes and commitments
as oriented towards future validation of meaning and rules. The author also
claims that, from Wittgensteinian perspective, communication and intersubjectivity
involve more a profound re-adjustment of interlocutors’ perspectives
rather than doxatic interchange of perspectives, as Brandom suggested
Kolateralna šteta otvaranja brana : teškoće sa argumentima Kevina R. Džonsona za Američku imigrantsku reformu
No full textThis article is a critical discussion of Kevin R. Johnson’s discussion
of current U.S. immigration policy and of his own proposal regarding open
immigration as his views are set forth in his book, Opening the Floodgates,
as well as some of his other works on the topic
Samoobrazovanje i univerzitet
No full textIn an attempt to articulate the link between the “ideas” of university and selfeducation, the authors of this paper firstly set forth the classical understanding of education that precedes the conception of selfeducation. The second part deals with Nietzsche’s rigorous under standing of selfeducation as the most consequent and most farreaching intervention in the concept of education so far. The third part is exploring the example of Derrida’s wavering in regard to university activity and efficacity and signals the modern “antinomies” of legitimising its status. It is concluded that not only exterior challenges, but also the paradoxical tasks a university sets for itself, appertain to the very constitution of the university model which readily relied on the tradition of selfeducation, and that the relation between the visions of university and selfeducation, is not devoid of intrinsic tensions, though it is often thought of these as mutually underpinning
Euthanasia: The conceptualizationof the problem and important distinctions
No full textThe aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, the intention is to provide analysis of the issue of euthanasia. On the other hand, this approach necessarily leads to a discussion toward the provision of an adequate definition of euthanasia. Therefore the article, first of all, refers to the multilayered aspect of the term euthanasia. To avoid ambiguity and other uncertainties while providing the definition of euthanasia, the authors carefully perform a conceptual analysis. This leads to the establishment of a clear distinction between actions which, due to their motives or their method of execution, cast a shadow on the meaning of this medical procedure
Corruption and social development
No full textThe aim of the conference “Corruption and Social Development” is to explore the multidimensional phenomenon of corruption starting from its various definitions: administrative, public interest, economic, philosophical, as well as its understanding in the original Aristotelian meaning of generation and corruption. “We are to distinguish the causes,” writes Aristotle in the first passage of his book on Generation and Corruption, “and to state the definitions, of these processes considered in general – as changes predicable uniformly of all the things that come-to-be and pass-away by nature.” When instead of using ‘come-to-be’ and ‘pass-away’ we use the Greek or Latin terms (generation and corruption), the words expand to cover a much larger semantic field than the Aristotelian cosmogony. How does the meaning of coming to be and decay transfer from physics into biology, or from philosophy to medicine? To what extent does a biopolitical interpretation of generation and corruption follow the processes that occur in a society, in a state? How does corruption destroy institutions, and is it possible to strive towards uninterrupted social progress? Do not sensationalist platitudes about rooting out corruption in fact hide an inefficiency of political program and a stagnated ideology? How are its gangrenous manifestations in the justice system cleansed? Could a radical theoretical or institutional procedure establish control over the cancerous effects of corruption? These questions, along with many others, will be at the core of this international interdisciplinary gathering on corruption