Srećko Kovač

Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
  • Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
    Retired faculty
University of Zagreb
Alumnus, 1992
Zagreb, Croatia
Areas of Interest
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
  •  477
    Modal collapse in Gödel's ontological proof
    In Miroslaw Szatkowski (ed.), Ontological Proofs Today, Ontos Verlag. pp. 50--323. 2012.
    After introductory reminder of and comments on Gödel’s ontological proof, we discuss the collapse of modalities, which is provable in Gödel’s ontological system GO. We argue that Gödel’s texts confirm modal collapse as intended consequence of his ontological system. Further, we aim to show that modal collapse properly fits into Gödel’s philosophical views, especially into his ontology of separation and union of force and fact, as well as into his cosmological theory of the nonobjectivity of the …Read more
  • Što je istina? (review)
    Filozofska Istrazivanja 25 (4): 975-977. 2005.
    A review of the Croatian translation of the book Edo Pivčević, "What is truth", Aldershot: Ashgate [now part of Routledge], 1997.
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    Forms of Judgment as a Link between Mind and the Concepts of Substance and Cause
    In Miroslaw Szatkowski & Marek Rosiak (eds.), Substantiality and Causality, De Gruyter. pp. 51-66. 2014.
    The paper sets out from Göodel's question about primitive concepts, in connection with Gödel's proposal of the employment of phenomenological method. The author assumes that the answer that can be found in Kant is relevant as a starting point. In a modification of the approach by K. Reich, a reconstruction of Kant's "deduction'' of logical forms of judgment is presented, which serve Kant as the basis for his "metaphysical deduction of categories'' including substantiality and causality. It is pr…Read more