• Human Rationality: Festschrift for Nenad Smokrović (edited book)
    with Boran Berčić and Aleksandra Golubović
    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. 2022.
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    This volume provides analyses of the logic-reality relationship from different approaches and perspectives. The point of convergence lies in the exploration of the connections between reality – social, natural or ideal – and logical structures employed in describing or discovering it. Moreover, the book connects logical theory with more concrete issues of rationality, normativity and understanding, thus pointing to a wide range of potential applications. The papers collected in this volume addre…Read more
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    HUMAN RATIONALITY Festschrift for Nenad Smokrović (edited book)
    with Boran Berčić and Aleksandra Golubović
    University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2022.
    This collection of articles is a tribute to Nenad Smokrović, our friend and colleague from the Philosophy Department. He has been working on human rationality for over 25 years. Consequently, articles in this collection are either directly or indirectly related to this subject matter. In this volume, 19 authors from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, Israel, USA, and GB write about human rationality. What human rationality consists in? What is the relationship between its normative aspect (logic)…Read more
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    Mathematics and Physics within the Context of Justification
    with Marko Grba
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1): 19-33. 2020.
    Motivated by the analogy which holds within the context of discovery between mathematics and physics, we aim to show that there is a connection between two fields within the context of justification too. Based on the careful analysis of examples from science (especially within the domain of physics) we suggest that the logic of scientific research, which might appear as enumerative induction, is deduction, and we propose it to be universal generalization inference rule. Our main argument closely…Read more
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    The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences: Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Aspects (edited book)
    with Giovanni Boniolo and Paolo Budinich
    Springer. 2005.
    Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there are many questions still open: Is mathematics really necessary for physics, or could physics exist without mathematics? Should we think physically and then add the mathematics apt to formalise our physical intuition, or should we think mathematically and then interpret physically the obtained results? Do we get mathematical objects by abstraction from real objects, or vice ver…Read more
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    The Mathematics-Natural Sciences Analogy and the Underlying Logic
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 18 (1): 23-36. 2018.
    The aim of this paper is to point to the analogy between mathematical and physical thought experiments, and even more widely between the epistemic paths in both domains. Having accepted platonism as the underlying ontology as long as the platonistic path in asserting the possibility of gaining knowledge of abstract, mind-independent and causally inert objects, my widely taken goal is to show that there is no need to insist on the uniformity of picture and monopoly of certain epistemic paths in t…Read more
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    Mathematics and Reality
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (4): 413-417. 2011.
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 413-417, December 2011
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    A Structuralist Account of Logic
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 8 (2): 257-265. 2008.
    The lynch-pin of the structuralist account of logic endorsed by Koslow is the definition of logical and modal operators with respect to implication relations, i.e. relative to implication structures. Logical operators are depicted independently of any possible semantic of syntactic limitations. It turns out that it is possible to define conjunction as well as other logical operators much more generally than it has usually been, and items on which the logical operators may be applied need not be …Read more
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    Defending Analyticity: Remarks on Williamson’s The Philosophy of Philosophy
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 13 (1): 29-35. 2013.
    In this paper I concentrate on three issues concerning Williamson’s book The Philosophy of Philosophy: the problem of analytic statements being first-order propositions, the issue concerning aposteriority and the concerns related to the semantic vs. metasemantic distinction
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    Debating (Neo) logicism: Frege and the neo-Fregeans
    In Majda Trobok Nenad Miščević & Berislav Žarnić (eds.), Between Logic and Reality, Springer. pp. 83--98. 2012.
  • Mathematics and Pragmatic Naturalism
    with Nenad Smokrović
    Synthesis Philosophica 28 (1-2): 263-270. 2013.
    In this paper we shall concentrate on the issue of those ways of knowing in mathematics that have traditionally been taken to support apriorism. We shall do it by critizing pragmatic naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics, and in particular its historical approach in denying any role to apriority in mathematical epistemology. The version of pragmatic naturalism we shall be analyzing is Kitcher’s. In the paper we shall first set out a brief survey of the relevant features of Kitcher’s pragma…Read more