Dimension stone is one of the traditional materials used in sepulchral monuments. Initially, especially easy-to-work sedimentary rocks such as sandstones, arkoses (arkosic sandstones) and limestones predominated. Since the mid-19th century, we have encountered an increasing variability of rock types u...

The contribution deals with the post-war history of cemeteries in the Tachov region and, using eight localities (Bohuslav, Hošťka, Milíře, Nové Domky, Ošelín, Pavlův Studenec, Svatá Kateřina u Přimdy and Tachov), it demonstrates the process &#x...

The aim of the first part of the paper is to expose that Kripke’s argument against type-identity theory does not rigorously distinguish the meaning of individual relata entering the identity relation, and therefore his claim about the faultiness of the analogy between propositions ...

The article uncovers how the first five centuries of Greek Christian texts reflect a changing understanding of Paul as a prototypical character. The study joins cognitive and social psy­chological theory of categorization in defining prototype as a highly contextual, fuzzy set of qualit...

The paper introduces two conceptions of styles - the "styles of scientific thinking" of historian Alistair C. Crombie's "styles of thinking" and philosopher Ian Hacking's "styles of thinking" - and thus fills a certain gap in the Czech environment, where they...

Although it is not until we get to Aristotle that we can be absolutely certain of finding a spherical Earth in ancient cosmology, Diogenes Laertios considers it to have been first conceived by Pythagoras and Parmenides. In both cases, however, we in point of fact do ...

The conception of heaven in archaic Ionian cosmologies, which belong to the earliest Presocratic conceptions of the world, is due to meagre textual evidence hard to reconstruct. Current scholars, meanwhile, tend to agree that in the previous epic tradition, heaven was believed to f...

On occasion of Hans Albert’s 100-th anniversary the paper addresses a wider audience of philosophers, political scientists and economists who are broadly interested in critical rationalism but not well acquainted with Albert’s systematization of the Popperian philosophical program. Laying out Alb...

The article briefly introduces the role of music in Nazi concentration camps during the World War II and is focused mainly on the life of the regional teacher and composer Ondřej Volráb, who was kept in the concentration camp in Buchenwald between 1943 and 1945, where...

The research presented in the article tests quantitatively the existing hypothesis from the academic debate that the Greco-Roman cult of Asclepius was more popular in the times of the Antonine Plague which spread in the Roman Empire approximately in the years 165-180 CE. This ...

The article deals with the criticism of standard neurocentrism made by Ricardo Manzotti. Manzotti is a proponent of mind-object identity theory (MOI). According to this view, experiences are identical with the external objects, and the mind is thus literally&...

Recent empirical studies on the division of labor in modern cities indicate a complex web of relationships between sectoral specialization of cities and their productivity on one hand and sectoral diversification and resilience on the other. Emerging scholarly consensus suggests that ancient...

The article joins the scholarly discussion about the meaning of righteousness language in biblical literature with consideration of changes in the concept from archaic Greek literature to fourth century Christian texts. The article seeks to showcase and evaluate how methods from the are...

In this paper, we introduce Miriam Solomon's theory of decision-making vectors, which provides a comprehensive framework for capturing various biases, stereotypes, effects, and heuristics that accompany the activities of scientists. In the introduction we will return to Francis Bacon's doctrin...

This paper has two main goals: firstly, to display the controversies between the physicians, natural and alchemical philosophers of the Scientific Revolution; and, secondly, to explain the factors which contributed in considering alchemy a pseudoscience. Through the study of primary and seco...

The study deals with José Gil's reflections on the significance of Merce Cunnighmam's choreographies and sets these reflections in the context of Gil's conception of art. The study deals mainly with the terms "series", "emptying movements", "virtual body" and ...

The paper presents a theoretical view of the cellular foundations for network-level processes involved in producing our conscious experience. Inputs to apical synapses in layer 1 of a large subset of neocortical cells are summed at an integration zone near the top of their api...

Topic in moral philosophy, such as freedom of the will, conscience, relation of facts and norms, are still alive, although nowadays it is within sciences than within philosophy. It was the 19th Century positivism what directed ethics this way. The purpose of this text is ...

Archaic Ionian cosmologies were characterised above all by their meteorological nature and by the assumption that celestial bodies move only around a flat earth. One can, however, argue that their common foundation was the idea that the earth constitutes the lower dimension of the&...

The authors of the medical treatises collected in Corpus Hippocraticum often mention pain, its qualities and origin. At the same time, however, they do not provide any explicit definition or theory of pain, of its nature and of its relation to other important aspects of H...