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dr. Matjaž
Potrè
Professor for
Analytic Philosophy
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Born: September 13, 1948. In Maribor, Slovenia.
Education: PhD Ljubljana1982. Referring and implying.
Jobs: History of philosophy professor, Zadar, 1982-86; Visiting professor,
Zadar, 1986-89; Logic and methodology professor, Ljubljana, 1986-; Department of
philosophy chair, Ljubljana, 1990- 92. Full professor: Chair for logic,
methodology and philosophy of cognition, Department of philosophy, The
University of Ljubljana, 1992-.
Grants: French government grant, Paris IX, 1974-75 (J.A. Miller, J. Lacan);
Alexander von Humboldt, Institute for Statistics and for the Theory of Science,
München, 1985-86 (W. Stegmueller); University of Graz, Austria grant, 1989 (R.
Haller); Visit to Rutgers University, 1989 (E. LePore); Visit to Toronto
Department of Philosophy, 1989 (R. DeSousa); Visit to the University of Florida,
1991 (J. Biro); Teacher retraining at the Computer Science Department, Royal
Holloway, London University, TEMPUS, 1993 (E. Valentine, J. Shawe-Taylor);
Teacher retraining at Technische Universität Berlin, Fachbereich 1,
Kommunikations und Geschichtswissenschaften, Institut für Philosophie,
Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschafts und Technikgeschichte, 1993 (Poser);
Coordinator of the TEMPUS Phenomenological Tradition and Cognitive Science
international project (Ljubljana, Maribor, Würzburg, Berlin, London, Triest,
Graz), 1992-1994, Fulbright Fellowship, University of Memphis, Department of
Philosophy, 1996-1997 (T. Horgan)
Some memberships and functions: Slovene philosophical society, member 1972-,
President 1985-87, 199- ; Semiotic association of the Slovene sociological
society, member 1975-1980; Freudian Paris school, member 1976-1982;
Psychoanalytic association, member 1974-1982; Slovene society for esthetic,
founding member 1980-; Society for theoretical psychoanalysis, founding member
1980-1982; Section for logic and methodology, secretary 1978-83, President
1983-85; Austrian-Slovene philosophical association, cofounder, secretary for
Slovenia, 1986-; Slovenian Society Studies, member 1989-; President of the
yougoslav association of philosophical societies, 1988-91; Slovene society for
logic and philosophy of science, founding member 1990-; European Yearbook of
Philosophy (Geneva) member of Advisors' Board, 1990; ESAP European Society for
Analytic Philosophy representative for Slovenia, 1991-; Gesellschaft für
analytische Philosophie, member 1992-; Problemi, Ljubljana, editorial board
member 1972-77; Acta Analytica (Philosophy and Psychology), Ljubljana, Founding
editor 1986-; Synthesis Philosophica, Zagreb, editorial board member 1989-92.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, member 1994-; Coordinator of the international
TEMPUS project Phenomenological tradition and cognitive science, 1992-1994; Hume
Society, member 1996; Slovene representative for International Union for Logic,
Methodology and Philosophy of Science/ International Union of History and
Philosophy of Science, elected Firenze, August 1995; member of the Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1997; member of European Society for
Philosophy of Psychology, 1998; member of the University of Ljubljana
international cooperation board; member of Franz Brentano Gesellschaft, 1998;
member of the editorial board of the international journal Metaphysica, 1998;
President of the Slovene philosophical society, 1998; Co-organizer of the
international Bled symposia (Vagueness 1998, Epistemology 1999, Philosophical
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