Lukas Zamecnik

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Palacký University Olomouc

In the linguistic work of Jan Kořenský we find methodological inspiration from the theory of dynamical systems. The aim of this paper is to trace this inspiration in Kořenskýʼs key texts and to relate this conceptual borrowing to the time-specific (in the Czech environment, especially in the 1990s) interdisciplinary links between the humanities and...

Scientific knowledge relies heavily on models, shaped by simplifying assumptions, with common categories being abstraction and idealization. This article aims to expose conceptual challenges inherent in conventional interpretations of these concepts, particularly in their practical application to scientific modeling. The primary hurdle emerges in a...

Approaches to Biosemiotics is the first issue in the Biosocial World collection, and contains a series of articles on what biosemiotics does, how it does it and what its long-term objectives may be. As a more specialized discipline in the boundaries of linguistics, the biosociology, the philosophy of biology and the sciences, we hope to offer a poi...

The review article reflects on Vladimír Havlík’s book Hierarchical Emergent Ontology and the Universal Principle of Emergence (Filosofia, 2021). It notes the key argumentative procedures and implications of the author’s arguments. It evaluates the various elements of hierarchical emergent ontology and compares them with classical proponents and cri...

The paper discusses some of the poorly explored links between the conceptual systems of logic in Kurt Gödel, the theory of automata in Alan Turing, and the theory of self-reproducing automata in John von Neumann. Traditional controversies are left aside (especially the opposition of Gödel and Turing in the view of mind) and attention is focused on...

The paper aims to evaluate the role of the philosophy of science in contemporary quanti-tative linguistics. The primary goal is the reflection of the scientific methods and models of scientific explanations (Köhler 1986, 2012) used in quantitative linguistics. The paper shows that the current philosophy of science has adopted some new approaches to...

The article responds to the current variability of research into linguistic laws and the explanation of these laws. We show basic features to approach linguistic laws in the field of quantitative linguistics and research on linguistic laws outside the field of language and text. Language laws are usually explained in terms of the language system—es...

In this paper, I provide a conceptual analysis of the issue of asymmetry in non-causal explanations. aim to fulfill three sub-tasks: 1) To define a conceptual space for problem solving (Cf. Reutlinger and Saatsi 2018; Lange 2017); 2) To reflect ongoing debates (Cf. Jansson and Saatsi 2019; Lange 2019; Khalifa et al. 2018); 3) To reflect a model of...

The transformation of society towards digitalization and automatization cannot be ignored by the higher education system. While this has been naturally reflected by the education system regarding technical sciences, humanities are still struggling to catch up with the latest trends in the digitalization of society. The field of Digital Humanities (...

In the philosophy of science, we can consider debates about the nature of non-causal explanations in general (e.g. Reutlinger, Saatsi 2018; Lange 2017) and then especially those in the life sciences (e.g. Huneman, 2018; Kostić 2020). These debates are accompanied by the development of a new mechanism that is becoming the major response to the natur...

The article responds to the current variability of research into linguistic laws and the explanation of these laws. We show basic features to approach linguistic laws in the field of quantitative linguistics and research on linguistic laws outside the field of language and text. Language laws are usually explained in terms of the language system—es...

We aim to demonstrate the applicability of Peirce’s iconic logic in the context of current topological explanations in the philosophy of science. We hold that the logical system of Existential Graphs is similar to contemporary topological approaches, thereby recognizing Peirce’s iconic logic (Beta Graphs) as a valid method of scientific representat...

A description of living systems is still a topic of discussion among a number of disciplines. By an evaluation of the approaches, we get to an axis differentiating those that are indisputable in sense of dealing with verifiable and measurable phenomena. We thus also get to approaches that integrate particular extensions when dealing with the possib...

This article aims to present the philosophical conception of the New Realism movement which formed at the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States in reaction to the thinking of the idealist consensus, whose foremost representative was Josiah Royce. It also aims to reconstruct the basic procedure of argumentation of the programme of...

The aim of this paper is to open up a debate on the nature of the functional explanation in quantitative and above all in synergetic linguistics. It also attempts to highlight considering the praxis of handling with linguistic data supported with sound and consistent metatheory of this praxis and the necessity of reconstruction of functional model...

The paper concerns a contemporary problem emerging in philosophy of science about the explanatory status of mathematical models as abstractions. The starting point lies in the analysis of Morrison's discrimination of models as idealizations and models as abstractions. There abstraction has a special status because its non-realistic nature (e.g. an...

The aim of the paper is to test the hypothesis of measuring the influence of different segmentations of a text by means of the Menzerath-Altmann law (MAL). The initial phase of testing this hypothesis is based on analyzing one text by means of MAL. The text is, yet, segmented according to various criteria. These segmentation criteria are set on the...

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This paper provides explication of basic mathematical concepts of "chaos theory". It indicates the key attributes of dynamic models of chaotic behavior of the system with regard to the explanatory and predictive power of these models. From the standpoint of philosophy of science it analyzes especially the representational role of chaotic models. Th...

This investigation focuses on the nature of explanation in synergetic linguistics. After recounting the basic principles of Haken s synergetics, a physicalist stance constitutes the basis of a critique of using the stringent synergetic principle of synergetic linguistics. Jaegwon Kim has convincingly demonstrated that the strict synergetic principl...

This paper considers Ronald Giere's Model-Based view of theories (MOT). Giere's propositions and theories are examined in terms of the author's own conceptualisation of MOT. This paper conceptualises the nexus between principles and representational models. It emphasises that the dynamics, respectively sequence, of scientific theories, could be bas...

In this paper I concentrate on evaluating Searle's concept of external realism as a non-epistemic thesis. Above all, I evaluate the role it plays in our system of beliefs, knowledge and communicative obligations. There are two important questions: (1) whether a return of transcendental philosophy creates a positive alternative to philosophical natu...

The aim of this article is to critically appraise the philosophical reflexions of chaos theory which have been advanced in the texts of Stephen Kellert and Peter Smith. This aim constitutes, at the same time, a necessary propaedeutic to the actual investigation of the semantic view of theories in the context of chaos theory. The text itself is divi...

This paper considers Ronald Giere's Model-Based view of theories (MOT). Giere's propositions and theories are examined in terms of the author's own conceptualisation of MOT. This paper conceptualises the nexus between principles and representational models. It emphasises that the dynamics, respectively sequence, of scientific theories, could be bas...