
Petar NurkicFaculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
Petar Nurkic
Master of Arts
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than master of one
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Introduction
I am writing my Ph.D. thesis on normativity within naturalistic epistemology. Hence, I deal with numerous topics that could be related to it, mainly cognitive ethology and animal cognition. The history of science has been and will remain my enduring curiosity.
Skills and Expertise
Education
October 2017 - September 2018
Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
Field of study
- Philosophy - Epistemology
October 2013 - September 2017
Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
Field of study
- Philosophy - Epistemology
Publications
Publications (15)
In addition to existing practices and norms within the institutions to which they belong, scientists form an epistemic community. The flow of information, the processes of belief formation, and the assumptions scientists are making determine the structure of an epistemic community. Members of such communities can be categorized as epistemic experts...
The aim of this paper is to show how a monastic environment can be regarded as providing shelter for individuals with autism spectrum conditions in the Middle Ages. By drawing on the recent literature in the history of medicine that traces the signs and symptoms of ASC in Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine abbess from the twelfth century, we will t...
Modern debates on science and religion draw wide audiences due to the popularity of the subject. Yet, these audiences often lack in-depth knowledge about both fields, which leads them to firmly support one side, usually retaining their core beliefs even after the debate. This paper explores several possible relationships between science and religio...
We will examine how the diversity of historical sources affects the portrayal
of the Balkan Slavs by following two writings that notably differ. First is
De Administrando Imperio, written in the X century. Our second source is the
Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja about which very little is known. The two
sources have a strong influence on our unde...
Philosophers of science often suggest that the key feature of scientific research is striving for objectivity and that we should evaluate scientific practice by whether it is objective or not. In this paper, we will analyze several definitions of scientific objectivity to illustrate the complex meaning of this term and examine its role in evaluatin...
Alvin Plantinga is an American-born philosopher of religion and one of the leading advocates of contemporary Christian philosophy. Plantinga deals with numerous problems of the monotheistic Christian religion, including the problem of religious pluralism. One of the most common questions an atheist asks a believer is, "Why your God and not someone...
In the culture of ancient Greece, the term Paideia (Greek: παιδεία) referred to the upbringing and education of an ideal member of the polis. However, the period from Homer's epic poetry (9th or 8th century BCE) to the Peloponnesian War (5th century BCE) differs notably, concerning the forms of Hellenistic culture after the emergence of Christianit...
Naturalistic epistemology is usually associated with Quine’s turn from an a priori and traditional to a descriptive understanding of knowledge. In this paper, however,
we will look at theories developed from Quine’s ideas - Millikan’s teleosemantics and
Kornblith’s cognitive ethology. We will answer three questions: (i) Can a bee know?;
(ii) What c...
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been a paramount mechanism of interest in recent literature addressing the origins of biological evolution. However, research on lightning-triggered electroporation represents the innovative and still insufficiently grasped approach to HGT (Kotnik, 2013). On the other hand, prebiotic synthesis is a fundamental pro...
We can define state instability as a situation in which a system's previously established norms and rules no longer function properly. Under the circumstances of changed institutional functioning, the main actors of the given environment resort to new strategies to preserve their authority and maintain their positions. In this paper, we aim to pres...
Nils Bor [Niels Bohr] je bio fizičar danskog porekla i jedan od najistaknutijih naučnika 20. veka. Čitajući Borova dela možemo da primetimo da su pojmovi kojima se koristi često neispolirani i obmanjujući za mnoge fizičare, istoričare i filozofe nauke. Slobodan Perović1 kreće upravo od ove konceptualne zagonetke; kako to da je Bor postao jedan od n...
Thales is considered to be the first philosopher to pose a question about fundamental principles on which everything else relied. His candidate for ἀρχή was water because he believed that everything comes from water and that the remaining three elements can also be created from water. Alchemists, or the first chemists, relied on the ancient traditi...
Question (d) how do we form beliefs?, implies descriptive answers. On the other hand, the question (n) how should we form beliefs?, implies normative answers. Can we provide answers to (n) questions without answering (d) questions? This (n) - (d) relation can be characterized as epistemic normativity. Hume and Kant provide answers to both questions...
In this paper we will examine how experts from certain epistemic networks behave in the circumstances of a crisis. Our main goal is to show rhetorical strategies experts use to strengthen their own epistemic authority. We will do that by analysing experts’ strategies used in two pandemics: the one caused by A h1n1 virus in 2009 and the current pand...
Abstract: Artificial Morality is a new, emerging interdisciplinary field that centres around the idea of creating artificial moral agents, or AMAs, by implementing moral competence in artificial systems. AMAs are ought to be autonomous agents capable of socially correct judgements and ethically functional behaviour. This request for moral machines...