Roman Ingarden: Forty Years Later

Simultaneous decompositions of two states

Simultaneous decompositions of a pair of states into pure ones are examined. There are privileged decompositions which are distinguished from all the other ones. Presently we witness that quantum information theory is becoming an interdisciplinary, quickly growing field of research. In its history Roman S. Ingarden is playing a significant role, both by his own research and by posing stimulatin...

Do you still want to vote for your favorite politician? Ask Ontobella!

The paper presents the preliminary version of Ontobella a domain ontology of beliefs. The philosophical assumptions of this system are taken from the philosophy of Roman Ingarden and from the psychological results obtained in the Lvov-Warsaw school. Ontobella is applied as the conceptual framework for a computer system that collects information about political debates. We use it to retrieve and...

Forty Years of X-Ray Binaries

In 2012 it was forty years ago that the discovery of the first X-ray binary Centaurus X-3 became known. That same year it was discovered that apart from the High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) there are also Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), and that Cygnus X-1 is most probably a black hole. By 1975 also the new class of Be/X-ray binaries was discovered. After this it took 28 years before ESAs INTE...

The Ethics of Reading: Ingarden, Iser, Ricoeur

INGARDEN vs. MEINONG ON THE LOGIC OF FICTION

At the tum of the present century one problem, the so-called problem of the existence of the world, lay at the center of philosophical argument. The dominance of those who took the idealist side in this dispute, both in Germany and in England, was then rapidly being brought to an end with the works of Brentano, Meinong, Frege, Moore, and Russell, all of whom can be seen as having expressed, in ...