scholarly journals Los Cynegetica de pseudo-Opiano, ¿poema incompleto?

Myrtia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
Sebastián Martínez García
Keyword(s):  
First Editions

En las primeras ediciones y estudios consagrados a los Cynegetica de pseudo-Opiano se argumentaba que el poema estaba incompleto; esta opinión se basaba principalmente en la promesa incumplida de III 404-6 y en la falta de un epílogo. Dando por válidas esas razones, el presente artículo estudia, en primer lugar, el contenido de los libros II y III, en los cuales se observan numerosos indicios de que el poeta conocía muchos más datos sobre la caza que los expuestos en el libro IV. En segundo lugar, estas páginas prestan atención al marcado contraste que se aprecia entre el esmerado proemio del libro IV y su abrupto final. Ambos aspectos, que anteriormente no habían sido apenas tenidos en cuenta, permiten completar la argumentación a favor del estado inacabado de los Cynegetica. From the first editions and studies about the Cynegetica of pseudo-Oppian it has been argued that the poem was incomplete; it was based on the broken promise of III 404-6 and on the lack of an epilogue. Considering these reasons as valid, this article first studies the content of the books II and III, in which it is possible to find many indications that the author knew much more about the theme of the book IV (the description of hunting) than he revealed. Next, we pay attention to the contrast between the careful proem of the book IV and its abrupt ending. Both aspects that have been scarcely considered before enable to show the shortcoming of the book IV.

Criticism of D.B Volkov’s Teleofunctional Solution to the Problem of Mental Causation

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Anton V. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Mental Causation ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Multiple Realizability ◽  
Causal Relevance ◽  
Relational Properties ◽  
Local Properties ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Mental Properties ◽  
First Editions

The articles examines the teleofunctional solution to the problem of mental causation, presented by Dmitry Volkov in his recently published book Free Will. An Illusion or an Opportunity. D.B. Volkov proposes solutions to three big metaphysical problems – mental causation, personal identity, and free will. Solving the first problem, Volkov creatively combines the advantages of Dennett’s teleofunctional model and Vasilyev’s local interactionism. Volkov’s teleofunctional model of mental causation seeks to prove the causal relevance of mental properties as non-local higher order properties. In my view, its substantiation is based on three points: (a) critics of the exclusion problem and Kim’s model of mental causation, (b) “Library of first editions” argument, (c) reduction of the causal trajectories argument (CTA 1) by Vasilyev to the counterpart argument (CTA 2) by Volkov. Each of these points faces objections. Kim’s criticism is based on an implicit confusion of two types of reduction – reduction from supervenience and from multiple realizability. The latter type does not threaten Kim’s ideas, but Volkov uses this very type in his criticism. The “Library of first editions” argument does not achieve its goal due to compositional features and because non-local relational properties are a type of external properties that cannot be causally relevant. The reduction of CTA 1 to CTA 2 is unsuccessful since, in the case of this reduction, important features of CTA 1 are lost – these are local mental properties, due to which the influence of non-local physical factors occurs. My main objection is that the concept of causally relevant non-local properties is incompatible with the very concept of cause. The set of causally relevant properties of cause can only be local.

scholarly journals Lidia Stefanowska, compiler and editor. Antologia tekstów źródłowych [Anthology of Primary Sources].

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Marko Robert Stech
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Monograph Series ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
National University ◽  
First Editions ◽  
The University

Review of Lidia Stefanowska, compiler and editor. Antologia tekstów źródłowych [Anthology of Primary Sources]. 2014. Mission Impossible: MUR i odrodzenie ukraińskiego życia literackiego w obozach dla uchodźców na terytorium Niemiec 1945-1948 [Mission Impossible: MUR and the Revival of Ukrainian Literary Life in Displaced Persons Camps on the Territory of Germany 1945-1948], part 2, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Ukrainistyki, 2013-14. Seria monograficzna Katedry Ukrainistyki UW oraz Uniwersytetu Przykarpackiego im. W. Stefanyka w Iwano-Frankiwsku [Monograph Series of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies of the University of Warsaw and the V. Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk] 5, edited by Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk and Stefanowska. 656 pp. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography of First Editions. List of Sources. Paper.

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