In the prestigious online online encyclopedia of philosophy, which deals with philosophy, philosophical topics and philosophers, the entry “Impossible Worlds” has been published these days. The author of the text on “impossible worlds” is Mgr. Martin Vacek, PhD., a researcher at the Department of Analytical Philosophy of the Institute of Arts of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and editor-in-chief of the journal Organon F.
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The motto “Impossible Worlds” lists the motivations for postulating impossible worlds as a tool for analyzing impossible phenomena. In other parts, for example, the applications of impossible worlds, problems with impossible worlds, their identity criteria, logic, etc. are discussed. “The article was created on the basis of personal communication with a member of the editorial board of the encyclopedia. Since the entry was among the most demanded, we agreed very quickly,” explains M. Vacek, for whom impossible worlds and their philosophical application form the core of his basic research. The whole process of publishing the entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy took about half a year. “The entry was commented on in quite detail by two anonymous reviewers. Subsequently, it was approved by the editor,” adds the scientist in the process of creating the entry.
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