Boris Kožnjak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boris Kožnjak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boris |
| FAMILY NAME | Kožnjak |
| SIGNATURE | KOŽNJAK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut za filozofiju |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3034-9292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Roger Boscovich on Mind-Body Interaction and the Conservation of Momentum
The aim of this article is to fill a gap in the history and philosophy of the mind-body problem, which regularly discuss the contributions of Descartes and Leibniz, while the contribution of Roger Boscovich, a distinguished polymath and Jesuit priest—best known for his Theory of Natural Philosophy (1758)—has remained almost entirely unknown. Boscovich was a passionate advocate of free will and of Cartesian mind-body interactionist dualism, a posi…
God and Boscovich's Demon
From the physical, mathematical, and conceptual points of view, Roger Joseph Boscovich’s original 1758 formulation of the principle of physical determinism and Pierre-Simon Laplace’s later 1814 rendering of the principle appear identical. Both Boscovich and Laplace expressed epistemological and ontological commitments to the ideas that (a) the present state of the universe is a necessary effect of its preceding states and the immediate cause of t…
Aristotle and Quantum Mechanics: Potentiality and Actuality, Spontaneous Events and Final Causes
The missing history of Bohm's hidden variables theory: The Ninth Symposium of the Colston Research Society, Bristol, 1957
Who let the demon out? Laplace and Boscovich on determinism
Can there be a ‘scientific worldview’: A critical note
In this brief note, a concept of the ?scientific worldview? is examined. In particular, contrary to some of the most often misconceptions regarding the concept, it will be argued (1) that there cannot be a ?scientific worldview? in the traditional sense of a Weltanschauung if science is taken in its strictest sense, (2) that the remaining ontological and epistemic skeleton cannot be a single unified picture of the world (Weltbild), and (3) that t…
Can there be a ‘scientific worldview’: A critical note
In this brief note, a concept of the ?scientific worldview? is examined. In particular, contrary to some of the most often misconceptions regarding the concept, it will be argued (1) that there cannot be a ?scientific worldview? in the traditional sense of a Weltanschauung if science is taken in its strictest sense, (2) that the remaining ontological and epistemic skeleton cannot be a single unified picture of the world (Weltbild), and (3) that t…
Who let the demon out? Laplace and Boscovich on determinism
The missing history of Bohm's hidden variables theory: The Ninth Symposium of the Colston Research Society, Bristol, 1957
Aristotle and Quantum Mechanics: Potentiality and Actuality, Spontaneous Events and Final Causes
God and Boscovich's Demon
From the physical, mathematical, and conceptual points of view, Roger Joseph Boscovich’s original 1758 formulation of the principle of physical determinism and Pierre-Simon Laplace’s later 1814 rendering of the principle appear identical. Both Boscovich and Laplace expressed epistemological and ontological commitments to the ideas that (a) the present state of the universe is a necessary effect of its preceding states and the immediate cause of t…
Roger Boscovich on Mind-Body Interaction and the Conservation of Momentum
The aim of this article is to fill a gap in the history and philosophy of the mind-body problem, which regularly discuss the contributions of Descartes and Leibniz, while the contribution of Roger Boscovich, a distinguished polymath and Jesuit priest—best known for his Theory of Natural Philosophy (1758)—has remained almost entirely unknown. Boscovich was a passionate advocate of free will and of Cartesian mind-body interactionist dualism, a posi…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Physics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Determinism (2 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (2 works) · Laplace transform (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works)