Popper’s seminar,1996
Serghey Gherdjikov CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY. POPPER PROJECT WINTER WORKSHOP “OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES” What are the open and closed societies open and closed to? How does “the strain of civilisation” lead to historicism? How does a rational faith differ from a magical one? Does piecemeal engineering necessarily work? How is methodological individualism compatible […]
Cross-cultural Studies: Bulgaria – Japan (Zen-Buddhism)
Prof. SERGHEY STOILOV GHERDJIKOV Cross-cultural Studies: Bulgaria – Japan RESEARCH REPORT For the research during the period of my stay in Japan, Tokai University 16.06. 2004 – 15. 07. 2004 A) ITINERARY 16.06.2004. Arriving at Tokai University, Hiratsuka. Accommodation 17. 06. Meetimg with host-scientist Prof. Tsuchiya Naoto, and with the dean of the Faculty […]
Zen and the Limits of Science – Specialization in IRIZ, Kyoto, Japan
Prof. SERGHEY STOILOV GHERDJIKOV RESEARCH REPORT For the research Zen and the Limits of Science Japan, Kyoto, Hanazono University 30. 10. 2001 – 30. 05. 2002 A. ITINERARY (according application) Studying of classical Indian Buddhist Sutras Studying Classical Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhist treatises Studying contemporary commentaries and researches on Zen, Language, and Science […]
Specialisation India, Dharamsala, 1998 (proposal)
In 1998 I won a specialization in India at Bulgarian Ministry of Education ans Science, according a contract with Indian government. Serghey Gherdjikov Proposal for Post-Doctoral Specialisation in INDIA 1998 according p. 9 of the Programme of Colaboratuon in the Science, Education and Culture bethween the Goverment of Repibluc of Bulgaria and the Government of […]
Popper’s Seminar „Open Society“, 1996
6. Popper’s antihistoricism is weak against naturalism as the Marx’s theory of history as a determined by objective natural laws and categorized in his “historical materialism” as a chain of “formation” like “geological formations”.