astronomy

Goran Švob

Goran Švob is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Goran Švob rather than just read about it. In short: Goran Švob (pronounced [ɡoran ʃʋob]; 29 May 1947 – 18 April 2013) was a Croatian philosopher, logician, and author. He was an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb where he taught logic and the philosophy of language, being employed there since 1975. Švob has written two books and published numerous scientific papers in the academic fie…

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Reference excerpt

Goran Švob (pronounced [ɡoran ʃʋob]; 29 May 1947 – 18 April 2013) was a Croatian philosopher, logician, and author. He was an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb where he taught logic and the philosophy of language, being employed there since 1975. Švob has written two books and published numerous scientific papers in the academic field of logic. He was greatly influenced by the analytic philosophy and particularly by the philosophers Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Education and academic career Švob was born on 29 May 1947 in Zagreb, then part of Yugoslavia. There he finished his primary school education and graduated from gymnasium. He then enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb where he got his Master of Arts in philosophy and English language in 1971. The same year he managed to get employed at the Department of Philosophy of the same faculty. During the academic year 1973–1974 Švob spent six months as a research fellow at the University of Oxford. He also had shorter visits at the universities in Austria, West Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and China. In 1988, he got his Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the following year he was selected to the position of an assistant professor, and was further promoted to the position of associate professor in 2001. He has been teaching logic and philosophy of language there since 1975. He was also a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna, LMU Munich, Peking University, Hokkaido University, University of Tokyo, and Kyoto University. Švob was the leader of scientific research project Logic, Universal Language and the Philosophy of Language (Croatian: Logika, univerzalni jezik i filozofija jezika) of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

Published work Švob published scientific papers in leading philosophical journals, in particular the journal of Praxis School, Filozofska istraživanja, SOL, and, most notably, Acta Analytica. His first book, titled Frege: Pojmovno pismo (English: Frege: Conceptual Notation), was published in 1992. Od slike do igre (English: From Image to Game) was a second book written by Švob, published in 2009. The book is consolidated of articles which differ by subject and time when they were written, though they all mainly focus on the work of three philosophers: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The focal point of the book, however, is the shift in Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, or the transition from the early to late Wittgenstein.

Bibliography Books Frege: Pojmovno pismo Zagreb: Biblioteka SOL, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Naprijed. 1992. Od slike do igre. Zagreb: ArTresor. 2009. ISBN 953-6522-63-2 Selected scientific papers O nekim pretpostavkama logike. Published in Praxis #3–4 (1972), pp. 555–561. O tvrdnji i znaku asercije. Published in Praxis #3–5 (1974), pp. 357–375. Ima li danas logičkih antinomija?. Published in Filozofska istraživanja #3 (1985), pp. 527–541. Fregeova koncepcija logike. Published in SOL #7 (1989), pp. 5–26. Is Identity a Relation?. Published in Angewandte Ethik, Akten des 21. Internationalen Wittgenstein-Symposiums (1999), pp. 51–59. The Heritage of Frege’s Begriffsschrift. Published in Acta Analytica #25 (2000), pp. 61–82.

References

External links Biography (in Croatian) In memoriam Goran Švob Archived 2014-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at HFS (in Croatian)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Goran Švob

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Goran Švob claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Goran Švob before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Goran Švob ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Goran Švob

In research: Goran Švob appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Goran Švob in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Goran Švob is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1947 births, 2013 deaths, 20th-century Croatian philosophers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Goran Švob outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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