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105The Polish School of Argumentation: A ManifestoArgumentation 28 (3): 267-282. 2014.Building on our diverse research traditions in the study of reasoning, language and communication, the Polish School of Argumentation integrates various disciplines and institutions across Poland in which scholars are dedicated to understanding the phenomenon of the force of argument. Our primary goal is to craft a methodological programme and establish organisational infrastructure: this is the first key step in facilitating and fostering our research movement, which joins people with a common …Read more
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320Moderately Pluralistic MethodologyRoczniki Filozoficzne 60 (4): 233-247. 2012.The paper outlines and discusses the major tenets of moderately pluralistic methodology. The latter is juxtaposed to J. Życiński’s principle of natural interdisciplinarity. It instantiates scientific pluralism as a domain-specific agenda for research. The symbolic and causal understanding are integrated in this methodological conception by means of a specific kind of counterfactual reasoning, which is coined the delimiting counterfactual. It makes the moderately pluralistic methodology applicabl…Read more
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12Knowledge Routines, Threads and Network DynamicsStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 67 (1): 247-268. 2022.The paper focuses on knowledge generation, a topic frequently overlooked in the traditional debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. We focus on investigation as the primary process generating knowledge and its products. Investigation is taken as a generalization of the research process that includes similar knowledge-generating practices in aboriginal communities. To characterize the complexity of investigation processes and their products we go beyond traditional epistemological char…Read more
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32Adam Grobler, Metodologia nauk [Methodology of the Sciences] by Andrzej Bronk, Pawel KawalecForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 13 (1): 147-149. 2008.The article reviews the book Metodologia nauk [Methodology of the Sciences], by Adam Grobler.
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11Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling TheoryJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 53 (4): 381-402. 2022.We analyse the issue of using prior information in frequentist statistical inference. For that purpose, we scrutinise different kinds of sampling designs in Jerzy Neyman’s theory to reveal a variety of ways to explicitly and objectively engage with prior information. Further, we turn to the debate on sampling paradigms (design-based vs. model-based approaches) to argue that Neyman’s theory supports an argument for the intermediate approach in the frequentism vs. Bayesianism debate. We also demon…Read more
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11Structural Reliabilism: Inductive Logic as a Theory of JustificationKluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.Kawalec's monograph is a novel defence of the programme of inductive logic, developed initially by Rudolf Carnap in the 1950s and Jaakko Hintikka in the 1960s. It revives inductive logic by bringing out the underlying epistemology. The main strength of the work is its link between inductive logic and contemporary discussions of epistemology. Through this perspective the author succeeds to shed new light on the significance of inductive logic. The resulting structural reliabilist theory propounds…Read more
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41The epistemic consequences of pragmatic value-laden scientific inferenceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (2): 1-26. 2021.In this work, we explore the epistemic import of the value-ladenness of Neyman-Pearson’s Theory of Testing Hypotheses by reconstructing and extending Daniel Steel’s argument for the legitimate influence of pragmatic values on scientific inference. We focus on how to properly understand N-P’s pragmatic value-ladenness and the epistemic reliability of N-P. We develop an account of the twofold influence of pragmatic values on N-P’s epistemic reliability and replicability. We refer to these two dist…Read more
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13Neyman-Pearson Hypothesis Testing, Epistemic Reliability and Pragmatic Value-Laden Asymmetric Error RisksAxiomathes 32 (4): 585-604. 2022.We show that if among the tested hypotheses the number of true hypotheses is not equal to the number of false hypotheses, then Neyman-Pearson theory of testing hypotheses does not warrant minimal epistemic reliability. We also argue that N-P does not protect from the possible negative effects of the pragmatic value-laden unequal setting of error probabilities on N-P’s epistemic reliability. Most importantly, we argue that in the case of a negative impact no methodological adjustment is available…Read more
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16Adam Grobler: Metodologia naukForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 13 (1): 147-149. 2008.The article reviews the book Metodologia nauk [Methodology of the Sciences], by Adam Grobler.
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10Analiza poziomu umiędzynarodowienia Zagadnień Naukoznawstwa w kontekście światowych studiów nad nauką i szkolnictwem wyższymZagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 55 (1(219)): 33. 2020.
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10The process of microRNAs discoveryPhilosophical Problems in Science 68 219-242. 2020.The widespread particularist account of the onset of molecular biology that identifies it with the discovery of the DNA structure in 1953 has been recently contested. The paper contributes to this debate by focusing on a more recent discovery of small noncoding RNAs. First, it outlines a particularist account of the microRNAs discovery and the origins of the particularist predilection of the modern scientometric studies of science dynamics. Next, it discusses its limitations and proposes an alte…Read more
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Mechanika życia społecznego. Metodologiczne podstawy Davida Hume’a teorii pieniądzaPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 80. 2011.
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Woluntaryzm epistemologiczny Williama Jamesa. Próba rekonstrukcji na gruncie probabilizmu B. van FraassenaPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 76. 2010.
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Konferencja naukoznawcza „A New Organon: Science Studies in Poland between the Wars”, 20-21 lutego 2015, Konstancja (Niemcy)Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 51 (204). 2015.
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Recenzja z: David Danks, 2014, Unifying the Mind: Cognitive Representations as Graphical Models, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, ss. xi + 287Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 51 (204). 2015.
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2Is Truth Perspectival in Science? Viability of Pragmatic Account of Scientific Truth for Mixed-Methods ResearchZagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 50 (202). 2014.This paper attempts to assess the viability of M. Frápolli’s pragmatic account of scientific truth in the context of moderately pluralistic view of research process. Mixed-methods approach, which embodies the moderately pluralistic view in the social sciences, combines various methods, i.e. quantitative and qualitative, within a single research process in order to cross-validate and integrate the results into a coherent answer to the initial problem. Prima facie the pragmatic account of scientif…Read more
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Recenzja z: Łukasz Hardt, 2013, Studia z realistycznej filozofii ekonomii, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck, ss. 177.Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 50 (199). 2014.
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Recenzja z: Briggle A., Mitcham C., 2012, Ethics and Science: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ss. xviii + 370.Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 50 (200). 2014.
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Metody mieszane w kontekście procesu badawczego w naukoznawstwieZagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 50 (199). 2014.
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Edytorial: Debaty podczas konferencji „Finansowanie projektów badawczych w Polsce – teoria i praktyka”Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 50 (201). 2014.
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Recenzja z: John Gerring, 2012, Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework, wydanie 2., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ss. xxv + 495Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 49 (198). 2013.
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Recenzja z: Pierre Wagner (red.), 2012, Carnap’s Ideal of Explication and Naturalism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ss. xii + 263.Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 50 (199). 2014.
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Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Philosophy of Probability |
General Philosophy of Science |
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Philosophy of Cognitive Science |