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58Logical Empiricism and Logical PositivismIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Logical Positivism: Basic Information The Hempelian Model of Explanation in Historiography Popperian Critique of Historicism Conclusion Bibliography.
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23O odwadze w czynach i tchórzostwie w myśleniu. Leszek Nowak o prowincjonalizmie solidarnościowej myśli społeczno-politycznejFilo-Sofija 15 (29): 59-78. 2015.In the opinion of many Western observers as well as Polish authors, the political thought of Solidarność was a mixture of ideas drawn from different ideological pedigrees. What, in the aforementioned authors’ opinion, was a reason for pride, was an object of criticism by Leszek Nowak, the eminent Polish philosopher, engaged in the Solidarność movement. One of his most important charges against the political thought of this movement was its intellectual provincialism and its inability to propose …Read more
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30Idealization Xiv: Models in Science (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2016.The book "Idealization XIV: Models in Science" offers a detailed ontological, epistemological and historical account of the role of models in scientific practice. The volume contains contributions of different international scholars who developed many aspects of the use of idealizations and models both in the natural and the social sciences. This volume is particularly relevant because it offers original contributions concerning one of the main topic in philosophy of science: the role of models …Read more
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30Polish Discussions on the Nature of Communism and Mechanisms of its Collapse: A Review ArticleEast European Politics and Societies 22 (4): 828-855. 2008.The author, against the background of Communist Studies developed in Poland since World War I, reconstructs theoretical orientations that explained the communist system in that country. In this paper, the division of theoretical approaches into political, economic, and cultural ones is proposed. Each of them seeks factors responsible for nature, evolution, and final decline of the communist system in a different sphere of social life. An approach of the political type was Leszek Nowak’s theory o…Read more
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29Civil Loop and the Absorption of ElitesPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 33 1993. 1993.The aim of this paper is to extend Leszek Nowak's theory of power in non-Marxian historical materialism by such categories as civil collapes, elite absorption and balanced revolution
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41Idealization XIII: Modeling in history (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.The book reveals different dimensions of modeling in the historical sciences. Papers collected in the first part (Ontology of the Historical Process) consider different models of historical reality and discuss their status. The second part (Modeling in the Methodology of History) presents various forms of idealization in historiographic research. The papers in the third part (Modeling in the Research Practice) present various models of past reality (e.g. of Poland, Central Europe and the general…Read more
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36The State of the Teutonic Order as a Socialist SocietyPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 33 397-414. 1993.This paper aims to analyze the social structure of the society in Teutonic state (1226-1525), which was distinct from structure of estate societies. The author put hypothesis that Teutonic Knight monopolised in their state political, economical and spiritual power. In the light of this thesis certain trends from history of the state of Teutonic Order are explained.
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27Models of Backwardness versus Transformation in Eastern Europe. Review ArticleEast European Quarterly 42 (3): 317-328. 2008.This paper is critical analysis of book by Anna Sosnowska, "Zrozumieć zacofanie. Spory historyków o Europę Wschodnią (1947-1994)" [To Understand Backwardness: Historians' Deabates about Eastern Europe (1947-1994)]. Warszawa 2004.
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29On Two Predictions of the Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe that is What Conditions of Making Accurate Predictions in History Are?Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 38 15-22. 2008.The decline of communism in Eastern Europe in years 1989-1991 was a big surprise for Western Sovietology. The sudden disappearance of the object of research would undermine the reason of existence of the whole science. For this reason, in the first half of the 90s Western scientists tried to answer following question: why Sovietology was not able to predict the demise of communism. The purpose of my paper is not to make one more analysis of factors responsible for this failure of social sciences…Read more
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Book Review (review)Epistemologia 34 145-148. 2011.Francesco Coniglione , “Special Issue: Mirrors: Science and Knowledge Society”, Axiomathes. An International Journal in Ontology and Cognitive Systems 19 , 4, pp. 351-523
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