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23Exchanging Quantum ParticlesPhilosophia Scientiae 19 185-198. 2015.The mathematical notion of a permutation of indices in the state description admits different physical interpretations. Two main interpretations analyzed in this paper are: exchange of essences and exchange of haecceities. It is argued that adopting the essentialist approach leads to the conclusion, contrary to the conventional wisdom, that quantum particles of the same type are sometimes discernible by their properties. The indiscernibility thesis can be supported only by the alternative interp…Read more
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20Synchronic and diachronic identity for elementary particlesEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 10 (3): 1-17. 2020.The main focus of this paper is on the notion of transtemporal identity applied to quantum particles. I pose the question of how the symmetrization postulate with respect to instantaneous states of particles of the same type affects the possibility of identifying interacting particles before and after their interaction. The answer to this question turns out to be contingent upon the choice between two available conceptions of synchronic individuation of quantum particles that I call the orthodox…Read more
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19How to Justify the Symmetrization Postulate in Quantum MechanicsJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 53 (3): 239-257. 2022.The aim of this paper is to reconstruct and correct one argument in support of the symmetrization postulate in quantum mechanics. I identify the central premise of the argument as a thesis specifying a particular ontic property of quantum superpositions. The precise form of this thesis depends on some underlying assumptions of a metaphysical character. I compare the exchange degeneracy argument with alternative formal arguments for the symmetrization postulate, and I discuss the role and meaning…Read more
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13An Assessment of Contemporary Polish OntologyIn Contemporary Polish Ontology, De Gruyter. pp. 271-294. 2019.
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11How to strengthen Bell's theorem using counterfactualsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41 (1): 58-66. 2009.
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10Entanglement of N Distinguishable ParticlesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 27 (40). 2012.
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8Joachim Metallmann-Causality, Determinism and SciencePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 74 53-64. 2001.
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7Analyticity and Existence in MathematicsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 62 103-114. 1998.
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Kilka uwag w sprawie nezbędności matematyki w nauceFilozofia Nauki 3. 1994.This is an attempt to defend Field's nominalistic program from the criticism raised by K. Wójtowicz in his article. The author argues for the following theses: (a) that Wójtowicz uses the notion of „mathematical theory” broader than Field does it; (b) that he misinterprets the conception of the „abstract counterparts” of nominalistic statements; (c) and that his general evaluation of Field's program is based on too high methodological standards which he applies to the possible nominalistic versi…Read more
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IntroductionIn Tomasz Bigaj & Christian Wüthrich (eds.), Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, Brill | Rodopi. 2015.
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Uwagi o logice trójwartościowejFilozofia Nauki 3. 1997.As it is well known, Jan Lukasiewicz invented his three-valued logic as a result of philosophical considerations concerning the problem of determinism and the status of future contingent sentences. In the article I critically analyse the thesis that the sentential calculus introduced by Lukasiewicz himself actually fulfills his philosophical assumptions. I point out that there are some counterintuitive features of Lukasiewicz three-valued logic. Firstly, there is no clear explanation for adoptin…Read more
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Problem uzasadniania egzystencjalnych założeń teorii (Uwagi na marginesie koncepcji W. V. O. Quine'a)Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 3 (3): 45-53. 1992.
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Essentialism and modern physicsIn Tomasz Bigaj & Christian Wüthrich (eds.), Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, Brill | Rodopi. 2015.
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Przyczynowość w Szkole Lwowsko-WarszawskiejFilozofia Nauki 2. 1994.The author presents and critically analyses different accounts of causal relation given by the main representants of Lvov-Warsaw School in philosophy. Although there are considerable differences between particular approaches to this problem, it is possible at least to distinguish the key questions, analysed and anwsered by these philosophers. Among them are such questions as: how to define „causal relation”, what are its formal features, what is the space-time localization of the effect and the …Read more
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Jakościowe teorie czasoprzestrzeniFilozofia Nauki 4. 1995.This is an attempt to formulate (along the line of H. Field's nominalization program) purely qualitative versions of two theories of space time: Galilean and Minkowskian theories. The starting point is to present qualitative theory for affine geometry, which is based only on one primitive predicate: „between”. Then it is shown that with the help of this predicate whole mathematical structure of affine geometry can be reconstructed as a simple definitional extension. As a next step it is shown in…Read more
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Plugging holes in sophisticated substantivalismIn Antonio Vassallo (ed.), The Foundations of Spacetime Physics: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge. 2022.
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Świat kwantowy w ujęciu kontrfaktycznym: odpowiedź Witoldowi StrawińskiemuFilozofia Nauki 1. 2008.This is a response to a critical review of my book Non-locality and Possible Worlds (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt 2006) by Witold Strawiński. I present arguments why counterfactual conditionals are needed in the description of quantum-mechanical phenomena, and in particular in the analysis of the condition of locality. I rebut arguments against my choice of the relation of similarity between possible worlds offered by W. Strawiński and M. Dickson. In the later part of the article I address some other…Read more
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