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9Radical Conventionalism and Hinge EpistemologyRoczniki Filozoficzne 72 (1): 61-77. 2024.In the paper I explore some hints one can find in an updated version of Ajdukiewicz’s radical conventionalism that may help to resolve some controversies within hinge epistemology, i.e. a family of positions that invoke Wittgenstein’s idea of groundless grounds of knowledge. In particular I put into doubt whether there is a real difference between pragmatic and transcendental justification of hinges, I reject epistemological disjunctivism, and I argue for anti-realistic reading of truth in a con…Read more
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11W drodze do sandwiczaStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 17 (3): 7-14. 2022.In the paper I present my path towards the sandwich theory of knowledge, which I have been travelling for about three decades. It started from a modest remark by R. Wójcicki who drew my attention to the concept of presupposition. This concept played an important role in my analyses of the growth of science, which I have been occupied with for much of my career. At that time I was also impressed by A. Wiśniewski’s erotetic logic. Later, I took more interest in epistemology, first for teaching, su…Read more
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38Van Fraassen's metaphysical moveInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 5 (1). 1991.Various aspects of van Fraassen's constructive empiricism are discussed. His concept of observability is said to have opened few unresolvable dilemmas. It is because of the confusion between observable/non-observable and testable/metaphysical distinctions. Finally, the constructive empiricist is said to have failed in his attempt at reducing the metaphysical component of science.
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7The Significance of Explanatory ConsiderationsIn Friedrich Stadler (ed.), Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Springer. pp. 53. 2004.To prevent possible misunderstanding, let me start from one crucial distinction between the logic of science on the one hand and the use of logic in science on the other. The very phrase “inference to the best theory” and the style of its further explication may suggest that it is the former that is at issue. In contrast, the title of the present workshop, “Induction and deduction in the sciences”, suggests the latter to be its focus. And this I find to point to the more adequate way of thinking…Read more
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6The Significance of Explanatory ConsiderationsVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 11 53-56. 2004.To prevent possible misunderstanding, let me start from one crucial distinction between the logic of science on the one hand and the use of logic in science on the other. The very phrase “inference to the best theory” and the style of its further explication may suggest that it is the former that is at issue. In contrast, the title of the present workshop, “Induction and deduction in the sciences”, suggests the latter to be its focus. And this I find to point to the more adequate way of thinking…Read more
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41Popper's switch from justification to critical preferencesFoundations of Science 2 (2): 350-354. 1997.
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7Justification of the Empirical Basis: The Popperian vs. the Inductivist Conception of RationalityIn Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, W. De Gruyter. pp. 299-309. 1994.
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13Odpowiedź dyskutantomStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 17 (3): 87-101. 2022.In the article, I respond to the objections and comments to my book Epistemologia. Sandwiczowa teoria wiedzy [Epistemology: A Sandwich Theory of Knowledge] formulated by the participants of the seminar held in October 2021, namely Stanisław Judycki, Damian Leszczyński, Rafał Palczewski, Wojciech Sady, Tadeusz Szubka, Włodzimierz Zięba.
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2Problem redukcji a teza o niewspółmierności teorii naukowychZakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. 1986.
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5Justification of the Empirical Basis: The Popperian vs. the Inductivist Conception of RationalityIn Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, W. De Gruyter. pp. 299-309. 1994.
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24Explanation and theory evaluationPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 84 (1): 299-310. 2005.It is claimed that Kuipers' approach to explanation opens the possibility for a further refinement of his own refined HD method for the evaluation of theories. One severe problem for the HD method, refined or not, is theory-ladeness. Given that experimental results are theory-laden, the comparative evaluation of alternative hypotheses is always relative to background knowledge. This difficulty can be avoided by supplementing HD considerations with the principle of inference to the best explanati…Read more
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18Timothy Childers undertook his graduate studies at the London School, of Economics, and is employed as a researcher in the Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His main interests center on the foundations of probability, with applications to methodology and epistemologyFoundations of Science 2 397-399. 1997.
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127Between rationalism and relativism. On Larry Laudan's model of scientific rationalityBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41 (4): 493-507. 1990.In the early sixties there broke out a fierce controversy concerning rationality in science which was labelled as the Popper-Kuhn controversy. It can be conceived in terms of the rationalism-relativism opposition. This may seem dubious, for the proper contrast to rationalism is irrationalism, and the one to relativism is absolutism. What is at issue, however, is whether scientific change comes about in consequence of argument or in consequence of-to use Kuhn's favourite dictum-conversion. The no…Read more
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17An Explication of the Use of Inference to the Best ExplanationIn Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalo, Thomas Uebel, Stephan Hartmann & Marcel Weber (eds.), Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation, Springer. pp. 83--91. 2011.
Adam Grobler
Uniwersytet Opolski
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Uniwersytet OpolskiProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |