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10Scrutiny of Ajdukiewicz’s concepts of definitionStudies in East European Thought 68 (1): 11-20. 2016.The paper provides an analysis of two traditionally accepted distinctions between nominal and real definitions. The historical background is Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s conceptions of definitions as well as remarks by other members of the Lvov-Warsaw School of philosophy. The aim of the paper is to show that the analysed distinction, at least in Ajdukiewicz’s version, cannot be sustained.
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7Minimalizm etyczny Tadeusza KotarbińskiegoEtyka 39 48-71. 2006.Artykuł zawiera zarys rekonstrukcji poglądów etycznych Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego. Analiza pism etycznych Kotarbińskiego — niestety dalekich od ideału precyzji — pozwala sądzić, że na jego system etyczny składają się m.in. następujące tezy. Podstawową negatywną normą moralną jest norma „Nie powinieneś nikomu czynić zła ponad niezbędną potrzebę”, a podstawową pozytywną normą moralną jest norma „Powinieneś komuś czynić dobro”; stąd etykę Kotarbińskiego wolno nazwać „altruizmem lokalnym”. Za naczelną …Read more
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5VIII Polski Zjazd Filozoficzny, Warszawa, 15-20 września 2008 roku: program (edited book)Wydawn. Nauk. "Semper". 2008.
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Chapter XII. Questions in SciencePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 265-277
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Chapter VIII. Cognitive Content and Cognitive Context of QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 193-206
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O istotnym i nieistotnym występowaniu jakiegoś wyrażenia w innym wyrażeniuFilozofia Nauki 2. 2005.Let us assume that the expression A is a segment of the expression B. Now, let us assume that we try to transform the expression B into the expression B', removing A from B or replacing A with another expression, say A'. When shall we say that A is irremovable or occurs in B essentially? We shall do it, if we can neither remove A from B nor replace A with A', not influencing upon important properties of B. On the other hand, when shall we say that the occurrence A in B is essential? We shall do …Read more
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Kilka uwag na marginesie artykułu Filipa Kawczyńskiego Odpowiedzi na pytania z pytajnikiem „kto?”Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 78. 2011.
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32It is hard to imagine our life without questions. They facilitate orientation in our environment, enable interpersonal communication and make the acquisition of knowledge possible. Questions direct scientific research, are used as research tools and are an important medium of transferring knowledge in teaching. The book is intended as a par excellence philosophical monograph of the theory of questions, presenting the most important erotetic problems, their general background and selected practic…Read more
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Chapter XVIII. Philosophical QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 357-375
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Appendix: From the History of Erotetics in Poland in the 20th CenturyPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 387-424
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5Metody urabiania definicji. Na marginesie artykułu O filozofii analitycznej Andrzeja DąbrowskiegoPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 81 (1): 127-137. 2012.
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Wiedenskie lata Kazimierza TwardowskiegoFilozofia Nauki 17 (3). 2009.Kazimierz Twardowski was born in Vienna in 1866 and spent there almost thirty years - before removal to Lvov in 1895. However, the Viennese period of Twardowski's life is relatively poorly known. The article aims at throwing light on Twardowski's activities in Vienna. It is based on archival documents found in Viennese and Warsaw archives and libraries
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Chapter XVI. Questions in Didactic TestsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 331-342
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Chapter VI. The Structure of Natural-Language QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 129-169Before presenting the analysis of logical form of questions, I shall make some comments concerning questions in natural language. By utilizing examples of such questions I shall try to justify my conception of the semiotic function of questions and provide a basis for my analysis of their structure. One of the main aims of this chapter is to introduce definitions of erotetic concepts which I will use in the subsequent parts of the book and to sketch definitional connections between elements of t…Read more
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Kwadrat, zys i Trygław czyli o Jacka Jadackiego koncepcji semantycznej funkcji nazwFilozofia Nauki 1. 2007.The article contains the results of the analysis of concepts connected with semantic functions of names. The conception of Jacek Jadacki, exposed in his "Spór o granice jezyka" ("Controversy on the limits of language"), is the point of departure of this analysis. The following theses are formulated and argued for. (1) There are two basic semantic functions of names: the referential and the descriptive one. The first function consists in indicating some objects; the second one consists in ascribi…Read more
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Chapter V. The Communicative Function of QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 101-127. 2015.
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19Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School : Ideas and Continuations (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2015.The volume aims to show the variety of research currents of the Lvov-Warsaw School and the ways in which these currents are developed today. The content of the book is divided into three parts: “Logic and Semiotics”, “Metaphysics and Ontology”, and “Psychology and Sociology”.
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Chapter XIV. Psychological Analysis of QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 307-314
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Optymalizacja terminologii naukowej (Na przykiadzie terminologii muzykologicznej)Studia Philosophiae Christianae 41 (1): 73-101. 2005.
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A Generalized Notion Of ReasoningStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 7 (1): 105-119. 2012.The article proposes some extension of the concept of reasoning that includes also operations on interrogative sentences and imperative sentences , or rather on their contents — interrogations and prescriptions. Key words REASONING
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6Knowledge, Language and Silence: Selected Papers (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2016.Izydora Dąmbska was a Polish philosopher; a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, and his last assistant. The present volume includes twenty eight translations of her representative papers.
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188Theory of Imperatives from Different Points of View (2) (edited book)Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper. 2013.The previous volume of the series Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science at Warsaw University---entitled Imperatives from Different Points of View---was the first result of the project Theory of Imperatives and Its Applications realized by the group composed by Anna Brożek, Jacek Jadacki and Berislav Žarnić. The project was supported by the Foundation for Polish Science within the program Homing Plus. One of the most important points of this project was the International Symposium Imperati…Read more