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If in doubt, treat’em equally: a case study in the application of formal methods to ethicsIn Tadeusz Czarnecki, Katarzyna Kijanija-Placek, Olga Poller & Jan Wolenski (eds.), The Analytical Way, College Publications. pp. 219-243. 2010.Presumption of Equality requires that individuals be treated equally in the absence of relevant information that would discriminate between them. Our objective is to make this principle more precise, if viewed as a principle of fairness, and to determine why and under what conditions it should be obeyed. Presumption norms are procedural constraints, but their justification can be sought in the possible or expected outcomes of the procedures they regulate. This is the avenue pursued here. The sug…Read more
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Naturalizm, antynaturalizm i metaetykaFolia Philosophica 29 241--256. 2011.The paper deals with dispute between naturalism and antinaturalism in meta-ethics. Different standpoints are discussed, especially those of cognitivism, non-cognitivism and emotivism, which leads to certain typology. The author introduces the category of bonitive statements, statements concerning the good, which logic is analogous to the one which determinates relations between deontic statemens. Generalized Hume’s argument on the axiological statements as impossible to be derived from non-axiol…Read more
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6Book Reviews (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 13 (1): 115-132. 1992.Al-Farahr’s commentarv and short treatise on Aristotle’s De interpretatione. Introduction and translation from Arabic by F. Zimmerman. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1987. clii + 287 pp. of English. £22.50 Johann Andreas Segner, Specimen logicae universaliter demonstrate. Appendices: Two dissertations De syllogismo. Edited by Mirella Capozzi. Bologna: Editrice CLUEB, 1990. clxxii + 281 pp. 85 000 Lire M. Borga, P. Fregugua And D. Palladino, I contribua fond…Read more
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4Book Reviews (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 9 (1): 107-129. 1988.MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LOGICSMARK D. JOHNSTON, The spiritual logic of Ramon Llull. Oxford: Clarendon Press,1987. xi + 336 pp. £35.00E. J. ASHWORTH, Thomas Bricot: Tractatus Znsolubilium. Nijmegen: Ingenium, 1986. xxiii+ 155 pp. 44 Dfl.CYPRIANI REGNERI, Demonstratio logicae verae iuridica. Edited by G. Kalinowski. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 1986. xxviii + 167 pp. No price stated.GIROLAMO SACCHERI, Euclides vindicatus. Edited and translated by George Bruce Hals…Read more
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Tarski his Polish predecessors on TruthIn Douglas Patterson (ed.), New essays on Tarski and philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 21--43. 2008.
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12Legal Reasoning and LogicStudia Humana 13 (3): 18-22. 2024.This paper investigates the basis arguments of so-called legal logic and their relation to logic in its standard meaning. There is no doubt that legal arguments belong to logic in the wide sense (sensu largo), but their reduction to schemes of formal logic (logica sensu stricto) is a controversial issue. It can be demonstrated that only some legal arguments fall under explicit rules of formal logic, that is, having a deductive character. Most such reasoning is fallible, and its correctness depen…Read more
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3Logic in Poland in the 20th CenturyStudia Humana 13 (1): 1-4. 2024.After Poland gained independence in 1918, logic developed very quickly both as a scientific direction and as a taught discipline. This introduction to the special issue “Logic in Poland in the 20th Century,” published in Volume 13:1 (2024) and Volume 13:2 (2024), provides the historical context for the development of logic in the interwar period.
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8Logic and Metalogic: a Historical SketchStudia Humana 13 (1): 39-44. 2024.This paper briefly discusses the relations between logic and metalogic in history. Metalogic is understood as a reflection on logic in its various senses, particularly sensu stricto (formal, mathematical) and sensu largo (formal logic plus semantic plus methodology of science). It is shown that metalogic in its contemporary understanding arose after mathematical logic had become a mature discipline. Special passage is devoted to metalogic in Poland. The last part of the paper discussed so-called…Read more
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5Pamięć zbiorowa jako alibiActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica-Aesthetica-Practica 29 21--36. 2017.Przedmiotem artykułu jest pojęcie pamięci zbiorowej, rozpatrywanej przez pryzmat ‘historii przeżytej’ – występującej w dwu postaciach: ‘przeżytej w sensie przedmiotowym’ i ‘przeżytej w sensie treściowym’ – oraz ‘historii zobiektywizowanej’. Uwzględniając polskie kontrowersje wokół książek Jana Tomasza Grossa: Sąsiedzi. Historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka i Strach. Antysemityzm w Polsce tuż po wojnie, autor kwestionuje pojęcie jednolitej pamięci zbiorowej i jej normatywne roszczenia. Pamięć k…Read more
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25Polish Logicians on Social Functions of LogicHistory and Philosophy of Logic 45 (1): 70-80. 2024.The paper examines the interplays between logic and politics in the Polish School of Logic starting from 1914. The Polish School of Logic flourished between 1920 and 1939. Philosophically, it was influenced by Kazimierz Twardowski (1866–1938). For Twardowski logic is fundamental for every kind of human activity, professional and private and this means that every argument should be formulated and proceed by correct inferential rules. These rules involve semiotics, formal logic and methodology of …Read more
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3Uwagi o książce o krucjatach marksistów przeciwko Lwowskiej Szkole FilozoficznejPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 107-125. 2022.
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16The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy. Kaziemierz Twardowski’s philosophical legacy (edited book)Springer. 2009.This volume portrays the Polish or Lvov-Warsaw School, one of the most influential schools in analytic philosophy, which, as discussed in the thorough introduction, presented an alternative working picture of the unity of science.
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29Tradition 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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6Oskar Becker i logika modalna (S. Centrone, P. Minari, Oskar Becker, On the Logic of Modalities (1930): Translation, Commentary and Analysis, Cham 2022) (review)Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 123-128. 2022.
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12Poincaré and Logic of NormsPhilosophia Scientiae 207-213. forthcoming.This paper presents and discusses Henri Poincaré’s view on the logical non-derivability of imperatives from indicatives. Firstly, his point of view is compared with David Hume’s. Then Poincaré’s thesis is shown to have been implicitly or explicitly essential to attempts to build a logic of imperatives (norms) as a special linguistic category as well as a deontic logic. The paper shows deontic logic enables us to formulate general principles concerning the logical separability of deonticals (sent…Read more
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65Handbook of Epistemology (edited book)Kluwer Academic. 2004.The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook, all by leading experts in the field, provide the most extensive treatment of various epistemological problems, ...
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Principia mathematica in PolandIn Nicholas Griffin & Bernard Linsky (eds.), The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica, Palgrave-macmillan. 2013.
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7The larger part of Yearbook 6 of the Institute Vienna Circle constitutes the proceedings of a symposium on Alfred Tarski and his influence on and interchanges with the Vienna Circle, especially those on and with Rudolf Carnap and Kurt Gödel. It is the first time that this topic has been treated on such a scale and in such depth. Attention is mainly paid to the origins, development and subsequent role of Tarski's definition of truth. Some contributions are primarily historical, others analyze log…Read more
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2Book Reviews (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 13 (2): 225-260. 1992.N. Denyer, Language, thought and falsehood in ancient Greek philosophy. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xi + 222 pp. £35.00 Luis Vega, La trama de la demostración.. Madrid: 1990, Alianza Editorial, 413 pp. No price stated Daniel D. Merrill, Augustus De Morgan and the logic of relations. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. xi + 259 pp. Dfl. 185/$ 114.00/£64.00 Georg Cantor, Briefe. Edited by Herbert Meschkowski and Winfried Nilson. Berlin, etc: Springer‐Verlag, 1991, viii + 535 pp. DM 158. The selecte…Read more
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4Metatheory of Logics and the Characterization ProblemIn Dale Jacquette (ed.), A Companion to Philosophical Logic, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Logic via Consequence Operation and Semantics Metalogic, Syntax and Semantics The Characterization Problem for First‐order Logic Final Remarks.
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1Logic, Right to Unbelief and FreedomIn Dariusz Łukasiewicz & Roger Pouivet (eds.), The Right to Believe: Perspectives in Religious Epistemology, De Gruyter. pp. 141-148. 2011.
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3The Status of Church’s ThesisIn Adam Olszewski, Jan Wolenski & Robert Janusz (eds.), Church's Thesis After 70 Years, Ontos Verlag. pp. 310-330. 2006.
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13Walter P. Van stigt: Brouwer’s intuitionism. (= Studies in the history and philosophy of mathematics, vol. II.) amsterdam/new york/oxford/tokyo: North Holland 1990, XXVI + 530pp (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 41 (1): 249-250. 1991.
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9What is Formal in Formal Semantics?Dialectica 58 (3): 427-436. 2004.Formal semantics is understood either as a formal analysis of semantical features of natural language or as model‐theoretic semantics of formal languages. This paper focuses on the second understanding. The problem is how to identify the formal aspects of formal semantics, if we understand ‘formal’as ‘independent of content’. This is done by showing that the form of semantical interpretation of a language L is given by its syntax and the parallelism of the signature of L and its interpretative s…Read more
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