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Garetha Evansa dowód sprzeczności nieostrej identycznościPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 45 (1): 61-79. 2003.
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A Modern Version of Relativism about TruthFilozofia Nauki 19 (4). 2011.In the paper I describe John MacFarlane’s version of relativism about truth. I begin by discussing Twardowski’s (1900) and Kokoszynska’s (1948; 1951) arguments against relativism. They think — just as Haack does (see 2011) — that sentences may be relatively true, if they are incomplete, but once they are completed they become true (or false) absolutely. MacFarlane distinguishes between nonindexical contextualism (which was anticipated by Kokoszynska (sic!)) and relativism which requires the intr…Read more
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Czy wiedza jest zależna od kontekstu? Kontekstualizm a inwariantyzm praktycznyFilozofia Nauki 17 (4). 2009.Semantic contextualism claims that sentences ascribing knowledge or lack thereof (sentences like "S knows that p" and "S doesn't know that p") are context dependent: they express different propositions in different contexts of utterance. "Knows that" is either indexical or elliptical and refers to different relations in different circumstances. Invariantism argues in turn that the knowing relation is just one and the proposition expressed by a given knowledge ascription does not depend on contex…Read more
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To jezioro jest głębokie – uwagi do Justyny Grudzińskiej koncepcji jednostkowych złożonych wyrażeń okazjonalnychPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 73. 2010.
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On the Notion of IdentityPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 89 (1): 143-167. 2006.
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1Is Knowledge Context-Sensitive? Contextualism vs Interest-Relative InvariantismFilozofia Nauki 17 (4): 95. 2009.
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36Vagueness and contextualismIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Objects of Inquiry in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Ontos Verlag. pp. 1--169. 2010.
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O pragmatycznej koncepcji nieostrości - krytyczniePrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 45 (1): 233-239. 2003.
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Vagueness in natural languageIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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5Krytycyzm a polisemia, nieostrość i zależność kontekstowaRoczniki Filozoficzne 71 (2): 315-334. 2023.W artykule zwracam uwagę na trudności jakie napotyka ktoś, kto chce wcielać w życie postulaty krytycyzmu dotyczące precyzji językowej. Zgodnie z tymi postulatami powinno się mówić jednoznacznie i precyzyjnie, a zatem unikać wyrażeń wieloznacznych, nieostrych i chwiejnych znaczeniowo. Jednakże postulaty te jest znacznie trudniej spełnić niż mogłoby się wydawać, bowiem istotne wątpliwości dotyczą samych zjawisk niejasności, nieostrości czy wieloznaczności. Wydaje się, że chcąc nauczyć innych unika…Read more
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8Uncovering Facts and Values: Studies in Contemporary Epistemology and Political Philosophy (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2016.
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77Do we need a new theory of truthmaking? Some comments on Disjunction Thesis, Conjunction Thesis, Entailment Principle and explanationPhilosophical Studies 165 (2): 591-604. 2013.In the paper we discuss criticisms against David Armstrong’s general theory of truthmaking by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Peter Schulte and Benjamin Schnieder, and conclude that Armstrong’s theory survives these criticisms. Special attention is given to the problems concerning Entailment Principle, Conjunction Thesis, Disjunction Thesis and to the notion of explanation
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104Don’t be deceived: bald-faced lies are deceitful assertionsSynthese 201 (6): 1-21. 2023.The traditional conception of lying, according to which to lie is to make an assertion with an intention to deceive the hearer, has recently been put under pressure by the phenomenon of bald-faced lies i.e. utterances that _prima facie_ look like lies but because of their blatancy allegedly lack the accompanying intention to deceive. In this paper we propose an intuitive way of reconciling the phenomenon of bald-faced lies with the traditional conception by suggesting that the existing analyses …Read more
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23The Agreement-Based Tests for Context SensitivityLodz Papers in Pragmatics 7 (2): 241-258. 2011.The Agreement-Based Tests for Context Sensitivity In my paper, I present and discuss Cappelen and Lepore's context sensitivity tests, which appeal to says-that reports. In Relativism and Monadic Truth Cappelen and Hawthorne criticize those tests and propose agreement-based tests instead. I argue that such tests do not fare much better. The original Cappelen and Lepore's tests presupposed a minimal notion of says-that. One might postulate a parallel notion of "thin" agreement, according to which …Read more
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2Vagueness and ContextualismIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: Volume I: The Formal Turn; Volume II: The Philosophical Turn, De Gruyter. pp. 169-182. 2010.
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23Spicy, tall, and metalinguistic negotiationsTopoi 42 (4): 1017-1026. 2023.In this paper I argue that metalinguistic negotiations are not as common as David Plunkett and Timothy Sundell assume. They make two related controversial claims: the claim that speakers don’t know what they say and the claim that they directly communicate metalinguistic contents. These two claims generate two challenges that the metalinguistic-negotiation view should meet. Firstly, it should clarify why speakers are oblivious to what they are saying and communicating, and secondly, it should ex…Read more
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35Paraconsistent vs. Contextual Solutions to SoritesPolish Journal of Philosophy 7 (2): 21-36. 2013.In my paper I argue that a successful theory of vagueness should be able to account for faultless disagreement concerning borderline cases.Firstly, I claim that out of the traditional conceptions of vagueness the best equipped to account for faultless disagreement areparaconsistent solutions. One worry concerning dialetheism is that it seems to allow not only for faultless disagreements between different speakers, but also for such ‘disagreements’ between the given speaker and himself. Another w…Read more
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3Subsentential Speech Acts, the Argument from Connectivity, and Situated ContextualismIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophical Insights Into Pragmatics, De Gruyter. pp. 143-162. 2019.
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17Niezdaniowe akty mowy: między elipsą a niewzbogaconą usytuowaną illokucjąRoczniki Filozoficzne 66 (2): 107-127. 2018.Niezdaniowe akty mowy to przynajmniej pozornie niezdaniowe wypowiedzi, za których pomocą mówiący dokonują pewnych aktów illokucyjnych: stwierdzają, pytają, proszą itp. Wśród teoretyków zajmujących się takimi wypowiedziami można wskazać zwolenników podejścia, które głosi, że większość takich wypowiedzi tojednak — wbrew pozorom — wypowiedzi zdaniowe (elipsy), oraz zwolenników stanowiska, zgodnie z którym treść takich wypowiedzi musi być bezpośrednio wzbogacona z kontekstu za pomocą procesów pragma…Read more
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52Gareth evans's argument against vague identityLogic and Logical Philosophy 12 (n/a): 317-339. 2003.In the paper Evans’s argument concerning indeterminate identity statements is presented and discussed. Evans’s paper in which he formulated his argument is one of the most frequently discussed papers concerning identity. There are serious doubts concerning what Evans wanted to prove by his argument. Theorists have proposed two competing and incompatible interpretations. According to some, Evans purposefully constructed an invalid argument in order to demonstrate that the vague objects view canno…Read more
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16Functional logical semiotics of natural languageSemiotica 2021 (240): 5-22. 2021.In the first part of my paper I briefly present Jerzy Pelc’s functional approach to logical semiotics of natural language. This approach focuses on the use of natural language expressions and on its dependence on context and conversational situation. One of the important goals of this analysis is to appreciate the role of sentences in natural language and stress that it is by means of sentences that language fulfills its main roles. However, for Pelc almost any expression can be used as a senten…Read more
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24Heaps and gluts: Paraconsistent logic applied to vaguenessLogic and Logical Philosophy 7 (n/a): 179. 1999.This paper is an attempt to show that the subvaluation theory isnot a good theory of vagueness. It begins with a short review of supervaluation and subvaluation theories and procedes to evaluate the subvaluation theory. Subvaluationism shares all the main short-comings of supervaluationism.Moreover, the solution to the sorites paradox proposed by subvaluationists isnot satisfactory. There is another solution which subvaluationists could availthemselves of, but it destroys the whole motivation fo…Read more
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30Faultless and Genuine Disagreement over Vague PredicatesTheoria 87 (1): 152-166. 2021.In this article I propose a view which explains how it is possible that the disagreement concerning clear cases of a given vague predicate is genuine, whereas that concerning borderline cases is faultless. I take the possibility of faultless disagreement concerning borderline cases to be an important characteristic of vague predicates and in my view any adequate theory of vagueness should account for it. My proposal might be called “contextual supervaluationism” and it is inspired by Kölbel's re…Read more
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12Conventions of Usage vs. Meaning ConventionsPolish Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 51-65. 2016.In this paper I criticise some aspects of the view that Ernie Lepore and Mathew Stone propose in their book Imagination and Convention. I concentrate on their analysis of indirect speech acts and contrast it with the view held by Searle. I point out some problems that arise for Lepore and Stone’s ambiguity view and argue that admitting conventions of usage that are not meaning conventions allows one to avoid postulating global ambiguity, which in my opinion threatens the view proposed in Imagina…Read more
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31Does the Twin-Earth argument rest on a fallacy of equivocation?Semiotica 2012 (188): 347-356. 2012.