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Jozef Niznik

Polish Academy of Sciences
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphilosophy, Miscellaneous
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy, Miscellaneous
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    The Ideological Involvement of Philosophy1
    Metaphilosophy 25 (2‐3): 194-204. 2007.
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    The Philosophical Implications of the Use of the New Information Technologies
    Dialectics and Humanism 16 (2): 187-193. 1989.
    The author reflects on the peculiarity of European integration suggesting that its unique characteristics calls for a completely new approach which demands a great deal of creativity in our thinking. Such creativity is needed, first of all, in a very discourse applied to the European integration. Conceptual creativity must help us to depart from the centuries old ideas which do not allow us to see the specificity of the new political reality in Europe. Next, there is a need to overcome two dilem…Read more
  • O niektórych związkach filozofii i socjologii
    Humanistyka I Przyrodoznawstwo 5. 1999.
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    The ideological involvement of philosophy
    Metaphilosophy 25 (2-3): 194-204. 1994.
  •  84
    On Imperative of Creative Thinking about European Integration
    Dialogue and Universalism 17 (12): 95-100. 2007.
    The author reflects on the peculiarity of European integration suggesting that its unique characteristics calls for a completely new approach which demands a great deal of creativity in our thinking. Such creativity is needed, first of all, in a very discourse applied to the European integration. Conceptual creativity must help us to depart from the centuries old ideas which do not allow us to see the specificity of the new political reality in Europe. Next, there is a need to overcome two dilem…Read more
    Social and Political PhilosophyPolitical Theory
  •  136
    Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kołakowski (edited book)
    with John T. Sanders
    Praeger. 1996.
    This book consists of the edited proceedings of a debate among Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and Leszek Kolakowski that was held in Warsaw in May of 1995. It includes also commentary from those in attendance, including extensive remarks by Ernest Gellner. The debate marked the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and focussed primarily on topics related to historicism and cultural relativism.
    20th Century PhilosophyPhilosophy, Miscellaneous
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    What is truth?: in philosophy and in different scientific disciplines: proceedings of the symposium at the Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 3rd-4th June 2009 (edited book, review)
    with Hashi Hisaki
    Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 2011.
    Truth, Misc
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    Global Processes and the European Integration
    Dialogue and Universalism 9 (5-6): 51-58. 1999.
    Social and Political PhilosophyPolitical Theory
  • Filozofia jako początek
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 34 (2): 167-168. 2000.
  • The idea of rationality and the contemporary status of philosophy
    In Dane R. Gordon & Józef Niżnik (eds.), Criticism and Defense of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy, Rodopi. pp. 7--15. 1998.
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    Criticism and Defense of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy (edited book)
    with Dane R. Gordon
    Rodopi. 1998.
    This book engages in critical discussion of the role of reason and rationality in philosophy, the human mind, ethics, science, and the social sciences. Philosophers from Poland, Germany, and the United States examine reason in the light of emotion, doubt, absolutes, implementation, and interpretation. They throw new light on old values.
    RationalityEpistemic ConstructivismEthics