• Philosophy and Logic: In Search of the Polish Tradition. Essays in Honor of Jan Wole’Nski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (edited book)
    with J. Hintikka, T. Czarnecki, A. Rojszczak, and T. Placek
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003.
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    The polysemy of proper names
    Philosophical Studies 180 (10): 2897-2935. 2023.
    Proper names are usually considered devices of singular reference but, when considered as word-types, they also exhibit other kinds of uses. In this paper I intend to show that systematic kinds of uses of proper names considered as word-types can be accounted for by a generalized rule-based conception of systematic polysemy, one which not only postulates a multiplicity of stable senses for an expression, but also a multiplicity of content generating rules, each of which determines potentially di…Read more
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    The Lvov-Warsaw school and contemporary philosophy (edited book)
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1998.
    This collection celebrates the centenary of the Lvov-Warsaw school, established by Kazimierz Twardowski in Lvov in 1895.
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    Names of places
    Semiotica 2021 (240): 187-210. 2021.
    The thesis advanced in this paper is that the proper names of cities or countries inherit the linguistic types of the nouns which denote the basic category of the objects the names refer to. As a result, in the case of the proper names of cities or countries, a reference by those names may select particular aspects of those objects, in the same way that book or newspaper selects the physical or informational aspects of objects in the extension of the nouns. This view is based on Asher’s and Pust…Read more
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    Descriptive Indexicals, Deferred Reference, and Anaphora
    Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 62 (1): 25-52. 2020.
    The objectives of this paper are twofold. The first is to present a differentiation between two kinds of deferred uses of indexicals: those in which indexical utterances express singular propositions (I term them deferred reference proper) and those where they express general propositions (called descriptive uses of indexicals). The second objective is the analysis of the descriptive uses of indexicals. In contrast to Nunberg, who treats descriptive uses as a special case of deferred reference i…Read more
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    Indexicals and Names in Proverbs
    Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 46 (1): 59-78. 2016.
    This paper offers an analysis of indexical expressions and proper names as they are used in proverbs. Both indexicals and proper names contribute properties rather than objects to the propositions expressed when they are used in sentences interpreted as proverbs. According to the proposal, their contribution is accounted for by the mechanism of descriptive anaphora. Indexicals with rich linguistic meaning, such as ‘I’, ‘you’ or ‘today’, turn out to be cases of the attributive uses of indexicals,…Read more
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    The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy
    with Jan Wole Nski
    Springer Verlag. 1998.
    Contains papers from a November 1995 conference held in Eastern Europe, celebrating the centenary of the Lvov-Warsaw school of analytic philosophy. Papers deal with all directions of research undertaken by Polish analytic philosophers. Special attention is paid to logic and comparisons with other philosophical movements, particularly with brentanism. Contains sections on history and comparisons, the ideas of Lesniewski, philosophy of language, logic and the foundations of mathematics, logic and …Read more
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    Can minimalism about truth embrace polysemy?
    Synthese 195 (3): 955-985. 2018.
    Paul Horwich is aware of the fact that his theory as stated in his works is directly applicable only to a language in which a word, understood as a syntactic type, is connected with exactly one literal meaning. Yet he claims that the theory is expandable to include homonymy and indexicality and thus may be considered as applicable to natural language. My concern in this paper is with yet another kind of ambiguity—systematic polysemy—that assigns multiple meanings to one linguistic type. I want t…Read more
  • „Referencja przeniesiona”
    Przegląd Filozoficzny 3 (75): 77-97. 2010.
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    Book Reviews (review)
    Studia Logica 68 (3): 389-420. 2001.
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    Descriptive Indexicals and Epistemic Modality
    Topoi 36 (1): 161-170. 2017.
    In this paper I argue for a non-referential interpretation of some uses of indexicals embedded under epistemic modals. The so-called descriptive uses of indexicals come in several types and it is argued that those embedded within the scope of modal operators do not require non-referential interpretation, provided the modality is interpreted as epistemic. I endeavor to show that even if we allow an epistemic interpretation of modalities, the resulting interpretation will still be inadequate as lo…Read more
  • Descriptive uses of indexicals result in expressing a general proposition instead of a singular proposition, which is typical for indexicals. In contrast to Nunberg's and Recanati's proposals, who treat such uses of indexicals as referring, the conception developed in the paper is a quasi-anaphoric interpretation of descriptive uses of indexicals. In the quasi-anaphoric mechanism an indexical expression inherits its semantic properties from its antecedent, but - in contrast to classical anaphora…Read more
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    Truth As Consensus. A Logical Analysis
    In Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Jan Woleński (eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 343--353. 1998.
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    He is usually an Italian, but he isn't
    Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (2): 226-234. 2011.