• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz On Science
    Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 6 (4): 97-110. 2011.
    The article presents an analysis of S.I. Witkiewicz’s views on science and its relations with philosophy. Science has its beginnig in a common view, Witkiewicz considers its statements as expressible in psychological terms. Witkiewicz combines the interest in natural science with simultaneous criticism of neo-positivism and physicalism. While speaking in favour of the dialogue between philosophy and science, he still underlines the autonomy of philosophy. Key words S.I. WITKIEWICZ, SCIENCE.
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    Complexity – emergence – ecological cognition
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (2): 108-121. 2012.
    The present article constitutes an attempt at a review of a few selected questions related to the complexity paradigm and its implications for research on cognition, especially within the so-called ecological approach framework. I propose several theses, among others concerning the two contrary tendencies within the dominant methodology (the propensity to search for simplicity and the growing emphasis on recognizing complexity), as well as the ontological consequences of the phenomenon under dis…Read more
  • Emergentyzm w filozofii biologii
    Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 9 (4). 2014.
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    Witkacego metafizyka cielesności
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 5 (1): 153-171. 2014.
    Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz is an author of a specific and original metaphysics of embodiment developed in the late 1930s. As a supporter of realism and opponent of any type of idealism, Witkiewicz found a kind of a "guarantee" of realism in the body. He proposed a "revised" version of Leibniz's monadology, where monads are no longer spiritual beings but psycho-bodily ones. A sense of embodiment became the primary sensation grounding the metaphysical realism of the author of Shoemakers. The arti…Read more
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz o nauce
    Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 97-110. 2011.