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    Status argumentacji transcendentalnej
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 131-160. 2019.
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    Myśli o języku, nauce i wartościach (edited book)
    with Witold Strawiński, Anna Brożek, Jacek Juliusz Jadacki, and Stanisław Moryto
    Wydawn. Nauk. Semper. 2006.
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    Prospects for an Animalistically Oriented Simple View
    In Bartłomiej Skowron (ed.), Contemporary Polish Ontology, De Gruyter. pp. 25-50. 2019.
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    Inwariantyzm a transcendentyzm
    Filozofia Nauki 27 (1): 49-71. 2019.
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    In the debate on personal identity, different criteria of identity are proposed and defended. The criteria of identity have usually been taken to state the necessary and sufficient conditions of identity and are interpreted as providing truth conditions for relevant identity statements. The Simple View of personal identity is the thesis that there are no noncircular and informative metaphysical criteria of identity for persons. The paper intends to first deliver a precise and general formulation…Read more
  • The paper is an attempt to formulate some consequences of the metaphysical doctrine of mereological essentialism (ME) and the assumption that persons persisting through time remain identical in the strict and philosophical sense (Chisholm, following Butler and Reid). Those consequences are substantiality , non-constitutivity , constantiality , anti-identism ( non-bodility ), and simplicity of persons. The author tries to show that although the above stance has a great theoretical appeal, it lead…Read more
  • Eliminatywizm i artefakty
    Filozofia Nauki 18 (3). 2010.
    The paper provides an answer to Paweł Garbacz's article Problem of Artefact's Existence, which is a critique of eliminativistic views presented in my book Identyczność i trwanie. Studium ontologiczne (Identity and Persistence. An Ontological Study). In the text crucial objections formulated by Garbacz are reconstructed and carefully discussed
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    Two approaches to the problem of universals by J. M. Bocheński
    Studies in East European Thought 65 (1-2): 27-42. 2013.
    The main aim of the paper is to reconstruct and analyse two methodological approaches to the problem of universals, presented in Bocheński’s papers “Powszechniki jako treści cech w filozofii św. Tomasza z Akwinu” and “The Problem of Universals.” It is argued that, although these approaches are rather different from historical and methodological points of view, they are still based on the same ontological ground, viz. on immanent realism. The article provides a detailed analysis and comparison of…Read more
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    How To Get Rid of Closure
    Diametros 48 1-17. 2016.
    Sophie Gibb has recently invented a very interesting strategy against Kim’s causal exclusion argument. This strategy adopts the powers theory of causation and an interpretation of mental causation in terms of double prevention. Gibb’s strategy results both in invalidating the principle of the causal closure of the physical domain in most of its formulations and in disarming the argument in question. In my paper, I present a general procedure for the opponents of reductive physicalism which enabl…Read more
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    Extreme and exotic theories of persistence
    Kwartalnik Filozoficzny 35 (3): 109-130. 2007.
  • W obronie mereologicznego esencjalizmu
    Filozofia Nauki 3. 2005.
    The paper is an attempt to defend the Chisholm's metaphysical doctrine called mereological essentialism. The main thesis of mereological essentialism states that for any objects x and y - if x is ever a part of y, then y is necessarily such that x is a part of y, i.e. that all parts of y are essential to it (y has them at any time that y exists). This radical theory gives a categorisation of all objects via entia per se and entia successiva. The paper contains a critical survey of the theory of …Read more
  • The ontological theory of point eventism appears in the Polish philosophical literature as Zdzisław Augustynek's original work, belonging to the glorious philosophical tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School. The author concentrates exclusively on "weak points" of Augustynek's eventism (skipping simultaneously all its unquestionable advantages); he examines basic notions and statements of the analysed doctrine. The main aim of this critical survey is to prepare a ground for a proper reconstruction o…Read more
  • Incendium philosophiae
    Filozofia Nauki 4. 2005.
    The text is a rejoinder to Mr. Wciórka's critical analysis of two author's arguments against nominalistic definition of abstract objects. The author shows that although his first argument is not sound, the second still remains correct. The paper also offers a modified definition of abstract objects inspired by E. N. Zalta's metaphysical theory of objects and some critical remarks, which Mr. Wciórka aimed at the earlier papers of the author
  • There are several faces of Four-Dimensionalism. Sometimes 4D-ism is formulated as the thesis that the material world is composed of spatial as well as temporal parts. Another version of 4D-ism states that persisting objects are extended over time in the same way that they are extended over space. Some Four-Dimensionalists defend the thesis that all objects persist by perduring i.e. by having different temporal parts at different times. Sometimes 4D-ism means the same as eternalism - the thesis t…Read more
  • In a series of influential articles Jaegwon Kim has developed strong arguments against nonreductive physicalism as a possible solution to the problem of mental causation. One of them is the Supervenience Argument which states that assuming the mental/physical supervenience thesis, the causal closure principle, the exclusion principle with the no-overdetermination requirement and property dualism we obtain the conclusion that mental causation is unintelligible. On the other hand Collin McGinn has…Read more
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    Teoria części czasowych – tezy i argumentacje
    Filozofia Nauki 17 (4). 2009.
    In the paper the most popular arguments in favour of the doctrine of temporal parts are presented and analysed. The author discusses the following arguments: (i) from analogy; (ii) from ontological parsimony; (iii) from intrinsic change; (iv) from mereological change; (v) against presentism; (vi) from time travel; (vii) from vagueness; (viii) from coincidence. The main aim of the paper is to show - in the light of examined arguments - that the 3D-ism/4D-ism equivalence thesis might be treated as…Read more
  • Metoda parafraz semantycznych a zagadnienie idealizmu
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 37 (1): 95-111. 2001.
  • Indywiduum
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 45 (1): 91-100. 2003.
  • Analiza krytyczna pojęcia rzeczy w ontologii ewentyzmu punktowego
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 53 (1): 107-120. 2005.
  • In the text Zdarzenia, rzeczy, procesy Zdzisław Augustynek argued against some versions of liberal reism that they are not able to deliver appropriate, non-circular definitions both of events and moments respectively. The main aim of the article is to show that the objection in question is not sound: indeed, we are vested with a proce-dure to find a way out from the indicated difficulty. In the text three forms of liberal reism are presented and their problems with the relevant definitions are a…Read more
  • Kotarbiński przeciw uniwersaliom
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 39 (3): 95-114. 2001.
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    'Four-Dimensionalism' - An Analysis and Interpretation
    Filozofia Nauki 15 (1): 105-120. 2007.
    There are several faces of Four-Dimensionalism (4D). Sometimes 4D is formulated as the thesis that the material world is composed of spatial as well as temporal parts. Another version of 4D states that persisting objects are extended over time in the same way that they are extended over space. Some Four-Dimensionalists defend the thesis that all objects persist by perduring i.e. by having different temporal parts at different times. Sometimes 4D means the same as eternalism - the thesis that pas…Read more