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51How To Get Rid of ClosureDiametros 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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43Stanowisko nieredukcyjne w sporze o tożsamość osobowąDiametros 57 23-38. 2018.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
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38Two approaches to the problem of universals by J. M. BocheńskiStudies 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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30Teoria części czasowych – tezy i argumentacjeFilozofia 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
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16'Four-Dimensionalism' - An Analysis and InterpretationFilozofia 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
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13Argumenty na rzecz nieredukcyjnego ujęcia tożsamości osobowejAnaliza I Egzystencja 34 5-28. 2016.
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11Anioł Dowigird wobec filozofii KantaStudia Z Historii Filozofii 5 (3): 129-144. 2014.The paper aims at presenting Dowgird’s attitude toward various topics in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant – its main objective is to specify and characterise those of Dowgird’s convictions which are of a direct relevance to the issues posed within transcendental idealism. The paper delivers the most important information concerning Dowgird’s life, a general outline of his philosophical conceptions against the background of Polish Enlightenment philosophy, and – in the main part – an articulation …Read more
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11Prospects for an Animalistically Oriented Simple ViewIn Bartłomiej Skowron (ed.), Contemporary Polish Ontology, De Gruyter. pp. 25-50. 2019.
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Przeciw ewentyzmowi punktowemu. W hołdzie Profesorowi Zdzisławowi AugustynkowiFilozofia Nauki 4. 2006.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
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Incendium philosophiaeFilozofia 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
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'Four-Dimensionalism' - analiza i interpretacjaFilozofia Nauki 1. 2007.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
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Argument z superweniencji a niekonstruktywny naturalizmFilozofia Nauki 3. 2008.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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Metoda parafraz semantycznych a zagadnienie idealizmuPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 37 (1): 95-111. 2001.
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Events and Moments. An Outline of the Non-eventistic InterpretationFilozofia Nauki 19 (1): 39. 2011.
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Czeżowski et al. on persistenceIn Anna Brożek & Jacek Juliusz Jadacki (eds.), At the Sources of the Twentieth-Century Analytical Movement: Kazimierz Twardowski and His Position in European Philosophy, Brill. 2022.
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Analiza krytyczna pojęcia rzeczy w ontologii ewentyzmu punktowegoPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 53 (1): 107-120. 2005.
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Zdarzenia i momenty. Schemat interpretacji nieewentystycznejFilozofia Nauki 19 (1). 2011.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
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Aksjomatyczne definicje genidentycznościFilozofia Nauki 19 (1). 2011.The main aim of the paper is to revive Zdzisław Augustynek's attempts to define the relation of genidentity. The text embraces the following issues: (i) a presentation of three axiomatic definitions of genidentity; (ii) a reconstruction of the definitions in question in the language of the predicate calculus; (iii) a supplementing the above reconstruction by appropriate proofs; (iv) an analysis of the selected methodological and ontological assumptions of the discussed systems; (v) a comparison …Read more
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Teoria obiektów abstrakcyjnych Edwarda N. Zalty. Analiza i krytykaFilozofia Nauki 1. 2005.The paper offers a sketchy reconstruction of axiomatic foundations of Zalta's theory of abstract objects. The theory is based on Ernst Mally's distinction between two types of predication: an exemplification of properties and an encoding of properties. The author shows how the theory in question could be used to reconstruct in a satisfying way many other metaphysical theories e.g. the theory of Platonic Forms, the theory of situations, the theory of possible worlds. The paper also provides sever…Read more
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