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4Effects of expectations and sensory unreliability on voice detection – A preregistered studyConsciousness and Cognition 123 (C): 103718. 2024.
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132Therapeutic Chatbots as Cognitive-Affective ArtifactsTopoi 1-13. forthcoming.Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) systems (also known as AI “chatbots”) are among the most promising examples of the use of technology in mental health care. With already millions of users worldwide, CAI is likely to change the landscape of psychological help. Most researchers agree that existing CAIs are not “digital therapists” and using them is not a substitute for psychotherapy delivered by a human. But if they are not therapists, what are they, and what role can they play in ment…Read more
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557From Wide Cognition to Mechanisms: A Silent RevolutionFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.In this paper, we argue that several recent ‘wide’ perspectives on cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive, and distributed) are only partially relevant to the study of cognition. While these wide accounts override traditional methodological individualism, the study of cognition has already progressed beyond these proposed perspectives towards building integrated explanations of the mechanisms involved, including not only internal submechanisms but also interactions with others, groups…Read more
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477Waiting for a digital therapist: three challenges on the path to psychotherapy delivered by artificial intelligenceFrontiers in Psychiatry 14 (1190084): 1-12. 2023.Growing demand for broadly accessible mental health care, together with the rapid development of new technologies, trigger discussions about the feasibility of psychotherapeutic interventions based on interactions with Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI). Many authors argue that while currently available CAI can be a useful supplement for human-delivered psychotherapy, it is not yet capable of delivering fully fledged psychotherapy on its own. The goal of this paper is to investigate wh…Read more
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399Therapeutic Conversational Artificial Intelligence and the Acquisition of Self-understandingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (5): 59-61. 2023.In their thought-provoking article, Sedlakova and Trachsel (2023) defend the view that the status—both epistemic and ethical—of Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) used in psychotherapy is complicated. While therapeutic CAI seems to be more than a mere tool implementing particular therapeutic techniques, it falls short of being a “digital therapist.” One of the main arguments supporting the latter claim is that even though “the interaction with CAI happens in the course of conversation……Read more
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8Logic in theology (edited book)Copernicus Center Press. 2013.This collection of essays - written by philosophers, logicians, and theologians - is devoted to the problem of the utilization of logic in theological discourse. Viewed from the perspective of logic, the issues covered include such topics as the logic of miracles, the problem of God's omniscience, the application of non-classical logics to theology, and the relationships between science and theology.
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72Explanations in cognitive science: unification versus pluralismSynthese 199 (Suppl 1): 1-17. 2020.The debate between the defenders of explanatory unification and explanatory pluralism has been ongoing from the beginning of cognitive science and is one of the central themes of its philosophy. Does cognitive science need a grand unifying theory? Should explanatory pluralism be embraced instead? Or maybe local integrative efforts are needed? What are the advantages of explanatory unification as compared to the benefits of explanatory pluralism? These questions, among others, are addressed in th…Read more
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36Foundations of geometric cognitionRoutledge. 2019.The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathematical cognition researchers. Foundations of Geometric Cognition shows that basic geometric skills are deeply hardwired in the visuospatial cognitive capacities of our brains, namely spatial navigation and object recognition. These capacities, shared with non-human animals and appearing in early stages of the human ontogeny, cannot, however, fully expl…Read more
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Mechanisms in psychology: The road towards unity?Theory & Psychology 29 (5). 2019.The focus of this special issue of Theory & Psychology is on explanatory mechanisms in psychology, especially on problems of particular prominence for psychological science such as theoretical integration and unification. Proponents of the framework of mechanistic explanation claim, in short, that satisfactory explanations in psychology and related fields are causal. They stress the importance of explaining phenomena by describing mechanisms that are responsible for them, in particular by elucid…Read more
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55Cognitive Artifacts for Geometric ReasoningFoundations of Science 24 (4): 657-680. 2019.In this paper, we focus on the development of geometric cognition. We argue that to understand how geometric cognition has been constituted, one must appreciate not only individual cognitive factors, such as phylogenetically ancient and ontogenetically early core cognitive systems, but also the social history of the spread and use of cognitive artifacts. In particular, we show that the development of Greek mathematics, enshrined in Euclid’s Elements, was driven by the use of two tightly intertwi…Read more
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596Replicability or reproducibility? On the replication crisis in computational neuroscience and sharing only relevant detailJournal of Computational Neuroscience 3 (45): 163-172. 2018.Replicability and reproducibility of computational models has been somewhat understudied by “the replication movement.” In this paper, we draw on methodological studies into the replicability of psychological experiments and on the mechanistic account of explanation to analyze the functions of model replications and model reproductions in computational neuroscience. We contend that model replicability, or independent researchers' ability to obtain the same output using original code and data, an…Read more
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13Biopsychologiczne podstawy poznania geometrycznegoPhilosophical Problems in Science 64 137-165. 2018.In this review-paper, I focus on biopsychological foundations of geometric cognition. Starting from the Kant’s views on mathematics, I attempt to show that contemporary cognitive scientists, alike the famous philosopher, recognize mutual relationships of visuospatial processing and geometric cognition. What I defend is a claim that Tinbergen’s explanatory questions are the most fruitful tool for explaining our “hardwired,” and thus shared with other animals, Euclidean intuitions, which manifest …Read more
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39Roger Penrose's quantization of the mind (Rogera Penrose'a kwantowanie umyslu)Filozofia Nauki 17 (3 (67)). 2009.
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8The many faces of normativity (edited book)Copernicus Center Press. 2013.The contributions in this book deal with the issue of normativity from various academic and scientific perspectives. The reader will learn how phenomena - such as norms, morality, and rule-following - are described and explained in philosophy, biology, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. In addition, a discussion of the naturalistic fallacy, from philosophical and ethical perspectives, is included.
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Teoria względności Einsteina na tle rozważań metodologicznych Leona ChwistkaFilozofia Nauki 19 (3): 107--125. 2011.Leon Chwistek (1884-1944) was a Professor of Mathematical Logic at the Lviv University, but also philosopher, theoretician of modern art and avant-garde painter. The present article deals with the reception of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity (SR) according to Leon Chwistek. Firstly, Chwistek’s life and philosophical views are presented. Particular attention is paid to the following issues: the theory of the multiplicity of realities, the problem of idealism in the context of philo…Read more
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Czy potrzebna nam teoria fundamentalna? Refleksje na temat teorii świadomości Davida ChalmersaZagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce 49. 2011.
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26Language as a Tool. An Insight From Cognitive ScienceStudia Humana 4 (2): 16-25. 2015.In this paper it has been argued that the theory of conceptual maps developed recently by Paul M. Churchland provides support for Wittgenstein’s claim that language is a tool for acting in the world. The role of language is to coordinate and shape the conceptual maps of the members of the given language community, reducing the cross-individual cognitive idiosyncrasies and paving the way for joint cognitive enterprises. Moreover, Churchland’s theory also explains our tendency to speak of language…Read more
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303Rogera Penrose'a kwantowanie umysłuFilozofia Nauki 17 (3): 67. 2009.The modeling of the human mind based on quantum effects has been gaining considerable interest due to the intriguing possibility of applying non-local interactions in the studies of consciousness. Inasmuch as the majority of the pertinent studies are restricted to the exclusive analysis of mental phenomena, the quantum model of mind proposed by Roger Penrose constitutes a part of a much larger scheme of the ultimate unification of physics. Penrose's efforts to find the 'missing science of consci…Read more
Areas of Interest
Cognitive Sciences |
Psychology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Mathematics |