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2142Przyczyna i Wyjaśnianie: Studium Z Filozofii i Metodologii NaukWydawnictwo KUL. 2006.Przedmowa Problematyka związana z zależnościami przyczynowymi, ich modelowaniem i odkrywa¬niem, po długiej nieobecności w filozofii i metodologii nauk, budzi współcześnie duże zainteresowanie. Wiąże się to przede wszystkim z dynamicznym rozwojem, zwłaszcza od lat 1990., technik obli¬czeniowych. Wypracowane w tym czasie sieci bayesowskie uznaje się za matematyczny język przyczynowości. Pozwalają one na daleko idącą auto¬matyzację wnioskowań, co jest także zachętą do podjęcia prób algorytmiza¬cji …Read more
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907Bayesianizm w polskiej tradycji probabilizmu – studium stanowiska Kazimierza AjdukiewiczaRuch Filozoficzny 69 (1). 2012.Abstract The opening section outlines probabilism in the 20th century philosophy and shortly discusses the major accomplishments of Polish probabilist thinkers. A concise characterization of Bayesianism as the major recent form of probabilism follows. It builds upon the core personalist version of Bayesianism towards more objectively oriented versions thereof. The problem of a priori probability is shortly discussed. A tentative characterization of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s standpoint regarding t…Read more
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409Przyczynowość stanów mentalnych w modelach naukowych. Próba alternatywnego uzasadnienia antynaturalizmu eksplanacyjnego Urszuli ŻegleńIn Muszyński Zbysław (ed.), Umysł. Natura i sposób istnienia, Wydawnictwo Umcs. pp. 45-57. 2010.An antinaturalist defense of causality of mental states. The argument is based on the properties of causal models in cognitive research. Bibliografia prac przywołanych w tekście Damasio A., 1994/1999, Błąd Kartezjusza. Emocje, rozum i ludzki mózg, tłum. M. Karpiński, Poznań: Rebis. Davidson D., 1963/2001, „Actions, reasons, and causes”, w: (Davidson 2001), s. 3-19. Davidson D., 1967/2001, „Causal relations”, w: (Davidson 2001), s. 149-62. Davidson D., 1970/2001, „Mental events”, w: (Davidson …Read more
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393Replikowalność wiedzy a transhumanistyczny stan osobliwościIn Leszczyński D. (ed.), Wiedza, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. pp. 335-348. 2013.Zwolennicy transhumanizmu upatrują przyszłego podmiotu wiedzy w maszynach, które miałyby być inteligentniejsze od ludzi, ich twórców. Jeżeli raz zaistniałaby taka możliwość stworzenia inteligentniejszych podmiotów, to w kolejnym kroku maszyny inteligentniejsze od ludzi stworzą następne pokolenie maszyn bardziej inteligentne od samych siebie. To zapoczątkuje dalsze etapy procesu gwałtownego wzrostu inteligencji aż do osiągnięcia stanu osobliwości (ang. singularity). W niniejszym tekście omówione…Read more
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390Cartwright’s Approach to Invariance under InterventionZagadnienia Naukoznawstwa 49 (198): 321-333. 2013.N. Cartwright’s results on invariance under intervention and causality (2003) are reconsidered. Procedural approach to causality elicited in this paper and contrasted with Cartwright’s apparently philosophical one unravels certain ramifications of her results. The procedural approach seems to license only a constrained notion of intervention and in consequence the “correctness to invariance” part of Cartwright’s first theorem fails for a class of cases. The converse “invariance to correctness” p…Read more
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298Mechanika życia społecznego. Metodologiczne podstawy Davida Hume’a teorii pieniądzaPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 80 (4): 437-448. 2011.C. Howson’s probabilistic logic as a comprehensive methodological account of scientific inference, which avoids Hume’s inductive skepticism, is discussed against the background of the latter’s quantitative theory of money. Hume’s theory leads to two causal accounts that may appear to be contradictory. As the more general one suggests neutrality of money, while the more descriptive attributes causal influence to specie-flow mechanism of money. The former is grounded by a counterfactual reaso…Read more
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283Moderately Pluralistic MethodologyRoczniki Filozoficzne 60 (4): 233-247. 2012.The paper outlines and discusses the major tenets of moderately pluralistic methodology. The latter is juxtaposed to J. Życiński’s principle of natural interdisciplinarity. It instantiates scientific pluralism as a domain-specific agenda for research. The symbolic and causal understanding are integrated in this methodological conception by means of a specific kind of counterfactual reasoning, which is coined the delimiting counterfactual. It makes the moderately pluralistic methodology applicabl…Read more
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236Próba wielowymiarowej oceny zależności między przedsiębiorczością akademicką a nauką w sferze publicznej w USA iw Europie z perspektywy danych naukoznawczych z okresu 1969–2010In T. Szot-Gabryś M. Sienkiewicz (ed.), Przedsiębiorczość akademicka. Koncepcje, formy, warunki rozwoju, Wydawnictwo Fundacji Rozwoju Lokalnego, Lublin 2011, Wydawnictwo Fundacji Rozwoju Lokalnego. pp. 9-26. 2011.W związku ze wzrostem znaczenia komercjalizacji wiedzy i zachęcania naukowców do wykorzystania różnych mechanizmów dyfuzji wiedzy w literaturze przedmiotu zgłasza się wiele wątpliwości dotyczących tego, czy w takim rozwoju nauka finansowana ze środków publicznych nie zatraca swoich istotnych cech. Obawy dotyczą po pierwsze tego, że intensyfikacja komercjalizacji może wpływać negatywnie na ilość publikacji zgłaszanych przez naukowców, wykazujących aktywność w obszarze przedsiębiorczości akademick…Read more
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222TEORIA SPRAWSTWA OSOBOWEGO. U PODSTAW ANTYNATURALISTYCZNEJ PSYCHOLOGIIRoczniki Psychologiczne 9 (1): 235-238. 2006.Dyskusja możliwych strategii dla psychologii antynaturalistycznej.
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76John W. Carroll, ed., Readings on Laws of Nature Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (1): 10-13. 2006.
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64N. Cartwright's recent results on invariance under intervention and causality (2003) are reconsidered. Procedural approach to causality elicited in this paper and contrasted with Cartwright's apparently philosophical one unravels certain ramifications of her results. The procedural approach seems to license only a constrained notion of intervention and in consequence the "correctness to invariance" part of Cartwright's first theorem fails for a class of cases. The converse "invariance to correct…Read more
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51Any serious attempt to give an account of the cognitive aspect of science – as contrasted with e.g. its social or cultural aspects – cannot ignore the automation revolution. In the conception presented in this paper the results of computer science are taken seriously and integrated with many of the ideas concerning what constitutes scientific inquiry that have been proposed at least since the early Middle Ages. The central idea is that of reliable inquiry. Science makes explicit and elaborates o…Read more
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43Nauki kognitywne a problem Kanta [recenzja] Wojciech Żełaniec, The Recalcitrant Synthetic A Priori, 1996Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce 20. 1997.
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34The epistemic consequences of pragmatic value-laden scientific inferenceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (2): 1-26. 2021.In this work, we explore the epistemic import of the value-ladenness of Neyman-Pearson’s Theory of Testing Hypotheses by reconstructing and extending Daniel Steel’s argument for the legitimate influence of pragmatic values on scientific inference. We focus on how to properly understand N-P’s pragmatic value-ladenness and the epistemic reliability of N-P. We develop an account of the twofold influence of pragmatic values on N-P’s epistemic reliability and replicability. We refer to these two dist…Read more
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33Structural reliabilism: inductive logic as a theory of justificationKluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.This book revives inductive logic by bringing out the underlying epistemology. The resulting structural reliabilist theory propounds the view that justification supervenes on syntactic and semantic properties of sentences as justification-bearers. It is claimed to set up a genuine alternative to the prevailing theories of justification. Kawalec substantiates this claim by confronting structural reliabilism with a number of epistemological problems. While the book is addressed to both professiona…Read more
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29Adam Grobler, Metodologia nauk [Methodology of the Sciences] by Andrzej Bronk, Pawel KawalecForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 13 (1): 147-149. 2008.The article reviews the book Metodologia nauk [Methodology of the Sciences], by Adam Grobler.
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25Computational EpistemologyDialogue and Universalism 18 (7-8): 115-125. 2008.The paper discusses basic philosophical assumptions of the new conception of scientific research which tends to possibly complete automation of research. The theoretical underpinnings of reliable inquiry sets a framework for a comprehensive spectrum of attainable solutions to a research problem formulated in the framework given the theoretical assumptions and available evidence. The framework is general, but the success criteria are adjustable to a domain of inquiry. Research on causal dependenc…Read more
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14Wyjaśnić to podać model przyczynowyRoczniki Filozoficzne 52 (2): 241-265. 2004.A survey of the modern theories of explanation leads us to conclude that it is J. Woodward\'s conterfactual approach that seems to set out a promising agenda for setting up a satisfactory model of explanation. Such a model would need to come to terms with two stipulations, i.e. to reflect causal asymmetry and be empirically adequate. To meet the latter I modify the counterfactual model of explanation to require a class of observationally equivalent (Bayesian) causal models instead of the true ca…Read more
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13Adam Grobler: Metodologia naukForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 13 (1): 147-149. 2008.The article reviews the book Metodologia nauk [Methodology of the Sciences], by Adam Grobler.
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10Neyman-Pearson Hypothesis Testing, Epistemic Reliability and Pragmatic Value-Laden Asymmetric Error RisksAxiomathes 32 (4): 585-604. 2022.We show that if among the tested hypotheses the number of true hypotheses is not equal to the number of false hypotheses, then Neyman-Pearson theory of testing hypotheses does not warrant minimal epistemic reliability. We also argue that N-P does not protect from the possible negative effects of the pragmatic value-laden unequal setting of error probabilities on N-P’s epistemic reliability. Most importantly, we argue that in the case of a negative impact no methodological adjustment is available…Read more
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9Knowledge Routines, Threads and Network DynamicsStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 67 (1): 247-268. 2022.The paper focuses on knowledge generation, a topic frequently overlooked in the traditional debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. We focus on investigation as the primary process generating knowledge and its products. Investigation is taken as a generalization of the research process that includes similar knowledge-generating practices in aboriginal communities. To characterize the complexity of investigation processes and their products we go beyond traditional epistemological char…Read more
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9Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling TheoryJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 53 (4): 381-402. 2022.We analyse the issue of using prior information in frequentist statistical inference. For that purpose, we scrutinise different kinds of sampling designs in Jerzy Neyman’s theory to reveal a variety of ways to explicitly and objectively engage with prior information. Further, we turn to the debate on sampling paradigms (design-based vs. model-based approaches) to argue that Neyman’s theory supports an argument for the intermediate approach in the frequentism vs. Bayesianism debate. We also demon…Read more
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