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137A Note on the Demonstrative Uses of IndexicalsLogique Et Analyse 258 151-166. 2022.The paper discusses the answering machine puzzle and cases of non-standard uses of ‘I’. It offers an analysis of the phenomena that is conservative with respect to the Kaplanian account of indexicality. The point of departure of the paper is the observation that some proper indexicals have demonstrative uses. It is argued that treating some occurrences of ‘now’ as cases of such uses results in an intuitive and simple solution to the answering machine puzzle. At the same time, treating some occur…Read more
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8Varieties of Context-DependenceIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: Volume I: The Formal Turn; Volume II: The Philosophical Turn, De Gruyter. pp. 63-84. 2010.
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7Reflective Meta-attitudes and CompatibilismIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophical Insights Into Pragmatics, De Gruyter. pp. 251-266. 2019.
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105The Polish School of Argumentation: A ManifestoArgumentation 28 (3): 267-282. 2014.Building on our diverse research traditions in the study of reasoning, language and communication, the Polish School of Argumentation integrates various disciplines and institutions across Poland in which scholars are dedicated to understanding the phenomenon of the force of argument. Our primary goal is to craft a methodological programme and establish organisational infrastructure: this is the first key step in facilitating and fostering our research movement, which joins people with a common …Read more
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183Actions, Products, DemonstrationsOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 30 (1): 102-126. 2023.As it is broadly accepted, typical uses of demonstratives are accompanied by demonstrations. The concept of demonstration, however, manifests the action–product ambiguity analogous to that visible in the opposition between jumping and the resulting jump, talking and the resulting talk or crying and the resulting cry. It is also a heterogeneous concept that enables demonstrations to vary significantly. The present paper discusses action–product ambiguity as applied to demonstrations as well as th…Read more
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54A Not-so-Simple Rule for ‘I’Philosophical Quarterly 73 (4): 1100-1119. 2023.Maximilian de Gaynesford has argued against the standard view that the reference of the first-person pronoun ‘I’ is determined by a rule linking the referent to some feature of the context of use. In this paper, we argue that de Gaynesford's arguments are inconclusive. Our main aim, however, is to formulate a novel version of the reference rule for ‘I’. We argue that this version can deal with several problematic cases. Our strategy involves analysing the so-called agent of the context as the pe…Read more
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219Directives and ContextArgumenta 15 35-53. 2022.The paper aims to add contextual dependence to the new directival theory of meaning, a functional role semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s directival theory of meaning. We show that the original formulation of the theory does not have a straight answer on how the meaning of indexicals and demonstratives is established. We illustrate it in the example of some problematic axiomatic and inferential directives containing indexicals. We show that the main reason why developing the new directiv…Read more
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35Demonstrations as actionsSynthese 200 (6): 1-25. 2022.This paper presents a dual intention model (DIM) of demonstrations as actions to show the agentive nature of demonstrations. According to the DIM, demonstrations are complex actions that contain as components at least three elements: an abductive intention, a deictic intention, and a basic ostensive act of indication. This paper unpacks these three components and discusses their roles from the viewpoint of the philosophy of action and the philosophy of language. It also shows how the DIM applies…Read more
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13An introduction: use and meaning – a special issue of Semiotica devoted to Jerzy PelcSemiotica 2021 (240): 1-4. 2021.
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23An Introduction: Concepts, Contexts and CommunicationTheoria 87 (1): 7-12. 2021.Theoria, Volume 87, Issue 1, Page 7-12, February 2021.
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75Indexicality, meaning, useSemiotica 2021 (238): 73-89. 2021.The article presents two concepts of indexicality. The first, more standard and narrow, identifies indexicality with systematic (meaning controlled) context-sensitivity. The second, broader (derived from the work of Jerzy Pelc), conceives indexicality in terms of the potential variability of the general semiotic characteristics expressions (with respect to the context of use). The text introduces the concept of a pragmatic matrix that serves for a schematic representation of contextual variation…Read more
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9IntroductionIn Tadeusz Ciecierski & Paweł Grabarczyk (eds.), Context Dependence in Language, Action, and Cognition, De Gruyter. pp. 1-6. 2021.
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32Context Dependence in Language, Action, and Cognition (edited book)De Gruyter. 2021.The phenomenon of context dependence is so multifaceted that it is tempting to classify it as hetergenous. It is especially evident in the case of the difference between context dependence as understood in the philosophy of language and context dependence as understood in the philosophy of mind. One of the aims of the present volume is to show that as varied as the phenomenon of context dependence is, the similarities between its different manifestations are profound and undeniable. More importa…Read more
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21An Introduction: Foundational Issues in Semantics and PragmaticsAxiomathes 31 (3): 225-227. 2021.This introduction to the special issue ‘Foundational issues in semantics and pragmatics’ contains a brief description of the content of the volume.
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55Utterances, Sub‐utterances and Token‐ReflexivityTheoria 86 (4): 439-462. 2020.The popular interpretation of token‐reflexivism states that at the level of logical form, indexicals and demonstratives are disguised descriptions that employ complex demonstratives or special quotation‐mark names involving particular tokens of the appropriate expression‐types. In this article I first demonstrate that this interpretation of token‐reflexivism is only one of many, and that it is better to think of token‐reflexivism as denoting a family of distinct theoretical frameworks. Second, I…Read more
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15Jerzy Pelc: ur. w Warszawie 30 września 1924 r., zm. w Warszawie 2 czerwca 2017 rStudia Semiotyczne 31 (1): 5-18. 2017.Dnia 2 czerwca zmarł w Warszawie Jerzy Pelc, założyciel oraz wieloletni redaktor „Studiów Semiotycznych”. Przez prawie pół wieku troszczył się On o to, aby na ich łamach ukazywały się wspomnienia pozgonne upamiętniające polskich i zagranicznych uczonych semiotyków. Wspomnienia te albo pisał sam, albo prosił o ich napisanie osoby najlepiej znające dorobek i działalność naukową zmarłego. Jego odejście postawiło nas wszystkich w sytuacji niemożliwej: sam nie może być autorem wspomnienia, a tylko On…Read more
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186Zamiast wstępuStudia Semiotyczne 33 (2): 5-6. 2019.Leon Koj napisał w zakończeniu do Problemów semiotyki logicznej, że nie sposób sobie wyobrazić semiotyki w Polsce bez Jerzego Pelca. Można opinię tę rozumieć tak, że Jerzy Pelc wywarł na semiotykę polską wpływ, bez którego to, co w niej najlepsze, nie przybrałoby nigdy formy rozwiniętej, nie ujrzałoby światła dziennego oraz nie znalazłoby odbicia w dydaktyce uniwersyteckiej. Jest to opinia trafna, a rozprawy zawarte w niniejszym – poświęconym Jerzemu Pelcowi – tomie Studiów Semiotycznych są ozna…Read more
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13The Architecture of Context Sensitivity (edited book)Springer. 2020.This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language. Topics include the scope of context-dependency, the nature of content and the character of input data of cognitive processes relevant for the interpretation of utterances. There's also coverage of the role of beliefs and intentions as contextual factors, as well as the validity of arguments in context-sensitive languages. The contribut…Read more
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37Of wolves and Philosophers. Interview with Mark RowlandsAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (1): 123-132. 2012.There is a problem of representation and an apparatus of representations that was devised to solve this problem. This paper has two purposes. First, it will show why the problem of representation outstrips the apparatus of representations in the sense that the problem survives the demise of the apparatus. Secondly, it will argue that the question of whether cognition does or not involve representations is a poorly defined question, and far too crude to be helpful in understanding the nature of c…Read more
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Varieties of Context-DependenceIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Objects of Inquiry in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Ontos Verlag. 2010.
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Dlaczego logik modalny nie musi przejmować się argumentem Quine’a?Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 68. 2008.
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110A problem with structured propositionsIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, Ontos. pp. 81. 2011.The paper shows that the paradox of the totality of propositions rest on assumptions characteristic of some theories of structured contents (like Jeffrey King's "new account of structured propositions").
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120The Multiple-Proposition Approach ReconsideredLogique Et Analyse 52 (208): 423-440. 2009.The paper contains a critical analysis of pluripropositionalism (or: multiple proposition approach), the view defended in recent years by authors such as Eros Corazza, Kepa Korta and John Perry.
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26Leibniz o konieczności, możliwości i wolnej woliPrzeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 45 (1): 135-142. 2003.
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1496Linguistic Criteria of IntentionalityStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 46 (1): 35-58. 2016.The aim of this paper is to discuss theories that attempt to single out the class of intentional states by appealing to factors that are supposedly criterial for intentional sentences. The papers starts with distinguishing two issues that arise when one thinks about intentional expressions: the Taxonomy Problem and the Fundamental Demarcation Problem. The former concerns the relation between the classes of distinct intentional verbs and distinct intentional states. The latter concerns the questi…Read more
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