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80Is God His Essence? The Logical Structure of Aquinas' Proofs for this ClaimPhilosophia 41 (3): 649-660. 2013.In this article I consider whether Aquinas’ arguments for the claim that God is His essence are conclusive, and what was his purpose of upholding this thesis. I show his proofs from Summa Theologiae and Summa Contra Gentiles to be problematic and argue that the defense of Aquinas’ views on that matter suggested by certain remarks of P. T. Geach is flawed
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55The SameP-Relation as a Response to Critics of Baker's Theory of ConstitutionJournal of Philosophical Logic 34 (5-6): 561-579. 2005.According to the so-called "standard account" regarding the problem of material constitution, a statue and a lump of clay that makes it up are not identical. The usual objection is that this view yields many objects in the same place at the same time. Lynne Rudder Baker's theory of constitution is a recent and sophisticated version of the standard account. She argues that the aforementioned objection can be answered by defining a relation of being the same P as (sameP). In this paper I shall exa…Read more
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28W kwestii dowodów Spinozy na istnienie Boga i dowodu na jedyność Spinozjańskiej substancjiFilo-Sofija 12 (17): 83-100. 2012.ON SPINOZA’S PROOFS OF (SPINOZIAN) GOD’S EXISTENCE AND THE PROOF OF THE UNIQUENESS OF THE SPINOZIAN SUBSTANCE In this paper I analyze Spinozian ontological arguments for God’s existence from Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata. I argue that the first proof suffers from circulus vitiosus, whereas the others have at least one non-obvious premise. I also consider P. Gut’s modification of the first proof, reported to me during the conference “The Philosophy of the 17th Century—Its Origins and Conti…Read more
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18W kwestii nieśmiertelności duszy w „Etyce w porządku geometrycznym dowiedzionej” B. SpinozyStudia Z Historii Filozofii 4 (3): 145-157. 2013.B. Spinoza w Etyce w porządku geometrycznym dowiedzionej argumentuje za nieśmiertelnością ludzkiej duszy. Bliższa analiza pokazuje jednak, że owa „nieśmiertelność” niewiele ma wspólnego z tą, za którą opowiadała się tradycyjna metafizyka. W artykule badam argumentację Spinozy i wykazuję, że dowody tez, na które się powołuje, są problematyczne.
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17So Pleasant, so Addictive: Some Remarks on Alexander Pruss’ Work One BodyRoczniki Filozoficzne 63 (3): 119-128. 2015.In this article in a form of a review I analyze at length A. Pruss’ book One Body, pointing at where I agree with him and stressing several flaws in his arguments. The general line of thought, which is exploring the biblical metaphor of “being one body,” is ultimately sufficient for me from the theological, but not the philosophical point of view.
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13In Defense of Presentism and an Extratemporal GodIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), God, Time, Infinity, De Gruyter. pp. 53-60. 2018.
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5The topology of persons, and surviving to some degreeSynthese 202 (6): 1-37. 2023.Braddon-Mitchell and Miller put forward the claim that the relation of being-the-same-person is gradable: a person can be the same person tomorrow as today, but only half the same. To justify their thesis, they propose a model of persons that is intended to be metaphysically neutral. This article sets out to show that such a model implicitly contains strong metaphysical assumptions that run contrary to the authors’ own statements. Using Roman Ingarden’s phenomenological ontology, we aim to demon…Read more
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3An Outline of Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mind: From Senses to Seeing GodRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (1-2): 393-402. 2023.In this article, I would like to present a brief overview of Aquinas’s philosophy of mind. I try to express the cognitive processes that this model of the mind describes in more modern terminology (e.g., I interpret ‘an image’ [phantasm] as the binding effect of monomodal representations of a perceived object). Characteristic of this model is the postulation, in the case of the human mind, of intellectual abstraction leading to concepts, which requires assuming the existence of the intellect in …Read more
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W sprawie uzasadnienia dualizmu antropologicznego (review)Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 59. 2006.
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Ingardenowska ontologia czasu i procesu a prezentyzmFilozofia Nauki 21 (2). 2013.Presentism is described as the theory according to which there is an objective time flow and that there is neither past nor future. Roman Ingarden’s ontology of time does not seem to be presentist then, since it supposedly rejects the second component of that doctrine. In this article, I show that this view misconstrues the spirit of Ingarden’s account, and I defend a certain ontology of time (inspired by Ingarden’s works) against several objections (e.g. the ‘how fast does time flow’ question).…Read more
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Kilka uwag w sprawie kryterium genetycznego w sporze o (nie tylko) aborcjęAnaliza I Egzystencja 22 219-224. 2013.
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Analiza formalna wybranych dowodow NA jedynosc boga U swietego tomasza Z akwinuStudia Philosophiae Christianae 42 (1): 144-154. 2006.
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Realizm epistemologiczny. Dyskusja z dwoma wybranymi „manifestami antyrealistycznymi” (Goodman, Putnam)Filo-Sofija 14 (27): 29-42. 2014.
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Spór o istnienie świata rozniecony na nowo? Idee i Husserla a (możliwa) przyszłość fenomenologiiFenomenologia 12 145-154. 2014.
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Przeciw substancjalizmowiFilozofia Nauki 18 (4). 2010.In this paper I criticize substantialism by analyzing two well-known puzzles con-cerning identity and change - Tibbles the Cat puzzle and the fission paradox. All the approaches assuming substantialism I know lead to untenable consequences (e.g. bilocation) and I conclude that we should seriously take the possibility of processual or eventistic picture of our material life world
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Idealizm transcendentalny dziś? Od Kantowskiej metafizyki substancji i czasu w „Krytyce czystego rozumu” do sporu o istnienie świataStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 8 (4). 2013.