W artykule proponuję nową wersję transcendentalizmu, uwzględniającą współczesny stan nauki oraz filozofii. Idee tego transcendentalizmu prezentuję w toku dyskusji z P. Churchlandem, J. Kimem, K. Popperem, J. Searlem, S. Pinkerem, E. Husserlem, I. Kantem i J. Konorskim.

In welchem Verhaltnis steht die Seelenlehre zur Kosmologie in Platons Phaidon?

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

Putative counterexamples to the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles (PII) are notoriously inconclusive. I establish ground rules for debate in this area, offer a new response to such counterexamples for friends of the PII, but then argue that no response is entirely satisfactory. Finally, I undermine some positive arguments for PII.

Mental health research and care in the twenty first century faces a series of conceptual and ethical challenges arising from unprecedented advances in the neurosciences, combined with radical cultural and organisational change. The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry is aimed at all those responding to these challenges, from professionals in health and social care, managers, lawyers and policy makers; service users, informal carers and others in the voluntary sector; through to philosophers, neuroscientists and clinical researchers. Organised around a series (...) of case studies in five key topic areas - concepts of disorder, the philosophical history of psychopathology, philosophy of science, ethics and philosophical value theory, and philosophy of mind - the book provides a detailed introduction to the field and a framework for study and skill development. Each case study is supported by selected readings from both philosophy and mental health, thinking skills exercises, self-test questions, key learning points and detailed guides to further reading. There is an introduction for philosophers to classification and descriptive psychopathology, and for practitioners to philosophical methods (including logic). The philosophical topics covered include philosophical methods (analytic and Continental); phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, logical empiricism and its successors; idealism and realism; reasons and causes; and modern theories of mind and brain, free will and personal identity. Topics from mental health include psychiatry and 'anti-psychiatry'; Jaspers' psychopathology and the new neurosciences; the future of psychiatric classifications; strengths-based approaches, recovery practice, social inclusion and diversity; and key topics in psychopathology, such as delusion, autism, disorders of volition, thought insertion and other experiences in schizophrenia. The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry aims to secure the skills-base of the discipline by bringing philosophers closer to the realities of practice in mental health, and mental health practitioners closer to the resources of philosophy as a partner to the sciences in responding to the challenges of twenty-first century mental health and social care. (shrink)

This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.

Author: Starzyńska-Kościuszko Ewa Title: BRONISŁAW F. TRENTOWSKI – “POLISH HEGEL”, “POLISH SCHELLING” OR “POLISH KRAUSE” (Bronisław F. Trentowski – „polski Hegel”, „polski Schelling”, „polski Krause”) Source: Filo-Sofija year: 2005, vol:.5, number: 2005/1, pages: 125-138 Keywords: TRENTOWSKI, HEGEL, SCHELING, KRAUSE Discipline: PHILOSOPHY Language: POLISH Document type: ARTICLE Publication order reference (Primary author’s office address): E-mail: www:In this article author wanted to answer a question: Is Trentowski an original thinker or Polish imitator of Hegel’s, Schelling’s and Krause’s philosophy? Referring to existing settlements (...) and analyses, author finds that Trentowski was the original thinker. He criticized and carried on a controversy with Hegel, Schelling and Krause. What is more, Trentowski always modified their ideas in a very creative way. (shrink)

In the article I present the fundamentals (the conception, the structure and the method) of universal philosophy of Bronisław Ferdynand Trentowski, the eminent Polish philosopher of romanticism. I show the origin of the idea of universalism and the difference between Trentowski’s method of differentiating identity and Hegel’s dialectics. In the last part of the article, Trentowski is revealed as a philosopher who united universalism of his philosophy with its national character.

W niniejszym artykule w oparciu o wybrane dzieła B. F. Trentowskiego analizuję jego stosunek do szeroko rozumianej kultury niemieckiej i Niemców. Celem tej analizy jest wykazanie, że owe poglądy ulegały ewolucji i nie da się ich jednoznacznie zaklasyfikować jako proniemieckie lub nacjonalistyczne.

W artykule przedstawiam najważniejsze idee teorii jaźni B.F. Trentowskiego. Trentowski sformułował swą teorię w polemice z tymi filozofami, którzy jaźń utożsamiali wyłącznie z duszą. Jednostronnie spekulatywnym i kontemplacyjnym teoriom Kartezjusza, Fichtego i Hegla polski filozof przeciwstawi własna teorię jaźni jako „różnojedni” ciała i duszy i ich władz. Takie ujęcie jaźni, a także myśl Trentowskiego o konieczności wszechstronnego rozwoju wszystkich aspektów jaźni będzie prekursorska wobec współczesnych badań nad osobowością.

W artykule przedstawiam najważniejsze idee teorii jaźni B.F. Trentowskiego. Trentowski sformułował swą teorię w polemice z tymi filozofami, którzy jaźń utożsamiali wyłącznie z duszą. Jednostronnie spekulatywnym i kontemplacyjnym teoriom Kartezjusza, Fichtego i Hegla polski filozof przeciwstawi własna teorię jaźni jako „różnojedni” ciała i duszy i ich władz. Takie ujęcie jaźni, a także myśl Trentowskiego o konieczności wszechstronnego rozwoju wszystkich aspektów jaźni będzie prekursorska wobec współczesnych badań nad osobowością.

This text explores how human beings construe experience: experience as a resource, as a potential for understanding, representing and acting on reality.

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. -/- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry offers the most comprehensive reference resource for this area ever published. It assembles challenging and (...) insightful contributions from key philosophers and others to the interactive fields of philosophy and psychiatry. Each contributions is original, stimulating, thorough, and clearly and engagingly written - with no potentially significant philosophical stone left unturned. Broad in scope, the book includes coverage of several areas of philosophy, including philosophy of mind, science, and ethics. For philosophers and psychiatrists, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry is a landmark publication in the field - one that will be of value to both students and researchers in this rapidly growing area. (shrink)

This Book Focuses On The Evolution Of Philosophy In India With Reference To Socio-Political And Economic Conditions, Through Which One Can Learn That Life And Thought Are Invariably Interconnected With Polity And Persons, Economy And Environment. This Book Is Unique In The Sense That It Contains A Review In The Conclusion; And The Philosophical Heritage Has Been Evaluated In Its Introduction.

This authoritative volume, written by two well-known psychologist-philosophers, presents a model of the person and its implications for psychological theory and practice. Professors Ramakrishna Rao and Anand Paranjpe draw the contours of Indian psychology, describe the methods of study, explain crucial concepts, and discuss the central ideas and their application, illustrating them with insightful case studies and judicious reviews of available research data and existing scholarly literature. The main theme is organized around the thesis that psychology is the study of (...) the person and that the person is a unique composite of body, mind and consciousness. The goal of the person is self-realization. Self-realization consists in the realization of one's true self as distinct from the manifest ego and it is facilitated by cultivating consciousness. Cultivating consciousness leads to a kind of psycho-spiritual symbiosis resulting in personal transformation, altruistic value orientation and flowering of the hidden human potential. (shrink)

Are mystical experiences primarily formed by the mystic's cultural background and concepts, as modern day "constructivists" maintain, or do mystics in some way transcend language, belief, and culturally conditioned expectations? Do mystical experiences differ in the different religious traditions, as "pluralists" contend, or are they identical across cultures? Twelve contributors here attempt to answer these questions through close examination of a particular form of mystical experience, "Pure Consciousness"--the experience of being awake but devoid of intentional content for consciousness. The contributors (...) analyze pure consciousness and other mystical experiences from historical Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and Jewish sources, as well as from modern mystics. They demonstrate that pure consciousness poses serious conceptual problems for a contructivist understanding of mysticism. Revealing the inconsistencies and inadequacies of current models, they make significant strides towards developing new models for the phenomenon of mysticism, breaking new ground for our understanding of mysticism and of human experience in general. (shrink)

It is advisable to treat some sorts of discourse about fiction with the aid of an intensional operator "in such-And-Such fiction...." the operator may appear either explicitly or tacitly. It may be analyzed in terms of similarity of worlds, As follows: "in the fiction f, A" means that a is true in those of the worlds where f is told as known fact rather than fiction that differ least from our world, Or from the belief worlds of the community in (...) which the fiction originated. (shrink)

In the comments presented below, I consider critically to Srzednicki’s epistemological realism, and his modernistic and anti-dialectical fundamentalism.

Artykuł jest refleksją nad warunkami możliwości zaistnienia twórczości indywidualnej i zbiorowej, genialnej i nie genialnej. Twórczość jest rozpatrywana w relacji do warunków moralnych, polityczno-ekonomicznych, pedagogicznych i psychologicznych. Czy te warunki pozwalają rozwinąć się twórczym potencjom, czy też je tłamszą? Zastanawiam się też nad ewentualną hierarchią genialności: czy twórczość może być mniej, względnie bardziej genialna?

Rozpatruję problemy emergencji nowości w świecie organizmów żywych w perspektywie monadologicznej. Jest to zupełnie swoista perspektywa, bo chodzi tu o nową interpretację samej monadologii.

Witkacy znany jest ze swego krytycznego stosunku do metafizyki Whiteheada. Jednak w artykule autor skupia się na możliwości dokonania syntezy poglądów obu myślicieli.

Maxwell’s program is beautiful and noble, but is it realizable?

W artykule autor rysuje syntezę ontologii Witkiewicza z ontologią brytyjskiego ewentysty. Zaznacza wspólne podejście obu filozofów do Einsteina, a także podobne rozwiązanie problemu stosunku logiki do intuicji, ale odróżnia fundamentalizm monadologiczny od ewentystycznego. Czy te fundamentalizmy są nie do pogodzenia? Przyjmuje się że kwanty energii wcale nie muszą być czymś antymonadycznym, a ewolucję naszego wszechświata utożsamia się z ekspandowaniem kwantów energii i ich transformacją w materię martwą i żywą – przy czym materia martwa albo zawierałaby monadyczne potencje, albo byłaby jakąś (...) ich postacią. Autor częściowo akceptuje stappowską interpretację whiteheadowskiej ontologii.Jednak zamiast whiteheadowskiego panpsychizmu autor proponuje witkiewiczowską psychobiologię. Czy można wyjaśnić aktualizowanie się spotencjalizowanych zdarzeń-monad za pomocą mechanizmów dekoherencyjnych i zasad kwantowego darwinizmu? (shrink)