This is a new edition of the manual published in 1974 and 1984. Compared with those earlier editions it is revised, enlarged and more precise in its argumentation. In its beginnings the manual aimed at meeting the didactic needs to present students of the Faculty of Christian Philosophy at the ATK a complete handling of Christian ethics. The author, who wrote his manual in difficult times of communist ideology, decided to include in one work, besides a positive exposition of Christian (...) ethics, a critical discussion with other ethical systems as well as his own explicit theory on Augustinian and Thomistic ethics, which he endeavoured to develop. Thus the work interlocked the didactic objectives and the process of growth and justification of the Author's views, Krakow 2001, p. 308). (shrink)
Argues that the key distinction between human and nonhuman social cognition consists in our complex, diverse and flexible capacities to shape each other's minds in ways that make them easier to interpret.
Argues that the key distinction between human and nonhuman social cognition consists in our complex, diverse and flexible capacities to shape each other's minds in ways that make them easier to interpret.
The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbiński–Alfred Tarski’s teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the renowned Lvov-Warsaw school—proposed a groundbreaking, original, and (in at least a few respects) still fresh perspective in action theorizing. The book examines and develops Kotarbiński’s ideas in the context of the most recent discussions in the philosophy of action. The main idea behind Kotarbiński’s action theory—and thus, behind this (...) book—is the significance of the philosophical investigations of the general conditions of effectiveness, efficiency, and economy of intentional actions. Makowski presents and reinterprets Kotarbiński’s views on these dimensions of our activities and sheds new light on the most important areas of action theory. (shrink)
The article presents two concepts of indexicality. The first, more standard and narrow, identifies indexicality with systematic context-sensitivity. The second, broader, conceives indexicality in terms of the potential variability of the general semiotic characteristics expressions. The text introduces the concept of a pragmatic matrix that serves for a schematic representation of contextual variation. I also recapitulate briefly the views of Jerzy Pelc on the meaning and use of expressions, and briefly indicate its relationship approaches with contemporary debates around contextualism and (...) status of non-sentential speech acts. Finally, the relationship between the broader notion of indexicality and the directival theory of meaning is analyzed. (shrink)
Recent accounts of mindreading—i.e., the human capacity to attribute mental states to interpret, explain, and predict behavior—have suggested that it has evolved through cultural rather than biological evolution. Although these accounts describe the role of culture in the ontogenetic development of mindreading, they neglect the question of the cultural origins of mindreading in human prehistory. We discuss four possible models of this, distinguished by the role they posit for culture: the standard evolutionary psychology model, the individualist empiricist model, the cultural (...) empiricist model, and the radical socio-cultural constructivist model, which we favor. We motivate model by arguing that many forms of mental state ascription do not serve the function of simply describing inner states causally responsible for the behavior of a cognitive agent; rather, they relate the agent to her environment by characterizing her practical commitments. Making these practical commitments explicit has an important regulatory function in that it supports action coordination and alignment on joint goals. We propose a model of how the ascription of mental states may have evolved as a linguistic device to perform exactly this function of making agents’ practical commitments explicit. (shrink)
I argue for two claims. First I argue against the consensus view that accurate behavioral prediction based on accurate representation of cognitive states, i.e. mind reading , is the sustaining function of propositional attitude ascription. This practice cannot have been selected in evolution and cannot persist, in virtue of its predictive utility, because there are principled reasons why it is inadequate as a tool for behavioral prediction. Second I give reasons that favor an alternative account of the sustaining function of (...) propositional attitude ascription. I argue that it serves a mind-shaping function. Roughly, propositional attitude ascription enables human beings to set up regulative ideals that function to mold behavior so as to make it easier to coordinate with. (shrink)
The article reviews the book Filozofia analityczna. Koncepcje, metody, organiczenia [Analytic Philosophy. Concepts, Methods, Limitations], by Tadeusz Szubka.
The article reviews the book Filozofia analityczna. Koncepcje, metody, organiczenia [Analytic Philosophy. Concepts, Methods, Limitations], by Tadeusz Szubka.
The eminent 20th-century Polish philosopher Tadeusz Kotarbiński is the author of a novatory philosophy of combating global suffering. Kotarbiński’s theory states that although humans are by nature rational, and additionally endowed with goodwill, human life nonetheless offers an endless stream of pain and suffering. Some of this suffering results from the essence of the human condition and can not be helped, mostly, however, it is the effect of the meanderings of the human mind and can be eliminated by education. (...) More than by anything else, the human mind is brought to err by so-called phantasmats, or emotion-laden intellectual mirages, mainly of a religious, national and political nature. Such phantasmats are the source and fundament of humanity’s divisions into hostile cultures, nations and political systems, which in turn gives rise to conflict between civilizations, countries and ideologies, inadvertently accompaniedby mounting mistrust, suspiciousness, xenophobia, hatred, armaments—and ultimately war. All this means an ocean of suffering for countless individuals. Both in philosophy and praxis Kotarbiński strove to eliminate all sources of suffering, including that stemming from differences in culture, development, nationality, and politics. He believed in the motivating powers of reason and the creative powers of persuasion, and consequently sought to attain his goal by rationalization, or focusing solely on the logic-driven and common experiencing of the human fate in a bid to eradicate cultural, national and political difference. Thus united, humanity would melt into one big human state devoted to lingering inevitable suffering. Today similar views are promoted as “global humanism”—which makes Kotarbiński a pioneer of the Humanistic Manifesto 2000. An Appeal for New Global Humanism brochure. (shrink)
The aim of this paper is to pose a problem for theories that claim that belief reports are context dependent. Firstly, I argue that the claim is committed to verbalism, a theory that derives the context sensitivity of belief reports from the context sensitivity of the psychological verbs used in such reports. Secondly, I argue that verbalism is not an attractive theoretical option because it is in conflict with the non-proto-rigidity of verbs like ‘believe’. Finally, I describe various consequences that (...) the argument has for invariantism and moderate contextualism. (shrink)
Książka ta ukazała się jedyny raz w 1965 roku w Państwowym Wydawnictwie Naukowym. Z tamtego opracowania za uprzejmą zgodą PWN korzystamy, za co Wydawnictwu dziękujemy. Inicjatywa wznowienia Filozofii na rozdrożu w Wydawnictwie Naukowym Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika wiąże się nie tylko z obowiązkiem troski o dziedzictwo intelektualne założyciela toruńskiej filozofii, ale także z przekonaniem o ciągłej aktualności jego myśli tworczej oraz zdolności porządkowania i inspirowania myślenia filozoficznego młodszych badaczy. To, co ceni się od dziesięcioleci w pracach Tadeusza Czeżowskiego, to przecież niezwykła (...) zwięzłość i logika wykładu fundamentalnych problemow filozoficznych. Jego filozofia koresponduje - jak się przekonujemy - z głownymi nurtami i pomysłami filozofii XX wieku, wyrastając jednak ze źrodeł charakterystycznych dla Szkoły Lwowsko-Warszawskiej, ktorej był wybitnym przedstawicielem. Wznawiamy więc książkę podsumowującą przemyślenia filozoficzne jej Autora, ktora w znacznej mierze i przede wszystkim jest - jak sugeruje jej tytuł - pracą o charakterze metafilozoficznym. Taki charakter ma zwłaszcza filozofia i metodologia nauki, a także koncepcja etyki naukowej. Czeżowski traktował przedmiot filozofii szeroko i w tym sensie widział w niej zespoł nauk filozoficznych, zaliczając do nich metafizykę, epistemologię, psychologię, etykę, estetykę, logikę i historię filozofii. Jakkolwiek dziedzinami tymi zajmował się z nierownym zaangażowaniem, łączył podejście merytoryczne, w aspekcie historycznym i empirycznym, z podejściem formalnym, kładąc nacisk na logiczny charakter struktur i procedur naukowego badania przedmiotu. Jan Woleński określił kiedyś Czeżowskiego koncepcję nauki jako „skrajnie logiczną", i idą śadem tej oceny, moża powiedzieć ż jest on typowym przedstawicielem polskiej filozofii logicznej. Z drugiej strony, nawiąująe do Franza Brentana, szerokie traktowanie dośiadczenia, rozciąająe je na sferęetyki i estetyki, wyrożia polskiego filozofa na tle skrajnie antymetafizycznych i antyaksjologicznych zwolennikow empiryzmu logicznego z kręu Koł Wiedeńkiego. MetodologicznąotwartośćCzeżwskiego na problemy egzystencjalno-moralne ceniono szczegolnie w nurcie etycznym i metodologicznym Lubelskiej Szkoł Filozoficznej. Wiele wybitnych umysłw wyrażł swąwdzięznośćintelektualnądla tekstow filozoficznych Tadeusza Czeżwskiego i moża miećuzasadnionąnadzieję ż nie sąoni ostatnimi. Do tych należątakż inicjatorzy wznowienia tej książi w 120. rocznicęurodzin jej Autora. Włodzimierz Tyburski, Ryszard Wiśniewski. (shrink)
Powyższy artykuł jest znacznie skróconą i nieznacznie zmienioną wersją niemieckiego opracowania, które się ukazało w książce: Roman Darowski, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku. Próba syntezy - Słownik autorów, Kraków 2001, Wyższa Szkoła Filozoficzno-Pedagogiczna Ignatianum - Wydawnictwo WAM, s. 306-329. Zamieszczona tam wersja polska zawiera m.in. pełną bibliografię prac T. Slipki.
Artykuł omawia postać Jerzego Grobickiego, który służył jako oficer armii cesarsko-królewskiej i został pułkownikiem Wojska Polskiego w II RP. Brał udział w I i II wojnie światowej, a po wojnie wyemigrował do Kanady.
The paper considers certain properties of intermediate and moda propositional logics.The first part contains a proof of the theorem stating that each intermediate logic is closed under the Kreisel-Putnam rule xyz/(xy)(xz).
