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In the article ‘Stanislaw Lem’s philosophy of science’, the author concentrates on evolutionary fastening of Lem’s vision of the world in the first part of the text. In the second one, the author takes notice to the fact that Lem’s philosophy of science has certain related parts with Karl Popper’s philosophy of science. Both thinkers dealt with a common range of subjects and lots of their deliberations...
In the text: Why is it difficult to define the notion of „logos”? I propose and defend the following thesis: the notion of logos weighed in the context of scientific discoveries (in physics and mathematics) is difficult to explicate and thus difficult to understand. I introduce two perspectives of the logos: the objective one connected with the structure of the world itself and the subjective one...
The article entitled The criticism of culture according to Stanisław Lem presents the culturosophical views of the eminent Polish writer Stanisław Lem. In the context of cultural criticism the article introduces the aspects from the theory of nature, sociology and philosophy. The consecutive subsections present Lem’s attitude towards different issues listed as follows: human being, the process of...
In the following article entitled ‘On philosophical systems’, the author makes an attempt to answer the question: ‘What is a philosophical system?’ In the article he uses one of analytical approaches, which is manifested in the thesis: dealing with philosophy cannot be reduced to dealing with the history of philosophy. The author claims that the first thing takes on a problematic and constructive...
In this article ‘Lem and Goethe’, the author compares the figure of Stanislaw Lem to J.W. Goethe, whereas Lem’s oeuvre to ‘Faust’. There are two reasons for such a comparison. First, the scope of subjects raised by the Polish writer is perhaps even wider than the German one’s. The second thing is their great insight into these subjects. When Lem and Goethe are compared, it should be noticed that both...
In the article entitled ‘On Lem’s humanism’, the author in a synthetic way presents consideration to the following aspects of Stanislaw Lem’s oeuvre: artificial intelligence versus ethics, God, evolution versus moral philosophy, culture (civilization) and Reason. The text of this article was delivered at a conference ‘Horizons of the Imagination’ in march 2007 (one year of Stanislaw Lem’s death)....
Among philosophical motifs brought up by Abp Józef Życiński (1948-2011), a crucial issue is the relation between the world of concretum, its psychological perception by people and the field of rationality, also called the field of the potential or the rational structure of the universe (by the co-author of ‘Universe and Philosophy’). Concrete objects seem to be more real than all sorts of theoretical...
The aim of this paper is to outline Stanisław Lem’s (1921-2006) original views on Kurt Gödl’s theorems. The project consists of five concise paragraphs in which such issues are discussed: the introduction with an explanation of selected terms: a natural language, polymorphism. The author of the article presents a short outline of certain mathematical problems, that is the problems of arithmetics and...
Celem tekstu jest przedstawienie zarysu: Aksjomatycznej Teorii Informacji Tekstowej (ATIT) oraz opierającej się na jej założeniach Kwalitatywnej Teorii Informacji Tekstowej (KTIT). Teorie przedstawiają zarys Ogólnej Teorii Informacji Tekstowej (OTIT), która w procesie analizy tekstu stosuje osiągnięcia metodologii naturalistycznej, matematyczne podstawy teorii informacji C.E Shannona oraz cybernetykę...
In his texts, Stanisław Lem on one hand takes into consideration
ambiguity, polyinterpretation and muddying of contextual and
connotative nature of a natural language. On the other hand, he takes
into account evolutionary character of that state of affairs, that is to say
the natural language (in its abundance of variants) is the one and
particular so that a man is capable of notionally grasping...
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