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Review of Między przedmiotowością a podmiotowością: intencjonalność w fenomenologii francuskiej [“Between Objectivity and Subjectivity: Intentionality in French Phenomenology”] ed. A. Gielarowski and R. Grzywacz, Wydawnictwo Ignatianum–Wydawnictwo WAM, Kraków 2011.
The author refl ects on the poor historical consciousness of contemporary Poles, determined to a large degree by the present condition of the Polish State, which, after 1989, adopted a hybrid political system defi ned as the Third Republic of Poland. Whereas the communist period in Poland was a time of great value transformation undertaken in order to produce the new Soviet Polish nation, an atomized...
East Central Europe has for long been dismissed in various ways by Western politicians and scholars, both of which groups continue to perceive it through Hans Kohn’s misleading yet prevalent dichotomy between two types of nationalism: a «good» Western and a «bad» Eastern nationalism. Discursive practices resulting from Kohn’s reductionist and fundamentally wrong approach,examples of which are briefl...
In this paper, I argue that the supposedly new theory of consciousness proposed recently by David Chalmers is very close to classical functionalism. Indeed, it treats some of the controversial assumptions of functionalism as naturally necessary. This is, however, very unfortunate, as they lead to numerous tensions in his view. In the fi rst part, I analyze the functionalist theory of independence of...
There is a widely held and deeply rooted conviction that consciousness is something mysterious and paradoxical. Yet despite this belief interdisciplinary research is conducted nowadays with the objective to explain the origin, structure and function of consciousness. Throughout the process, the following questions arise: Are mysterians right in claiming that consciousness will always remain outside...
The confrontation of Might and Right is one of the basic themes of the Bible. Indeed, the imperative of commitment to Right and the belief in its vindication can be considered to be a major contribution of the Israelite civilization to the Western creed. The present essay explores this theme in some Biblical stories – such as that of Joseph and the tale of the exodus from Egypt – where it is not obvious...
The article focuses on the signifi cance of the issue of political identity in the early thought of Edith Stein. The motivation behind this project was the author’s belief that the issue in question must have been among Edith Stein’s theoretical interests since the central theme of her philosophical investigations was the structure of the human person. The objective of the present considerations is...
The paper presents the understanding of the essence and the functions of consciousness in the philosophical writings of Karol Wojtyła and in the theology of the body developed by John Paul II. In his philosophy, Wojtyła uses the phenomenological method, but tries to go beyond phenomenology, combining it with metaphysics of the Aristotelian origin. In contrast to the phenomenological tradition, Wojtyła...
The problem of personal identity over time boils down to the question of an approprite (constitutive) criterion of numerical identity: what are informative, non-trivial, non-circular necessary and suffi cient conditions that determine whether two (temporally indexed) persons are one and the same continuant person. In the philosophical literature these criteria fall standardly into one of the three families:...
My article deals with the problem of consciousness in the contemporary analytic philosophy of mind. In its fi rst part I present the historical background of the problem, namely the Cartesian dualism, and the rise and development of cognitive sciences and neurosciences. I explain Ned Block’s «phenomenal consciousness» / «access consciousness» dichotomy, the concept of «explanatory gap» and, of course,...
In contemporary research on the nature of mind there are two basic notions of consciousness: fi rst-person (phenomenal) consciousness and third-person awareness. The fi rst one is the feeling qualities, the second one is reacting to stimuli and processing information. Similarly, we have two concepts of the subject. The subject of phenomenal consciousness is the centre of the stream of consciousness, the...
Review of Wojciech Chudy’s Refl eksje Heglowskie na początek trzeciego tysiąclecia [“Hegelian Refl ections for the Beginning of the Third Millennium”], ed. M. Chuda, Ofi cyna Naukowa, Warszawa 2012.
The paper presents and criticizes Sydney Shoemaker’s account of personal identity. Briefl y stated, Shoemaker’s theory says that personal identity over time consists in psychological continuity, unless there has been branching involved. The fi rst three sections describe the standard construal of the problem and recount how Shoemaker developed his theory from Locke’s memory theory. Section 4 discusses...
The article concerns the problem of the subject of historiography, raised by Ewa Domańska in her recently published book Historia egzystencjalna. Krytyczne studium narratywizmu i humanistyki zaangażowanej [„Existential History: Critical Approach to Narrativism and Emancipatory Humanities”] (PWN, Warsaw 2012). Domańska asks about the future of historiography at the time when the impact of the postmodern...
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