The author characterize Paul Horwich's view on truth formulated in his deflationary theory of truth. She presents selected problems which arise when one analyze the elements of the theory in a more detailed way. She investigates the mentioned problems in order to show the importance of such categories like truth, acceptance, understanding, proposition and property for philosophy of language. The author concludes with a claim that philosophical acceptance (or antipathy) for minimalism in theory of truth is connected with some metaphysical (...) assumptions which are taken for granted in advance. (shrink)

The author identifies selected implicit or not fully explicit assumptions made by Noam Chomsky in his theory of language. Through a careful examination of Chomsky's work, she aims to present the solutions this linguist proposes with respect to two fundamental questions: the question of methodology and the question of the ontological status of language. After reviewing the central theses of Chomsky's theory in the first part of the paper, she turns to the question that is mentioned in the title of (...) this paper, that is, the reservations regarding the assumptions underlying Chomsky's work. (shrink)

The article reviews the book Śmierć, nieśmiertelność, sens życia. Egzystencjalny wymiar filozofii Ludwiga Wittgensteina [Death, Immortality, the Meaning of Life: The Existential Dimension of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophy], by Ireneusz Ziemiński.

Artykuł przedstawia krótką refleksję na temat płciowego wymiaru przestrzeni w odpowiedzi na rozważania Witolda Wachowskiego w książce Poznanie rozproszone. Od heurystyk do mechanizmów (2022). Autorka umieszcza pracę Wachowskiego w nurcie tak zwanego „zwrotu ku przestrzeni”, zgodnie z którym otoczenie traktujemy jako integralną część kultury, a kulturę zaś jako proces poznawczy. Prezentuje zaczerpnięte z literatury przedmiotu wybrane przykłady ilustrujące, jak szeroko rozumiana przestrzeń może kształtowaći utrwalać stereotypy płciowe. Jej celem jest zainspirowanie do prowadzenia dalszych, pogłębionych badań na temat relacji między płcią (...) a przestrzenią w kontekście teorii rozproszonego poznania czy szerzej – badań nad poznaniem i procesami poznawczymi w ogóle. ----------------------------------------- Zgłoszono: 02/01/2024. Zrecenzowano: 30/01/2024. Zaakceptowano do publikacji: 24/04/2024. (shrink)

The article reviews the book Słowa i zbawienie. Dyskurs religijny w perspektywie filozofii Hilarego Putnama [Words and Salvation: Religious Discourse in the Perspective of Hilary Putnam's Philosophy], by Piotr Sikora.

Gottlob Frege is not only the father of contemporary mathematical logic and the philosophy of logic, but — as advocated by others, especially M. Dummett – he is, above all, the founder of contemporary research in logic and the philosophy of language. The categories and concepts introduced by Frege were assimilated by philosophers studying language and inspired further detailed analyses. It seems impossible to overestimate the role of Frege’s theory, despite the fact that his objectives — setting a logical basis (...) for mathematics, undoing the psychologizing of logic, building a clear and accurate language for logic and science — differ from the ones set out by contemporary explorers of language. (shrink)

Problem: The underlying assumption of all feminist theories is that in order to achieve our emancipatory goals we have to resolve the so-called female subjectivity problem first. That is, we have to answer the question of what is (is not) the nature/essence/main feature of being a woman. The debate about where and how we should look for that essence seems to be endless and it still continues in contemporary feminist theories. This stalemate blocks the initial political and social power of (...) the whole feminist movement. It also seems to contradict the idea that philosophy can serve practical purposes, which was a driving force behind feminist theories as such. Solution: While analyzing contemporary feminist theories we can discover that they are dualistic with respect to the cognitive situation. Using tools taken from Josef Mitterer's philosophy and the idea of emancipation developed by Bruno Latour, I want to consider the idea of avoiding stalemate situations in discussions on female subjectivity. I claim that this strategy can be more effective in achieving certain practical goals that are important from a feminist point of view. Benefits: We are able to show that the aim of our theoretical activity is not to agree about what a woman is and what kind of woman we are going to emancipate, but rather to define which problems should be solved in order to improve the situation of women. We just have to learn how to formulate the description from now on of initial matters of concern that is acceptable to all those involved in a given dispute. (shrink)

Idea skromnego świadka wyrasta z tradycji traktowania wiedzy naukowej jako racjonalnej, empirycznej i obiektywnej uprawianej przez bezstronnego badacza. W artykule przedstawiam korzyści z przeformułowania powyższego rozumienia wiedzy i przyjęcia rozwijanej w feministycznych badaniach nad nauką i technologią idei wiedzy usytuowanej. Zgodnie z tą ideą jesteśmy zdolni do zdobywania wiedzy jedynie z określonego, w tym także przez wartości i narzędzia, punktu widzenia, zaś powstała wiedza przekształca zarówno podmiot poznający, jak i przedmiot badany. Wiedza usytuowana, odżegnując się od redukcjonistycznego empiryzmu naukowego, oderwanego (...) od uwikłania ekonomicznego, technologicznego czy politycznego, pozwala na uzyskanie szerszej i pełniejszej wiedzy oraz realizowanie praktyk naukowych o zdecydowanie bardziej egalitarnym i inkluzywnym charakterze. (shrink)

The article provides a compact review of the early modern science views of the nature of science, scientific method and knowledge, rationality and objectivity with respect to masculinity and femininity. Following primarily Galileo and Bacon's work, the author is interested in pointing out the most important ideas of the historically fixed ways of how people imagined the acquisition of knowledge, presented nature, understood the role of researchers, as well as what metaphors they applied in defining knowledge. Due to the vast (...) and diverse material, the aim is not to sketch a complete and detailed portrait of the ideal of modern science, but to explore to what extent gender-related issues were of any significance here. (shrink)