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Słabości eksplanacyjne teorii inteligentnego projektu

2021

Artykuł powstrzymuje się od polemiki merytorycznej z teorią inteligentnego projektu, dalej TIP, a jedynie wskazuje na jej niedostatki metodologiczne. Dowodzi, że wbrew twierdzeniom jej zwolenników TIP nie jest falsyfikowalna. W odróżnieniu od teorii ewolucji nie może pełnić nawet roli metafizycznego programu badawczego w sensie Poppera. Co jednak ważniejsze, TIP nie pełni żadnych funkcji eksplanacyjnych. W grę wchodzą jedynie wyjaśnienia intencjonalne, TIP zaś nie jest w stanie zidentyfikować motywów domniemanego projektanta. Argument jest zilustrowany przykładami zaczerpniętymi od Stanisława Lema, które pokazują, że możliwych jest wiele alternatywnych hipotez na temat celów domniemanego pr…

A “Voodoo Doll in Diapers”: Deconstructing the Cruel Child in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)

2018

This chapter examines the ways in which Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) complicates mainstream representations of young high school shooters. The central argument is that Shriver offers her readers a critical and informed meta-perspective which conceives of childhood as a discursive construct. The chapter illustrates how constructivism arises as a highly ambivalent practice in the novel. One the one hand, it allows the novel to dissect and challenge the patterns according to which school shooters are commonly constructed in the media without, however, confirming any of them as Kevin’s “true” nature. On the other hand, the novel’s engagement with constructivism is b…

Refuting the Relationist Challenge: Room for Partiality Rather Than Advocating Special Duties

2021

Building on the responsibility framework developed in the previous chapter, this chapter completes the argument. It refutes the relationist challenge that personal relations require special responsibilities qualifying as relevant for matters of justice. The argument focuses Scheffler’s relationist arguments and demonstrates how his critique of nonrelationism can be resolved by differentiating between different types of responsibility.

Joy of Mathematical Modelling: A Forgotten Perspective?

2020

We argue the relevance of including an affective perspective in the mathematical modelling education research and emphasise its importance for the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling at all levels, especially at the university. Our argument is supported by a recent survey of mathematics lecturers’ views on mathematical modelling, several follow-up interviews, and a review of literature on mathematical modelling that relates to enjoyment, pleasure, and appreciation. Findings from the survey and the follow-up interviews indicate that there is a group of practitioners who hold strong views on the importance of enjoyment in doing and teaching mathematical modelling.

Irony as a Visual Argument

2016

Argumentation fields are extraordinarily varied. Depending on the area in which we move, our argumentative strategies should be appropriate for achieving the greatest success. The strength of a good argumentation must remain meaningfully in an argument developed in a logically valid way and rhetorically embellished, obtaining as a result a persuaded audience who consequently accept it.

Exploring the Background: Puzzles, Afterthoughts, and Replies

2017

In this paper I review the comments, and reply to the objections, put forward in the commentaries to my essay “Pre-conventions. A fragment of the Background”, published in issues n. 30 and 33 of Revus – Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law. My remarks fall under the following headings: 1. The social dimension of pre-conventions; 2. Pre-conventions and ordinary habits and dispositions; 3. Whether my examples are mistaken; 4. Reasons and causes; 5. Normative facts; 6. Whether abstract entities can be causes; 7. Are pre-conventions conditions of Lewis-conventions? 8. What can pre-conventions do for legal theory? 9. Whether I discharged my argumentative burdens. Raziskovanje …

Techne e tyche in Aristotele. Una strana relazione

2011

LE DIMOSTRAZIONI DEL RETORE. LO STATUTO EPISTEMOLOGICO DELLA RETORICA ARISTOTELICA

2013

Vincenzo Vincenzi, “Geometer and Engineer to Cardinal Borja”

2017

This paper analyses the figure of Vincenzo Vincenzi on the basis of documents that place him in Valencia in 1635 as engineer and geometer to Cardinal Gaspar de Borja y Velasco. Vincenzi, who was born in the Urbino region, worked as a hydraulic engineer at the Villa d’Este in Tivoli. In Rome he made his name as the inventor of the wind gun and the mobile fountain, inventions that were disseminated through the works of Benedetto Castelli and, above all, those of Giovanni Faber who also served as an intermediary, recommending Vincenzi’s services to cardinals such as Emmanuele Pio di Savoia and taking it upon himself to find buyers for the wind gun. Vincenzi worked for the Bentivoglios on the b…

THE REGRESS-PROBLEM: A REPLY TO VERMAZEN

1996

In his interesting paper 'Carlos Moya's Regress-Problem', Bruce Vermazen advances criticisms of some points I made in my book The Philosophy of Action: An Introduction. Vermazen's comments are restricted to the problem of regress. He holds that I give three different versions of it and that in none of them the problem is exactly a problem of regress. Moreover, he holds that my solution to this problem is on a par with those advanced by the views I oppose to: both the former and the latter can solve the (my) second version of that problem but fall prey to the third. In this paper I argue, against these criticisms, that my book contains only one version of the problem, namely the second in Ve…