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Szumakowicz E.

Kwartalnik Filozoficzny

2022

vol. 50

issue 1-4

309-332

The aim of this article is to show how the philosophical thinking finds its way into human life and activity, into the various and mutually incomparable domains of it. Four of them are chosen and discussed from the point of view of philosophical engagement: (1) the existential – human sphere, (2) Nature, (3) the universe of mathematical objects, and (4) the social sphere. The author wants to show that a philosophical attitude enables us to perceive a more profound layer of sense in the investigated subject matter, and to understand better the meaning of scientific discoveries. The sphere of social relations and interactions deserves special attention. Interpersonal communication and any interaction is essentially based on the transcendental subjectivity investigated in the history of philosophy by Descartes, Kant, and Husserl. The author suggests that, as a result, a certain level of philosophication of sociology is in needed, a kind of sociosophy. Within such a perspective interpersonal interactions and communication appear to be clashes of individual worlds, transcendentally constituted by transcendental subjects (compare L. Wittgenstein’s saying: The world is always my world ). Of course, such an approach may evoke a critical positivist reaction under the banner of Ockham’s razor. But, on the other hand, some observable triviality of today’s sociology does not leave the other side without a chance.

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Szumakowicz E.

Kwartalnik Filozoficzny

2013

vol. 41

issue 2

61 - 73

The main thesis of the article is that the revolutionary development of physics around the beginning of the 20th century was essentially conceptual, not empirical. Mechanical, electromagnetic, and optical phenomena needed a unified conceptual framework. This was achieved by the replacement of the Galilean transformation by the Lorentz transformation. But the basis and rationale for the Lorentz symmetry of inertial frames is fundamentally a priori. The role of empirical observation is auxiliary rather than justificational. One may conclude that Albert Einstein conceived his famous theory in his pure mind and reason. But one must also add with some melancholy that such great discoveries, achieved with such limited means, are impossible in the future development of physics. The uniqueness of the above revolution is analogous to that of the point zero on the diagram of exponential function.

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