In his book Wojciech Sady attempts to reconstruct the structure of the fundamental transformations that can be described as the relativistic and quantum revolution. Referring to rich historical material and Ludwik Fleck’s reflections on the development of scientific knowledge, the author tries to explain how it is possible that “scientists began to think differently than they had been taught.” Sady’s work, although not devoid of somewhat weaker points, is a brave and thought-provoking attempt to propose his own explanation of the mechanisms of the aforementioned transformations.
Recenzja książki: William Lane Craig, Time and Eternity. Exploring God’s Relationship to Time, Crossway Books, Wheaton, Illinois, A Division of Good News Publishers, 2001, s. 272.
The aim of this paper is to present the views of one of prominent Polish chemists, namely Bohdan Szyszkowski. Presented views are concerning the relation of the concepts of aether, continuity and causality in the context of revolution in physics that took place at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. The issues particularly concern his thoughts related to the old quantum theory and special relativity. In particular, this article presents the role of these concepts in the foundations of physics and – in a more general aspect – in the recognized fields of knowledge. The nature of Szyszkowski’s analysis allows him to be considered a very interesting thinker in the area that today is called the philosophy of physics or, perhaps more accurately, the philosophy in science. An important observation made by Szyszkowski is emphasized that mathematical structures cannot have physical properties. Attention was also paid to the Polish intellectual community, which was formed in Kiev before 1919.
Prezentowana praca ukazuje mało znany aspekt myśli Czesława Białobrzeskiego, jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich fizyków pierwszej połowy XX wieku. Relacje między nauką a religią stanowią interesujący punkt przemyśleń Białobrzeskiego, stanowiąc element w precyzyjnie konstruowanym, ogólnym opisie rzeczywistości. Godnym podkreślenia jest także niezwykle nowoczesny charakter spostrzeżeń polskiego fizyka w tym zakresie. Niemniej warta podkreślenia jest próba usytuowania relacji nauka wiara w kontekście społecznym.
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This paper presents not very-well known aspect of Czesław Białobrzeski’s ideas, who was one of most prominent physicists in Poland in first half of XX Century. The relations between science and religion are very interesting subject of his reflection. It is also an element of his general description of reality, the description of very precise construction. The very modern character of remarks of the polish physicist in this area is also to be emphasized, as well as an attempt of location of relations between religion and science in social context.
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland This article is a review of the book Making AI Intelligible. Philosophical Foundations, written by Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, and published in 2021 by Oxford University Press. The authors of the reviewed book address the difficult issue of interpreting the results provided by AI systems and the links between human-specific content handling and the internal mechanisms of these systems. Considering the potential usefulness of various frameworks developed in philosophy to solve the problem, they conduct a thorough analysis of a wide spectrum of them, from the use of Saul Kripke’s work to a critical analysis of the explainable AI current.
As one may have noticed, the title of this paper is somewhat provocative. We found Roman Krzanowski’s (2020a,b,c; 2022) proposed approach to the problem of information very intriguing. Our aim here is to highlight some advantages when it comes to answering some fundamental questions in the philosophy of physics and metaphysics, as well as the philosophy of information and computer science. This issue is of great importance, so we propose that the introduction of some subtle distinctions between ontological and epistemological information can be regarded as being analogous to G.F.R. Ellis’s analyses of the passage of time in his concept of the Crystallizing Block Universe (Ellis and Goswami, 2012). This analogy could be useful when further studying the relations between different types of information. We also suggest some subjects for further study, ones where Krzanowski’s proposal could serve as a very solid foundation for examining traditional metaphysical issues by combining classical philosophical doctrines with the new approach.
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