Copernicus;Copernicus Center Press

A collection of essays dealing with the issue of normativity from various academic and scientific perspectives. The Reader will learn how phenomena such as norms, morality and rule-following are described and explained in philosophy, biology, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience. In addition, a discussion of the naturalistic fallacy from the...

A collection of essays dealing with the fundamental issues in neuroscience from the methodological and philosophical perspectives. The Reader will learn about the methodological difficulties connected with the use of neuroscientific experiments in philosophical argumentation and about the nature of scientific explanation in neuroscience. In...

A collection of essays devoted to the peculiarities of theological language and logic. The issues covered include such topics as the logic of miracles, the problem of God's omniscience, the application of non-classical logics to theology and the relationships between science and theology, viewed from the perspective of logic. Contributors Mieszko...

A ground-breaking collection of essays which tackles the philosophical issues at play in cosmology, physics, mathematics and neuroscience. Considering topics such as the presence of ontology in cosmological theory and physics, it also weighs up the philosophical issues connected with mathematical method, the neuroscience of emotions and...

"Poglądy o charakterze filozoficznym wpływają w szczególnie wyraźny sposób na rozwój nauki w okresach napięć i gwałtownych przemian. Niniejsza praca jest próbą rekonstrukcji tych poglądów filozoficznych, które leżały u podstaw wielowątkowego i złożonego procesu recepcji teorii względności w lwowskim środowisku naukowo-filozoficznym. Był to proces,...

In this book, Bartosz Brożek attempts to decipher the practice of rule-following with the use of the tools offered both by contemporary philosophy and neuroscience. The Author claims ? in the Wittgensteinian spirit ? that rule-following cannot be thought of in terms of individual mental states only: in order to explain what rules are, one needs to...