Spotlights

  • Reason and Will. Kazimierz Twardowski and His Influence on the Shape of Polish

    Reason and Will. Kazimierz Twardowski and His Influence on the Shape of Polish

    Spotlight

    The enormous influence of Kazimierz Twardowski on the shape of 20th-century Polish culture is unquestionable. The volume Reason and Will specifies which spheres did this influence concern. Firstly, the volume reconstructs the image of Twardowski’s personality and work in the eyes of his contemporaries Poles, and also pictures how they assessed this work (Jacek Jadacki, Ryszard Kleszcz). Both the image and the assessment were confronted with the facts, and this...

    Read More
  • Ethics and Contingency. Bernard Williams` Project of Anti-Theoretical Ethics

    Ethics and Contingency. Bernard Williams` Project of Anti-Theoretical Ethics

    Spotlight

    The book aims to reconstruct and critically analyze Bernard Williams` project of anti-theoretical ethics. I try to overcome the interpretative difficulties generated by the specific features of the British philosopher`s thought –  his skepticism, multiple, essayistic form of expression - assuming the hypothesis that this project can be explicated and accurately captured only in relation to its epistemological, metaphysical, anthropological and metaphilosophical premises. The book contains five chapters.

    Read More
  • Moral Intuitions. On the Cognition of Good and Evil

    Moral Intuitions. On the Cognition of Good and Evil

    Spotlight

    The work focuses on the issue of moral intuitions and their ability to justify our moral beliefs. It consists of seven chapters. Chapter one presents a historical outline of intuitionistic theories in ethics, with the main emphasis put on the British intuitionists from the 16th to the first half of the 20th century. The chapter ends by presenting the main objections put forward against moral intuitionism, which eventually led to the weakening of this approach in the second part of the 20th century. The objections are as follows: queerness argument of moral facts and the faculty of moral...

    Read More

Featured

Czego nie wiemy o filozofii średniowiecznej?
tom 1

What don’t we know about Mediaeval philosophy?

Agnieszka Kijewska
March 8, 2024

New Releases

Inedita Twardowskiego tom 8 Psychologia
tom 8

Inedita, t. 8: Psychologia

Kazimierz Twardowski; Aleksandra Horecka
January 30, 2024

Wydawnictwo Academicon to wydawnictwo naukowe, od 17 grudnia 2019 znajduje się w wykazie wydawców publikujących recenzowane monografie naukowe (poziom I – 120 punktów) [podstawa prawna: Obwieszczenie Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 23 lutego 2022 r. w sprawie ogłoszenia jednolitego tekstu rozporządzenia Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego w sprawie ewaluacji jakości działalności naukowej (Dz. U. 2022 poz. 661, § 12, ust. 5 i 6).

Na tej stronie, w systemie Open Monograph Press, są dostępne zasadniczo tylko naukowe pozycje Wydawnictwa Academicon. Pozostałe wydania można znaleźć na portalu Academicon oraz w serwisie magazynu „Filozofuj!”, a także w Księgarni Academicon.