OLEKSANDR KULCZYCKYI’S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Visnyk of the Lviv University. Philosophical Sciences Series June 1, 2025 Olga Honcharenko
Oleksandr Kulchytskyi, a Ukrainian philosopher, defined mental phenomena as subjective internal experiences accessible only to the subject. He described mental integration as the coexistence of phenomena at a single moment or across different moments of mental life, contrasting mental (inner) life with physical (outer) life. He connected consciousness with the unconscious, aiming to solve the interaction problem between mental and physical realms. Kulchytskyi tended toward dualism in addressing the mind-body problem, influenced indirectly by Descartes through Twardowski, and attempted to reconcile Twardowski's concept of the psyche with Lipps' assertion of unconscious mental phenomena. His approach shares similarities with Thomas Nagel, Frank Jackson, and David Chalmers on subjectivity versus objectivity.