Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
March 29, 2026
Karol Polcyn
Explaining the intuition that phenomenal consciousness is not a physical property is crucial in the debate on the nature of consciousness. There are two competing strategies of how to approach this issue in the literature. Some assume that the intuition of dualism is a psychological illusion, others treat this intuition as a genuine cognitive problem which is not the result of an error. This...
Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
November 28, 2025
Samuel Maruszewski
A view on selfhood informed by contemporary scholarship of the embodied philosophy of mind is invaluable because it validates self-experience as real in a rich and integrative manner, neglecting neither experience nor science. Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and their empirical underpinnings are included as necessary, non-reducible parts of a greater whole of experience. This breaks away from...
Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
December 19, 2024
Zoltán Sóstai
According to Frank Jacksonʼs knowledge argument, Mary, who lives in a black-and-white world, has all the physical knowledge about the world, yet she has new information when she sees a red apple. If we accept this, then physicalism – according to which the description of the world can be realised entirely with the help of physical theories – is false. However, even if Jacksonʼs argument about...
Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
December 19, 2024
Dominika Jacyk-Manikowska
This article discusses the idea of contemplation in the paintings of Michael Willmann. Though contemplation does not make itself present immediately in his works, the nature of his painting may both stimulate the practice of contemplation and visually exemplify the contemplative practice. In the paper, I consider several alternative ways of understanding contemplation which may be found...
Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
December 28, 2021
Sławomir Barć
The text compares two themes: Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological reduction, and the category of „empty mind” in Zen Buddhism. The similarities and the difference between the two epistemological strategies are shown and the common ground for metaphysical and partly ethical solutions are outlined. The basic thesis is that different cognitive strategies can lead to very similar effects. In other...