Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej

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Issue 2(43)/2025 of the „Archiwum…” is now available

Welcome to the issue 2(43)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Dr Michał JANOWSKI

Incoherence of Judges’ Decisions on Punishments. Presentation of the Results of an Experiment Conducted with Professional Criminal Judges Using the Method Developed by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, David Schkade and Ilana Ritov

Dr hab. Milena KORYCKA-ZIRK, prof. UMK

William David Ross’s prima facie duties vis-à-vis Ronald Dworkin’s principles of law

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz. Part II

Natalia Regina SKOCZYLAS, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

Gustav Klimt’s Jurisprudence and the Problem of the Scale of Claims on the Law

Prof. dr hab. Marek SMOLAK

The Constitutive and Conventional Nature of Legal Interpretation Directives

Dr hab. Tomasz SROGOSZ, prof. UKEN

Critical Approaches to International Law According to China Miéville and Bhupinder S. Chimni

Dr hab. Adam ZIENKIEWICZ, prof. UWM

The Judge as a Promoter of Peace

Dr Jakub ŁAKOMY

The Professor, the Political Activist, and the Professional on the Tightropes of Culture Wars: Stanley Fish’s Versions of Academic Freedom

 

Reviews:

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI

A central trend of the 21st century? Side-notes on works by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein, An Assault on the State. How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Polity Press, Hoboken NJ, 2024) and Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, Ungoverning. An Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos (Princeton University Press, Princeton – Oxford 2024)

Prof. dr hab. Marek ZIRK-SADOWSKI

Karol Gregorczuk, Biobankowanie ludzkiego materiału biologicznego. Spór o model racjonalnego prawa w badaniach biomedycznych [Biobanking of human biological material. The dispute about the rational-legal model in biomedical research], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2024, pp. 387

 

Reports:

Dr hab. Katarzyna JAWORSKA-BISKUP

Debate “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. On emotions in law and literature”, Szczecin, 10 December 2024

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

2nd Mountain Trek-Conference on the Philosophy of Law of the Polish Section of IVR “Legal education crisis”, Silesian Beskids, 4–6 October 2024

 

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Number 2(43)/2025 [PL/ENG]

Articles:

Dr Michał JANOWSKI

Incoherence of Judges’ Decisions on Punishments. Presentation of the Results of an Experiment Conducted with Professional Criminal Judges Using the Method Developed by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, David Schkade and Ilana Ritov

Dr hab. Milena KORYCKA-ZIRK, prof. UMK

William David Ross’s prima facie duties vis-à-vis Ronald Dworkin’s principles of law

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz. Part II

Natalia Regina SKOCZYLAS, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

Gustav Klimt’s Jurisprudence and the Problem of the Scale of Claims on the Law

Prof. dr hab. Marek SMOLAK

The Constitutive and Conventional Nature of Legal Interpretation Directives

Dr hab. Tomasz SROGOSZ, prof. UKEN

Critical Approaches to International Law According to China Miéville and Bhupinder S. Chimni

Dr hab. Adam ZIENKIEWICZ, prof. UWM

The Judge as a Promoter of Peace

Dr Jakub ŁAKOMY

The Professor, the Political Activist, and the Professional on the Tightropes of Culture Wars: Stanley Fish’s Versions of Academic Freedom

 

Reviews:

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI

A central trend of the 21st century? Side-notes on works by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein, An Assault on the State. How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Polity Press, Hoboken NJ, 2024) and Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, Ungoverning. An Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos (Princeton University Press, Princeton – Oxford 2024)

Prof. dr hab. Marek ZIRK-SADOWSKI

Karol Gregorczuk, Biobankowanie ludzkiego materiału biologicznego. Spór o model racjonalnego prawa w badaniach biomedycznych [Biobanking of human biological material. The dispute about the rational-legal model in biomedical research], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2024, pp. 387

 

Reports:

Dr hab. Katarzyna JAWORSKA-BISKUP

Debate “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. On emotions in law and literature”, Szczecin, 10 December 2024

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

2nd Mountain Trek-Conference on the Philosophy of Law of the Polish Section of IVR “Legal education crisis”, Silesian Beskids, 4–6 October 2024

Issue 1(42)/2025 of the „Archiwum…” is now available

Welcome to the issue 1(42)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue begins with acknowledgments addressed to Dr Paweł Skuczyński for his commitment and many years of work in the Editorial Board of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” (the text can be found here). The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Dr Filip CYUŃCZYK

Constitutionalized by the Past. The Role of National Identity and Collective Sense of Experience in Central European Constitutionalization

Dr Paweł KŁOS

Information Civilization and the Law: Significance of Limiting Factors. Introductory Insights

Dr Paulina KONCA

Judicial Update of the Meaning of a Legal Text in Three Questions

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz: Part I

Dr Martyna PŁUDOWSKA, Prof. dr hab. Andrzej SĘKOWSKI

Psychological Competences of Mediators. Selected Aspects of Creative Thinking in the Process of Mediated Conflict Resolution

Dr hab. Tomasz WIDŁAK, prof. UG

Pygmalion’s Digital Dream: An Outline of Legal-Philosophical Problems of Human Digital Twins in Medical Applications

 

Reviews:

Dr Joanna M. DUTKA

Bartosz Wojciechowski, Tożsamość narracyjna jako warunek autentycznej podmiotowości prawnej [Narrative Identity as a Condition for True Legal Subjectivity], series: Jurysprudencja [Jurisprudence], t. 21, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2023, pp. 180

The issue is available here.

Number 1(42)/2025 [PL/ENG]

Articles:

Dr Filip CYUŃCZYK

Constitutionalized by the Past. The Role of National Identity and Collective Sense of Experience in Central European Constitutionalization

Dr Paweł KŁOS

Information Civilization and the Law: Significance of Limiting Factors. Introductory Insights

Dr Paulina KONCA

Judicial Update of the Meaning of a Legal Text in Three Questions

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz: Part I

Dr Martyna PŁUDOWSKA, Prof. dr hab. Andrzej SĘKOWSKI

Psychological Competences of Mediators. Selected Aspects of Creative Thinking in the Process of Mediated Conflict Resolution

Dr hab. Tomasz WIDŁAK, prof. UG

Pygmalion’s Digital Dream: An Outline of Legal-Philosophical Problems of Human Digital Twins in Medical Applications

Reviews:

Dr Joanna M. DUTKA

Bartosz Wojciechowski, Tożsamość narracyjna jako warunek autentycznej podmiotowości prawnej [Narrative Identity as a Condition for True Legal Subjectivity], series: Jurysprudencja [Jurisprudence], t. 21, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2023, pp. 180

Pygmalion’s Digital Dream: An Outline of Philosophical and Legal Issues of Human Digital Twins on the Example of Medical Applications

Dr hab. Tomasz Widłak, prof. UG

University of Gdańsk

English abstract: The aim of the article is to present a synthesis of the technological and social framework of the new, disruptive technology of human digital twins (HDT) and to outline the most important philosophical and legal issues related to it. The latter include ontological and phenomenological aspects in relation to the problem of legal personality and the status of HDT. Due to the universality of the technology and the breadth of issues related to it, the scope of the discussion was limited to examples of the use of technology in health care and medicine. The article presents the possibilities and threats of using HDTs in this area. Selected, most important examples of potential ethical and legal problems posing a challenge to future and current regulations in areas such as privacy and data protection, data quality and ownership, and patient autonomy were also analyzed. The conclusions of the article, point that the changes resulting from this disruptive technology go beyond purely practical aspects and touch the philosophical foundations of the legal order. HDT technology itself, at its early stage of development, does not clearly determine the direction of evolution of legal humanism paradigm towards inclusive posthumanism or technological transhumanism. The need to consider the phenomenological perspective of the HDT experience was emphasized. It may become the most important factor determining possible conceptual changes in law and jurisprudence. In addition to the discussion, the article provides an extensive review of the existing computer science literature on HDT. There have been no studies on the issue of HDT from the perspective of jurisprudence in the legal literature so far.

Key words: Human digital twin, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence, new technology law, medical law, transhumanism, digital clone.

Language: Polish.

Published: no. 1(42)/2025, pp. 93-111.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2024.4.93

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Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz: Part I

Prof. dr hab. Beata Polanowska-Sygulska

Jagiellonian University, Kraków

English abstract: One of the most eminent contemporary legal philosophers, Joseph Raz, made significant contributions not only to the aforementioned discipline, but also to political philosophy and moral philosophy, the three branches of which, in his view, contribute to practical philosophy. J. Raz’s achievements in the latter two areas are less familiar to the Polish reader than his concepts in the field of jurisprudence, all the more so because none of his works, which are part of the aforementioned, more general fields, has been translated into Polish. The present essay is devoted to the key threads of the thinker’s inquiries in the field of moral philosophy. The reconstruction made of J. Raz’s views takes into account the following ideas: his original version of ethical pluralism, the concept of constitutive incommensurability, a specific understanding of the universality of values, the thesis of their social dependence and the concepts of personal sense and personal attachment. The interpretation of the Oxford philosopher’s reflections is enriched by two digressions, referring in turn – to Charles Taylor’s critique of the instrumental way of life and to Ronald Dworkin’s underlying jurisprudence of ethical monism. This is because arguments can be derived from the reflections of the protagonist of the essay, which call into question the theses of the two aforementioned thinkers.

The presentation and analysis of the key themes of J. Raz’s moral philosophy is complemented by the author’s reminiscences of her meetings and conversations with the Oxford scholar.

Key words: Joseph Raz, ethical pluralism, constitutive incommensurability, social dependence thesis, personal meaning, personal attachment, universality of values.

Language: Polish

Published: no. 1(42)/2025, pp. 60-76.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2024.4.60

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Issue 3(40)/2024 of the „Archiwum…” is now available

Welcome to the issue 3(40)/2024 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Prof. UMK dr hab. Łukasz DOMINIAK

Libertarianism, Jusnaturalist Skepticism, and the Argument from the Legitimate Use of Force

Michał KORDZIŃSKI

The European Union as a Community of Well-Ordered Peoples? Object-Oriented Interpretation of John Rawls’ Law of Peoples. A Contribution to Future Research

Dr Wiktor KRZYMOWSKI

About the Pro-Constitutional Interpretative Directive In Dubio Pro Vita Humana

Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy LESZCZYŃSKI

Political Agonism and Thinking About Law and Jurisprudence

Mgr Grzegorz LIPIŃSKI

The Understanding of Principles in Criminal Procedural Law

Mikołaj TRUSZKOWSKI

Formulating the Provisions on Entry into Force of a Generally Applicable Normative Act: Critical Analysis Engendered by the 2023 Act Amending the Electoral Code

Revews:

Mgr Agata DĄBROWSKA, Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy LESZCZYŃSKI

Wojciech Zomerski, W kierunku demokratycznej nauki prawa? Dogmatyka, edukacja, postanalityczność. Warsaw 2023, pp. 383

Reports:

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

I Górska Rajdokonferencja Filozofii Prawa Społeczny wymiar rządów prawa, Beskid Żywiecki, 12–14.04.2024

The issue is available HERE.

Number 3(40)/2024 [PL]

Articles:

Prof. UMK dr hab. Łukasz DOMINIAK

Libertarianism, Jusnaturalist Skepticism, and the Argument from the Legitimate Use of Force

Michał KORDZIŃSKI

The European Union as a Community of Well-Ordered Peoples? Object-Oriented Interpretation of John Rawls’ Law of Peoples. A Contribution to Future Research

Dr Wiktor KRZYMOWSKI

About the Pro-Constitutional Interpretative Directive In Dubio Pro Vita Humana

Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy LESZCZYŃSKI

Political Agonism and Thinking About Law and Jurisprudence

Mgr Grzegorz LIPIŃSKI

The Understanding of Principles in Criminal Procedural Law

Mikołaj TRUSZKOWSKI

Formulating the Provisions on Entry into Force of a Generally Applicable Normative Act: Critical Analysis Engendered by the 2023 Act Amending the Electoral Code

Reviews:

Mgr Agata DĄBROWSKA, Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy LESZCZYŃSKI

Wojciech Zomerski, W kierunku demokratycznej nauki prawa? Dogmatyka, edukacja, postanalityczność. Warsaw 2023, pp. 383

Reports:

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

I Górska Rajdokonferencja Filozofii Prawa Społeczny wymiar rządów prawa, Beskid Żywiecki, 12–14.04.2024

Determining Temporal Limits of Court’s Interpretative Decision (in Light of the Case Law of Administrative Courts)

Dr Tomasz Grzybowski, Dr Marta Sarnowiec-Cisłak

SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Abstract: Subject of consideration in this article remains the problem of changing direction of interpretation in judicial-administrative jurisprudence, which sometimes produces consequences similar to the effects of a legislative change. Against this background, the authors attempt to formulate a description of the practice of application of law, i.e. to present jurisprudential arguments supporting decision on the scope of application of interpreted legal norm, as well as to reconstruct underlying assumptions. Using an example of two groups of selected judgments, authors consider cases in which argumentation of the temporal scope of impact of a particular interpretative direction appears in the justifications of administrative court decisions. The analysis carried out confirms that although courts generally assume the retrospective impact of interpretation, in a situation where the content of the derived legal norm fundamentally deviates from previous interpretative practice, they seek legitimization of their actions by justifying the intertemporal decision with constitutional values. These values provide an essential interpretive framework reflecting the cultural model prevalent in the native legal communication community. If courts perceive a risk of violating the values underlying the prohibition of retroactivity, such as legal certainty or principle of trust in public authorities, they indicate reasons for limiting the temporal scope of interpretation pro futuro, or on the contrary, for its effect ex tunc. Against this background, the retrospective effect of interpretation appears not as a consequence of interpretation being made, but rather as a kind of interpretative presumption that can be rebutted or confirmed if arguments are made that allow the interpretation to apply only to future states, or that give additional suport for retrospective application of new interpretation.

Keywords: change of interpretation, temporal limits, administrative courts, retrospectivity, legal certainty, principle of trust in public authorities, justification.

Language: polish

Opublikowano: nr 2(39) 2024, s. 5-18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2024.2.5

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Issue 3(36)/2023 „Archiwum…” is now available

Welcome to the English-language issue 3(36)/2023 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue is titled: „Between Legal Theory and Ideology” and is dedicated to the thought of Prof. Józef Nowacki on the centenary of his birth and on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of a collection of his writings titled „Studies in the Theory of Law”. The issue includes the following texts:

  • Prof. UŚ dr hab. Sławomir TKACZ: Between Legal Theory and Ideology. Introduction
  • Prof. dr hab. Józef NOWACKI: Normative and Situationist Conception of General Clause of the Principles of Community Coexistence
  • Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI: An Ideal of Scientific Jurisprudence. Józef Nowacki Against Ideological Influences on Jurisprudential Claims
  • Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt TOBOR: Legality as Compliance with the Intention of the Legislator. The Understanding of Legality in Józef Nowacki’s Works
  • Prof. dr hab. Kamil ZEIDLER: Law and Values Other Than Moral. On Searching for Inspiration in Józef Nowacki’s Works
  • Prof. UŚ dr hab. Agnieszka BIELSKA-BRODZIAK, dr Marek SUSKA: Legal Certainty and the Interpretatio Retro Non Agit Principle
  • Prof. dr hab. Leszek LESZCZYŃSKI: Situationist and Normative Concepts of General Clauses. The Context of Differences and Common Grounds
  • Prof. UŚ dr hab. Sławomir TKACZ: Situationist and Normative Concepts of General Clauses. Disputes About the Accuracy of Two Approaches to General Clauses in the Light of Józef Nowacki’s Views

The issue is available HERE.

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