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- Essentialism and Human Nature. Excerpts from “Unfinished Dialogue”
The text consists of the excerpts from a book "Unfinished Dialogue" by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska published in New York in 2006. Read more
- A Story of a Foreword. Remarks on the Chinese Translation of „Unfinished Dialogue”
In 2014 Yilin Press published a Chinese translation of a book "Unfinished Dialogue" by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska. The text presents the letters exchanged between Beata Polanowska-Sygulska and Yang Deyou, the translator of the book and an expert in Polish and English studies, and which led to the creation of the foreword to the Chinese edition of the book. Read more
- The position of Social Insurance Institution in the perspective of „sovereignty” conception of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler
The subject of the article is the analysis of a specific feature of contemporary political and administrative power. Read more
- Clarity of law requirement regarding European Union law
Clarity is one of the basic traits of good law. So far, theory of law has focused on the clarity of law requirement only with reference to national legal orders. Read more
- Reflexivity and transitional justice research
The article explores ways in which the notion of reflexivity can apply to the research on transitional justice. First, the article describes reflexive considerations concerning the state of the field itself. Read more
- „L’amie de la liberté”: Benjamin Constant’s considerations about freedom
The author of the article by analyzing and interpreting Constant’s texts performs detailed reconstruction of the idea of freedom included in these texts. The author shows a close connection between Constant’s idea of freedom and of ideas developed by the French thinker and politician in his work on religion. Read more
- Fish – Dworkin debate as an example of dispute about practice of interpretation of law
The aim of the article is to critically asses the theories of interpretation developed by two prominent philosophers, namely Stanley Fish and Ronald Dworkin. After first describing and reconstructing their ideas the paper then identifies problems concerning the stance according to which everything in applying law depends on interpretation. Read more
- Kant, Korsgaard and the Moral Status of Animals
The paper discusses the views of Christine Korsgaard – one of leading modern Kantian moral philosophers – on the proper status of sentient animals. Famously, Kantian moral theory is considered as much less favorable to the idea of animal rights than the competing utilitarian tradition. Read more
- Are societies of liquid modernity open societies? Two visions: Karl Popper and Zygmunt Bauman
The topic of this paper is an attempt to combine two, seemingly very divergent points of view: represented by widely recognized as the postmodernist Zygmunt Bauman and by Karl Popper, who is known as a critical rationalist and a scientist. Read more
- Hindsight bias and liability for damages
Hindsight bias is one of the cognitive biases, which are biases that people make systematically and predictably. The essence of this bias is inability to correctly evaluate the probability of past events. Read more
- Jurassic Park of Legal Interpretation: A Response to Agnieszka Choduń
- Critical Legal Conference 2014 Power, Capital Chaos, University of Sussex, Brighton, Great Britain, 4-6 September 2014
- 2nd International Workshop On Law And Ideology Memories Of Struggles, Struggles Of Memories, Sarajevo, 28-29 May 2015