I am philosopher and pedagogist interested in philosophy of education, general pedagogy, epistemology of complexity and ecology of mind, history of ideas, semiotics of culture
International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies, Jun 30, 2018
The paper aims to compare the challenges faced by youths of Radlinska’s generation with the young... more The paper aims to compare the challenges faced by youths of Radlinska’s generation with the young of today, posing questions about what triggered the increased energy, agency and activism of the young of the interwar period and asks if it could be utilised by current pedagogical ‘forces’ in Poland. The focus is placed on teachers’ education and emerging new systems of tuition, as well as the extraordinary achievements of the social pedagogue of the interwar period – Helena Radlinska. The article is a modified and updated version of an excerpt from the book entitled: 'Invisible environment' (Witkowski, 2014) published in Polish language by Impuls. The idea of revisiting this theme was triggered by the upcoming celebration of the 100 years anniversary of the Independence of Poland (1918)
The paper is devoted to the description of relations between the case of Italian epistemologist (... more The paper is devoted to the description of relations between the case of Italian epistemologist (and mathematician) Enriques, known from the period before the World War II, and the better (re)cognized European figures in epistemology such as Swiss psychologist Piaget and also Swiss mathematician and philosopher of science Gonseth, on one side, and the famous French philosopher Bachelard, on the other side. Among aspects of epistemology, we refer to the problem of historicism and we develop the idea of ‘critical rationalism' in Enriquesian version, which both permit to correct typical overestimations of Popperian polemics with the Vienna Circle position, which collapsed not because of Sir Karl's attack, but due to the fact that European epistemology has grown up to alternative visions that refer often to the hypothetical approach and to the structuralist vision of scientific evolution, first of all in French (and Italian) reflections. In particular, I refer to various aspects of biography and Enriques contributions to epistemology. Finally, we stress upon the role of Barbara Skarga's philosophical seminar, where during the Martial Law in Poland, there was still a possibility to carry on investigations on such issues, marginalized in Polish ways of perceiving epistemology.
International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies, Jun 30, 2018
The paper aims to compare the challenges faced by youths of Radlinska’s generation with the young... more The paper aims to compare the challenges faced by youths of Radlinska’s generation with the young of today, posing questions about what triggered the increased energy, agency and activism of the young of the interwar period and asks if it could be utilised by current pedagogical ‘forces’ in Poland. The focus is placed on teachers’ education and emerging new systems of tuition, as well as the extraordinary achievements of the social pedagogue of the interwar period – Helena Radlinska. The article is a modified and updated version of an excerpt from the book entitled: 'Invisible environment' (Witkowski, 2014) published in Polish language by Impuls. The idea of revisiting this theme was triggered by the upcoming celebration of the 100 years anniversary of the Independence of Poland (1918)
The paper is devoted to the description of relations between the case of Italian epistemologist (... more The paper is devoted to the description of relations between the case of Italian epistemologist (and mathematician) Enriques, known from the period before the World War II, and the better (re)cognized European figures in epistemology such as Swiss psychologist Piaget and also Swiss mathematician and philosopher of science Gonseth, on one side, and the famous French philosopher Bachelard, on the other side. Among aspects of epistemology, we refer to the problem of historicism and we develop the idea of ‘critical rationalism' in Enriquesian version, which both permit to correct typical overestimations of Popperian polemics with the Vienna Circle position, which collapsed not because of Sir Karl's attack, but due to the fact that European epistemology has grown up to alternative visions that refer often to the hypothetical approach and to the structuralist vision of scientific evolution, first of all in French (and Italian) reflections. In particular, I refer to various aspects of biography and Enriques contributions to epistemology. Finally, we stress upon the role of Barbara Skarga's philosophical seminar, where during the Martial Law in Poland, there was still a possibility to carry on investigations on such issues, marginalized in Polish ways of perceiving epistemology.
It is a conference paper published in Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana, vol. 18(2015), p. 115-128, wh... more It is a conference paper published in Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana, vol. 18(2015), p. 115-128, which makes a synthetic reference to the author's position in his studies on the concept of cultural authority. There are seven parts of it: (1) The authority as an object of games with time, (2) Disaproval to the sociological reduction in politics and theology, (3) The authority between the claim to be a possessor of truth, witness of the ongoing process of seaking the truth, and pathos of claim to be the transmitter of truth, (4) The authority as a source of ontological debt and obligation/commitment, (5) The authority ad its disappearance in the university education, (6) Authority in vertical and horizontal perspectives, (7) Return to the authority of masterpieces of culture as a permanent and 'distorted' return to onself.
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