Last update: November 1, 2013

[Katazhyna Papzhytska]

My current major project is the development of an externalist theory of agency, which introduces a new order to my thinking about action so far:

· On a Neg-Raising Fallacy in Determining Enthymematicity: if she did not believe or want …, forthcoming in Metaphilosophy

· On Hendrickson’s New Argument Against the Minimalist Theory of Action Individuation, forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophical Research

· Social Re-Construction of Agency – forthcoming in: Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber (eds.), "New Directions in the Philosophy of Science", Springer

· Can a Spasm Cause an Action? An Argument for Responsibilist Theories of Action, Grazer Philosophische Studien 87 (2013): 161-176 (special issue on Defeasibility)

· Ginet on the Problem of Action Externalization, Philosophia (Philosophical Quarterly of Israel) 40-4 (2012): 841-855.

· Sneddon on Action and Responsibility, Polish Journal of Philosophy 2 (2008), 69-88.

· Trying Slips: Can Davidson and Hornsby Account for Mistakes and Slips?, Philosophia 35 (2005), 173-216.

· False Consciousness of Intentional Psychology, Philosophical Psychology 15-3 (2002), 271-295.

· Normative Expectations, Intentions and Beliefs, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 37-4 (1999), 629-652.

· Collectivism on the Horizon: A Challenge to Pettit’s Critique of Collectivism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1998), 165-181.

· Social Anatomy of Action: Toward a Responsibility-Based Account of Agency, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1997)

Miscellaneous philosophy of mind and action

· On a Neg-Raising Fallacy in Determining Enthymematicity: if she did not believe or want …, forthcoming in Metaphilosophy

· On Lowe’s Argument against the Psychoneural Token-Identity Thesis, forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

· On Willfully Contrarious Beliefs, in (eds.) Jerzy Brzeziński, Andrzej Klawiter, Theo A.F. Kuipers, Krzysztof Łastowski, Katarzyna Paprzycka, Piotr Przybysz, The Courage to Do Philosophy. Essays Presented to Leszek Nowak (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2007).

· Flickers of Freedom and Frankfurt-Style Cases in the Light of the New Incompatibilism of the Stit Theory, Journal of Philosophical Research 27 (2002), 553-565.

· Must False Consciousness Be Rationally Caused?, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 28-1 (1998), 69-82.

My habilitation project: an argument (from philosophy of science) that type-type identity theory is compatible with antireductionism

· How a Type-Type Identity Theorist Can Be a Non-Reductionist: An Answer from the Idealizational Conception of Science, [w:] Donald Gillies (red.), Laws and Models in Science (London: King’s College Publications, 2004), pp. 113–128.

· Response to Marcel Weber’s Comment, [w:] Donald Gillies (red.), Laws and Models in Science (London: King’s College Publications, 2004), pp. 133–136.

Philosophy of science

· Do Selectional Explanations Apply to Individual-Level Facts? Some Comments on E. Sober’s Conception of Selectional Explanations, in: Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (ed.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science at Warsaw University (Warszawa: Semper, 2008), pp. 99-107.

· Idealization in Unitarian Metaphysics, Axiomates 11 (2000), 7-19.

· Accuracy, Essentiality and Idealization, with M. Paprzycki, in: (eds.) J. Brzeziński, L. Nowak, Idealization III: Approximation and Truth (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 255-265.

· How do Idealizational Statements Apply to Reality?, in: (eds.) J. Brzeziński, L. Nowak, Idealization III: Approximation and Truth (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 239-250.

· A Note on the Unitarian Explication of Idealization, with M. Paprzycki, in: (eds.) J. Brzeziński, L. Nowak, Idealization III: Approximation and Truth (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 263-265.

· Reduction and Correspondence in the Idealizational Conception of Science, in: (eds.) Brzeziński, J., Coniglione, F., Kuipers, T.A.F., Nowak, L., Idealization I (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989), pp. 277-286.

One of my hobbies is teaching logic (especially to students who don’t like it)

· Using Short Animated Presentations (SAPs) in Teaching Elementary Logic, Teaching Philosophy 27-4, 2004, 325-336.

· Teaching Logic as a Foreign Language On-Line, Teaching Philosophy 27, 2 (2004), 117 125.

· Logic Self-Taught: A Workbook (written especially for students who have problems with learning logic)

Some of my past heroes (especially Carnap – I even saw Carnap in Hegel)

· Socrates Meets Carnap: Explication in the Theaetetus, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 2 (1999), 87-108.

· How Carnap Should Bite Goodman’s Bullet, Philosophia 24 (1994), 149-156.

· The Master and Slave Configuration in Hegel’s System, in: (eds.) L. Nowak, M. Paprzycki, Social Systems, Rationality and Revolution (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993), pp. 83-104.

· A Paradox in Hobbes’ Philosophy of Law? in: (eds.) L. Nowak, M. Paprzycki, Social Systems, Rationality and Revolution (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993), pp. 41-50.

· Carnap and Leibniz on the Problem of Being, Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 28 (1992), 163-177.