Marcin Rządeczka

Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin · Institute of Philosophy

The non-autistic majority often judges people on the autism spectrum through the prism of numerous stereotypes, prejudices, cognitive biases, or, generally speaking, non-rational beliefs. This causes problems in autistic people’s everyday lives, as they often feel stigmatized, marginalized, and they internalize deficit-laden narratives about themse...

Fleeing from war, witnessing death and destruction and leaving family behind can be frightening, stressful and result in Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), a mental health condition that can occur in the first month after a traumatic event. This cross-sectional study of 637 Ukrainian war refugees used two structured surveys. The first consisted of questi...

The unprecedented development of medical informatics is constantly transforming the concept of expertise in medical sciences in a way that has far-reaching consequences for both the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of informatics. Deep medicine is based on the assumption that medical diagnosis should take into account the wide array of possib...

Cognitive biases can be roughly divided into two categories, namely, the cognitive ar-tifacts and the cognitive adaptations. Cognitive artifacts, such as the base rate neglect affecting the reliability of probabilistic decision-making strategies, are often triggered by the cognitively unnatural situations, i.e. occurrences our brain is not sufficie...

The nascent field of evolutionary psychology can shed some new light on the concept of perceptual biases. Rather than interpreting a bias as a cognitive flaw, evolutionary psychology seeks to reveal its adaptive function. Systematic distortion of reality can act as a first-line safety mechanism limiting the exposure to potentially lethal abiotic an...

Natural language is one of the most enigmatic and sophisticated human capabilities with regard to both its evolutionary history and the level of complexity. A diversity of positions and debates on this subject clearly demonstrate that it is not yet a part of a normal science but rather an amalgam of different issues capable of being philosophically...

There are three main purpose of the presented paper. Firstly, the presentation of the most common fallacies concerning the theory of evolution and its implications on the fields of ethics and metaphysic. Secondly, the undertaking of trial leading to the elucidation of the most crucial concepts of evolutionary process. Thirdly, presentation of some...