Marcin Trepczyński

University of Warsaw | UW · Institute of Philosophy

In the last decade there were many changes concerning the presence of philosophy in Polish schools. Together with three reforms the of core curricula, having different impacts on it, including the latest, from 2017, which created a basis for a widespread introduction of philosophy to secondary schools, there could be reported also interesting new t...

In this paper I refer to and comment on some diagnoses concerning the current state of modernity. I present and argue three statements: 1) today’s modernity is not accelerated, but decelerated; 2) today’s “liquid” modernity seems to be seeking fixed points; 3) we went beyond postmodernity or postmodernism to reach over-modernity (hypermodernity) or...

The main hypothesis presented and examined in this paper is that St. Thomas Aquinas had written the commentary on Ps. 51(50) ("Have mercy on me, o God", miserere mei, Deus) mainly for educational reasons. It is argued that he did it not only to collect useful notes to teach about the Psalm's content and understanding, but also, above all, to have a...

Some interesting cases of non-monotonic reasoning have already been identified in medieval theological texts. Jacob Archambault proved in 2015 that the argumentation presented by St Anselm of Canterbury in his Proslogion has non-monotonic “embeddings”. My own contribution from 2011 indicated that we can argue that a non-monotonic logic underlies so...

„In principio”: metafizyczna egzegeza J 1,1 Alberta Wielkiego, Bonawentury i Tomasza z Akwinu Artykuł przedstawia interpretacje słów „in principio” (Jan 1,1) zaproponowane przez Alberta Wielkiego, Bonawenturę i Tomasza z Akwinu w ich komentarzach do Ewangelii wg św. Jana. Ujęcia tych autorów różnią się. Albert używa pojęć pierwszej zasady oraz inte...

In some texts of the prominent medieval thinker Stephen Langton (1150/55–1228), whose main theological works are being edited these days, it is possible to point out solutions based on the square of opposition. Although it is not clear whether he had such a structure in mind as a geometric representation, in his analyses devoted to God’s will, he i...

In this paper, the theory of necessity proposed by Robert Grosseteste is presented. After showing the wide range of various kinds of determination discussed by him (connected with: (1) one's knowledge about the future, (2) predestination, (3) fate, (4) grace, (5) sin and temptation), a different context of Grosseteste's use of the notion of necessi...

The article aims to show how the acceptance of non-monotonic logic enables arguments to be held between science and religion in a way that does not exclude either of these two spheres. The starting point of the analyses is the idea of the 13th century Danish philosopher, Boethius of Dacia, who states that it is both acceptable that: (1) a natural s...

The 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion, held in Warsaw, Poland, in 2017, is summarized. Then the connective “and” is analyzed; we focus on its meaning in the title of the congress and the title of the present volume. Finally, all the eleven papers included here are briefly introduced; we indicate whether logic or theology is the primary topic...

In this paper the method of investigation of paths of thinking is applied to analyse St. Thomas Aquinas’s question 23 on predestination from his Summa Theologiae to show how he reached his conclusions, what influenced his thought and what is the status of his statements. It reveals before all that, despite following the lines of St. Augustine (what...

Published in: Studia Antyczne i Mediewistyczne, 16(51)/2018 [it was not possible to indicate this journal, so it is wrongly ascribed to Studia Philosophica] In question 85 of Quaestiones Theologiae, Stephen Langton (ca 1150–1228) deals with the problem whether there is any reward from God for good deeds performed in the absence of love (opera fact...

Erudycja może być jednym z celów szkolnej edukacji filozoficznej. Nauczyciele filozofii, którzy w 2014 roku wzięli udział w ogólnopolskim badaniu nauczania filozofii w gimnazjach i szkołach ponadgimnazjalnych (w którym udało się zebrać dane od 88 proc. dyrektorów wszystkich szkół w Polsce, gdzie nauczano filozofii oraz 79 proc. nauczycieli z tych s...

The Principle of Formal Truth in the Polish Civil Procedural Law and Non-monotonic ReasoningSummary This paper analyses the implementation of the formal truth principle in the Polish civil procedural code in the light of non-monotonic reasoning. The author starts by presenting the concept and applications of non-monotonic reasoning, and the formal...

This report presents the results of the Survey on the philosophy teaching in lower and upper secondary schools in Poland. The research results showed that during the school year 2013/2014 among 14.377 upper and lower secondary schools in Poland only 196 schools (41 lower and 155 upper secondary schools) had philosophy in the curriculum, and among t...

A non-monotonic logic is a formal calculus where the consequence relation is not monotonia Intuitively, nonmonotonicity of the consequence relation indicates that obtaining a new piece of information can reduce the set of the accepted sentences. In particular, it allows us to draw conclusions on the basis of "the lack of evidence to the contrary"....

Non-monotonic logics has been popular for recent 15 years. However, it occurs that they are useful to describe some reasonings presented by. Thomas Aquinas. In this paper I show four examples of reasonings where Thomas abandons the principle of monotonicity, all taken from two questions of Summa theologiae concerning God. In each of them Aquinas ad...

Marcin Trepczynski, The Question about Non-Monotonicity in Theology Does Thomas Aquinas use non-monotonical reasonings? In my recent paper Thomas Aquinas Non-monotonically 1 argued that he does. However Patryk Pogoda has opposed to my statement. In this paper I try to disarm his arguments. What is more this polemic became for me an occasion to deve...