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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)

Lech W. ZACHER

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.

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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE

Magdalena SZPUNAR

Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022 Publication date: 30 March 2022

Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.

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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS

Lech W. ZACHER

Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013 Publication date: 13 November 2013

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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)

Lech W. ZACHER

National Cases Augmented

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.

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GILBERT SIMONDON’S PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY AS AN AUGMENTATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ANTHOLOGY OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Jędrzej Maliński

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract This paper compares the thought of two philosophers: Martin Heidegger and Gilbert Simondon. The project of the existential analytic of Dasein created by the former, based on acknowledgment of the ontological difference, undoubtedly influenced the philosophy of existence. However, because of Heidegger [...] Read more.

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PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Grzegorz Szulczewski

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract This paper presents the development of philosophy of technology by M. Heidegger. At the beginning I present the concept of technology,from the perspective of the existential, concluded in his book Being and Time. Then I discuss the concept of the essence of technology, developed after 1945 by M. Heidegger [...] Read more.

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HOW DO PEOPLE WITH DEONTOLOGICAL AND UTILITARIAN INCLINATIONS DIFFER IN MORAL REASONING?

Anna Macko

PHILOSOPHY – PERCEPTION AND VISUALIZATION OF WORLD AND LIFE

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 10 May 2016

Abstract This study compared the harshness of moral judgment and sensitivity to different aspects of a situation in judgments made by people with utilitarian and deontological inclinations. The participants were 240 students who made moral judgments in two business scenarios and then responded to moral dilemmas [...] Read more.

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DEATH THAT DOES NOT WANT TO BE VISUALIZED...? CULTURAL FACTORS OF THINKING ABOUT DEATH AND MORTALITY IN REGARDS TO THE POSTMODERN VISION OF DEATH

Monika Miczka-Pajestka

PHILOSOPHY – PERCEPTION AND VISUALIZATION OF WORLD AND LIFE

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 10 May 2016

Abstract In this article the question of perception, as well as visualizing and understanding death have been presented and discussed. The cultural determinants of thinking about death and the prospect of post-modern “crowding” out of death from the space of life are indicated. Also the problem of visualizing [...] Read more.

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THE PROBLEM OF THE CONCEPTION „MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE”. A FEW WORDS ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF MYSTICISM

Dorota Brylla

PHILOSOPHY – PERCEPTION AND VISUALIZATION OF WORLD AND LIFE

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 10 May 2016

Abstract This article proposes an alternative understanding for the conception of „mystical experience”, i.e. it presents a viewpoint of being in contrast to the commonly held one. It suggests namely that it ishard to keep the conception of experience in general in the case of the „mystical happening” – due [...] Read more.

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IS HISTORY ONLY THE STUDY OF THE PAST?

Damian Bębnowski

PHILOSOPHY – PERCEPTION AND VISUALIZATION OF WORLD AND LIFE

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 10 May 2016

Abstract This article is based on theoretical and methodological research about the object of history. The examples of views on the object of history from the general historiography show the centuries-old evolution of historical thought. It is also the starting point for the presentation of a new understanding [...] Read more.

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PERCEIVED WORLD

Wiesław Sztumski

PHILOSOPHY – PERCEPTION AND VISUALIZATION OF WORLD AND LIFE

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 10 May 2016

Abstract This article contains the author’s thoughts on creating images of the world. The starting point is the assertion of the impossibility of constructing a complete image, but only fragmentary, incomplete one-dimensional images for different natural and social realities. Making their synthesis and generalizations [...] Read more.

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ATTITUDES OF POLISH IMMIGRANTS TOWARDS PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Krystyna M. BŁESZYŃSKA, Yehudi WEBSTER

Social Issues – Some Examples

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (86-87) 2015 Publication date: 9 November 2015

Abstract The text exams the roots of racist attitudes in some groups of Poles living in the United Kingdom. Particular parts of the undertaken analysis discuss cultural, historical, political, psychological and economic backgrounds of the aforementioned behaviors. Finally three of these factors are pointed as [...] Read more.

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REPRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUITIES

Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI

Social Issues – Some Examples

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (86-87) 2015 Publication date: 9 November 2015

Abstract In author`s opinion the policy of education in Poland, on limited scale is the subject of deepened organizational-institutional analyzes oriented toward restricted reproduction of social inequity generated by education system and labor markets. At the present stage of development in capitalist economy [...] Read more.

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CITIES IN THE STRUCTURE OF PUBLIC SPACE: METHODOLOGY, THEORY AND PRACTICE

Olga MELNYCHUK

Restructuring Public Space Governance

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (86-87) 2015 Publication date: 9 November 2015

Abstract The article discovers the basic theoretical tenets of the theory of center-periphery relations in the context of its use as methodology of decentralization of state power and local government reform. The author proves that the real subject of decentralization should be not regions but cities that organize [...] Read more.