Volume 49 (1994), 11

The author conceives the relationship between philosophy and neurophysiology on the background of the latest empirical researches in cognitive processes. On his view the reconsideration of the basic concepts, by means of which the human cognitive attitude to the world is articulated by philosophers, is desirable and necessary.

The paper is an introduction to the analysis of Dennett’s philosophy of mind. The basis of Dennett’s explanatory model of consciousnes is examined, namely his criticism of Descartian noetic thesis, according to which a thinking person as res cogitans is not identical with the brain. Instead of that an ontological identity of concsiousness (mind) and brain is… Read more

The paper is a continuation of an earlier one [4]. The author examines G. C. Hempel’s approach to the idealizations embodied in scientific laws. The structure of theoretical causal (non-Humean) law is reconsidered along with the procedure based on it. In the last part of the paper the role of deductivenomological explanation in science is determined.