Meaning and Being (Michael Kowalik’s Philosophy Journal)

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What is Sense
: on the conditions of temporal unity of consciousness
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Why Vaccine Mandates are Unethical
Summary of the strongest ethical arguments against vaccine mandates
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Grounding Relevance (in logic)
Assertions about relevance or irrelevance of arguments are often made as if relevance were uncontroversial, obvious, but this is not the case.
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You Are Not Self-Aware
The sense of 'I am' does not involve direct awareness of 'I', the locus of attention, the mind's eye, which is the logical counterpart and therefore…
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Schematic analysis of excluded middle
: the absurdity of being between being and not-being
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Identity
: or ‘what it means to be a cat’
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Announcing book release
Moral Ontology: a thesis on the interdependence of sense, integrity and agency
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Proof of the Law of Excluded Middle
(and of logical interdependence of the three laws)
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Proportionality of the Fall
Those who mandated the ‘proportionate’ killing of their own citizens for the sake of public health are now conducting a ‘proportionate’ genocide for the…
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Social Dynamics of Provocation
All activism, insofar as it aims to alter the existing social order, is a re-action to the actions of others.
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Hegel on Identity by Double-Negation
The law of identity in its classical form states that everything is identical (only) to itself. It does not purport to tell us what any particular thing…
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What does anything mean anyway?
Why do you want to know ‘what a woman is’?
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Who owns the Earth?
The premise of Original Ownership is typically invoked as the legal basis of land-rights on behalf of tribal communities whose ancestors enjoyed the…
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Theory of Reflexive Consciousness
I understand reflexive consciousness as the capacity to identify thoughts and intentions as belonging to a temporally continuous, singular identity, and…
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