Publications

Machine Consciousness

• 1. (Forthcoming) “Subject is no Object.” In M. Burgin; Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Eds.), Epistemic Basis of Information, Philosophy of Information, World Scientific. 

  2. (2019) “AI Consciousness.” In A. Chella (Ed.), Towards Conscious AI Systems, AAAI CEUR Springer Proceedings. Available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2287/.

  3. (Forthcoming). “Identity Translation.” In L. Harmon (Ed.), Identity in Translation, Peter Lang. 

  4. (2018) "BICA à Rebours.” In A.V. Samsonovich (Ed.), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing: Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (27-43). Springer.

  5. (2018) "Strong Semantic Computing." Procedia Computer Science, 123, 98–103. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050918300176. 

  6. (2018) “Cognitive Agents: Is There a Moral Gap Between Human and Artificial Intelligence?” In Tzfestas S. (Ed.), Information, Communication and Automation Technology Ethics in the Knowledge Society. NOVA Science Publishers.

  7. (2017) "Church-Turing Lovers." In Abney, K. A.; Lin, Patrick, J., Ryan R., (Eds.), Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/11/630

  8. (2017) "Metacomputable." Enthropy, 19(11), 1-18. Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/11/630. 

  9. (2016) "Circular Constitution of Observation in the Absence of Ontological Data." Co-authored with Olivier Georgeon, Constructivist Foundations, 12(1), 17-19. (PDF)

  10. (2015) "First-Person Consciousness as Hardware." APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 14(2), 11-15. (PDF)

  11. (2014) "Mary's Acquaintance," APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 14(1): 25-31. (PDF)

  12. (2014) "Haikonen's Philosophy of Machine Consciousness," International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 6(1), 5-11.

  13. (2013) “BICA and Cognitive Machines” Przeglad Filozoficzny Fall.

  14. (2012) "The Engineering Thesis in Machine Consciousness" Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 16(2), 187-207. (PDF)

  15. (2011) "What is the Difference between Your Friend and a Church Turing Lover." In C. Ess and R. Hagengruber (Eds.), The Computational Turn: Past, Presents and Futures? Proceedings IACAP 2011 (37-40), Aarchus University.

  16. (2010) "A Philosopher's Take on Machine Consciousness" in Philosophy of Engineering and the Artifact in the Digital Age, ed. V. E. Guliciuc (Cambridge Scholar's Press), 49-66.

  17. (2010) "Sloman and H-consciousness" International Journal of Machine Consciousness 2, 23-6.

  18. (2009) "The Philosophical Issue in Machine Consciousness," International Journal of Machine Consciousness 1(1), 155-176. (PDF)

  19. (2007) [co-author] “Replication of the Hard Problem of Consciousness in AI and Bio-AI: An Early Conceptual Framework” in AI and Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches, eds. Chella, A.; Manzotti, R (Merlo Park, CA: AAAI Press), 24-9. (Available online) 

  20. (2007) “Does Epistemic Subjectivity Have Moral Impact?” [pol.] Analiza i Egzystencja 6, 5-23.

  21. (1998) “Qualia, Robots and Complementarity of Subject and Object” World Congress of Philosophy, Boston. (Available online)

  22. (1998) “Reductionism and Qualia” Epistemologia 4, 111-30.

Moral and Political Philosophy

• 1. (2017) "Sustainability as Growth," (with Bisk, Tsvi) in Technology, Society, Sustainability, Lech Zacher (ed.) Springer, 175-183. (in print)

  2. (2016) "Positional Goods." In M. Bunyk (Ed.), In Memory of von Mises, Lwov. Presidential Academy.

  3. (2015) "Is There an Inherent Moral Value in the Second-Person Relationships?" In Abbarno, G. J. (ed.), Inherent and Instrumental Value (45-61). University Press of America.

  4. (2015) "Sustainability and Growth (a controversy)," Organization and Management, Politechnika Śląsk Politechics: 27-48.

  5. (2014) "Moral Space," Analiza in Egzystencja, 1: 43-60.

  6. (2014) "Objectivity in Economics," Economic Theory and Public Policy, M. Bunyk and I Kivanka (eds.), Lwov, Presidential Academy: 74-79.

  7. (2011) “Solidarity and Special Moral Obligations” in The Idea of Solidarity, McLean, G. (series ed.) Dariusz Dobrzanski (ed.) The Council of Research in Values and Philosophy, 83-96.

  8. (2008) "An Ethics Grounded in Metaphysics, on L. Floridi’s Ethical Theory," Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, 30:5-10.

  9. (2008) "Philosophy and Thin Social Capital," Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, 22:44-50. (Abstract)

  10. (2008) "The Four Pillars of Contemporary Political Philosophy," Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, 50: 55-62. (PDF)

  11. (2007) "Why Common Sense Morality is Not Collectively Self-Defeating" Polish Journal of Philosophy 1:2, 19-39. (abstract available online) 

  12. (2007) “Main Trends in Contemporary American Political Philosophy” [Pol.] Analiza i Egzystencja (Analysis and Existence) 5, 133-57.

  13. (2006) "Business Ethics: Sins that Originate from One’s Not Knowing Quite How to Sin" [Pol.] E-Mentor, SGH (April).

  14. (2005) "Ethics versus Partiality" [Pol.] Analiza i Egzystencja (Analysis and Existence) 2, Szczecin University. Abstract available online here.

  15. (2001) "Moral Neighborhoods" Dialogue and Universalism 5, 117-133. (PDF)

  16. (1998) “Emergent Properties of Choice” World Congress of Philosophy, Boston. (Available online)

  17. (1998) "Why Russia is Needed for Regional Stability: An Application of Institutional Economics for Security Issues" Post-Communist States in the World Community. ed. Roger Kanet (Macmillan), 62-83.

  18. (1995) "Does Equality Have an Independent Moral Value?" Dialogue and Universalism 5:10, 123-55.

E-Learning in Philosophy

• 1. (2018) "The Power of Online Education." In L. Zacher (Ed.), Potentials and Power Relations in Digitized Society (Pol.). Poltext, Warsaw.

  2. (2014) "Lost and Found in Virtual Space." Filozofia Kultury (Myoo, S; Hańderek, J eds.), Krakow, Jagiellonian University: 50-60. Reprinted in Kultura i Historia 26/2014 (http://www.kulturaihistoria.umcs.lublin.pl/kultura-i-historia-nr-262014http://www.kulturaihistoria.umcs.lublin.pl/kultura-i-historia-nr-262014); reprinted in Academia Electronica (http://www.academia-electronica.net/?page_id=3232).

  3. (2014) "Scavenger Science." APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 14(1): 1-3. (PDF)

  4. (2013) "Informational Influence on Public Opinion." With Kolosovska, I., Transformations 3-4 (78-9): 23-33.

  5. (2012) "Global E-Learning. Global E-Cooperation" in Ana LAndeta Etxeberria (ed.) Global e-Learning (University of Distance Learning, Madrid), 257-67.

  6. (2012) "About E-Learning in Philosophy" [Pol.] Interactive Philosophical Education Stentor Publishing, Aldona Pobojewska (ed.).

  7. (2011) "Perspectives of Education in Digital Era," in Our Digital Future, Zacher L (ed.) Polish Academy of Science.

  8. (2011) "Constructivism in E-Education and Its Evaluation" [Pol.] E-Mentor (Oct.)

  9. (2009) “Paradigm Change in Higher Education Due to the World Wide Web.” Dialogue and Universalism 19:1-2; also issue editor.

  10. (2008) “Global Learning Through Collaboration.” Formamente, Rivista Internationale di Ricerca sul Futuro Digitale GUIDE Association, Rome, Italy, III 1-2, 145 – 54. Also online: http://formamente.unimarconi.it/extra/09_Boltuc.pdf

  11. (2008) "Online Philosophy," Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy 52: 11-16.

  12. (2008) “E-Learning” BAR, 20-3. Also online: http://www.cren.pl/uploaded-files/e-learning-bar.pdf

  13. (2007) “Global E-Learning Environment in Philosophy” Dialogue and Universalism 17:7-8, 149-58.

  14. (2007) “New Tendencies in Online Learning” FPAKE, Warsaw School of Economics.

  15. (2007) “'Best practices' w elearningu na Uniwersytecie of Illinois, Springfield w dziedzinie nauk humanistycznych.” [pol.] IV Symposium Kształcenia na Odległość, Gdynia, 17-26.

  16. (2005) “e-Teaching Philosophy” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers (Fall), 3-5.

  17. (2005) “Trends in Academic eLearning.” [Pol.] Rozwój e-edukacji w ekonomicznym szkolnictwie wyższym, FPAKE. ed. M. Dąbrowski i M. Zając.

  18. (2004) “Another Take on Game-Based Learning” (with N. Boltuc) E-Mentor 2:4; also available online: http://www.e-mentor.edu.pl/_xml/wydania/4/43.pdf

  19. (2003) “Education Without Distance” [Pol.] E-Mentor 1, 8-14. (Available in print and online)

Other

• 1. (2009) "In Memoriam of AndreAndrzej Zabludowski," Dialogue and Universalism, 19 (1)1, 53f.

  2. (2007) “Kres kryzysu; kres nowożytności” ("The End of the Crisis; the End of Modernity") Kryzys Postindustrialny: Interpretacje Prognozy ed. Piotr Mazurkiewicz, Krzysztof Wielecki, Centrum Europejskie (Warsaw University), 37-44.

  3. (1998) “Why Emeralds are Not Grue: A Case for Pragmatic Simplicity” Eidos 6, 7-36. (PDF)

  4. (1991) "Le Sujet et la Religion" (The Self and Religion) The International Congress of French Language Philosophy, Hammamet, Tunisia, Proceedings.

  5. (1990) "Person as a Locus of Permanence: Towards Albert Shalom’s Metaphysics." Dialectics and Humanism 2, 213-34.

  6. (1989) "Problems of Theory of Knowledge Seen by Social Philosophy" ("Problemy teorii wiedzy w perspektywie filozofii i socjologii spolecznej") Ruch Filozoficzny 1.

  7. (1988) "In the Beginning was a Contradiction: Selected Problems of Philosophy of Subject and Object" Dialectics and Humanism 3-4, 177-85.

  8. (1988) “For the New Ethos of Being” The Young Philosopher’s International Review.

  9. (1988) "Reification of the Subject in the Modern Philosophy" (Uprzedmiotowienie podmiotu w filozofii nowozytnej) Humanistyka 1.

  10. (1987) “Three Worlds of Christian-Marxist Encounter.” (rev.) Dialectics and Humanism 1.

  11. (1987) "Contribuire alla sviluppo della personalita." Interview by Mario Castellano, Uomini e libri, Milano, Italy 10-11.

  12. (1987) “Some Axiological Consequences of the Carthesian Ontology.” (O pewnych aksjologicznych konsekwencjach ontologii Kartezjusza) Humanistyka.

  13. (1987) "Introduction to the Complementary Philosophy." (Wprowadzenie do filozofii komplementarnej) Colloquia Communia 4.

  14. (1985) "In Quest of Openness." (W poszukiwaniu otwartosci) Colloquia Communia 3-6, 303-6.

  15. (1985) "Mysticism and Praxis" (Mistyka i praxis) Colloquia Communia 1, 199-211.

  16. (1984) “Ideas of the Complementary Philosophy.” (Idee filozoff komplementarnej) Przypis 1.

  17. (1984) "‘Parmenides’, Introduction to Plato’s Dialectics" ('Parmenides' jako wprowadzenie do dialektyki Platona) Studia Filozoficzne 10.

Book Projects

• 1. Machine Consciousness and the limits of non-reductive physicalism [under consideration].

  2. International Business Ethics; online E-script, European Union Grant administered by the Warsaw School of Economics 2014

Poetry

• 1. (1986) Not True that Violet / Nieprawda, ze fiolet [Polish] (Czytelnik, Warsaw). Awarded the Laurel, the best debutee book of the year.

Translation

• 1. (1995) Translation of: Jaki, Stanley: God and the Cosmologists (Wroclaw, Poland).

Book Reviews

• 1. (2010) "Post-Industrial E-Education - A Review" E-Mentor 36.

  2. (2010) "Bad Copyright Law Causing Lawlessness -- A Review" E-Mentor 33.

  3. (2009) "Homo Players, on a theory of virtual entertainment -- A Review" E-Mentor 31.

  4. (2009) "Has the Internet Resolved The Tragedy of the Commons? -- A Review" E-Mentor 29.

  5. (2009) "Is Responsible Management Enough (book review of Responsible Management)" [Pol.] E-Mentor 30.

  6. (2008) “Open Business: A Review of Wikinomics” E-Mentor 3:25.

  7. (2008) “Duties in the Digital World -- A Review” E-Mentor 2:24.

  8. (2007) “Communities of Practice and Other Issues in Online Learning: An Interview with Seb Schmoller.” E-Mentor 3:20.

  9. (2007) “Virtual Games: More or Less Funny” [Book Review] E-Mentor, SGH, Feb., 44-6.

  10. (1995) "Understanding Action" with Edward McClennen (book review of Schick, Frederick: "Understanding Action") Economics and Philosophy 11:2, 353-58.