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"Philosophers have a way of making the obvious seem absurd, the pervasive seem problematic, and the actual seem impossible. They deny, or at least raise grave doubts about or else render paradoxical, such things as causality and change, consciousness and free will, and knowledge of material objects. They use smoke and mirrors--I mean powerful arguments--to do this."
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My name is Jakub Rudnicki and I am an academic philosopher. My professional interests lie mainly in the field of philosophy of language and its intersections with the philosophy of mind, epistemology and sociology.
My work focuses mostly on questions having to with reference but also touches upon themes from the speech act theory, other aspects of pragmatics, and philosophy of memory.
Besides that, I am also interested in the evolutionary approaches to the nature and roles of beliefs, signalling theory, applications of game theory to philosophical problems, and the intersection of philosophy with cognitive science.
In September 2024, I joined the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the University of Grenoble where I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Agence nationale de la recherche-funded project "Simulationist and Causalist Accounts of Reference in Remembering". I am working together with Kourken Michaelian, and Denis Perrin. Before moving to France, I served as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw.
In November 2023 I have defended my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Warsaw under the supervision of Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska and Tadeusz Ciecierski. My Master's (MLitt) is from the University of St Andrews.
Do not hesitate to contact me at jmrudnicki@gmail.com
Recent and Upcoming Events:
"Can a simulationist be a causalist about the metasemantics of episodic remembering?" at GEM 2025 conference, University of Bochum, Germany (2-4 June 2025)
"Bringing the curtain down on the causal theory of reference: A truly better picture of the semantics of proper names" at Sign-Language-Reality seminar, University of Warsaw, Poland (22 May 2025) (online)
"Can a simulationist about memory be a causalist with regards to mnemic reference?" at PhiLang 2025 conference, University of Łódź, Poland (16-18 May 2025)
"Can a simulationist be a causalist about the metasemantics of episodic remembering?" at the Grenoble-Tartu "Thought in Time" workshop, University of Tartu, Estonia (27-28 February 2025)
"The place of 'remembering' in folk epistemology" at the "Dimensions of memory: metaphysics, phenomenology, epistemology" workshop, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil (3 December 2024)
"Intro to philosophy of language for philosophers of memory" lecture, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil (29 November 2024)
"Singular thought, ‘dthat’, and episodic memory" at the "Memory and Language: The semantics of remembering" workshop, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (19-20 November 2024)
"Do demonstratives refer?" at the 7th Philosophy of Language and Mind Network Conference in Prague, Czechia (26-28 August 2024)
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