Archive - Meaning and Being (Michael Kowalik’s Philosophy Journal)

“The fallacy behind fallacies”

My response to Gerald J. Massey

Jun 16 •

Michael Kowalik

: on the conditions of temporal unity of consciousness

Jun 6 •

Michael Kowalik

May 2025

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.

May 27 •

Michael Kowalik

April 2025

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…

Apr 18 •

Michael Kowalik

November 2024

Schematic analysis of excluded middle

: the absurdity of being between being and not-being

Nov 23, 2024 •

Michael Kowalik

: or ‘what it means to be a cat’

Nov 20, 2024 •

Michael Kowalik

September 2024

Announcing book release

Moral Ontology: a thesis on the interdependence of sense, integrity and agency

Sep 19, 2024 •

Michael Kowalik

May 2024

Proof of the Law of Excluded Middle

(and of logical interdependence of the three laws)

May 30, 2024 •

Michael Kowalik

January 2024

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…

Jan 4, 2024 •

Michael Kowalik

October 2023

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.

Oct 9, 2023 •

Michael Kowalik

September 2023

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…

Sep 29, 2023 •

Michael Kowalik

What does anything mean anyway?

Why do you want to know ‘what a woman is’?

Sep 27, 2023 •

Michael Kowalik

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