Philosophy

I am currently a researcher at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where I manage the project "Truthmaking. Are Facts Still Really Indispensable?" (Funding: Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland, Program: Diamentowy Grant IX Edition 2020-2024, Budget: approx. 180K PLN/42K USD, Role: Principal Investigator)

I am also a doctoral student at the Jagiellonian University Doctoral School in the Humanities. I am working on a PhD thesis about the criticism of David Armstrong's standard theory of truthmaking over the past 20 years.

My area of specialization is contemporary analytic philosophy in the field of metaphysics. My research focuses on the theory of truthmaking (with a particular emphasis on the relation between the substantive and deflationary approaches to truthmaking) and the concept of fact.

My Publications

I publish under the name "Błażej Mzyk", which is the Polish form of my first and last name. Clicking on the title of a publication will take you to a page where you can download it in open access (if available).

Mzyk, B. (2024). Truthmaking. Are Facts Still Really Indispensable? Metaphysica, 25(1), 119-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2023-0038
Mzyk, B. (2024). Two Concepts of Truthmaking: a Compatibilist Solution to the Controversy Between Substantive and Deflationary Approach. Acta Analytica, 39(3), 543-562. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-023-00564-1
Mzyk, B. (2023). Non-maximalism Reconsidered: Truthmaking and the Dependence of Truths on Being Filozofia Nauki, 30(1). https://doi.org/10.14394/filnau.2023.0009
Mzyk, B. (2019). The phenomenological understanding of time by Roman Ingarden compared to McTaggart's A and B time series. In B. Kuklińska, M. Gudowska (Eds.), Między czasem a bezczasem (pp.53-60). Katedra Historii Sztuki Kościelnej i Muzealnictwa IHS KUL, ARTmagedon. [in Polish]
Mzyk, B. (2018). Facts and senses. About the Indeterminacy of Reality. Maska, 39, 119-130. [in Polish]
Mzyk, B. (2018). Moritz Geiger’s Postulate of Aesthetics as an Autonomous Science. The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 49, 71-84. https://doi.org/10.19205/49.18.5
Mzyk, B. (2018). Aspects of freedom and enslavement in Hermann Schmitz's book New Phenomenology. Short Introduction. In A. Kampka, K. Masłowska, A. Pawłowska (Eds.), Co nas wyzwala, co nas zniewala? Młodzi o wolności (pp.21-30). Wydawnictwo SGGW. [in Polish]

My Talks

Two Concepts of Facts: Categorial and Functional Approach to Truthmakers, The 2023 CPA Annual Meeting at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, Canada, May/June, 2023
Non-Maximalism Reconsidered: Truthmaking and the Dependence of Truths on Being, 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP11), Vienna, Austria, August, 2023
Two concepts of truthmaking: A pluralist solution to the controversy between deflationary and substantive truthmaking, The Eighth International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (PhiLang 2023), Łódź, Poland, May, 2023
20 years later: Is truthmaking still necessary? [in Polish], Open Scientific Meetings of the Department of Ontology of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, May, 2023
Truthmaking. Are facts still really indispensable?, Symposium of the Jagiellonian University Doctoral School in the Humanities, Kraków, Poland, January, 2022 [online]
Truthmaking and the new view of the nature of fact, How to do things with Wittgenstein: 2nd Edition. Philosophy & Beyond, Kraków, Poland, May, 2022
Facts and three concepts of truthmaking, Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA 2021), Salzburg, Austria, September, 2021
Truthmaking. Are fact still really indispensable?, The Coimbra Group 3-Minute-Thesis Jagiellonian University contest [second place award], Kraków, Poland, 2021 [online]
Truthmaking and levels of reality, Roman Ingarden and Our Times, Kraków, Poland, April, 2021 [online]
Truthmaking as «guide to doing ontology» by D. M. Armstrong and D. Lewis [in Polish], Episteme, Lublin, Poland, December, 2020 [online]
The phenomenological understanding of time by Roman Ingarden and McTaggart's A and B time series [in Polish], Czas: niepewność, dynamizm, przemiany, Lublin, Poland, April, 2018
Becoming God in man by Max Scheler and the phenomenon of ritualization of life [in Polish], Mit - Religia - Nowoczesność: Cena emancypacji, Kraków, Poland, June, 2018
Aspects of freedom and enslavement in Hermann Schmitz's book New Phenomenology. Short Introduction [in Polish], Co nas wyzwala, co nas zniewala?, Warsaw, Poland, April, 2017
Phenomenology of time and its relativity [in Polish], Aspects of Time. Oblicza czasu, Kraków, Poland, December, 2016