The Courage of Doing Philosophy: Essays Presented to Leszek Nowak -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: ORIGINALITY, COURAGE, AND RESPONSIBILITY -- LIST OF BOOKS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SCIENCE AND IDEALIZATION -- ON TWO TYPES OF IDEALIZATION AND CONCRETIZATION: THE CASE OF TRUTH APPROXIMATION* -- IDEALIZATION, COUNTERFACTUALS, AND TRUTHLIKENESS -- HOW TO DO THINGS WITH THEORIES: AN INTERACTIVE VIEW OF LANGUAGE AND MODELS IN SCIENCE* -- THE METHOD OF IDEAL TYPES VERSUS THE METHOD OF IDEALIZATION -- LESZEK NOWAK ON SCIENTIFIC LAWS AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION -- IDEALIZATION, COUNTERFACTUALS, AND THE CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE -- SYNTHETIC AND NEUTRALISTIC THEORY OF EVOLUTION: THE ISSUE OF METHODOLOGICAL CORRELATIONS -- IDEALIZATION IN THE LABOR THEORY OF VALUE* -- ON THE APPLICATION OF NON-MARXIAN HISTORICAL MATERIALISM TO DEVELOPMENT OF NON-EUROPEAN SOCIETIES -- SCIENCE AND ONTOLOGY -- MODEL CONSTRUCTION, IDEALIZATION, AND SCIENTIFIC ONTOLOGY -- REPRESENTATIONS, POSSIBLE WORLDS, AND THE IDEALIZATIONAL APPROACH TO SCIENCE -- IDEALIZATION, INTELLECTUAL INTUITION, INTERPRETATION, AND ONTOLOGY IN SCIENCE -- WHAT DOES TO BE MEAN IN LESZEK NOWAK'S CONCEPTION OF UNITARIAN METAPHYSICS? -- FORMAL AND ONTOLOGICAL ROUNDABOUTS -- METALOGIC AND ONTOLOGY -- SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND VALUES -- ON THE STRUCTURE OF DECEPTIVE SPEECH ACTS: LYING AS AN ELEMENT OF COMMUNICATION -- IN PRAISE OF PHILOSOPHY* -- LOVE: IN SEARCH FOR THE FIRST PHILOSOPHY -- IS THE ENLIGHTENED WORLDVIEW ON RETREAT? -- BOXING AND VIOLENCE* -- ON WILLFULLY CONTRARIOUS BELIEFS.