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The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present

Birkhäuser
  • Lvov-Warsaw School is a world phenomenon in developments of foundations for modern philosophy and logic
  • How the Undefinability of the Notion of Truth survived and emerged like a Phoenix from ashes at the University of Berkeley
  • This illuminating book is a consists of contributions of renown authors from the fields of Computer Science, Mathematics, Metalogic, Scientific and Analytic Philosophy, Theory of Models, Theory of Argumentation, Semiotics and Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy and Mathematics

Part of the book series: Studies in Universal Logic (SUL)

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Table of contents (55 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Twardowski’s School: The Period of Crystallization of LWS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Categorial Grammars and Their Logics

      • Wojciech Buszkowski
      Pages 91-115
    3. Material Implication and Conversational Implicature in Lvov-Warsaw School

      • Rafal Urbaniak, Michał Tomasz Godziszewski
      Pages 117-132
    4. Tadeusz Czeżowski

      • Dariusz Łukasiewicz
      Pages 133-136
    5. Tadeusz Czeżowski’s Theory of Knowledge and Beliefs

      • Dariusz Łukasiewicz
      Pages 137-152
    6. What Is Reasoning?

      • Robert Kublikowski
      Pages 153-163
    7. Tadeusz Kotarbiński: Socrates of Warsaw

      • Jacek Jadacki
      Pages 165-174
    8. Agency in a Praxiological Approach

      • Wojciech W. Gasparski
      Pages 175-187
    9. Zygmunt Zawirski’s Concept of Scientific Metaphysics

      • Krzysztof Śleziński
      Pages 201-208
    10. Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa: The Great Polemist

      • Filip Kawczyński
      Pages 235-240
    11. Seweryna Łuszczewska-Romahnowa

      • Roman Murawski, Jerzy Pogonowski
      Pages 241-247

About this book

This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the history of a great tradition, the Lvov-Warsaw School of logic and mathematics, by the best specialists from all over the world.

The papers range from historical considerations to new philosophical, logical and mathematical developments of this impressive School, including applications to Computer Science, Mathematics, Metalogic, Scientific and Analytic  Philosophy, Theory of Models and Linguistics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Fundamental Mathematics, UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Ángel Garrido

  • Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present

  • Editors: Ángel Garrido, Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska

  • Series Title: Studies in Universal Logic

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65429-4Published: 27 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09740-0Published: 19 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65430-0Published: 12 June 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2297-0282

  • Series E-ISSN: 2297-0290

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 815

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Logic, History of Mathematical Sciences

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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