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The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy

Kazimierz Twardowski's Philosophical Legacy

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Editors:
  1. Sandra Lapointe

    1. Department of Philosophy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA

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  2. Jan Wolénski

    1. Jagiellonian University of Krakow Institute of Philosophy, 31-044 Krakow, Poland

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  3. Mathieu Marion

    1. Département de Philosophie CP 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada H3C 3P8

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  4. Wioletta Miskiewicz

    1. IHPST (CNRS/Paris 1/ENS), 75006 Paris, France

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  • Designed especially for the Anglo-American market and includes 18 original contributions to one of the most up and coming topics in the field of the History of Analytical philosophy in the Anglo-Saxon world
  • Contains a comprehensive Introduction that situates and describes the topic in great detail
  • Contains contributions by some of the leading figures of Anglo-American as well as European Analytical Philosophy (e.g., Wolenski, Linsky, Mancosu, Murawski, Panaccio, Patterson)
  • Likely to become a mandatory reference work for anyone interested in the History of Analytical Philosophy and the History of Philosophy in general
  • Provides an extensive survey of all aspects of Polish philosophy in the 20th Century relating them to all major contemporary areas of research: logic, epistemology, history of science, semantics, philosophy of religion, etc.

Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 16)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Jan Woleński, Sandra Lapointe
      Pages 1-16

  3. Twardowski and Polish Scientific Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Polish Metaphysics and the Brentanian Tradition

      • Dariusz Łukasiewicz
      Pages 19-31

    3. The Genesis and History of Twardowski’s Theory of Actions and Products

      • Jerzy Bobryk
      Pages 33-42

    4. The Rise and Development of Logical Semantics in Poland

      • Jan Woleński
      Pages 43-59

    5. French and Polish Conventionalism

      • Anna Jedynak
      Pages 61-77

  4. Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. A Philosophy of Many-Valued Logic. The Third Logical Value and Beyond

      • Grzegorz Malinowski
      Pages 81-92

    3. Leśniewski’s Systems and the Aristotelian Model of Science

      • Arianna Betti
      Pages 93-111

    4. Leśniewski, Negation, and the Art of Logical Subtlety

      • Denis Miéville
      Pages 113-120

    5. Philosophy of Mathematics in the Lvov-Warsaw School

      • Roman Murawski
      Pages 121-130

    6. Tarski’s Engagement with Philosophy

      • Paolo Mancosu
      Pages 131-153

    7. Tarski on Definition, Meaning and Truth

      • Douglas Patterson
      Pages 155-170

  5. Polish Philosophy of Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. A Note on Henryk Mehlberg’s Contribution to the Debate on the Mind-Body Problem

      • Urszula M. Żegleń
      Pages 173-180

    3. Leopold Blaustein’s Analytical Phenomenology

      • Wioletta Miskiewicz
      Pages 181-188

  6. Around Twardowski’s School

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Nonclassical Conceptions of Truth in Polish Philosophy at the Beginning of the 20th Century

      • Katarzyna Kijania-Placek
      Pages 191-202
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About this book

Jan Wolenski ´ and Sandra Lapointe Polish philosophy goes back to the 13th century, when Witelo, famous for his works in optics and the metaphysics of light, lived and worked in Silesia. Yet, Poland’s academic life only really began after the University of Cracow was founded in 1364 – its development was interrupted by the sudden death of King Kazimierz III, but it was re-established in 1400. The main currents of classical scholastic thought like Thomism, Scottism or Ockhamism had been late – about a century – to come to Poland and they had a considerable impact on the budding Polish philosophical scene. The controversy between the via antiqua and the via moderna was hotly 1 debated. Intellectuals deliberated on the issues of concilliarism (whether the C- mon Council has priority over the Pope) and curialism (whether the Bishop of Rome has priority over the Common Council). On the whole, the situation had at least two remarkable features. Firstly, Polish philosophy was pluralistic, and remained so, since its very beginning. But it was also eclectic, which might explain why it aimed to a large extent at achieving a compromise between rival views. Secondly, given the shortcomings of the political system of the time as well as external pr- sure by an increasingly hegemonic Germany, thinkers were very much interested in political matters. Poland was a stronghold of political thought (mostly inclined towards concilliarism) and Polish political thought distinguished itself in Europe J.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA

    Sandra Lapointe

  • Jagiellonian University of Krakow Institute of Philosophy, 31-044 Krakow, Poland

    Jan Wolénski

  • Département de Philosophie CP 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada H3C 3P8

    Mathieu Marion

  • IHPST (CNRS/Paris 1/ENS), 75006 Paris, France

    Wioletta Miskiewicz

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