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The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbiński–Alfred Tarski’s teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the... more
Program of the Online Workshop on "The Brentanian Legacy in Early Phenomenology? On Sources of the Phenomenological Movement in Poland and in Central Europe" to be help on April 20, 2022
chap. two of my book Tadeusz Kotarbiński's Action Theory - Reinterpretive Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) - draft
Qu'est-ce que le conventionnalisme ? Spéculant sur la modestie de leurs connaissances en philosophie, je me suis habitué à répondre aux "non-philosophes" qui voulaient en savoir un peu plus : le conventionnalisme est une théorie de la... more
This chapter contains a short historical introduction to the study of mathematical logic in the Lvov-Warsaw School.
The aim of this paper is to provide context for and historical exegesis of Carnap's alleged move from syntax to semantics. The Orthodox Received View states that there was a radical break, while the Unorthodox Received View holds that... more
Poster of the Online Workshop on "The Brentanian Legacy in Early Phenomenology? On Sources of the Phenomenological Movement in Poland and in Central Europe" to be held on April 20, 2022
This article will address the views of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz-the leading representative of the Lvov-Warsaw School. I will present arguments proving that the Polish philosopher could have anticipated contemporary metaontological... more
Józef Bocheński débuta sa carrière comme philosophe éclectique, il se tourna ensuite vers le Thomisme avant de finalement devenir un représentant de l’école analytique en philosophie. En tant que thomiste, il voulut réformer cette... more
The aim of this article is to introduce the work of Leopold Blaustein – philosopher and psychologist, who studied under Kazimierz Twardowski in Lvov and under Husserl in Freiburg im Breisgau. In his short academic career he developed an... more
WŁADYSŁAW TATARKIEWICZ’S ANALYSIS OF MEANING OF “HAPPINESS” Władysław Tatarkiewicz work on philosophical and moral psychology, particularly on theory of happiness is still example of the best kind of analytical and close to... more
My task in this chapter is a discussion of the issue of automaticity in Kotarbiński aided by some analysis of his stance concerning the know-how question. I shall also try to investigate the impact of this discussion on the philosophical... more
Abstract. In this article, the author considers the particularities of Franz Brentano’s psychognosy (descriptive psychology) in the context of the notion of “basic” or “analytic” truths and his methodological approaches to... more
According to Józef M. Bocheński, philosophers should analyze and not moralize. Bocheński also wrote that the philosophers’ aim is to battle with superstitions. The present paper concerns the question of how philosophical analysis may... more
The purpose of this article is to argue with a thesis that Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's views on ontology prove that he could have accepted the consequences of Amie Thomasson's "easy ontology”, which is a stance that... more
Vystoupení filozofů a logiků Lvovsko-varšavské školy bylo výkonem, který není možné jednoduše označit názvem neopozitivismus. O obou školách, polské a vídeňské, lze za předpokladu značného zjednodušení říci, že je spojoval obdobný výběr... more
The aim of the paper is to analyze the views of Willard van Orman Quine and compare them with the views of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, an eminent philosopher from the Lvov-Warsaw School. I will argue that Ajdukiewicz's approach to ontology is... more
Program of the International Round Table "Kasimir Twardowski and Contemporary Ethics" 11th of February 2022, online, Lviv, Ukraine
As is well known, Heinrich Scholz and his academic society maintained good scientific contacts with Polish logicians before, during, and after the Second World War. My interest here is to examine the details of their collaboration by... more
The Polish branch of analytic philosophy, the Lvov-Warsaw School, was initiated by Kazimierz Twardowski, a student of Franz Brentano. Twardowski's aim was to vaccinate Brentano's spirit into Polish philosophy. He succeeded and Brentano's... more
Kazimierz Twardowski used to write about meaning although he never presented an exhaustive conception of it. One could distinguish two stages in his work: psychological and anti-psychological. In the first period meaning was understood as... more
Carnap visited Poland once, at the end of 1930. Later, he wrote is his Autobiography: "I left Warsaw grateful for many stimulating suggestions and the fruitful exchange of ideas which I enjoyed". Thanks to the content of Carnap’s... more