The significance of the Lvov-Warsaw school in the European culture

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This volume is a result of the international symposium “The Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School in European Culture,” which took place in Warsaw, Poland, September 2015. It collects almost all the papers presented at the symposium as well as some additional ones. The contributors include scholars from Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Poland. The papers are devoted to the history and reception of the Lvov-Warsaw School, a Polish branch of analytic philosophy. They present the School’s achievements as well as its connections to other analytic groups. The contributors also show how the tradition of the School is developed contemporarily. The title will appeal to historians of analytic philosophy as well as historians of philosophy in Central Europe. Read more... Abstract: This volume is a result of the international symposium "The Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School in European Culture," which took place in Warsaw, Poland, September 2015. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Logical Philosophy, Anti-irrationalism, and Gender Equality: Three Positives of the Lvov-Warsaw Enlightenment (Peter Simons)....Pages 3-14 How to Speak About History of Analytic Philosophy (Jan Woleński)....Pages 15-27 The Lvov-Warsaw School as a Multicultural Phenomenon. Ukrainian Aspect (Stepan Ivanyk)....Pages 29-44 Front Matter ....Pages 45-45 Brentanian Motives in Kazimierz Twardowski and His Students (Jan Woleński)....Pages 47-64 Metaphysics and the Logical Analysis of ‘Nothing’ (Maria van der Schaar)....Pages 65-78 The Brentanian Inspirations in Tadeusz Czeżowski’s Philosophy (Dariusz Łukasiewicz)....Pages 79-92 The Lvov-Warsaw School and Austro-German Philosophers. Two Cases (Jacek Jadacki)....Pages 93-131 Front Matter ....Pages 133-133 From a Study of Practice to a Philosophy of Practicality. Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s Contribution to the Lvov-Warsaw School of Philosophy (Wojciech W. Gasparski)....Pages 135-154 Kotarbiński’s Praxiology and Analytic Philosophy of Action (Marta Zaręba)....Pages 155-171 Cracow Circle. Theology in the Lvov-Warsaw School (Marcin Tkaczyk)....Pages 173-188 The Lvov-Warsaw School Against the Reductionist Vision of Science (Anna Brożek)....Pages 189-209 The Lvov-Warsaw School from a Bird’s Eye View (Jacek Jadacki)....Pages 211-224 Front Matter ....Pages 225-225 The Law of Contradiction in the Light of Recent Investigations of Bertrand Russell (Leon Chwistek)....Pages 227-289 Poznański and Wundheiler’s ‘The Concept of Truth in Physics’: The Lvov-Warsaw School Contribution to Encyclopedism (Artur Koterski, Thomas Uebel)....Pages 291-307 The Concept of Truth in Physics (Aleksander Wundheiler, Edward Poznański)....Pages 309-346 Back Matter ....Pages 347-353