The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy: Kazimierz Twardowski’s Philosophical Legacy

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This volume portrays the Polish or Lvov-Warsaw School, one of the most influential schools in analytic philosophy, which, as discussed in the thorough introduction, presented an alternative "working" picture of the unity of science. The school was founded by a phenomenologist, Kazimierz Twardowski, who trained a team of researchers that included some of the most important logicians and philosophers of the history of analytical philosophy, such as Tarski, Lesniewski and Lukasiewicz. The Polish School represented some of the most important trends in philosophy -- aristotelism; the history and philosophy of science; linguistics; the philosophy of logic and mathematics -- and offered an opportunity for all these philosophical disciplines to interact in a natural and fruitful way. Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Polish Metaphysics and the Brentanian Tradition....Pages 19-31 The Genesis and History of Twardowski’s Theory of Actions and Products....Pages 33-42 The Rise and Development of Logical Semantics in Poland....Pages 43-59 French and Polish Conventionalism....Pages 61-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 A Philosophy of Many-Valued Logic. The Third Logical Value and Beyond....Pages 81-92 Leśniewski’s Systems and the Aristotelian Model of Science....Pages 93-111 Leśniewski, Negation, and the Art of Logical Subtlety....Pages 113-120 Philosophy of Mathematics in the Lvov-Warsaw School....Pages 121-130 Tarski’s Engagement with Philosophy....Pages 131-153 Tarski on Definition, Meaning and Truth....Pages 155-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 A Note on Henryk Mehlberg’s Contribution to the Debate on the Mind-Body Problem....Pages 173-180 Leopold Blaustein’s Analytical Phenomenology....Pages 181-188 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Nonclassical Conceptions of Truth in Polish Philosophy at the Beginning of the 20th Century....Pages 191-202 Leon Chwistek’s Theory of Constructive Types....Pages 203-219 Konstanty Michalski on Late Medieval Nominalism....Pages 221-234 Jan Salamucha’s Analytical Thomism....Pages 235-245 Back Matter....Pages 247-251