Knowledge, language, and silence : : selected papers / / by Izydora Dąmbska ; edited by Anna Brozek, Jacek Jadacki ; translated from the Polish by Katarzyna Cullen.

• Author: Dąmbska, Izydora.
• TeilnehmendeR: Brożek, Anna.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 105.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Izydora Dąmbska (1904-1982) was a Polish philosopher; a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, and his last assistant. Her output consists of almost 300 publications. The main domains of her research were semiotics, epistemology and broadly understood methodology as well as axiology and history of philosophy. Dąmbska’s approach to philosophical problems reflected tendencies that were characteristic of the Lvov-Warsaw School. She applied high methodological standards but has never limited the domain of analyzed problems in advance. The present volume includes twenty-eight translations of her representative papers. As one of her pupils rightly wrote: “Dąmbska’s works may help everyone [...] to think clearly. Her attitude of an unshaken philosopher may help anyone to hold oneself straight, and, if necessary, to get up after a fall”.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Anna Brożek and Jacek Jadacki -- On the Need to Philosophize / Izydora Dąmbska -- On the Meaning of the History of Science for Philosophy / Izydora Dąmbska -- On Duality in the Aspect of Being and Cognition and on the Tendency to Overcome this Duality as the Basis for Philosophical Trends and Standpoints / Izydora Dąmbska -- A Few Remarks on Cognitive Values / Izydora Dąmbska -- Is Intersubjective Similarity of Sensory Impressions a Necessary Assumption in Natural Sciences? / Izydora Dąmbska -- Irrationalism and Scientific Cognition / Izydora Dąmbska -- Conventionalism and Relativism / Izydora Dąmbska -- Skepticism and Agnosticism in Contemporary Epistemology / Izydora Dąmbska -- On the Kinds of Skepticism / Izydora Dąmbska -- Philosophical Skepticism and the Scientific Method / Izydora Dąmbska -- On Some Methods of Justifying Sentences about Future Events / Izydora Dąmbska -- A Few Remarks on Reasoning by Analogy / Izydora Dąmbska -- Laws of Physics and the Postulate of Truthfulness of Scientific Statements / Izydora Dąmbska -- On Prospective Definitions / Izydora Dąmbska -- Logical Division and Definition / Izydora Dąmbska -- Some Notions of Grammar in View of Logic / Izydora Dąmbska -- On Semiotic Conventions / Izydora Dąmbska -- Symbol / Izydora Dąmbska -- On the Philosophy of Proper Names / Izydora Dąmbska -- Regarding the So-Called Empty Names / Izydora Dąmbska -- On the Semantics of Adjectives / Izydora Dąmbska -- On the Semantics of Conditional Sentences / Izydora Dąmbska -- The Conception of Language and Truth / Izydora Dąmbska -- On Namelessness / Izydora Dąmbska -- Silence as an Expression and as a Value / Izydora Dąmbska -- On the Semiotic Functions of Silence / Izydora Dąmbska -- On the Notion of Understanding / Izydora Dąmbska -- When I Think of the Word “Freedom”. / Izydora Dąmbska -- Editorial Afterword: Izydora Dąmbska – A Steadfast Thinker / Anna Brożek and Jacek Jadacki -- Bibliography / Izydora Dąmbska -- Name Index / Izydora Dąmbska.