The Concept of Causality in the Lvov-Warsaw School : : The Legacy of Jan Łukasiewicz / / edited by Jacek J. Jadacki and Edward M. Świderski.

• Superior document: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities ; 121
• TeilnehmendeR: Jadacki, Jacek J.,; Świderski, Edward M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities ; 121.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 pages)

The kernel of this volume is an English translation of Jan Łukasiewicz’s classic work on the concept of cause (1906). It is the starting point for analytical considerations on causality of two generations of philosophers belonging to the tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School.

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors of Part III
• Preface
• List of Figures
• Part 1 Jan Łukasiewicz: Analysis and Construction of the Concept of Cause
• Analysis and Construction of the Concept of Cause
• 1
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Concepts are Abstract Objects
• 3 Analysis of Abstract Objects
• 4 Construction of Abstract Objects
• 2
• 5 Correlation of Cause and Effect
• 6 The Causal Relation Is Not a Relation of Activity
• 7 The Causal Relation Is Not a Relation of Constant Succession
• 8 The Casual Relation Is a Necessary Relation
• 3
• 9 Properties of the Necessary Relation that Connects a Cause and an Effect
• 10 Relations of Simple Dependence and the Concept of Necessity
• 11 The Causal Relation Cannot Be Reduced to a Relation of Reason to Consequence
• Efficient and Cognitive Causes
• 12 The Temporal Relation in the Causal Relation
• 4
• 13 The Concept of Complete Cause
• A Cause and An Effect Do Not Have to Be Changes
• 14 What Is a Cause and What Is an Effect
• 15 Summary of Results
• 16 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Part 2 Resonance of Łukasiewicz's "Analysis" in the First Half of the Twentieth Century in Poland
• Chapter 1 Criticism of the Concept of Causal Connection
• Bibliography
• Chapter 2 Causality and Functional Relation. A Study in the Theory of Knowledge
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• Bibliography
• Chapter 3 How Did the Problem of Causality Arise? An Outline of Its Development in Ancient Philosophy
• Introduction
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• Chapter 1: From Thales to Democritus
• 1 The Older Ionian Physicists: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes (6th Century)
• 2 Heraclitus and Parmenides (Beginning of the 5th Century)
• 3 The Younger Physicists: The Atomists (5th Century).
• 4 End of the Period: Zeno of Elea and Gorgias (End of the 5th Century)
• Chapter 2: Plato and Aristotle
• A Plato
• 1 The Sources of Plato's Philosophy: The Sophists and Socrates
• 2 The Sources of Plato's Philosophy: Cratylus
• 3 The Sources of Plato's Philosophy: The Pythagoreans
• 4 The Relation between Ideas and the Sense-World
• 5 Matter as the Co-cause of Phenomena
• 6 The Principle of Determinism
• B Aristotle
• 1 Plato and Aristotle
• 2 Four Kinds of Causes
• 3 Substance
• 4 Primary Matter and Pure Form
• 5 The Principle of Determinism. The Contraposition of Causes
• Chapter 3: Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism
• 1 New Philosophical Systems and Their Relation to Their Predecessors
• 2 Stoicism
• 3 Epicureanism
• 4 The Problem of the Freedom of Will
• 5 The Stoic and Epicurean Concept of Cause
• 6 The Skeptical Analysis of Causality
• 7 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Chapter 4 The Problem of Causality in the Neo-scholastics
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• Bibliography
• Chapter 5 The Negative Concept of Causality
• Bibliography
• Part 3 The Concept of Causality in Poland Many Years Hence
• Chapter 6 Łukasiewicz on the Analysis of Concepts
• 1 Introductory Remarks
• 2 Some Semiotic and Ontological Distinctions
• 3 What Are Concepts According to Łukasiewicz?
• 4 Why Is Analysis of Concepts Important for Philosophers?
• 5 What Are the Components of Concepts and How Can They Be Represented in Ontologically "Neutral" Methodology?
• 6 Analysis of Concepts
• 7 Foundation of Analysis
• 8 Constructive Elements of Analysis
• 9 Ideal and Real Concepts and Requirements for Satisfactory Analysis
• 10 Analysis and Local versus Global Methods
• 11 Closing Remarks
• Acknowledgement
• Bibliography
• Chapter 7 On the Causal Role of Limit Properties in Physics
• 1 Background.
• 2 Causal Explanations in Classical Mechanics
• 2.1 The Bathtub Example
• 3 Self-Causation, Common Causes and the Two-Property View
• 4 Limit Properties and Grounding
• 5 Limit Properties as Causes
• 6 Concluding Remarks
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Chapter 8 Causality in the Law
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Legal Abstractions
• 3 The Wisdom of the Folk
• 4 Science Enters the Stage
• 5 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Chapter 9 Cause and Effect Relationships in Theology
• 1 Epistemic Ambitions of Theology
• 2 Distribution of Dogmas
• 3 Subsystems of Theology
• 4 The Fulcrum and Lever of Theology
• 5 Analysis and Construction of the Concept of Cause
• 6 Cause and Effect in Metaphysics and Apologetics
• 7 Cause and Effect in Dogmatics
• 8 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Conclusion: The Problem of Causality
• 1 The Omnipresence of the Term "Cause" in Life and Science
• 2 The Awkwardness of the Existing Definitions of "Cause"
• 3 A Word about Defining
• 4 Definition of "Cause"
• 5 Traditional Counterarguments Aimed at the Existence of Cause-Effect Relations
• 6 Self-Criticism
• 7 Logical Constants and Necessity
• 8 Ontic Categories of Objects in the Field of the Relation of Being-Cause-Of
• 9 Acting-On
• 10 Motivation
• 11 Circumstances of Acting-On
• 12 Change
• 13 Temporal Relations Connected with the Relationship of Being-Cause-Of
• 14 Formal Properties of the Relation of Being-Cause-Of
• 15 Cause and Effect and the Problem of Their Complexity
• 16 Causal Law
• 17 The Principle of Causality
• 18 The Cause-Effect Relation
• 19 The Perpetrator
• 20 God-Creator and Creator
• Bibliography
• Index of Names.