Polish Philosophers of Science and Nature in the 20th Century.

• Superior document: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
• VerfasserIn: Krajewski, Władysław,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.; ©2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)

The volume is a collection of essays about prominent Polish 20th century philosophers of science and scientists who were concerned with problems in the philosophy of science. The contribution made by Polish logicians, especially those from the Lvov-Warsaw School, like Łukasiewicz, Kotarbiński, Czeżowski or Ajdukiewicz, is already well known. One of the aims of the volume is to offer a broader perspective. The papers collected here are devoted to the work of such philosophers as Zawirski, Metallmann, Dąmbska, Mehlberg, Szaniawski and Giedymin as well as to the work of such scientists as Smoluchowski, Fleck, Infeld and Chyliński. The introduction to the volume, written by the editor and Jacek Jadacki, presents an overview of the history of the Polish philosophy of science from the foundation of the Cracow Academy (in 1364) to the present.

Table of Contents

Introduction (including the list of the major works in philosophy of science by Polish authors) / Władysław Krajewski and Jacek Juliusz Jadacki -- Jan Łukasiewicz: the quest for the form of science / Mieszko Tałasiewicz -- Zygmunt Zawirski: the notion of time / Irena Szumilewicz-Lachman -- Tadeusz Kotarbiński: reism and science / Jan Woleński -- Joachim Metallmann: causality, determinism and science / Tomasz Bigaj -- Tadeusz Czeżowski: our knowledge, though uncertain, is probable / Leon Gumański -- Bolesław J. Gawecki: a philosopher of the natural sciences / Józef M. Dołęga -- Adam Wiegner: nonstandard empiricism / Izabella Nowakowa -- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz: from radical conventionalism to radical empiricism / Anna Jedynak -- Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaumowa: the logic of induction / Anna Jedynak -- Janina Kotarbińska: logical methodology and semantics / Władysław Krajewski -- Izydora Dąmbska: between conventionalism and realism / Jan Woleński -- Seweryna Łuszczewska-Romahnowa: logic and methodology of science / Tadeusz Batóg -- Henryk Mehlberg: the reach of science / Artur Koterski -- Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa: methodology, semantics, truth / Mieszko Tałasiewicz -- Stanisław Mazierski: a theorist of natural lawfulness / Zygmunt Hajduk -- Stanisław Kamiński: a philosopher and historian of science / Andrzej Bronk -- Roman Suszko: from diachronic logic to non-Fregean logic / Mieczysław Omyła -- Halina Mortimer: the logic of induction / Anna Jedynak -- Klemens Szaniawski: rationality and statistical methods / Jan Woleński -- Jerzy Giedymin: from the logic of science to the theoretical history of science / Krystyna Zamiara -- Marian Smoluchowski: a forerunner of the chaos theory / Władysław Krajewski -- Czesław Białobrzeski's conception of science / Alina Motycka -- Ludwik Fleck: thought collectives and thought styles / Wojciech Sady -- Leopold Infeld: the problem of matter and field / Michał Tempczyk -- Jerzy Rayski: physicist and philosopher of physics / Jan Płazowski -- Zygmunt Chyliński: physics and philosophy / Józef Misiek -- Grzegorz Białkowski: science and its subject / Małgorzata Czarnocka -- Appendices: I. Logistic anti-irrationalism in Poland / Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz -- II. Philosophy of science in Poland / Klemens Szaniawski -- III. Main orientations in the contemporary Polish philosophy of science / Izabella Nowakowa.