Polish Philosophers of Science and Nature in the 20th Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1497-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities / Polish Analytical Philosophy

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 Lukasiewicz, Kotarbinski, Czezowski 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, Dambska, Mehlberg, Szaniawski and Giedymin as well as to the work of such scientists as Smoluchowski, Fleck, Infeld and Chylinski. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Krajewski, Wladyslaw

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Wladyslaw KRAJEWSKI and Jacek Juliusz JADACKI: Introduction (including the List of the Major Works in Philosophy of Science by Polish Authors)
I. PHILOSOPHERS
Mieszko TALASIEWICZ: Jan Lukasiewicz – The Quest for the Form of Science
Irena SZUMILEWICZ-LACHMAN: Zygmunt Zawirski – The Notion of Time
Jan WOLENSKI: Tadeusz Kotarbinski – Reism and Science
Tomasz BIGAJ: Joachim Metallmann – Causality, Determinism and Science
Leon GUMANSKI: Tadeusz Czezowski – Our Knowledge, though Uncertain, Is Probable
Józef M. DOLEGA: Boleslaw J. Gawecki – A Philosopher of the Natural Sciences
Izabella NOWAKOWA: Adam Wiegner – Nonstandard Empiricism
Anna JEDYNAK: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz – From Radical Conventionalism to Radical Empiricism
Anna JEDYNAK: Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaumowa – The Logic of Induction
Wladyslaw KRAJEWSKI: Janina Kotarbinska – Logical Methodology and Semantics
Jan WOLENSKI: Izydora Dambska – Between Conventionalism and Realism
Tadeusz BATÓG: Seweryna Luszczewska-Romahnowa – Logic and Methodology of Science
Artur KOTERSKI: Henryk Mehlberg – The Reach of Science
Mieszko TALASIEWICZ: Maria Kokoszynska-Lutmanowa – Methodology, Semantics, Truth
Zygmunt HAJDUK: Stanislaw Mazierski – A Theorist of Natural Lawfulness
Andrzej BRONK: Stanislaw Kaminski – A Philosopher and Historian of Science
Mieczyslaw OMYLA: Roman Suszko – From Diachronic Logic to Non-Fregean Logic
Anna JEDYNAK: Halina Mortimer – The Logic of Induction
Jan WOLENSKI: Klemens Szaniawski – Rationality and Statistical Methods
Krystyna ZAMIARA: Jerzy Giedymin – From the Logic of Science to the Theoretical History of Science
II. SCIENTISTS
Wladyslaw KRAJEWSKI: Marian Smoluchowski – A Forerunner of the Chaos Theory
Alina MOTYCKA: Czeslaw Bialobrzeski’s Conception of Science
Wojciech SADY: Ludwik Fleck – Thought Collectives and Thought Styles
Michal TEMPCZYK: Leopold Infeld – The Problem of Matter and Field
Jan PLAZOWSKI: Jerzy Rayski – Physicist and Philosopher of Physics
Józef MISIEK: Zygmunt Chylinski – Physics and Philosophy
Malgorzata CZARNOCKA: Grzegorz Bialkowski – Science and Its Subject
APPENDIX POLISH PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. THREE COMMENTARIES
Kazimierz AJDUKIEWICZ: Logistic Anti-Irrationalism in Poland
Klemens SZANIAWSKI: Philosophy of Science in Poland
Izabella NOWAKOWA: Main Orientations in the Contemporary Polish Philosophy of Science