Philosophy And Logic In Search Of The Polish Tradition: Essays In Honour Of Jan Woleński On The Occasion Of His 60th Birthday (synthese Library)

On the occasion of bis sixtieth birthday, we dedicate this volume to Jan Wo­ leriski-s-our teacher, our colleague, our friend. Both of us are particularly indebted to Jan not only with regards to profes­ sional matters, but some private ones as well. Hence, we hope that he forgives us an occasional lapse into fondness and affection. That said, may the list of bis personalmerits remain shrouded in mystery; rather than unveil them, we open here by appraising Jan's presence from a broader perspective. Tonote that Jan was not always a part of our lives would not evoke surprise. However, to imagine the Institute of Pbilosophy on Grodzka Street or Krakow pbilosophy without him in it would be a harder task-at least for us, Nonethe­ less, we do remember the days when he was commuting to Krakow as a guest lecturer. Is there anything about those days which particularly comes to mind? To shed light on the story which follows, one must begin by stating that the early 1980s when we were studying philosophy was not a bright period. The great masters of Krakow philosophy-Ingarden, Mehlberg, Zawirski, or Dambska-> were either dead or, for political reasons, kept silent. The years following Martial Law (1981-1983) were intellectually very blighted and barren. In the midst of all this we were attending Jan's course on general methodology. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Minimalist Critique of Tarski on Truth....Pages 3-12 Is Strong Correspondence (Theory of Truth) Possible?....Pages 13-26 Content and Likeness Definitions of Truthlikeness....Pages 27-35 Absolute Truth in a Changing World....Pages 37-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 On the Epistemology of Game-Theoretical Semantics....Pages 57-66 Can Majority be Supervalued?....Pages 67-75 On Belnap’s Branching Space-Times....Pages 77-92 Partially Interpreted Henkin Quantifiers....Pages 93-108 Tarski and Leśniewski on Languages with Meaning Versus Languages without Use....Pages 109-128 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Ajdukiewicz on Language Change and Truth....Pages 131-149 Alfred Tarski and a Watershed Meeting in Logic: Cornell, 1957....Pages 151-162 On Thinking About the Mental and the Physical....Pages 163-178 Bernard Bolzano’s ‘ Wissenschaftslehre ’ and Polish Analytical Philosophy Between 1894 and 1935....Pages 179-192 Dispositions, Their Bases and Correlates—Meinong’s Analysis....Pages 193-211 Reactions to the Discovery of the Incompleteness Phenomenon....Pages 213-227 Truthmakers, Truthbearers and the Objectivity of Truth....Pages 229-268 The Extension of the Concept Abolished? Reflexions on a Fregean Dilemma....Pages 269-273 Back Matter....Pages 275-304 This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy. These papers are dedicated to Jan Wolenski to honour his 60th birthday. Jan Wolenski is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. He is likely to be the most well-known Polish philosopher of this time, best known for his work on the history of the philosophy and logic of the Lvov-Warsaw School. Furthermore, he's published numerous books and articles dealing with various issues of epistemology and philosophy of language This collection is mainly addressed to researchers and graduate students in philosophy, logic, and history and philosophy of science