The Lvov-Warsaw School The New Generation (Pozna Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Huma)

"The influence of [Kazimierz] Twardowski on modern philosophy in Poland is all-pervasive. Twardowski instilled in his students a passion for clarity [...] and seriousness. He taught them to regard philosophy as a collaborative effort, a matter of disciplined discussion and argument, and he encouraged them to train themselves thoroughly in at least one extra-philosophical discipline and to work together with scientists from other fields, both inside Poland and internationally. This led above all [...] to collaborations with mathematicians, so that the Lvov school of philosophy would gradually evolve into the Warsaw school of logic [...]. Twardowski taught his students, too, to respect and to pursue serious research in the history of philosophy, an aspect of the tradition of philosophy on Polish territory which is illustrated in such disparate works as [Jan] Łukasiewicz's ground-breaking monograph on the law of non-contradiction in Aristotle and [Władysław] Tatarkiewicz's highly influential multi-volume histories of philosophy and aesthetics [...] The term 'Polish philosophy' is a misnomer [...] for Polish philosophy is philosophy per se ; it is part and parcel of the mainstream of world philosophy - simply because [...] it meets international standards of training, rigour, professionalism and specialization." - Barry Smith (from: "Why Polish Philosophy does Not Exist").. The Lvov-warsaw School : Its Contemporary Inheritors And Investigators In Poland And Abroad / Jacek Jadacki And Jacek Pasniczek -- Why Polish Philosophy Does Not Exist / Barry Smith -- The Lvov-warsaw School And Its Influence On Polish Philosophy Of The Second Half Of The 20th Century / Jacek Jadacki -- An Elementary System Of Ontology / John T. Kearns -- Do We Need Complex Properties In Our Ontology? / Jacek Pasniczek -- Objects, Properties And Russell's Paradox / Andrzej Bilat -- On The Notion Of Identity / Joanna Odrowaz-sypniewska -- A Puzzle About Semantic Determinism : Lukasiewicz's On Determinism Years Later / Tomasz Placek -- Causality In Chaotic Environment : Does Strong Causality Break Down In Deterministic Chaos? / Max Urchs -- Three Contributions To Logical Philosophy / Jan Wolenski -- Reducibility Of Safe Questions To Sets Of Atomic Yes-no Questions / Andrzej Wisniewski -- Languages With Variable-binding Operators : Categorial Syntax And Combinatorial Semantics / Peter Simons -- On The Formalization Of Classical Categorial Grammar / Urszula Wybraniec-skardowska -- Retrieving Intentionality : A Legacy From The Brentano School / Liliana Albertazzi -- Logical And Methodological Assumptions Of The Ajdukiewicz's And Kripke-putnam's Views Of Meaning / Kazimierz Trzesicki -- On Linguistic Relativism / Anna Jedynak -- Tarski's Analysis Of Logical Consequence And Etchemendy's Criticism Of Tarski's Modal Fallacy / Dale Jacquette -- Sempiternal Truth : The Bolzano-twardowski-lesniewski Axis / Arianna Betti -- From The Act Of Judging To The Sentence : The Truth-bearer And The Objectivisation Of Truth / Artur Rojszczak -- What Does Truth In Virtue Of Meaning Really Explain? / Wojciech Zelaniec -- Do We Need A Definition Of Truth? / Jozef Misiek -- Criteria Of Rationality / Ryszard Kleszcz -- On The Concept Of Rationality / Mieszko Talasiewicz. Edited By Jacek Jadacki And Jacek Paśniczek. Includes Bibliographical References. The influence of [Kazimierz] Twardowski on modern philosophy in Poland is all-pervasive. Twardowski instilled in his students a passion for clarity [...] and seriousness. He taught them to regard philosophy as a collaborative effort, a matter of disciplined discussion and argument, and he encouraged them to train themselves thoroughly in at least one extra-philosophical discipline and to work together with scientists from other fields, both inside Poland and internationally. This led above all [...] to collaborations with mathematicians, so that the Lvov school of philosophy would gradually evolve into the Warsaw school of logic [...]. Twardowski taught his students, too, to respect and to pursue serious research in the history of philosophy, an aspect of the tradition of philosophy on Polish territory which is illustrated in such disparate works as [Jan] Lukasiewiczs ground-breaking monograph on the law of non-contradiction in Aristotle and [Wladyslaw] Tatarkiewiczs highly influential multi-volume histories of philosophy and aesthetics [...] The term Polish philosophy is a misnomer [...] for Polish philosophy is philosophy per se ; it is part and parcel of the mainstream of world philosophy simply because [...] it meets international standards of training, rigour, professionalism and specialization. Barry Smith ( Why Polish Philosophy does Not Exist)