Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum

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Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum
Born
Janina Hosiasson

(1899-12-06)December 6, 1899
Warsaw, Poland
Died1942
Vilnius, Lithuania
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Known forRaven paradox
SpouseAdolf Lindenbaum
Scientific career
FieldsLogic, mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Warsaw
Thesis Justification of Inductive Reasoning  (1926)
Doctoral advisorTadeusz Kotarbiński

Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum (December 5, 1899—April 1942) was a Polish logician and philosopher. She published some twenty research papers along with translations into Polish of three books by

Carl Hempel[4][5] and the probabilistic solution she outlined to it.[2] Shot by the Gestapo in 1942,[1] she, like her husband Adolf Lindenbaum, and many other eminent representatives of Polish logic, shared the fate of millions of Jews murdered on Polish soil by the Nazis.[6]

Biography

Janina Hosiasson was born on 6 December 1899 in Warsaw, the daughter of the merchant Josef Hosiasson and his wife Sophia Feigenblat.[7][1]

She was a student of

Tadeusz Kotarbinski and Jan Łukasiewicz at the University of Warsaw and received her doctorate there under Kotarbinski in 1926[1] with a dissertation on the "Justification of Inductive Reasoning".[2] She would then combine her continuing research with employment as a teacher of philosophy in a secondary school.[8] By the late 1920s she was a respected philosopher of logic of the Lwów–Warsaw school who actively participated in the second Polish Philosophical Congress held in Warsaw in September 1927 and (like her husband-to-be) delivered papers at the First Congress of Mathematicians from Slavic Countries held in Warsaw and Poznań in September 1929.[1] Janina then went, on a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education, to spend the 1929/30 academic year studying philosophy in Cambridge.[1]

In 1935, Hosiasson became the first woman to have work published in the journal Erkentnnis.[9] She was one of the speakers at the first Unity of Science Congress in Paris 1935.[10][11] She is also known to have participated in the preliminary meeting for the same in Prague the previous year.[12][13] Around the end of October or beginning of November 1935, Hosiasson married mathematician and fellow logician Adolf Lindenbaum.[14] The couple would then reside together in the Zoliborz district of Warsaw.[1] After marriage Janina would use the surname Hosiasson-Lindenbaum.[15] She attended the second Unity of Science Congress held in Copenhagen in 1936[13] and had also (like Alfred Tarski) been scheduled to present her research at the fifth Unity of Science Congress at Harvard in September 1939.[15] Fatefully, however, she was unable to sail in time[15]—she applied for passage on the next boat to America after that taken by Tarski but her visa was denied.[12]

On 1 September, Germany invaded Poland. On 6 September 1939, with Warsaw under artillery fire, the couple fled the city on foot.[14] As Janina would report in letters to Otto Neurath and G.E. Moore,[16] their progress east was slow and the road repeatedly strafed by the Luftwaffe.[14] The couple became separated after Janina accepted a lift on a motorcycle to Rivne.[14] From there, she made her way to Vilnius where she eventually learnt her husband had taken refuge in Bialystok.[14] Soviet forces entered Poland on 17 September and both cities would fall under Russian occupation within the same month.[14] Janina later met her husband in Bialystok but, disagreeing about where best to survive, he chose to remain there whilst she returned to Vilnius (a city under Polish jurisdiction at the outbreak of war but which the occupying Soviets formally returned to a then notionally independent Lithuania).[14]

On 22 June 22, 1941, Germany invaded (the Polish territories annexed by) the Soviet Union and within days, their troops had entered Bialystok and, soon after, Vilnius.

Paneriai, on the outskirts of the city, and shot.[1]

Select works

A complete listing of Hosiasson's published works has made available by Marta Sznajder.[18]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 1661-8297
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    OCLC 857813353
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  3. OCLC 1015215187.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  4. S2CID 14761025
    . The exact origin of Hempel's paradox is shrouded in mystery. Although Hempel apparently did not formulate the paradox in print until 1943 ([1943], p. 128), Hosiasson-Lindenbaum formulated it as early as 1940 ([1940], p. 136): she attributed it to Hempel but gave no reference. (Hempel ([1945], p. 21 n. 2) referred to 'discussions' with her.) The paradox was 'foreshadowed' (Jeffrey [1995], p. 3) but by no means formulated by Hempel in 1937 ([1937), p. 222).
  5. S2CID 195347283
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  6. ISBN 978-94-017-0487-8, retrieved 2021-02-26, Such eminent representatives of Polish logic as Adolf Lindenbaum
    , his wife Janina Hossasion Lindenbaum, Mojiesz Presburger, Józef Pepis, Jan Salamucha, Z. Schmierer, Mordchaj Wajsberg shared the fate of millions of Jews murdered on Polish soil by Nazi's occupants.
  7. ^ "Birth record of Yanina Hosiasson". Archived from the original on 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  8. OCLC 50325256.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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  9. ISSN 1572-8420
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  10. ISSN 1281-2463
    . The First International Congress for the Unity of Science (Congrès international de philosophie scientifique) held in Paris in 1935 hosted two sessions devoted to "Induction" and "Probability" respectively. Outstanding representatives of the movement for scientific philosophy read papers in those sessions: the one on Induction hosted papers by Hans Reichenbach, Moritz Schlick, and Rudolf Carnap, while the one on Probability hosted papers by Reichenbach, Bruno de Finetti, Zygmunt Zawirski, Schlick, and Janina Hosiasson..
  11. ^ Wolters, Gereon. ""Wrongful life" reloaded: Logical empiricism's philosophy of biology 1934-1936 (Prague/Paris/Copenhagen): With historical and political intermezzos (2018)". ResearchGate.
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    OCLC 54691904
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    ISBN 9789400928299
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    ISBN 9783319654300
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    OCLC 888074959.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  16. ^ JANINA HOSIASSON-LINDENBAUM’S LETTER TO GEORGE EDWARD MOORE (Appendix to) Szubka, T. (2018). "List Janiny Hosiasson-Lindenbaum do George’a Edwarda Moore’a." Filozofia Nauki, 26(1), 129-141.
  17. ^ Free to read online at JSTOR with registration - short review MacLane, Saunders (June 1941).similarly available with JSTOR registration and also available for full preview via Cambridge Core
  18. ^ "Hosiassion Bibliography". Marta Sznajder. 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2024-02-04.

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