Lwów–Warsaw school
The Lwów–Warsaw School
Though its members represented a variety of disciplines, from mathematics through logic to psychology, the Lwów–Warsaw School is widely considered to have been a philosophical movement.[6] It has produced some of the leading logicians of the twentieth century such as Jan Łukasiewicz, Stanisław Leśniewski, and Alfred Tarski, among others.[7] Its members did not only contribute to the techniques of logic but also to various domains that belong to the philosophy of language.[8]
History
Polish philosophy and the Lwów–Warsaw school were considerably influenced by Franz Brentano and his pupils Kazimierz Twardowski, Anton Marty, Alexius Meinong, and Edmund Husserl. Twardowski founded the philosophical school when he became the chair of the Lviv University.[9]
Principal topics of interest to the Lwów–Warsaw school included formal ontology, mereology, and universal or categorial grammar.
The Lwów-Warsaw School began as a general philosophical school but steadily moved toward logic. The Lwów–Warsaw school of logic lay at the origin of
In the 1930s Alfred Tarski initiated contacts with the Vienna Circle. Tarski, the most prominent member of the Lwów–Warsaw School, has been ranked as one of the four greatest logicians of all time, along with Aristotle, Gottlob Frege, and Kurt Gödel.[12][13][14]
The school's work was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.[10] Despite this, its members went on to fundamentally influence modern science, notably mathematics and logic, in the post-war period. Tarski's description of semantic truth, for instance, has revolutionized logic and philosophy.[15]
In contemporary Polish learning, the philosopher Jan Woleński considers himself close to the School's heritage. In 2013 Woleński was awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science for his comprehensive analysis of the work of the Lwów–Warsaw school and for placing its achievements within the international discourse of contemporary analytic philosophy.[16]
Members
Many of the School's members worked in more than one field.
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
- Bronisław Bandrowski
- Leopold Blaustein
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Leon Chwistek
- Tadeusz Czeżowski
- Eugénie Ginsberg
- Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum
- Stanisław Jaśkowski
- Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa
- Tadeusz Kotarbiński
- Czesław Lejewski
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- Jan Łukasiewicz
- Maria Ossowska
- Alfred Tarski
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Władysław Witwicki
- Zygmunt Zawirski
See also
References
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- ^ Jan Woleński, Filozoficzna szkoła lwowsko-warszawska, Warsaw, PWN, 1985.
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- ^ Restall, Greg (2002–2006). "Great Moments in Logic". Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
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- ^ "Prof. Jan Woleński, PhD hab. – FNP Prize 2013 laureate". Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
Bibliography
- Brożek, A., A. Chybińska, J. Jadacki, and Jan Woleński, eds., Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School. Ideas and Continuations, Leiden, Boston, 2015.
- Brożek, A., F. Stadler, and Jan Woleński, eds., The Significance of the Lvov-Warsaw School in the European Culture, Wien, 2017.
- Coniglione, F., Polish Scientific Philosophy: The Lvov–Warsaw School, Amsterdam, Atlanta, 1993.
- Drabarek, A., Jan Woleński, and M.M. Radzki, eds., Interdisciplinary investigations into the Lvov-Warsaw School, Cham, 2019.
- OCLC 54691904.
- Garrido, Á., and U. Wybraniec-Skardowska, eds., The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present, Basel, 2018.
- Jadacki, J.J., Polish Analytical Philosophy, Warsaw, 2009.
- Jadacki, J., and J. Paśniczek, eds., The Lvov-Warsaw School – The new generation, Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities, vol. 89, Polish Analytical Philosophy, vol. VI, Amsterdam, Atlanta, 2006 ISBN 978-90-420-2068-9.
- Jordan, Z., The Development of Mathematical Logic and of Logical Positivism in Poland between Two Wars, Oxford, 1945.
- Kijania-Place, K., and Jan Woleński, eds., The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy, Dordrecht, 1998.
- Marion M., W. Miśkiewicz, S. Lapointe, and ISBN 90-481-2400-X.
- McFarland, A., J. McFarland, and J.T. Smith, eds., Alfred Tarski: Early Work in Poland – Geometry and Teaching, Basel, 2010.
- Skolimowski, H., Polish Analytical Philosophy. London, 1967.
- Smith, B., Austrian Philosophy, Chicago, 1994.
- Szaniawski, Klemens, ed., The Vienna Circle and the Lvov–Warsaw School, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 1989.
- Woleński, Jan, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov–Warsaw School, Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, Reidel, 1989.
External links
- The Lvóv-Warsaw School, by Francesco Coniglione, in the Polish Philosophy Page.
- Woleński, Jan. "The Lvóv-Warsaw School". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Archives of the Lvov-Warsaw School, multi-institutional initiative to digitize and research the manuscripts of Twardowski and the school members.