The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy

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Other Authors: Kijania-Placek, K. (Editor), Wolenski, Jan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Reception of the Lvov-Warsaw School
  • I. History and Comparisons
  • Twardowski’s Distinction Between Actions and Products
  • On Ajdukiewicz’s Empirical Meaning-Rule and Wittgenstein’s Defining Criterion
  • Inspirations and Controversies: From the Letters between K. Twardowski and A. Meinong
  • The Lvov-Warsaw School — the First School of Non-positivist Scientific and Analytic Philosophy
  • Women’s Contributions to the Achievements of the Lvov-Warsaw School: a Survey
  • Truth-Bearers from Twardowski to Tarski
  • Twardowski and Husserl on Wholes and Parts
  • The Rationalistic Paradigm of Franz Brentano and Kazimierz Twardowski
  • ?ukasiewicz’s Interpretation of Aristotle’s Concept of Possibility
  • II. Le?niewski
  • De Veritate: Another Chapter. The Bolzano-Le?niewski Connection
  • Le?niewski’s Conception of Logic
  • Non-elementary Exegesis of Twardowski’s Theory of Presentation
  • Induction and Probability in the Lvov-Warsaw School
  • ?ukasiewicz’s Logical Probability and a Puzzle about Conditionalization
  • VI. Logic and Philosophy
  • Truth as Consensus. A Logical Analysis
  • The Lvov-Warsaw School and the Problem of a Logical Formalism for General Systems Theory
  • From Closure-operatic Deductive Methodology to Non-standard Alternatives
  • Forgotten and Neglected Solutions of Problems in Philosophical Logic
  • Index of Names
  • On Some Essential Subsystems of Les?iewski’s Ontology and the Equivalence between the Singular Barbara and the Law of Leibniz in Ontology
  • III. Philosophy of Language
  • The Paradox of Grelling and Nelson Presented as a Veridical Observation Concerning Naming
  • D?mbska, Quine and the So-called Empty Names
  • Truth and Time
  • The Postulate of Precision: Its Sense and Its Limits
  • Polish Logic, Language and Philosophy of Language
  • IV. Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
  • The Ajdukiewicz Calculus, Polish Notation and Hilbert-style Proofs
  • Ja?kowski and Gentzen Approaches to Natural Deduction and Related Systems
  • The Contribution of Polish Logicians to Recursion Theory
  • Studying Incompleteness of Information: A Class of Information Logics
  • V. Ontology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
  • On ?ukasiewicz’s Theory of Probability
  • On What There Is Not — a Vindicationof Reism
  • On the Concept of a Subject of Cognition in Ajdukiewicz’s Philosophy