This book offers world-unique knowledge about outstanding Polish logicians of the first half of the 20th century. The book shows the achievements of Polish logicians, their influence on the development of science, interactions with philosophers and scientists from other countries, as well as cultural and social consequences. Containing over 140 entries accompanied by photographs of over half the discussed logicians, the volume is a comprehensive list of the period.
Topics in the book include many-valued logic, Leniewski's system, set theory and its foundations, semantic theory of truth, natural deduction, intuitionistic logic, and methodology in philosophy of science. The book is intended for both beginners and advanced researchers of logic, both students and logicians, philosophers, historians of ideas and historians of science.
Introduction.
Chapter
1. Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.
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2. Stefan
Banach.
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3. Wadysaw Biegaski.
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4. Józef (Innocenty) Maria
Bocheski.
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5. Benedykt Bornstein.
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6. Leon Chwistek.-
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7. Tadeusz Czeowski.
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8. Izydora Dmbska.
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9. Samuel
Dickstein.
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10. Jan Drewnowski.
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11. Samuel Eilenberg.-
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12. Ludwik Fleck.
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13. Daniela Gromska.
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14. Bolesaw
Gawecki.
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15. Henryk Greniewski.
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16. Jan Herzberg (or
Hercberg).
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17. Wadysaw Hetper.
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18. Henryk Hi.
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19. Janina Hosiason-Lindenbaum.
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20. Roman Ingarden.
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21.
Zygmunt Janiszewski.
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22. Stanisaw Jakowski.
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23. Zbigniew
Jordan.
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24. Stanisaw Kaczorowski.
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25. Jan Kalicki.-
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26. Bronisaw Knaster.
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27. Maria Kokoszyska-Lutmanowa.-
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28. Antoni Korcik.
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29. Alfred Korzybski.
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30. Janina
Kotarbiska.
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31. Tadeusz Kotarbiski.
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32. Adam Krokiewicz.-
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33. Zygmunt Kruszewski.
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34. Jerzy Kuczyski.
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35.
Kazimierz Kuratowski.
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36. Jerzy Kuryowicz.
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37. Czesaw
Lejewski.
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38. Stanisaw Leniewski.
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39. Adolf Lindenbaum.-
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40. Jan ukasiewicz.
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41. Seweryna uszczewska-Romahnowa.-
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42. Edward Marczewski.
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43. Stanisaw Mazur.
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44.
Stefan Mazurkiewicz.
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45. Henryk Mehlberg.
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46. Joachim
Metallmann.
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47. Konstanty Michalski.
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48. Andrzej
Mostowski.
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49. Maria Ossowska.
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50. Stanisaw Ossowski.-
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51. Antoni Paski.
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52. Józef Pepis.
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53. Chaïm
Perelman.
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54. Leon Petraycki.
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55. Edward Poznaski.-
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56. Mojesz Presburger.
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57. Jan Salamucha.
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58.
Stanisaw Schayer.
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59. Zygmunt Schmierer.
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60. Wacaw
Sierpiski.
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61. Jan Sleszyski.-
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62. Jerzy Supecki.-
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63. Franciszek Smolka.
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64. Marian Smoluchowski.
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65.
Bolesaw Sobociski.
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66. Jerzy Spawa-Neyman.
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67. Edward
Stamm.
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68. Hugo Steinhaus.
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69. Wadysaw Szumowski.-
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70. Alfred Tarski.
Chapter 71.Tatarkiewicz, Wadysaw.
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72.
Kazimierz Twardowski.
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73. Stanisaw Ulam.
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74. Mordechaj
(Mordchaj) Wajsberg.
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75. Adam Wiegner.
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76. Witold Wilkosz.-
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77. Aleksander Wundheiler.
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78. Stanisaw Zaremba.
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79. Zygmunt Zawirski.
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80. Florian Znaniecki.
Chapter
81. Eustachy
yliski.
Andrzej Dbrowski is an Assistant Professor at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow (Poland). His philosophical interests focus primarily on selected problems in epistemology and logic, as well as the broadly understood philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive science. In his research, he pays particular attention to the issues of intentionality and emotion, exploring questions such as how emotions influence cognition and knowledge. He is the author of Intencjonalno i semantyka [ Intentionality and Semantics] (Universitas, Kraków 2013) and róda, natura i funkcje emocji. Studium teorii impulsji Leona Petrayckiego w kontekcie wspóczesnych bada [ Sources, Nature and Functions of Emotions. A Study of Leon Petrayckis Theory of Impulses in the Context of Contemporary Research] (WUW, Warsaw 2019).
Magdalena Hoy-uczaj is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Wrocaw (Poland). With a background in continental philosophy, she works at the intersection of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology. Her research explores how technical artifacts fit within environmental ethics, aiming to balance the interests of natural beings and human dependence on technology. She is also interested in the history of philosophy, particularly in its Polish context. Her articles have appeared in Environmental Values, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics and the Environment, and other academic journals. She has twice been a Fulbright Scholarat the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (2013/14) and at the University of Georgia in Athens (2021/22).
Andrew Schumann is a Professor of the Department of Cognitive Science and Mathematical Modelling at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow (Poland). His interests lie in logic and artificial intelligence, particularly in exploring how formal reasoning can be applied to biological systems. He has participated in the project Physarum Chip: Growing Computers from Slime Mould supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2011-8). The main objectives are to design and fabricate a distributed biomorphic computing device built and operated by slime mould Physarum polycephalum. He published several books, including: Archaeology of Logic (Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press, 2023), Behaviourism in Studying Swarms: Logical Models of Sensing and Motoring (Springer International Publishing AG, 2019), Talmudic Logic (College Publications, 2012), and others. He has also edited many books, including the following: Swarm Intelligence: From Social Bacteria to Humans (Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press, 2020), Judgements and Truth. Essays in Honour of Jan Woleski (College Publications, 2020), Pragmatic Studies in Judaism (Gorgias Press, 2013); Logic in Central and Eastern Europe: History, Science, and Discourse (University Press of America, 2012); Logic in Orthodox Christian Thinking (Ontos Verlag / De Gruyter, 2012); Logic in Religious Discourse (Ontos Verlag / De Gruyter, 2010); Judaic Logic (Gorgias Press, 2008). His works also appeared in Synthese, Logica Universalis, The Journal of Indian Philosophy, Argumentation, etc.
Konrad Szocik is a philosopher, bioethicist, and professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow. From 2021 to 2022, he was a visiting fellow at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. His research interests include philosophy, the ethics and bioethics of space exploration, human enhancement, feminism, selected issues at the intersection of futures studies and technology, as well as climate change, population ethics, procreative ethics, and the philosophy of antinatalism. His most recent monographs include Feminist Bioethics in Space (2024) and The Bioethics of Space Exploration (2023), published by Oxford University Press.
Jan Woleski is Professor Emeritus of Jagiellonian University in Kraków and Professor of University of Information, Management and Technology in Rzeszow. He is a honorary dr of the University of ód. He is a member of several scientific academies and organizations, including Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Philosophical Society, Warsaw Scientific Society, Association of Symbolic Logic, American Mathematical Society, Institut International de Philosophie, European Society of Analytic Philosophy (the President 2005-2008), Academia Europea, Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, Brentano Society and Vienna Circle Society. In 2013, he was awarded by the Scientific Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences established by the Polish Fund for Science. He is working in philosophical logic, epistemology, history of logic and analytic philosophy, legal philosophy and philosophical problems of the Holocaust. He published 46 books and more than 1000 papers, including Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School (in Polish 1985, English tr. 1989, Russian tr. 2004, French tr. 2011, Ukrainian tr. 2026). Essays in the History of Logic and Logical Philosophy (1999), Lógica y filosofía (2005, with P. Domínguez), Epistemology. Cognition, Knowledge, Truth and Realism (in Polish 2005), Contemporary Logic and Its Philosophical Applications (Selected Essays) (2011), Historico-Philosophical Essays (2013), Logic and Its Philosophy (2018), Two Essays on the Holocaust (in Polish, 2019) Semantics and Truth (2020).
