The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy: Kazimierz Twardowski’s Philosophical Legacy

251 Pages·2009·3.563 MB·English

by  Jan Woleński, Sandra Lapointe (auth.), Prof. Sandra Lapointe, Prof. Jan Wolénski, Prof. Mathieu Marion, Dr. Wioletta Miskiewicz (eds.)

THEGOLDENAGEOFPOLISHPHILOSOPHY
LOGIC,EPISTEMOLOGY,ANDTHEUNITYOFSCIENCE
VOLUME 16
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The Golden Age of Polish
Philosophy
Kazimierz Twardowski’s Philosophical
Legacy
Editedby
SandraLapointe
KansasStateUniversity,Manhattan,KS,U.S.A.
JanWolen´ski
JagiellonianUniversity,Cracow,Poland
MathieuMarion
Universite´duQue´bec,Montre´al,QC,Canada
and
WiolettaMiskiewicz
IHPST(CNRS/Paris1/ENS),FranceandArchiwumKazimierzaTwardowskiego,Poland
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Editors
Prof.SandraLapointe Prof.MathieuMarion
KansasStateUniversity Universite´duQue´beca`Montre´al
DepartmentofPhilosophy De´partementdePhilosophie
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Prof.JanWolen´ski Dr.WiolettaMiskiewicz
JagiellonianUniversityof IHPST(CNRS/Paris1/ENS)
Krakow 13rueduFour
InstituteofPhilosophy 75006Paris
Grodzka52 France
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Acknowledgements
This collection of essays proceeds from two conferences that took place within
months of each other in the Fall of 2004. The events, which were organised inde-
pendently,werefromtheirveryinceptionrelatedinavarietyofserendipitousways.
Foronething,theirrespectivelistsofinvitedspeakerspartlyoverlapped.Butmost
importantly, the organisers shared the same commitment to the history of Polish
philosophyandthesameconvictionastoitscontemporarysignificance.
“Logic,Ontology,Aesthetics.TheGoldenAgeofPolishPhilosophy”tookplace
in Montreal on 23–26 September 2004 and was co-hosted by the Universite´ du
Que´beca`Montre´al,ConcordiaUniversityandthePolishGeneralConsulateinMon-
treal.Itgatheredsometwentyinvitedspeakersandaroughlyequivalentnumberof
participantstoparallelsessions.AmongthespeakerswereAriannaBetti,Katarzyna
Kijania-Placek,DariuszLukasiewicz,BernardLinsky,WiolettaMiskiewicz,Denis
Mieville, Claude Panaccio, Douglas Patterson, Roger Pouivet and Jan Wolenski.
Theircontributionstothisvolumeoriginate,inpartorinwhole,fromthemeeting.
For having made the latter possible, the organisers and co-editors of the present
book,SandraLapointeandMathieuMarion,wouldliketothanktheSocialSciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sci-
ences,Quebec’sMinistryofInternationalRelationsaswellastheCanadaResearch
Chair in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics at the Universite´ du Que´bec a`
Montre´al.
All other essays, those of Jerzy Bobryk, Anna Jedynak, Grzegorz Malinowski,
PaoloMancosu,RomanMurawskiandUrszulaZeglenwereoriginallypresentedat
“Rayonnementdelaphilosophiepolonaiseauvingtie`mesie`cle.L’he´ritagephiloso-
phiquedeKazimierzTwardowski”.TheeventwasorganisedbytheInstitutd’histoire
et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST, Paris) and the Husserl
Archives(Paris).Theorganisersandco-editors,WiolettaMiskiewiczandJanWolen-
ski,wouldliketothanktheE´coleNormaleSupe´rieureofParis,thePolishInstitute
(Paris), the Instytut Adama Miskiewicza (Krakow) and the Polish Ambassy in
Paris. For their kind support, the organisers are particulary indebted to Laurence
Frabolot,headofENS’sInternationaOffice,HisExcellencyJanTombinskii,Polish
AmbassadortoFranceandJacquesDubucs,HeadofIHPST.”.
Asthelistofcontributorsshows,thedevelopmentofphilosophyinPolandisan
areaofresearchthathasspreadtotheentirephilosophicalcommunity,inEuropeas
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wellasinAmerica.Ontheotherhand,philosophyinPolandisaliveandwelland
Polishphilosopherscontinuetoshapeinmanywaysthecontemporaryphilosophi-
callandscape.We’dliketoextendourgratitudetothecontributorstothisvolume,
who kindly put up with our editorial demands and patiently suffered the series of
revisionstheirwonderfulcontributionsunderwentinthecourseofthelasttwoyears.
We would also like to thank Ewa Bolin´ska and Anna Zielin´ska for their energetic
andeffectiveproof-readingofthePolish,aswellasananonymousrefereeformany
helpfulsuggestions.
Contents
Introduction ....................................................... 1
JanWolen´skiandSandraLapointe
PartI TwardowskiandPolishScientificPhilosophy
1 PolishMetaphysicsandtheBrentanianTradition ................. 19
DariuszŁukasiewicz
2 TheGenesisandHistoryofTwardowski’sTheoryofActionsand
Products ...................................................... 33
JerzyBobryk
3 TheRiseandDevelopmentofLogicalSemanticsinPoland ......... 43
JanWolen´ski
4 FrenchandPolishConventionalism .............................. 61
AnnaJedynak
PartII PhilosophyofLogicandMathematics
5 APhilosophyofMany-ValuedLogic.TheThirdLogicalValueand
Beyond ....................................................... 81
GrzegorzMalinowski
6 Les´niewski’sSystemsandtheAristotelianModelofScience ........ 93
AriannaBetti
7 Les´niewski,Negation,andtheArtofLogicalSubtlety ..............113
DenisMie´ville
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8 PhilosophyofMathematicsintheLvov-WarsawSchool ............121
RomanMurawski
9 Tarski’sEngagementwithPhilosophy ............................131
PaoloMancosu
10 TarskionDefinition,MeaningandTruth .........................155
DouglasPatterson
PartIII PolishPhilosophyofMind
11 ANoteonHenrykMehlberg’sContributiontotheDebateonthe
Mind-BodyProblem ...........................................173
UrszulaM.Z˙eglen´
12 LeopoldBlaustein’sAnalyticalPhenomenology ...................181
WiolettaMiskiewicz
PartIV AroundTwardowski’sSchool
13 Nonclassical Conceptions of Truth in Polish Philosophy at the
Beginningofthe20thCentury ..................................191
KatarzynaKijania-Placek
14 LeonChwistek’sTheoryofConstructiveTypes ....................203
BernardLinsky
15 KonstantyMichalskionLateMedievalNominalism ...............221
ClaudePanaccio
16 JanSalamucha’sAnalyticalThomism ............................235
RogerPouivet
Index .............................................................247
Contributors
Arianna Betti Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
[email protected]
JerzyBobryk TheInstituteofPsychologyofthePolishAcademyofScienceand
TheInstituteofPhilosophyattheWarsawSchoolofSocialPsychology,Warsaw,
Poland,[email protected]
AnnaJedynak WarsawUniversity,Warsaw,Poland,[email protected]
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland,
[email protected]
Sandra Lapointe Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA,
[email protected]
Bernard Linsky University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada,
[email protected]
Dariusz Łukasiewicz Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland,
[email protected]
GrzegorzMalinowski UniwersytetŁo´dzki,Łodz,Poland,[email protected]
Paolo Mancosu University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA,
[email protected]
Denis Mie´ville Universite´ de Neuchaˆtel (Suisse), Neuchatel, Switzerland,
[email protected]
Wioletta Miskiewicz IHPST (CNRS/Paris1/ENS)/Archiwum Kazimierza
Twardowskiego,Warsaw,Poland,[email protected]
Roman Murawski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan´, Poland,
[email protected]
Claude Panaccio Universite´ du Que´bec a` Montre´al, Montreal, QC, Canada,
[email protected]
Douglas Patterson Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA,
[email protected]
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