Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Francesco Coniglione, Roberto Poli, and Jan Wolenski -- Preface / Francesco Coniglione, Roberto Poli, and Jan Wolenski -- Brentano, Twardowski, and Polish Scientific Philosophy / Liliana Albertazzi -- Husserl and Twardowski / Karl Schuhmann -- Phenomenology and Polish Scientific Philosophy / Guido Küng -- Scientific Philosophy and Marxism in Poland / Francesco Coniglione -- Classification of Reasonings in Contemporary Polish Philosophy / Tadeusz Kwiatkowski -- The Problems of Ethics of Science in the Lvov–Warsaw School / Aniela Dylus -- Kazimierz Twardowski’s Descriptive Semiotics / Jacek J. Jadacki -- Nominalism in Poland / Peter M. Simons -- Roots of the Methodology of Polish Psychology / Teresa Rzepa and Ryszard Stachowski -- Lukasiewicz on Philosophy and Determinism / Kazimierz Trzęsicki -- Conventionalism in Ajdukiewicz / Anna Jedynak -- On Certain Consequences of the Radical Empiricism Hypothesis / Andrzej Siemianowski -- Tarski as a Philosopher / Jan Woleński -- The Dispute over Reism: Kotarbiński–Ajdukiewicz–Brentano / Roberto Poli -- List of Contributors / Francesco Coniglione, Roberto Poli, and Jan Wolenski.

One can often encounter an opinion that Polish scientific (or analytic) philosophy (or the Lvov-Warsaw School) deserves to be much better known than actually is. This book is thought as a response to such a claim. The papers collected in this volume are divided into two parts: Background and Influence and History and Systematics . However, there is no sharp borderline between themes which are touched in both parts. Generally speaking, all papers of the first part relate the Lvov-Warsaw School to some philosophical movements (Brentanism, phenomenology and Marxism) external to it whereas the papers collected in the second one focus on internal issues connected with the school (only Roberto Poli takes into account Brentano's views in his discussion of reism). Since the Polish school of mathematical logic is much better known than the Polish analytic philosophy we decided to omit here any treatment of the former. Thus, this collection centers on purely philosophical matters. We projected this volume not as an exhaustive panorama of Polish analytic philosophy but rather as a series of essays on particular persons or topic. As a result one can find here papers on Twardowski. Ajdukiewicz, Kotarbinski, Tarski and Lukasiewicz as well as on ethics on science, nominalism, and the methodology of psychology. We hope that this book will contribute to a better knowledge and evaluation of Polish achievements in analytic philosophy. We would like to express our gratitude to Professor Leszek Nowak, the editor-in-chief of Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, who initiated the idea of the collection and helped in its preparation.

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