Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- The Majesty of the University / Kazimierz Twardowski -- What Can Be Saved of the Idea of the University? / Zygmunt Ziembiński -- What Are Universities for? / Leszek Kołakowski -- The Ideal University and Reality / Leon Gumański -- The Present Crisis of the Universities / Zygmunt Bauman -- On Freedom of Science / Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz -- Universities and Democracy / Henryk Samsonowicz -- The Commonwealth of Scholars and New Conceptions of Truth / Jerzy Topolski -- Plus ratio quam vis / Klemens Szaniawski -- Science, Teaching and Values / Leon Koj -- The Ethics of Scientific Criticism / Klemens Szaniawski -- Ethical Problems of Research Work of Psychologists / Jerzy Brzeziński -- Tradition in Science / Janusz Goćkowski -- Is a "Creative Man of Knowledge" Needed in University Teaching? / Jerzy Kmita -- The Personality of Researchers and the Necessity of Schools in Science / Leszek Nowak -- Reflections on the University / Jerzy Brzeziński -- Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities / Jerzy Brzeziński and Leszek Nowak.

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