| Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences 1982 Edition Contributor(s): Krajewski, W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9027712867 ISBN-13: 9789027712868 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Philosophy | Movements - General - Philosophy | Social |
| Dewey: 501 |
| LCCN: 81013887 |
| Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.98 lbs) 491 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modern philosophy has benefited immensely from the intelligence and sensitivity, the creative and critical energies, and the lucidity of Polish scholars. Their investigations into the logical and methodological founda- tions of mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, ethics and esthetics, psychology, linguistics, economics and jurisprudence, and the social sciences - all are marked by profound and imaginative work. To the centers of empiricist philosophy of science in Vienna, Berlin and Cambridge during the first half of this century, one always added the great school of analytic and methodological studies in Warsaw and Lw6w. To the world centers of Marxist theoretical practice in Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Rome and elsewhere, one must add the Poland of the same era, from Ludwig Krzywicki (1859-1941) onward. (From our preface to Wiatr 1979p. Other movements also have been distinctive in Poland. Phenomenology was developed in the impressive school of Roman Ingarden at Cracow, semiotics from the early work of the philosopher and psychologist Kazimierz Twardowski at Lw6w in the 1890's, with masterful develop- ment by his disciples Kotarbinski and Ajdukiewicz onward, conceptual foundations of physics in the incisive methodological reflections of Marian Smoluchowski, and mathematical logic from Jan I: .ukasiewicz and Stanislaw Lesniewski to Tarski, Mostowski, and many others. |
