Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic
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The Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic was headed by Kazimierz Twardowski, who had been a student of Franz Brentano and is regarded as the "father of Polish logic."
The Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic lay at the origin of Polish logic and was closely associated with the Warsaw School of Mathematics. It began as a more general philosophical school, but steadily moved toward logic. In the 1930s Alfred Tarski initiated contacts with the Vienna Circle. Besides Brentano, his pupils Anton Marty, Alexius Meinong and Edmund Husserl also exerted a considerable influence on Polish philosophy, in particular, through Kazimierz Twardowski, on the Lwów–Warsaw School. Principal topics of interest to this school were (formal) ontology, mereology, universal or categorial grammar, and the like.
Notable members of the school have included:
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Jan Łukasiewicz
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- Tadeusz Kotarbiński
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
- Tadeusz Czezowski
- Alfred Tarski
- Stanisław Jaśkowski
[edit] Sources
- Szaniawski, K., ed., The Vienna Circle and the Lvov–Warsaw School, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer.
- Wolenski, Jan, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov–Warsaw School, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Reidel, 1989.
- Coniglione, F., Polish Scientific Philosophy: The Lvov–Warsaw School, Amsterdam-Atlanta:Rodopi, 1993.
- Smith, Barry, Austrian Philosophy, Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1994.
