Jan Woleński

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Jan Woleński (Jan Hertrich-Woleński, born on September 21, 1940) – Polish philosopher. He is currently professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (since 1991); he graduated both in philosophy and law. He belongs to the tradition of analytic philosophy, and considers himself close to the heritage of Lwow-Warsaw School. His main fields of research are philosophy of language and epistemology.

[edit] Main works in English

• Logic and philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw school, Dordrecht, London, Kluwer, 1989.
• Kotarbinski: logic, semantics and ontology (ed.), Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.
• Philosophical Logic in Poland (ed.), Dordrecht, London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
• Alfred Tarski and the Vienna circle : Austro-Polish connections in logical empiricism, with Eckehart Köhler, Dordrecht, London, Kluwer Academic, 1999.
• Essays in the history of logic and logical philosophy, Cracov, Jagiellonian University Press 1999.

[edit] Main works in polish

• Z zagadnień analitycznej filozofii prawa, Quaestiones ad philosophiam analyticam iuris pertinentes, Warsaw, PWN, 1980.
• Filozoficzna szkoła lwowsko-warszawska, Warsaw, PWN, 1985.
• Kotarbiński, Wiedza Powszechna, Warszaw, 1990.
• Metamatematyka a epistemologia, Warszaw, PWN, 1993.
• W stronę logiki, Aureus, Cracow, 1996.
• Szkoła Lwowsko-Warszawska w polemikach, Warsaw, Scholar, 1997.
• Okolice filozofii prawa, Cracow, Universitas, 1999.
• Epistemologia, 3 volumes, Cracow, Aureus, 2000.
• Granice niewiary, Cracow, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2004.