Tadeusz Kotarbiński

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Tadeusz Kotarbiński (Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire March 31, 1886 – October 3, 1981, Warsaw), a pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, was a Polish philosopher, logician, one of the most representative figures of the Lwów-Warsaw School, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He created a philosophical theory called "reism" (Polish: reizm).

[edit] Works

• Elementy teorii poznania, logiki formalnej i metodologii nauk (1929)
• Traktat o dobrej robocie (Treatise about good job) (1955)
• Sprawność i błąd (Efficiency and Fault) (1956)
• Medytacje o życiu godziwym (Meditations about good life) (1966)

• Leçons sur l'histoire de la logique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1964. Original Polish edition 1957.
• Praxiology. An introduction to the sciences of efficient action. New York: Pergamon Press 1965. Originally published in Polish in 1955
• Gnosiology. The scientific approach to the theory of knowledge. Oxford: Pergamon Press 1966. Original Polish edition 1929; second revised edition 1961.

[edit] See also

• History of philosophy in Poland

[edit] External links

• Polish Philosophy page: Tadeusz Kotarbiński
• Kotarbinski from Reism to Pansomatism
• Kotarbinski, Tadeusz, "The Reistic, or Concretistic, Approach," Mysl Wspolczesna, 1949, No. 10(41).
• Tadeusz Kotarbinski Praxiology Research Group at Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland