Tadeusz Kotarbiński
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński /ˈkɔtarbiɲski/ (31 March 1886, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – 3 October 1981, Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland), 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).
Works
- Elementy teorii poznania, logiki formalnej i metodologii nauk (1929); second revised edition 1961; translated in English as Gnosiology (1966).
- Traktat o dobrej robocie (1955); English translation: Praxiology. An introduction to the science of efficient action, New York: Pergamon Press, 1965.
- Sprawność i błąd (Efficiency and Error) (1956)
- Medytacje o życiu godziwym (Meditations about decent life) (1966)
- Leçons sur l'histoire de la logique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1964. Original Polish edition 1957.
- Gnosiology. The scientific approach to the theory of knowledge. Oxford: Pergamon Press 1966.
See also
- History of philosophy in Poland
- Casimir Lewy
External links
- Tadeusz Kotarbinski, at the Polish Philosophy Page
- Kotarbinski from Ontological Reism to Semantical Concretism
- Selected bibliography of and about Kotarbinski
- 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
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