Tadeusz Kotarbiński

Tadeusz Kotarbiński (Polish: ['kotarbiński]; 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).

Henryk Greniewski (pl) and Kazimierz Pasenkiewicz (pl) have been doctoral students of Kotarbiński.

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

• Lwów-Warsaw school of logic
• History of philosophy in Poland
• Casimir Lewy

External links

Media related to Tadeusz Kotarbiński at Wikimedia Commons

• 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
• Tadeusz Kotarbiński at the Mathematics Genealogy Project