Zygmunt Zawirski

His Life and Work - with Selected Writings on Time, Logic and the Methodology of Science

Irena Szumilewicz-Lachman, Robert S. Cohen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

1994
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7923-2566-6 (ISBN)

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Presents some fragments of Zawirski's papers, dealing mainly with causality, determinism, indeterminism and philosophical implications of relativity and quantum mechanics. This text is suitable for all those interested in philosophy of science, philosophy and the history of ideas.

Zygmunt Zawirski (1882-1948), an eminent and original Polish philosopher, belonged to the Lwow-Warsaw School (LWS) which left an indelible trace in logic, semiotics and philosophy of science. LWS was founded in 1895 by K. Twardowski, a disciple of Brentano, in the spirit of clarity, realism and analytic philosophy. LWS was more than 25 years older than the Vienna Circle (VC). This belies, inter alia, the not infrequently repeated statement that LWS was one of the many centres initiated by VC. The achievements of LWS in logic are well recognized, while those relating to philosophy of science are almost unknown. It is in order to fill this gap that some fragments of Zawirski's papers are presented, dealing mainly with causality, determinism, indeterminism and philosophical implications of relativity and quantum mechanics. His magnum opus "L'Evolution de la Notion du Temps" (Eugenio Rignano Prize, 1933) is devoted to time. Zawirski took into account all the issues which are at present widely discussed. The real value of these achievements can be understood better today than by his contemporaries.
This text is suitable for all those interested in philosophy of science and philosophy, and history of ideas.

Part 1 A Historico-Critical Introduction, I. Szumilewicz-Lachman: Some Data. Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), the Creator of the Lwow-Warsaw School. The Lwow-Warsaw School (1895-1939). The LWS and the Vienna Circle. Zygmunt Zawirski, a Short Bio-Bibliography (1882-1948). Part 2 Zygmunt Zawirski - Selected Writings on Time, Logic and the Methodology of Science: Reports. Logic. Methodology. Time - Selections from "The Evolution of the Notion of Time" - Introduction - a Brief Survey of the Time Theories. Time Aporias and Their Solution. List of Zawirski's Main Publications.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.1994
Reihe/Serie	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ; v. 157
Übersetzer	Feliks Lachman
Zusatzinfo	notes, index
Sprache	englisch
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-7923-2566-4 / 0792325664
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-2566-6 / 9780792325666
Zustand	Neuware