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(in Polish) Recent Polish Philosophy

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Course ID: 3501-WISIP-RPP-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED: 08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0223) Philosophy and ethics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: (unknown)
Name in Polish: Recent Polish Philosophy
Organizational unit: Institute of Philosophy
Course groups: Courses in foreign languages
General university courses
General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): (not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Language: English
Type of course:

elective monographs
general courses

Mode:

Classroom

Short description:

The course concerns the philosophy of the Lvov-Warsaw School, the most significant philosophical school in Poland in the 20th century. It presents main representatives, branches and achievements of the school.

Full description:

The course concerns the philosophy of the Lvov-Warsaw School, the most significant philosophical school in Poland in the 20th century. It presents main representatives, branches and achievements of the school. The philosophical profiles of the following philosophers are presented:

- Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938)

- Jan Łukasiewicz (1878-1956)

- Władysław Witwicki (1878-1948)

- Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963)

- Zygmunt Zawirski (1882-1948)

- Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886-1981)

- Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886-1980)

- Stanisław Leśniewski (1886-1939)

- Alfred Tarski (1901-1983)

- Tadeusz Czeżowski (1889-1981)

- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890-1963)

- Maria Ossowska (1896-1974)

- Janina Kotarbińska (1901-1997)

- Józef Maria Bocheński (1902-1995)

- Jan Salamucha (1903-1944)

- Izydora Dąmbska (1904-1983)

Bibliography:

Brożek, Anna, Chybińska, Alicja, Jadacki, Jacek Woleński, Jan (eds.) Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School. Ideas and Continuations. Rodopi-Brill, Leiden.

Coniglione, Francesco Roberto Poli & Jan Woleński (ed.), Polish Scientific Philosophy: The Lvov-Warsaw School. Amsterdam 1993, Rodopi.

Czeżowski, Tadeusz, Knowledge, Science, and Values. A Program for Scientific Philosophy. Amsterdam 2000, Rodopi.

Kijania-Placek Katarzyna & Jan Woleński (ed.), The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy. Dordrecht 1998, Kluwer.

Jadacki, Jacek, Polish Analytical Philosophy, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, Warszawa 2009.

Krajewski, Władysław (ed.), Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences. Dordrecht 1982, Reidel.

Krajewski, Władysław (ed.), Polish Philosophers of Science and Nature in the 20th Century. Amsterdam 2001, Rodopi.

McCall, Storrs (ed.), Polish Logic: 1920-1939. Oxford 1967, Clarendon Press.

Pelc, Jerzy (ed.), Semiotics in Poland. 1894-1969. Dordrecht 1979, Reidel.

Przełęcki, Marian & Ryszard Wójcicki (ed.), Twenty-Five Years of Logical methodology in Poland. Warszawa – Dordrecht 1977, PWN – Reidel.

Simons, Peter, Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe form Bolzano to Tarski. Dordrecht 1992, Kluwer

Skolimowski, Henryk, Polish Analytical Philosophy. A Survey and a Comparison with British Analytical Philosophy. London 1968, Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Szaniawski, Klemens (ed.), The Vienna Circle and the Lvov-Warsaw School. Dordrecht 1989, Kluwer.

Woleński, Jan (ed.), Kotarbiński: Logic, Semantics and Ontology. Dordrecht 1990, Kluwer.

Learning outcomes:

A student that ends the course:

- knows main representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School;

- knows the general content of main works of the representatives of the LWS

- knows what problems were discussed in the School and what are the main results;

- is aware of interactions between Polish philosophical schools and other philosophical centers.

- is able to reconstruct main views of contemporary Polish philosophers and their argumentations;

- is able to use terminology introduced by Polish contemporary philosophers;

- is able to find connections between the views of particular contemporary Polish philosophers.

- is able to propose new formulations or solutions to philosophical problems discussed in the School.

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

FROM 2020/2021

There are two possible paths to get a credit.

1. by taking 3 short tests during the semester and preparing 3 summaries of chosen papers of the Lvov-Warsaw School members;

2. by taking big final written test in the end of the semester.

Number of absences: 2

This course is not currently offered.
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