(in Polish) Recent Polish Philosophy

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The course concerns the development of Polish philosopy in 20th century. It is dedicated to different representatives, trends and schools, but the biggest stress is put on the philosophy of the Lvov-Warsaw School, the most significant philosophical school in Poland in the 20th century.

The course concerns the most significant representatives, branches and achievements of Polish philosophy in 20th century. The philosophical profiles of the following philosophers are presented:

- Edward Abramowski (1868-1918)

- Stanisław Brzozowski (1878-1911)

- Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958)

- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939)

- Leon Chwistek (1884-1944)

- 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)

- Roman Ingarden (1893-1970)

- Henryk Elzenberg (1887-1967)

- Tadeusz Kroński (1907-1958)

- Leszek Kołakowski (1927-2009)

- Andrzej Walicki (1930-2020)

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.

Jadacki, Jacek, Polish Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Heritage Studies, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, Warszawa 2015.

Kołakowski, Leszek, The Presence of Myth, transl. by Adam Czerniawski. Chicago 2001, The University of Chicago Press.

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.

Walicki, Andrzej, Stanisław Brzozowski and the Polish Beginnings of “Western Marxism”. Oxford 1989, Clarendon Press.

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

Znaniecki, Florian, Cultural Sciences: Their Origin and Development. Urbana 1952, University of Illinois Press.

A student that ends the course:

- knows main representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School and of the other trends in Polish philosophy in 20th century;

- knows the general content of main works of the representatives of the LWS and the other trends in Polish philosophy in 20th century;

- knows what problems were discussed in Polish philosophy in the 20th century and what are the main results of this discussions;

- 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 LWS and in the other trends in Polish philosophy in the 20th century.

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