The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy: Kazimierz Twardowski’s Philosophical Legacy PDF
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THEGOLDENAGEOFPOLISHPHILOSOPHY LOGIC,EPISTEMOLOGY,ANDTHEUNITYOFSCIENCE VOLUME 16 Editors ShahidRahman,UniversityofLilleIII,France JohnSymons,UniversityofTexasatElPaso,U.S.A. EditorialBoard JeanPaulvanBendegem,FreeUniversityofBrussels,Belgium JohanvanBenthem,UniversityofAmsterdam,theNetherlands JacquesDubucs,UniversityofParisI-Sorbonne,France AnneFagot-LargeaultCollègedeFrance,France BasvanFraassen,PrincetonUniversity,U.S.A. DovGabbay,King’sCollegeLondon,U.K. JaakkoHintikka,BostonUniversity,U.S.A. KarelLambert,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,U.S.A. GrahamPriest,UniversityofMelbourne,Australia GabrielSandu,UniversityofHelsinki,Finland HeinrichWansing,TechnicalUniversityDresden,Germany TimothyWilliamson,OxfordUniversity,U.K. Logic,Epistemology,andtheUnityofScienceaimstoreconsiderthequestionoftheunityof scienceinlightofrecentdevelopmentsinlogic.Atpresent,nosinglelogical,semanticalor methodologicalframeworkdominatesthephilosophyofscience.However,theeditorsofthis seriesbelievethatformaltechniqueslike,forexample,independencefriendlylogic,dialogical logics,multimodallogics,gametheoreticsemanticsandlinearlogics,havethepotentialto castnewlightnobasicissuesinthediscussionoftheunityofscience. Thisseriesprovidesavenuewherephilosophersandlogicianscanapplyspecifictechnical insightstofundamentalphilosophicalproblems.Whiletheseriesisopentoawidevarietyof perspectives,includingthestudyandanalysisofargumentationandthecriticaldiscussionof therelationshipbetweenlogicandthephilosophyofscience,theaimistoprovideanintegrated pictureofthescientificenterpriseinallitsdiversity. Forothertitlespublishedinthisseries,goto www.springer.com/series/6936 The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy Kazimierz Twardowski’s Philosophical Legacy Editedby SandraLapointe KansasStateUniversity,Manhattan,KS,U.S.A. JanWolen´ski JagiellonianUniversity,Cracow,Poland MathieuMarion Universite´duQue´bec,Montre´al,QC,Canada and WiolettaMiskiewicz IHPST(CNRS/Paris1/ENS),FranceandArchiwumKazimierzaTwardowskiego,Poland 123 Editors Prof.SandraLapointe Prof.MathieuMarion KansasStateUniversity Universite´duQue´beca`Montre´al DepartmentofPhilosophy De´partementdePhilosophie 201DickensHall CP8888,SuccursaleCentre-Ville Manhattan,KS66506 Montre´alQC USA CanadaH3C3P8 [email protected] [email protected] Prof.JanWolen´ski Dr.WiolettaMiskiewicz JagiellonianUniversityof IHPST(CNRS/Paris1/ENS) Krakow 13rueduFour InstituteofPhilosophy 75006Paris Grodzka52 France 31-044Krakow [email protected] Poland [email protected] ISBN 978-90-481-2400-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2401-5 DOI10.1007/978-90-481-2401-5 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009926097 (cid:2)c SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2009 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Acknowledgements This collection of essays proceeds from two conferences that took place within months of each other in the Fall of 2004. The events, which were organised inde- pendently,werefromtheirveryinceptionrelatedinavarietyofserendipitousways. Foronething,theirrespectivelistsofinvitedspeakerspartlyoverlapped.Butmost importantly, the organisers shared the same commitment to the history of Polish philosophyandthesameconvictionastoitscontemporarysignificance. “Logic,Ontology,Aesthetics.TheGoldenAgeofPolishPhilosophy”tookplace in Montreal on 23–26 September 2004 and was co-hosted by the Universite´ du Que´beca`Montre´al,ConcordiaUniversityandthePolishGeneralConsulateinMon- treal.Itgatheredsometwentyinvitedspeakersandaroughlyequivalentnumberof participantstoparallelsessions.AmongthespeakerswereAriannaBetti,Katarzyna Kijania-Placek,DariuszLukasiewicz,BernardLinsky,WiolettaMiskiewicz,Denis Mieville, Claude Panaccio, Douglas Patterson, Roger Pouivet and Jan Wolenski. Theircontributionstothisvolumeoriginate,inpartorinwhole,fromthemeeting. For having made the latter possible, the organisers and co-editors of the present book,SandraLapointeandMathieuMarion,wouldliketothanktheSocialSciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sci- ences,Quebec’sMinistryofInternationalRelationsaswellastheCanadaResearch Chair in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics at the Universite´ du Que´bec a` Montre´al. All other essays, those of Jerzy Bobryk, Anna Jedynak, Grzegorz Malinowski, PaoloMancosu,RomanMurawskiandUrszulaZeglenwereoriginallypresentedat “Rayonnementdelaphilosophiepolonaiseauvingtie`mesie`cle.L’he´ritagephiloso- phiquedeKazimierzTwardowski”.TheeventwasorganisedbytheInstitutd’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST, Paris) and the Husserl Archives(Paris).Theorganisersandco-editors,WiolettaMiskiewiczandJanWolen- ski,wouldliketothanktheE´coleNormaleSupe´rieureofParis,thePolishInstitute (Paris), the Instytut Adama Miskiewicza (Krakow) and the Polish Ambassy in Paris. For their kind support, the organisers are particulary indebted to Laurence Frabolot,headofENS’sInternationaOffice,HisExcellencyJanTombinskii,Polish AmbassadortoFranceandJacquesDubucs,HeadofIHPST.”. Asthelistofcontributorsshows,thedevelopmentofphilosophyinPolandisan areaofresearchthathasspreadtotheentirephilosophicalcommunity,inEuropeas v vi Acknowledgements wellasinAmerica.Ontheotherhand,philosophyinPolandisaliveandwelland Polishphilosopherscontinuetoshapeinmanywaysthecontemporaryphilosophi- callandscape.We’dliketoextendourgratitudetothecontributorstothisvolume, who kindly put up with our editorial demands and patiently suffered the series of revisionstheirwonderfulcontributionsunderwentinthecourseofthelasttwoyears. We would also like to thank Ewa Bolin´ska and Anna Zielin´ska for their energetic andeffectiveproof-readingofthePolish,aswellasananonymousrefereeformany helpfulsuggestions. Contents Introduction ....................................................... 1 JanWolen´skiandSandraLapointe PartI TwardowskiandPolishScientificPhilosophy 1 PolishMetaphysicsandtheBrentanianTradition ................. 19 DariuszŁukasiewicz 2 TheGenesisandHistoryofTwardowski’sTheoryofActionsand Products ...................................................... 33 JerzyBobryk 3 TheRiseandDevelopmentofLogicalSemanticsinPoland ......... 43 JanWolen´ski 4 FrenchandPolishConventionalism .............................. 61 AnnaJedynak PartII PhilosophyofLogicandMathematics 5 APhilosophyofMany-ValuedLogic.TheThirdLogicalValueand Beyond ....................................................... 81 GrzegorzMalinowski 6 Les´niewski’sSystemsandtheAristotelianModelofScience ........ 93 AriannaBetti 7 Les´niewski,Negation,andtheArtofLogicalSubtlety ..............113 DenisMie´ville vii viii Contents 8 PhilosophyofMathematicsintheLvov-WarsawSchool ............121 RomanMurawski 9 Tarski’sEngagementwithPhilosophy ............................131 PaoloMancosu 10 TarskionDefinition,MeaningandTruth .........................155 DouglasPatterson PartIII PolishPhilosophyofMind 11 ANoteonHenrykMehlberg’sContributiontotheDebateonthe Mind-BodyProblem ...........................................173 UrszulaM.Z˙eglen´ 12 LeopoldBlaustein’sAnalyticalPhenomenology ...................181 WiolettaMiskiewicz PartIV AroundTwardowski’sSchool 13 Nonclassical Conceptions of Truth in Polish Philosophy at the Beginningofthe20thCentury ..................................191 KatarzynaKijania-Placek 14 LeonChwistek’sTheoryofConstructiveTypes ....................203 BernardLinsky 15 KonstantyMichalskionLateMedievalNominalism ...............221 ClaudePanaccio 16 JanSalamucha’sAnalyticalThomism ............................235 RogerPouivet Index .............................................................247 Contributors Arianna Betti Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, [email protected] JerzyBobryk TheInstituteofPsychologyofthePolishAcademyofScienceand TheInstituteofPhilosophyattheWarsawSchoolofSocialPsychology,Warsaw, Poland,[email protected] AnnaJedynak WarsawUniversity,Warsaw,Poland,[email protected] Katarzyna Kijania-Placek Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, [email protected] Sandra Lapointe Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, [email protected] Bernard Linsky University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, [email protected] Dariusz Łukasiewicz Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland, [email protected] GrzegorzMalinowski UniwersytetŁo´dzki,Łodz,Poland,[email protected] Paolo Mancosu University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, [email protected] Denis Mie´ville Universite´ de Neuchaˆtel (Suisse), Neuchatel, Switzerland, [email protected] Wioletta Miskiewicz IHPST (CNRS/Paris1/ENS)/Archiwum Kazimierza Twardowskiego,Warsaw,Poland,[email protected] Roman Murawski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan´, Poland, [email protected] Claude Panaccio Universite´ du Que´bec a` Montre´al, Montreal, QC, Canada, [email protected] Douglas Patterson Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, [email protected] ix
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