The Concept of Causality in the Lvov-Warsaw School

The Legacy of Jan Lukasiewicz
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51551-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 121, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 719 g

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities / Polish Analytical Philosophy

In 1906, Jan Lukasiewicz, a great logician, published his classic dissertation on the concept of cause, containing not only a thorough reconstruction of the title concept, but also a systematization of the analytical method. It sparked an extremely inspiring discussion among the other representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School. The main voices of this discussion are supplemented here with texts of contemporary Polish philosophers. They show how the concept of cause is presently functioning in various disciplines and point to the topicality of Lukasiewicz’s method of analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jadacki, Jacek J.

Swiderski, Edward M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Über Autor(innen)

Jacek J. Jadacki, Ph.D. (1977), professor emeritus of philosophy, the University of Warsaw, specialized in logic (with an emphasis on semiotics) and the history of Polish analytical thought. In the years between 1993 and 2001, he edited Filozofia Nauki [Philosophy of Science]; since 1998, he has been the editor-in-chief of the series Polish Analytical Philosophy. He is the author of studies concerning: semiotics in relation to ontology, epistemology, and axiology; the Lvov-Warsaw School (Twardowski, Lukasiewcz, Lesniewski, Ajdukiewicz, Dambska).


Edward M. Swiderski, Ph.D. (1978), professor emeritus of philosophy, the University of Fribourg, specialized in Russian and Soviet thought as well as twentieth-century Polish philosophy, with emphasis on phenomenology. For thirty years he edited Studies in Soviet Thought (beginning in 1992 Studies in East European Thought). He is the author of studies concerning: Soviet aesthetics and post-Soviet social and cultural theory; Ingarden’s ontology and aesthetics; Polish Marxism (Brzozowski, Kolakowski; the Poznan School), and J.M. Bochenski’s ethics.