Lwów–Warsaw school

The Lwów–Warsaw school (Polish: Szkoła lwowsko-warszawska) was a Polish school of thought founded by Kazimierz Twardowski in 1895 in Lwów.

Although the members represented a variety of disciplines, from mathematics through logic to psychology, the School is widely considered to have been a philosophical movement Developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the school's work was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.

History

Kazimierz Twardowski, 1933

The Lwów–Warsaw school of logic lay at the origin of Polish logic and was closely associated with the Warsaw school of mathematics. It began as a more general philosophical school but steadily moved toward logic. In the 1930s Alfred Tarski initiated contacts with the Vienna Circle. In addition to Brentano, his pupils Anton Marty, Alexius Meinong and Edmund Husserl also considerably influenced Polish philosophy and the Lwów–Warsaw school.

Principal topics of interest to that school included formal ontology, mereology, and universal or categorial grammar.

Members

As mentioned above, many of the school's members worked in more than one field.

• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
• Tadeusz Czeżowski
• Tadeusz Kotarbiński
• Stanisław Jaśkowski
• Czesław Lejewski
• Stanisław Leśniewski
• Jan Łukasiewicz
• Maria Ossowska
• Alfred Tarski
• Kazimierz Twardowski
• Władysław Witwicki
• Zygmunt Zawirski

See also

• School of Brentano
• Lwów–Warsaw School
• Polish School of Mathematics
• History of philosophy in Poland
• Jan Woleński

Bibliography

Publications on the School

• Coniglione, F., Polish Scientific Philosophy: The Lvov–Warsaw School, Amsterdam-Atlanta:Rodopi, 1993.
• Jadacki Jacek and Paśniczek Jacek (eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw School – The new generation, Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities Vol. 89, Polish Analytical Philosophy Vol. VI, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006, 503 pp, ISBN 978-90-420-2068-9.
• Lapointe Sandra, Wolenski Jan, Marion Mathieu (eds.), The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy: Kazimierz Twardowski's Philosophical Legacy Dordrecht:Springer ISBN 90-481-2400-X.
• Smith, Barry, Austrian Philosophy, Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1994.
• Szaniawski, K., ed., The Vienna Circle and the Lvov–Warsaw School, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer.
• Woleński, Jan, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov–Warsaw School, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Reidel, 1989.

External links

• The Lvóv-Warsaw School, by Francesco Coniglione, in the Polish Philosophy Page
• Archives of the Lvov-Warsaw School, multi-institutional initiative to digitize and research the manuscripts of Twardowski and the school members