The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic: Some Basic Thoughts

   1. Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic: Some Basic Thoughts

      • Kevin Mulligan, Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, Tomasz Placek

      Pages 1-10

3. Logic, Proof and Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Many-valued Logic in Poland: The Golden Age

      • Alexander S. Karpenko

      Pages 13-48

   3. The Dependence and Independence of Quantifiers: Truth, Proof and Choice Functions

      • Gabriel Sandu

      Pages 49-72

   4. Sixty Years of Stable Models

      • David Pearce

      Pages 73-102

   5. Wooden Horses and False Friends: On the Logic of Adjectives

      • Maria van der Schaar

      Pages 103-116

   6. Proof, Probability or Plausibility

      • Joseph Agassi

      Pages 117-127

4. Truth and Concepts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Truth Defined and Undefined

      • Jaakko Hintikka

      Pages 131-140

   3. Against Relative Truth

      • Ilkka Niiniluoto

      Pages 141-159

   4. Truth without Truths? ‘Propositional Attitudes’ without Propositions? Meaning without Meanings?

      • Wolfgang Künne

      Pages 160-204

   5. Formal Concepts

      • Kevin Mulligan

      Pages 205-223

5. Ontology, Mereology and the Philosophy of Mathematics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Arithmetic in Leśniewski’s Ontology

      • Peter Simons

      Pages 227-241

   3. Leśniewski, Tarski and the Axioms of Mereology

      • Arianna Betti

      Pages 242-258

   4. From Mereology to Boolean Algebra: The Role of Regular Open Sets in Alfred Tarski’s Work

      • Iris Loeb

      Pages 259-277

   5. The Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic in Cracow between the Wars

      • Roman Murawski

      Pages 278-297

6. Back Matter

   Pages 297-308

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The book presents the state of the art of research into the legacy of interwar Polish analytic philosophy and exemplifies different approaches to the history of philosophy. It contains discussions and reconstructions of aspects of Polish philosophy and logic as well as reactions to and developments of this tradition.  

• history of philosophy
• logic
• mathematics
• philosophy
• philosophy of mathematics

“This is a Festschrift volume dedicated to Jan Woleński, whose extensive work in the history of Polish logic indeed deserves one. … the volume contains new material interesting for anyone interested in Polish logic or history of logic in general.” (Rafal Urbaniak, History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 38 (1), 2017)

• University of Geneva, Switzerland

  Kevin Mulligan

• Jagiellonian University, Poland

  Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, Tomasz Placek

Joseph Agassi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and York University, Toronto, Canada Arianna Betti, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University, USA Alexander Karpenko, Moscow State University, Russia Wolfgang Künne, University of Hamburg, Germany Iris Loeb, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Roman Murawski, Pozna? University, Poland Ilkka Niiniluoto, University of Helsinki, Finland David Pearce, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki, Finland Maria van der Schaar, Leiden University, The Netherlands Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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