The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy: Synthese Library, cartea 273

The Reception of the Lvov-Warsaw School.- I. History and Comparisons.- Twardowski’s Distinction Between Actions and Products.- On Ajdukiewicz’s Empirical Meaning-Rule and Wittgenstein’s Defining Criterion.- Inspirations and Controversies: From the Letters between K. Twardowski and A. Meinong.- The Lvov-Warsaw School — the First School of Non-positivist Scientific and Analytic Philosophy.- Women’s Contributions to the Achievements of the Lvov-Warsaw School: a Survey.- Truth-Bearers from Twardowski to Tarski.- Twardowski and Husserl on Wholes and Parts.- The Rationalistic Paradigm of Franz Brentano and Kazimierz Twardowski.- ?ukasiewicz’s Interpretation of Aristotle’s Concept of Possibility.- II. Le?niewski.- De Veritate: Another Chapter. The Bolzano-Le?niewski Connection.- Le?niewski’s Conception of Logic.- Non-elementary Exegesis of Twardowski’s Theory of Presentation.- On Some Essential Subsystems of Les?iewski’s Ontology and the Equivalence between the Singular Barbara and the Law of Leibniz in Ontology.- III. Philosophy of Language.- The Paradox of Grelling and Nelson Presented as a Veridical Observation Concerning Naming.- D?mbska, Quine and the So-called Empty Names.- Truth and Time.- The Postulate of Precision: Its Sense and Its Limits.- Polish Logic, Language and Philosophy of Language.- IV. Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics.- The Ajdukiewicz Calculus, Polish Notation and Hilbert-style Proofs.- Ja?kowski and Gentzen Approaches to Natural Deduction and Related Systems.- The Contribution of Polish Logicians to Recursion Theory.- Studying Incompleteness of Information: A Class of Information Logics.- V. Ontology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science.- On ?ukasiewicz’s Theory of Probability.- On What There Is Not — a Vindicationof Reism.- On the Concept of a Subject of Cognition in Ajdukiewicz’s Philosophy.- Induction and Probability in the Lvov-Warsaw School.- ?ukasiewicz’s Logical Probability and a Puzzle about Conditionalization.- VI. Logic and Philosophy.- Truth as Consensus. A Logical Analysis.- The Lvov-Warsaw School and the Problem of a Logical Formalism for General Systems Theory.- From Closure-operatic Deductive Methodology to Non-standard Alternatives.- Forgotten and Neglected Solutions of Problems in Philosophical Logic.- Index of Names.