Tadeusz Kotarbinski is one of towering figures in contemporary
Polish philosophy. He was a great thinker, a great teacher, a great
organizer of philosophical and scientific life (he was, among
others, the rector of the Uni versi ty of t6dz, the president of
the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the president of the
International Institute of Philosophy), and, last but not least, a
great moral authority. He died at the age of 96 on October 3, 1981.
Kotarbinski was active in almost all branches of philosophy. He
made many significant contributions to logic, semantics, ontology,
epistemology, history of philosophy, and ethics. He created a new
field, namely praxiology. Thus, using an ancient distinction, he
contributed to theoretical as well as practical philoso hy.
Kotarbinski regarded praxiology as his major philosophical "child."
Doubtless, praxiology belongs to practical philosophy. This
collection, howewer, is mainly devoted to Kotarbinski' s
theoretical philosophy. Reism - Kotarbinski' s fundamental idea of
ontology and semantics - is the central topic of most papers
included here; even Pszczolowski' s essay on praxiology considers
its ontological basis., Only two papers, namely that of
Zarnecka-Bialy and that of Wolenski, are not linked with reism.
However, both fall under the general label "Kotarbinski: logic,
semantics and ontology." The collection partly consists of earlier
published papers.
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