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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.
The history of interwar Polish logic, including philosophical
logic, is still a relatively little known area, especially if
compared with the movement's well-documented contemporaries - the
Vienna Circle or the Berlin Circle, for instance. The book aims to
address this lacuna, by presenting the state of the art of research
into this part of the history of analytic philosophy. It comprises
thirteen essays, written by outstanding philosophers and
exemplifying different approaches to the history of philosophy. One
approach focuses on some little known aspects of Polish philosophy
(e.g., Lesniewski's arithmetic, Tarski's geometry, philosophy of
mathematics in interwar Krakow), analyzing it in great detail,
sometimes by using current formal techniques. Another group of
papers looks at the inspiration the Poles got from the founding
fathers of analytic philosophy (Frege, Husserl, Wittgenstein), and
locates Polish philosophy in the larger landscape of European
analytic philosophy. Finally, some contributors pick a topic from
the Polish school (sometimes only mentioned, but not developed by
the Poles), and construct an alternative account which is then
compared with the earlier account. Most of the papers were
presented at a symposium celebrating the 70th birthday of Jan
Wolenski, whose book "Logic and Philosophy of the Lvov-Warsaw
School" has played a substantial role in sparking contemporary
interest in Polish analytic philosophy.
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