Kazimierz Twardowski

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Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski, Ritter von Ogończyk (October 20, 1866, Vienna, Austria – February 11, 1938, Lwów, Poland) was a Polish philosopher and logician.

1 Life
2 Works
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Life

Twardowski studied philosophy in Vienna with Franz Brentano and Robert Zimmermann. In 1891/1892 he received his doctorate with his dissertation Idee und Perzeption (Idea and Perception) and in 1894 his habilitation thesis Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (On the Doctrine of the Content and Object of Presentations). He lectured in Vienna in the years 1894/1895 and then was appointed professor in Lwów (which at the time was still in Austria).

There Twardowski established the Lwów-Warsaw School of logic and became the "father of Polish logic", beginning the tradition of scientific philosophy in Poland. Among his students were the logicians Stanisław Leśniewski, Jan Łukasiewicz and Tadeusz Czeżowski, the historian of philosophy Władysław Tatarkiewicz, the phenomenologist and aesthetician Roman Ingarden, as well as philosophers close to the Vienna Circle like Tadeusz Kotarbiński and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.

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Wyobrażenie i pojęcie (1898)
O tzw. prawdach względnych (1900), O psychologii, jej przedmiocie, zadaniach, metodzie, stosunku do innych nauk i jej rozwoju (1913)
Rozprawy i artykuły filozoficzne (1927)
Wybrane pisma filozoficzne (1965)
Wybór pism psychologicznych i pedagogicznych (1992)
Dzienniki (1997)

On the content and object of presentations. A psychological investigation. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1977. Translated and with an introduction by Reinhardt Grossmann
Sur les objets intentionnels (1893-1901). Paris: Vrin 1993. French translation of Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen and other texts by Edmund Husserl
On actions, products and other topics in philosophy. Edited by Johannes Brandl and Jan Wolenski. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1999. Translated and annotated by Arthur Szylewicz