The Significance of the Lvov-Warsaw School in the European Culture

This volume is a result of the international symposium “The Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School in European Culture,” which took place in Warsaw, Poland, September 2015. It collects almost all the papers presented at the symposium as well as some additional ones. The contributors include scholars from Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Poland.

The papers are devoted to the history and reception of the Lvov-Warsaw School, a Polish branch of analytic philosophy. They present the School’s achievements as well as its connections to other analytic groups. The contributors also show how the tradition of the School is developed contemporarily. The title will appeal to historians of analytic philosophy as well as historians of philosophy in Central Europe.

Chapter 1. Preface.- Part I. The Lvov-Warsaw School and Manifestations of Its Historical Importance.- Chapter 2. Logical Philosophy, Anti-Irrationalism, and Gender Equality: Three Positives of the Lvov-Warsaw Enlightenment (Simons).- Chapter 3. How to Speak About the History of Analytic Philosophy? (Wolenski).- Chapter 4. The Lvov-Warsaw School as a Multicultural Phenomenon: Ukrainian Aspect (Ivanyk).- Part II. The Lvov-Warsaw School and Its Austro-German Affinities.- Chapter 5. Brentanian Motives in Kazimierz Twardowski and His Students (Wolenski).- Chapter 6. Metaphysics and the Logical Analysis of ‘Nothing’ (Van der Schaar).- Chapter 7. The Brentanian Inspirations in Tadeusz Czezowski’s Philosophy (Lukasiewicz).- Chapter 8. The Lvov-Warsaw School and Austro-German Philosophers. Two Cases: Alexius Meinong and Heinrich Scholz (Jadacki).- Part III. The Lvov-Warsaw School and Its Various Currents.- Chapter 9. From a Study of Practice to a Philosophy of Practicality: Tadeusz Kotarbinski’s Contribution to the Lvov-Warsaw School of Philosophy (Gasparski).- Chapter 10. On Tadeusz Kotarbinski’s Praxiology and Analytical Philosophy of Action (Zareba).- Chapter 11. Cracow Circle: Theology in the Lvov-Warsaw School (Tkaczyk).- Chapter 12. The Unity of Science and Reduction of Theories From the Perspective of the Lvov-Warsaw School (Brozek).- Chapter 13. The Lvov-Warsaw School from a Bird’s Eye View (Jadacki).- Part IV. General Part: Report/Documentation.- Chapter 14. The Law of Contradiction in the Light of Recent Investigations of Bertrand Russell (Chwistek).- Chapter 15. Poznanski and Wundheiler’s ‘The Concept of Truth in Physics’: The Lvov-Warsaw School Contribution to Encyclopedism (Koterski).- Chapter 16. The Concept of Truth in Physics (Poznanski).