Zygmunt Zawirski : His Life and Work with Selected Writings on Time, Logic and the Methodology of Science

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Zygmunt Zawirski (1882--1948) -- one of the most eminent and original Polish philosophers -- belonged to the Lwow--Warsaw School (LWS) which left an indelible trace in logic, semiotics and philosophy of science. LSW was founded in 1895 by K. Twardowski, a disciple of Brentano, in the spirit of clarity, realism and analytic philosophy. LWS was more than 25 years older than the Vienna Circle (VC). This belies, inter alia, the not infrequently repeated statement that LWS was one of the many centers initiated by VC. The achievements of LWS in logic are well recognized, while those relating to philosophy of science are almost unknown. It is in order to fill this gap that some fragments of Zawirski's papers are presented, dealing mainly with causality, determinism, indeterminism and philosophical implications of relativity and quantum mechanics. His magnum opus 'L'Evolution de la notion du temps' (Eugenio Rignano Prize, 1933) is devoted to time. It is one of the best books written on this subject, and by no means an obsolescent one. Zawirski took into account all the issues which are at present widely discussed. The real value of these achievements can be understood better today than by his contemporaries. For all those interested in philosophy of science and philosophy, and history of ideas.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Some data	p. 3
Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), the creator of the Lwow-Warsaw School (LWS)	p. 8
The Lwow-Warsaw School (1895-1939)	p. 15
The LWS and the Vienna Circle (VC)	p. 19
Zygmunt Zawirski, a Short Bio-Bibliography (28.IX.1882-2.IV.1948)	p. 33
An Account of the Eighth International Philosophical Congress (1934)	p. 83
Impressions from the First International Congress of Scientific Philosophy (1935)	p. 98
The Relations between Multi-valued Logic and Probability Calculus	p. 112
The Genesis and Development of Intuitionistic Logic	p. 117
Relationship between the Principle of Causality and the Principle of Relativity (A Habilitation Lecture)	p. 169
Observations on the Method of Natural Sciences	p. 186
Definition of Time According to Archytas of Tarentum, the Pythagorean	p. 194
Negation of Becoming and of Time According to the Eleatics	p. 195
Plato. Time: Moving Image of Eternity	p. 197
Aristotle. Time Is the Number of Motion According to the Prior and the Posterior	p. 199
Time and the Atomists	p. 205
The Sceptics: All Options Regarding the Nature of Time Have the Same Force	p. 206
Plotinus. Criticism of Aristotle's Theory. Defence of Plato's Theory	p. 208
Time as a Substantial Being in Iamblichus and Proclus	p. 214
Saint Augustine Examines Time from the Psychological Point of View	p. 216
Saint Thomas Develops Aristotle's Theory of Time	p. 219
Suarez Distinguishes Material Time from Spiritual Time	p. 222
Descartes: Opposition to Scholasticism	p. 223
Spinoza. The Foundations of his Theory Borrowed from Descartes and the Scholastics	p. 226
Hobbes. Time: Phantasma Motus Numerati	p. 228
Locke. Duration: Distance which Separates two Ideas in our Mind	p. 229
Newton's theory of Absolute Time	p. 234
Leibniz. Time: The Order of Successions (non-constant possibilities). Polemic with Clarke	p. 237
Berkeley: The Duration of a Mind must be Measured by the Number of Ideas	p. 243
Hume. Time: A Mode of Appearance of Impressions, which is not Itself an Impression	p. 244
The Theory of Kant. Time is only an a priori form of the internal sense	p. 248
Time According to German Idealism: The Critique of Renouvier and German Neo-Kantism	p. 248
Criticism of the Theory of Newton by Ernst Mach, and the Beginning of Psychological Research [into time]	p. 249
Wundt and the Psychological Theories of Time	p. 249
Bergson's Theory of Time	p. 249
Husserl and the Phenomenological Analysts of the Intuition of Time	p. 250
Poincare. Equality of Two Intervals and Simultaneity of Distant Events have only a Conventional Value	p. 250
Enriques. Defense of a Natural Measurement of Time	p. 251
Time in the Theory of Relativity	p. 251
The Significance of the Theory of Quanta for the Idea of Time	p. 252
Notes	p. 369
List of Zawirski's Main Publications	p. 375
Name Index	p. 379
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