Philosophy and Logic In Search of the Polish Tradition: Essays in Honour of Jan Wolenski on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday / Edition 1

by Jaakko Hintikka, Tadeusz Czarnecki, K. Kijania-Placek, Tomasz Placek, Artur Rojszczak

Overview

On the occasion of bis sixtieth birthday, we dedicate this volume to Jan Wo­ leriski-s-our teacher, our colleague, our friend. Both of us are particularly indebted to Jan not only with regards to profes­ sional matters, but some private ones as well. Hence, we hope that he forgives us an occasional lapse into fondness and affection. That said, may the list of bis personalmerits remain shrouded in mystery; rather than unveil them, we open here by appraising Jan's presence from a broader perspective. Tonote that Jan was not always a part of our lives would not evoke surprise. However, to imagine the Institute of Pbilosophy on Grodzka Street or Krakow pbilosophy without him in it would be a harder task-at least for us, Nonethe­ less, we do remember the days when he was commuting to Krakow as a guest lecturer. Is there anything about those days which particularly comes to mind? To shed light on the story which follows, one must begin by stating that the early 1980s when we were studying philosophy was not a bright period. The great masters of Krakow philosophy-Ingarden, Mehlberg, Zawirski, or Dambska-> were either dead or, for political reasons, kept silent. The years following Martial Law (1981-1983) were intellectually very blighted and barren. In the midst of all this we were attending Jan's course on general methodology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048164714
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Series:	Synthese Library , #323
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Table of Contents

I Truth.- A Minimalist Critique of Tarski on Truth.- Is Strong Correspondence (Theory of Truth) Possible?.- Content and Likeness Definitions of Truthlikeness.- Absolute Truth in a Changing World.- II Logic and Semantics.- On the Epistemology of Game-theoretical Semantics.- Can Majority be Supervalued?.- On Belnap’s Branching Space-Times.- Partially Interpreted Henkin Quantifiers.- Tarski and Leśniewski on Languages with Meaning versus Languages without Use.- III History of Logic and Philosophy.- Ajdukiewicz on Language Change and Truth.- Alfred Tarski and a Watershed Meeting in Logic: Cornell, 1957.- On Thinking about the Mental and the Physical.- Bernard Bolzano’s ‘Wissenschaftslehre’ and Polish Analytical Philosophy between 1894 and 1935.- Dispositions, Their Bases and Correlates—Meinong’s Analysis.- Reactions to the Discovery of the Incompleteness Phenomenon.- Truthmakers, Truthbearers and the Objectivity of Truth.- The Extension of the Concept Abolished? Reflexions on a Fregean Dilemma.- Selected Bibliography of Jan Woler&x0144;ski’s Works.- Index of Names.

Editorial Reviews

"Considering the impressive list of contributors and the remarkable array of investigations that stand in the forefront of contemporary research, this is, without a doubt, a very good and recommended volume." (Natan Berber, The Review of Modern Logic 10:3-4, issue 32, 2005-2007)

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