At the Sources of the Twentieth-Century Analytical Movement

Anna Brożek, Ph.D. (2006), University of Warsaw, professor of philosophy; the author of over 10 books, including Theory of Questions (Rodopi, 2011) and Kazimierz Twardowski. Die Wiener Jahre (Springer, 2011), and several dozen of articles from the domain of logical semiotics, methodology, and philosophy of music. Jacek Jadacki, Ph.D. (1977), University of Warsaw, professor emeritus, the author of many books, among others: From the Viewpoint of the Lvov-Warsaw School (Rodopi, 2003) and Stanisław Leśniewski: Genius of Logic (Epigram, 2020), and a few hundred papers of various domains of philosophy.



Opening Word

  Varieties of Scientific Philosophy From Modest Proposals to Implausible Conceptions

  Tadeusz Szubka



part 1

Philosophy and Humanities

1 Judgement and Inference The Relevance of Twardowski’s Distinction between Actions and Products for Philosophy

  Maria van der Schaar



2 Twardowski’s Action/Product Distinction and Philosophy

  Jan Woleński



part 2

Anti-Psychologism

3 The Influence of Twardowski’s Distinction between Actions and Products on Ingarden’s Act-Based Conception of Meaning

  Sébastien Richard



4 Twardowski’s Psychologism and the Ontology of Truth

  Dariusz Łukasiewicz



part 3

Intentionality and Persistence

5 Idiogenetic Theory of Emotions

  Arkadiusz Chrudzimski



6 Czeżowski et al. on Persistence

  Mariusz Grygianiec



part 4

Truth and Usefulness

7 Absoluteness of Truth and the Lvov-Warsaw School Twardowski, Kotarbiński, Leśniewski, Łukasiewicz, Tarski, Kokoszyńska

  Jan Woleński



8 Pragmatism and Pragmatic Motives in the Lvov-Warsaw School

  Anna Brożek



part 5

Anti-Irrationalism

9 Why Totally Unjustified Convictions Persist? Twardowski on the Nature of Prejudice

  Johannes L. Brandl



10 Twardowski and the Rationality of Beliefs

  Ryszard Kleszcz



part 6

Logic and Education

11 Formal and Informal Logic in the Lvov-Warsaw School as a Heritage of Twardowski

  Anna Brożek



12 For Logical Education The Resonance of Twardowski’s Ideas in the Views of Selected Members of the Lvov-Warsaw School

  Marcin Będkowski



Closing Word

   Twardowski in Poland and in the World

  Anna Brożek and Jacek Jadacki



Index of Names