Philosophy and Logic in Search of the Polish Tradition

by Hintikka, Jaakko; Czarnecki, Tadeusz; Kijania-Placek, Katarzyna; Placek, Tomasz; Rojszczak, Artur

• ISBN13: 9781402017216
• ISBN10: 1402017219
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy. These papers are dedicated to Jan Wolenski to honour his 60th birthday.Jan Wolenski is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. He is likely to be the most well-known Polish philosopher of this time, best known for his work on the history of the philosophy and logic of the Lvov-Warsaw School. Furthermore, he's published numerous books and articles dealing with various issues of epistemology and philosophy of language This collection is mainly addressed to researchers and graduate students in philosophy, logic, and history and philosophy of science.

Author Biography

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

Preface	vii
Part I Truth
A Minimalist Critique of Tarski on Truth	3	(10)
Paul Horwich
Is strong Correspondence (Theory of Truth) Possible?	13	(14)
Pavel Matema
Content and Likeness Definitions of Truthlikeness	27	(10)
Ilkka Niiniluoto
Absolute Truth in a Changing World	37	(20)
Peter Simons
Part II Logic and semantics
On the Epistemology of Game-theoretical semantics	57	(10)
Jaakko Hintikka
Can Majority be supervalued?	67	(10)
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek
On Belnap's Branching space-Times	77	(16)
Tomasz Placek
Partially Interpreted Henkin Quantifiers	93	(16)
Gabriel Sandu
Tarski and Lesniewski on Languages with Meaning versus Languages without Use	109	(22)
Göran Sundholm
Part III History of Logic and Philosophy
Ajdukiewicz on Language Change and Truth	131	(20)
Tadeusz Czarnecki
Alfred Tarski and a Watershed Meeting in Logic: Cornell, 1957	151	(12)
Solomon Feferman
On Thinking about the Mental and the Physical	163	(16)
Herbert Hochberg
Bernard Bolzano's 'Wissenschaftslehre' and Polish Analytical Philosophy between 1894 and 1935	179	(14)
Wolfgang Kiinne
Dispositions, Their Bases and Correlates-Meinong's Analysis	193	(20)
Kevin Mulligan
Reactions to the Discovery of the Incompleteness Phenomenon	213	(16)
Roman Murawski
Truthmakers, Truthbearers and the Objectivity of Truth	229	(40)
Artur Rojszczakt, Barry Smith
The Extension of the Concept Abolished? Reflexions on a Fregean Dilemma	269	(6)
Christian Thiel
Selected Bibliography of Jan Wolenski's Works	275	(12)
Index of Names	287