Academic degrees:
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Ph.D. Wrocław University 1962 (supervisor: Professor Maria Lutman-Kokoszyńska).
- Habilitation: 1966 Wrocław University.
Habilitation thesis Semantical criteria of empirical meaningfulness,
published in Studia Logica 19 (1966).
Home Address:
- Karmelicka 3C m. 16, 00-149 Warszawa, POLAND
Telefax (private): +48 (22) 635-4038
Recent Affiliations:
Involvements:
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Chairman of the National Committee of the Division for Logic
Methodology and Philosophy of Sciences of the International Union
for History and Philosophy of sciences;
- Member of the Steering Committee of FISP (Federation
Internationale des Societes de Philosophie).
Recent Editorial Activities:
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Chairman of the Editorial Board of
Studia Logica
(an International Journal for Symbolic Logic; published under the auspices
of the Polish Academy of Sciences by Kluwer);
- Editor in Chief of Trends in Logic - Studia Logica Library (a
companion book series to Studia Logica);
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Advisory Editor of Erkenntnis;
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Advisory Editor Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the
Humanities.;
- Chairman of the Editorial Committee of the book series
Filozofia Polska XX wieku (Polish 20th century philosophy).
Selected Publications:
A. books:
- Wykłady z metodologii nauk (Lectures in Methodology
of Sciences, in Polish), First Edition: Wydawnictwo
Politechniki Wroc³awskiej, Wroc³aw, 1977. Second Edition: PWN
(Polish Scientific Publishers), Warszawa 1982.
- Topics in Formal Methodology of Empirical Sciences
,
Ossolineum and Reidel Publ.Co., Wroc³aw/Dordrecht, 1979.
- Lectures on Propositional Calculi
, Ossolineum, Wroc³aw
1984. - Theory of Logical Calculi
, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, 1988.
- Teorie w nauce; wstęp do logiki, metodologii i filozofii nauki
cz.I (Theories in Science; an Introduction to Logic,
Methodology and Philosophy of Science, in Polish) IFiS PAN,
Warszawa 1991.
- Ajdukiewicz - teoria znaczenia. (Ajdukiewicz - Theory
of meaning in Polish)Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa
1999.
B. some of the recent papers:
- `Peircean vs. Aristotelian Conception of Truth.' in G. Debrock and
M. Hulswit (eds.) Living Doubt, 1994, 125 - 135.
- `Theories and theoretical models.' in P. Humphreys (ed.) Patrick
Suppes, Mathematical Philosopher Vol 2, 1994, Kluwer
Academic Publ, 125 -149.
- `Should Tarski's idea of consequence operation be revised?.' in J.
Woleński and E. Köhler(eds.) Alfred Tarski and Vienna
Circle, 1999, Kluwer Academic Publ, 231-242
- `Theories, Theoretical Models, Truth, part I; Popperian and
non-Popperian Theories in science,' Foundations of Science
1(1995/96), 337 - 406.
- `Theories, Theoretical Models, Truth, part II: Tarski's theory
of truth and its relevance for the theory of science,'
Foundations of Science 4(1995/96), 471-516.
- `Przeszłość i przyszłość filozofii polskiej,' (`Past and
future of Polish philosophy' in Polish) Kwartalnik
Filozoficzny T. XXIV Z. 1, 1996, 125-143.
- `Rohrlich's Pluralistic Ontology' Foundations of Science 1(1998), 37
- 43.
- `Physics, Theoretical Knowledge and Weinberg's Grand
Reductionism.' Foundations of Science 1(1998), 61-77.
- `The Postwar Panorama of Logic in Poland.' in M.L. Dalla Chiara et
al. (eds.), Logic and Scientific Methods, 1997 Kluwer
Academic Publ, 497-508
Recent domains of scientific interest:
- Logic, Philosophy of Science and Theory of Knowledge.