Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

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Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

Kazimierz Jósef Stanislaw Ajdukiewicz (born December 12, 1890 in Tarnopol , then Austria-Hungary , † April 12, 1963 in Warsaw ) was a Polish philosopher and logician from the Lemberg-Warsaw School .

life and work

Ajdukiewicz studied philosophy , physics and mathematics at the University of Lemberg and received his doctorate there in 1912 under Kazimierz Twardowski . In 1921 he completed his habilitation in Warsaw and then worked as a private lecturer at Lviv University (1922–1925) and at the University of Warsaw (1925–1928). In 1928 he became a professor in Lviv , where he also experienced the Second World War. In 1945 he became a professor at the University of Poznan and from 1948 to 1952 its rector. He headed the logic sector at the Polish Institute for Philosophy and Sociology and was editor-in-chief of the journal Studia logica from 1953 . He brought many novel ideas into formal logic , linguistics ( categorical grammar ), scientific methodology, and theory of teaching.

Works

Works in Polish

  • 1921 Z metodologii nauk dedukcyjnych
  • 1923 Główne kierunki filozofii
  • 1928 Główne zasady metodologii nauk i logiki formalnej
  • 1931 O znaczeniu wyrażeń
  • 1934 Logiczne podstawy nauczania
  • 1938 Propedeutyka filozofii
  • 1948 Epistemologia i semantyka
  • 1949 Zagadnienia i kierunki filozofii
  • 1952 Zarys logiki
  • 1958 Trzy pojęcia definicji
  • 1964 Zagadnienia empiryzmu a koncepcja znaczenia
  • 1965 Logika pragmatyczna
  • 1960–1965 Język i poznanie: Wybór pism
  • 1966– selected articles in Logiczna Teoria Nauki ( Logical Theory of Science ), edited by T.Pawłowski, PWN, Warsaw.

Works in English

  • 1974 Pragmatic Logic , Dordrecht, Reidel, ISBN 90-277-0326-4 .
  • 1975 Problems and Theories of Philosophy , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-20219-1 .
  • 1978 The Scientific World-Perspective and Other essays 1931–1963 , Dordrecht, Reidel, ISBN 90-277-0527-5 .

Works in German

  • 1935 Die Syntactische Konnexitat , Studia Philosophica, 1: 1–27. (established the category grammar)
  • 1958 demolition of the logic , construction publishing house Berlin, license no. 301 120/115/57

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. NI Kondakow: Dictionary of Logic ; VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1978; License no. 433 130/195/78