Books in the Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities series

The book deals with post-analytical philosophy of law, which departs from the traditional view which considers philosophical cognition as a sense-making and optimizing activity. It seeks to deconstruct the analytical, both philosophical and legal, narrative to expose it as a collection of schemes which oversimplify the legal and political reality.

The book aims to formalise tableau methods for the logics of propositions and names. The methods described are based on Set Theory. The tableau rule was reduced to an ordered n-tuple of sets of expressions where the first element is a set of premises, and the following elements are its supersets.

While this book is a publication on Indian philosophy, addressing the problem of subjectivity in the Upanisads from the perspective of Advaita Vedanta's ontological assumptions, it makes an interesting reading for a wider group of readers, including philosophers of metaphysics, orientalists, and religious and cultural researchers.

The book is a journal that presents narrations and factual accounts of events covering 144 days the author spent during the Third Scientific Expedition of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the Arctowski Station on King George Island (South Shetland Islands).

The volume devotes to various problems of the philosophy of logic and mathematics. Among considered problems are: meaning of reverse mathematics, proof in mathematics, the status of Church's Thesis, phenomenology in the philosophy of mathematics, mathematics vs. theology, the problem of truth, philosophy of logic and mathematics in the interwar Poland.

This collection of essays examines logic and its philosophy. The author investigates the nature of logic not only by describing its properties but also by showing philosophical applications of logical concepts and structures to various philosophical topics, like normativity, naturalism, and the genesis of logic.

Diese Monographie untersucht Leonard Nelsons Kritik an der Erkenntnistheorie. Leonard Nelson war in den ersten dreißig Jahren des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts ein bekannter Philosoph, der zusammen mit dem Neukantianismus seine Bedeutung verlor. In letzter Zeit lässt sich jedoch eine deutliche Zunahme des Interesses an Neukantianismus beobachten. Dieses Buch leistet somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zu den neuen Tendenzen in der gegenwärtigen philosophischen Geschichtsschreibung und der systematischen Erforschung der zeitgenössischen Philosophie. Der Autor stellt darin eine eingehende und systematische Analyse der Kritik von Nelson an der Erkenntnistheorie dar. Diese Kritik wird vor allem aus der Sicht des Neukantianismus vorgenommen, aber auch andere wichtige Referenzen wie Phänomenologie und Positivismus werden berücksichtigt.

The book presents results from research conducted by Zygmunt Zawirski on the theory of knowledge, quantum mechanics, logic, ontology and metaphysics. Zawirski notices new possibilities in the use of three-valued logic in quantum mechanics and philosophical studies.

The author provides a comprehensive examination of stress, focusing on traditional and modern theories of stress, sources of stress, as well as reactions and approaches to coping with stress. The author claims that stress is an integral part of people's lives and presents its many faces, including "eustress" and "distress".

The book presents Bornstein's work on development of algebraic logic as well as the most important areas and findings of research on the theory of knowledge, logic, ontology and metaphysics. Bornstein notices new possibilities in the use of spatial logic in philosophical studies.

The book comprises a systematic analysis of Marx's works on ownership. Marx as the creator of a theory on social reality is a different thinker from the creator of the doctrine of communism. The author seeks to break through one-sided interpretations which discern in Marx a decisive critique of private property and an apologia of common ownership.

This is a study about man who is a part of the world of physical events, including actions. As a bunch of actions which are conditioned by beliefs and other attitudes, man co-creates communities which emerge and vanish along time.

The book proves to be a classical work in the history of modern philosophy, especially in ontological phenomenology and ontology. At the same time, Ingarden's major work provides classical argumentation in favor of realism in philosophy. It is the most eminent achievement in the history of Polish philosophy.

This book reconstructs the history of skepticism ranging from ancient to contemporary times. The main skeptical stances and the historical reconstruction of the concept of skepticism are connected with an analysis of their recurrent inconsistency. The author reveals that this inconsistency is not a logical contradiction but a pragmatic one.

The book examines metaphilosophical issues and contemporary philosophy, in particular such movements as hermeneutics, pragmatism, structuralism and deconstructionism. The author calls the new project of philosophical and metaphilosophical investigations which his work aims to present "philosophical heuristics".

This book is a defence of scepticism, based on a critical analysis of the concept of knowledge. The metaphysics of substance and its modern and contemporary consequences are analyzed, mostly the transcendental tradition. Finally, a sceptical approach is proposed, leading to an a-ethical concept of the will and the values of life.

Contains twenty essays devoted to the philosophy of mathematics and the history of logic which are divided into four parts: general philosophical problems of mathematics, Hilbert's program vs the incompleteness phenomenon, philosophy of mathematics in Poland, mathematical logic in Poland.

An additional reference to Husserlian deepest transcendental reduction: the Now as being freed from temporality. It compares the author's thoughts to the ideas and to the concept of the modalization of the consciousness that is present in the post-Husserlian temporalities.

Essays on Logic and its Applications in Philosophy

This is the complete and critical translation into English of Controversy over the Existence of the World by the Polish phenomenologist Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), student and critic of Husserl. Volume I of his three-volume opus magnum offers a fundamental ontological analysis of the modes of being of various types of objects.

This collection of essays is about some of the most fundamental issues connected with metaphysics, theory of values and philosophy of man. What is particularly intriguing about this collection is its unique and fruitful combination of different methodologies and traditions in one rich and persuasive picture of the most basic philosophical problems.