"PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE"
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The content of No 1, 1997
Barry Smith
Why Polish philosophy does not exist?
The author raises the question why Polish philosophy (by which he means Polish
analytical philosophy, or Lvov-Warsaw School) differs so much from what is known as
"continental philosophy". He identifies and analyses the following factors which have
influenced philosophical development in Poland: socialism, connection
betwen philosophy and mathematics, the influence of Austrian philosophy,
the unusual role of K. Twardowski, and catholicism. The article ends with
an appeal for not tolerating irrationalism and relativism in philosophy.
Tadeusz Sierotowicz
Realism in the context of science
In the paper the scientific realism of E. McMullin is presented.
Brief remarks on the criterion of the existence of the hidden structure of
reality and on the question of truth in the context of realism are also given.
Wojciech Krysztofiak
A formalisation of the idealism-realism controversy
This is an attempt of formalizing the language of the idealism-realism debate
in terms of possible worlds. Different versions of idealism and realism are presented
within the proposed framework. Finally, the proposed formal construction
is applied to the interpretation of some philosophical positions that can be found in the history of philosophy.
Jan Wolenski
Information and semantics
Two different kinds (or levels) of information are distinguished and compared:
physical and semantical. The author indicates that semantic information
cannot be reduced to physical information, and that the former is more
diffiult to explain than the latter, while the latter is less useful
and less interesting.
Tomasz Placek
Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the labirynth of continuum
In the article three Zeno's paradoxes are reconstructed. They are:
"Achilles and the turtle", "Arrow" and "Stadium". Together with the
paradox of "Dichotomy" (which was analysed by the author elsewhere)
they form the question about the nature of continuum. In the paper
the following hypothesis is accepted: "Dichotomy" is principally
connected with the mathematical theory of continuum, whereas
other paradoxes concern the application of this theory to the description
of physical motion.
Jacek Wojtysiak
Three conceptions of entity/object
The aim of this article is to present the main results of investigations
in the domain of object theory, carried out by the representants of
three Polish philosophical schools: M. Borowski (the Lvov-Warsaw School),
R. Ingarden (the phenomenological Lvov-Cracow School), and M. Krapiec
(the neo-tomist Lublin School).
Aleksander Kuisz
The principle of correspondence and the unity of physics
The author analyses three aspects of the correspondence between
theories: physical, methodological and philosophical.
Edward Woloszyn
Ludwig von Bertalanffy's conception of open system
The main goal of the paper is to indicate some misunderstandings in
Ingarden's criticism of vob Bertalanffy's conception of open system.
Archives:
Jan Lukasiewicz, On the principle of contradiction in Aristotle
