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Kazimierz Twardowski

Kazimierz Twardowski
Kazimierz Twardowski 1933.jpg
Born (1866-10-20)20 October 1866
Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died 11 February 1938(1938-02-11) (aged 71)
Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine)
Nationality Polish
Fields Philosophy
Logic
Institutions Lwów University
Alma mater University of Vienna
(Ph.D., 1891)
Thesis Über den Unterschied zwischen der klaren und deutlichen Perzeption und der klaren und deutlichen Idee bei Descartes (On the difference between clear and distinct perception and between clear and distinct ideas in Descartes) (1891)
Doctoral advisor R. Zimmermann
Other academic advisors Franz Brentano
Doctoral students Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
Stefan Banach
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Stanisław Leśniewski
Jan Łukasiewicz
Known for Establishing the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic
Influences Bernard Bolzano
Benno Kerry
Influenced Roman Ingarden
George Stout

Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski (20 October 1866 – 11 February 1938) was a Polish philosopher, logician, and rector of the Lviv University.

Twardowski's family belonged to the Ogończyk coat of arms.

Twardowski studied philosophy in Vienna with Franz Brentano and Robert Zimmermann. In 1892 he received his doctorate with his dissertation, Idee und Perzeption (Idea and Perception), and in 1894 he presented his habilitation thesis, Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (On the Doctrine of the Content and Object of Presentations). He originated many novel ideas related to metaphilosophy.

He lectured in Vienna in the years 1894–95, then was appointed professor at Lwów (Lemberg in Austrian Galicia, now Lviv in the Ukraine). An outstanding lecturer, he was also a rector of the Lwów University during World War I.

There Twardowski established the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic and also became the "father of Polish logic", beginning the tradition of scientific philosophy in Poland. Among his students were the logicians Stanisław Leśniewski, Jan Łukasiewicz and Tadeusz Czeżowski, the historian of philosophy Władysław Tatarkiewicz, the phenomenologist and aesthetician Roman Ingarden, as well as philosophers close to the Vienna Circle such as Tadeusz Kotarbiński and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.


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