Zygmunt Zawirski

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Zygmunt Zawirski (18821948) was a Polish philosopher and logician.

His main field of study was philosophy of physics, history of science, multi-valued logic and relation of multi-valued logic to calculus of probability.

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[edit] Biography

Zawirski was born on September 29, 1882 in the village Berezowica Mała near by Zbarazh (now Ukraine). In 1928 he became a professor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and in 1937 professor of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1936 he became an editor of Kwartalnik Filozoficzny ("Philosophical Quarterly"). Since 1945 president of the Krakowskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne ("Kraków Philosophical Society").

He died on April 2, 1948 in Końskie, Poland.

[edit] Notable works

  • —. (1936). L’évolution de la notion du temps (in French). Cracovie, etc.: Gebethner et Wolff. OCLC 10599561. 

[edit] Further reading

  • Piesko, Maria (2004). Naukowa metafizyka Zygmunta Zawirskiego (in Polish). Kraków, Tarnów: OBI, Biblos. ISBN 8373322078. OCLC 69577155. 
  • Szumilewicz-Lachman, Irena (1994). Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work. With Selected Writings on Time, Logic & the Methodology of Science (in English). Boston: Kluwer Academic. ISBN 0792325664. OCLC 29223536. 
  • Zawirski, Zygmunt; Sepioło, Michał (ed.); Bednarczyk, Andrzej (ed.) (2003). O stosunku metafizyki do nauk (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. ISBN 8387963208. OCLC 69528304. 

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NAME Zawirski, Zygmunt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION philosopher, logician
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berezowica Mała
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1948
PLACE OF DEATH Końskie
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