Prof. Marian Przełęcki o nauce

Marian Przełęcki

Within and beyond
the Limits of Science

Logical Studies of Scientific
and Philosophical Knowledge

 

Edited by Jacek Jadacki

 

ISBN 978-83-7507-111-5

Format B5, s. 292, bibliografia, indeks

 

Marian Przełęcki (ur. 1923), logik i filozof, uczeń Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego i Kazimierza Ajdukiewicza. Przedstawiciel lwowsko-warszawskiej szkoły filozoficznej. Od 1971 profesor w Instytucie Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, od 1984 członek Towarzystwa Naukowego Warszawskiego, członek Międzynarodowego Instytutu Filozoficznego w Paryżu.

 

Książka zawiera najważniejsze rozproszone rozprawy Profesora dotyczące logicznych podstaw nauki.

 

 

opis on-line

 

Contents

 

Introduction

 

Part I. Logic of Empirical Sciences

1. Empirical Theories: Observational and Theoretical Terms

2. Final Remarks to the Polish Edition of "The Logic of Empirical Theories" (fragments)

3. The Semantics of Open Concepts

4. A Model-Theoretic Approach to the Problem of Interpretation of Empirical Languages

5. Empirical Meaningfulness of Quantitative Statements

6. An Approach to Inexact Measurement

7. Interpretation of Theoretical Terms: in Defence of an Empiricist Dogma

8. On Identifiability in Extended Domains

9. Conceptual Continuity Through Theory Changes

10. A Set-Theoretic versus a Model-Theoretic Approach to the Logical Structure of Physical Theories

11. Is the Notion of Truth Applicable to Scientific Theories?

12. On Comparing Philosophical Conceptions of Scientific Theories

 

Part II. Scientific Philosophy

 

13. On Possibility and Possible Worlds

14. Fuzziness as Multiplicity

15. On the Concept of Vacuous Occurrence of Terms: a Contribution to a Logical Dictionary

16. On the Meaning of Indexicals

17. The Law of Excluded Middle and the Problem of Idealism

18. Semantic Reasons for Ontological Statements: the Argumentation of a Reist

19. On the Model-Theoretic Definition of Truth

 

Part III. Philosophy Beyond the Limits of Science

 

20. Truth-Value of Ethical Statements: Some Philosophical Implications of the Model-Theoretic Definition of Truth

21. The Meaning of Life

22. Rationality in the Domain of Evaluation

 

Discussions

 

23. Peter M. Williams, Review of The Logic of Empirical Theories

24. Jacek J. Jadacki, On the Extra-Scientific Knowledge and the Ways of Expressing It

 

References

Sources

 

Index of Names

 

A 

Adams, Ernest W. 103, 104  

Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz 9, 211- 216, 218, 220-223, 227, 231, 267 

 

B 

Balzer, Wolfgang 162, 165 

Beth, Evert Willem 216 

 

C 

Carnap, Rudolf 38, 129, 168, 172, 185, 267  

Chang, Chen-Chung 27  

Craig, William 267 

Czeżowski, Tadeusz 277   

 

D 

A 

Adams, Ernest W. 103, 104  

Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz 9, 211- 216, 218, 220-223, 227, 231, 267 

 

B 

Balzer, Wolfgang 162, 165 

Beth, Evert Willem 216 

 

C 

Carnap, Rudolf 38, 129, 168, 172, 185, 267  

Chang, Chen-Chung 27  

Craig, William 267 

Czeżowski, Tadeusz 277   

 

D 

Dalla Chiara Scabia, Maria Luisa 193, 197  

Davidson, Donald 235  

 

F 

Field, Hartry Hamlin 236  

Fine, Kit 194   

 

G 

Gödel, Kurt 13, 213 

Grzegorczyk, Andrzej 267   

 

H 

Hintikka, Jaakko Toivo 185 

 

I 

Iwaszkiewicz, Jarosław 292, 284   

J 

Jadacki, Jacek J. 6, 7, 33, 277 

John Paul II 251 

 

 

K 

Kant, Immanuel 33, 175, 211  

Kaplan, David 205, 206 

Kemeny, John George 16, 56, 267  

Kotarbiński, Tadeusz 9, 223-225, 228, 229, 231, 277   

Krajewski, Władysław 137  

Krantz, David H. 103-105  

Kubiński, Tadeusz 62, 67   

 

L 

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 181, 189 

Lewandowski, Andrzej 257  

Łoś, Jerzy 267  

Luce, Robert Duncan 104, 106, 109  

Łukasiewicz, Jan 189 

 

M 

Marley, Anthony A. J. 104, 106, 109  

Mates, Benson 188  

Mehlberg, Henryk 52, 61 

Metz, Thaddeus 254  

Montague, Richard 73, 205  

 

N 

Nagel, Ernst 71  

Newton, Issac 32  

 

O 

Ockham, William 231-233  

 

P 

Peano, Giuseppe 164  

Poincaré, Henri 155  

Przełęcki, Marian passim   

 

Q 

Quine, Willard Van Orman 119, 120, 198  

 

R 

Ramsey, Frank Plumpton 149 

Rescher, Nicholas 173, 177, 178 

Rickert, Heinrich 212 

Robinson, Abraham 236 

Rorty, Richard 176, 177   

Rozeboom, William W. 62, 65  

 

S 

Schaff, Adam 211 

Scott, Dana Steward 105  

Shoenfield, Joseph R. 85 

Sneed, Joseph D. 8, 40, 97, 100, 131, 141, 144, 145, 147, 161, 175, 176  

Stegmüller, Wolfgang 40, 165  

Suppes, Patrick 39, 40, 93, 95, 97, 104-106, 132, 141. 197 

Suszko, Roman 47, 48, 56, 73, 82, 267, 273  

 

T 

Tarski, Alfred 213, 221, 222, 235, 

Tatarkiewicz, Władysław 277  

Thomason, Richmond H. 205 

Toraldo di Francia, Giuliano 193, 197  

Tuomela, Raimo 33 

Twardowski, Kazimierz 277   

 

V 

Van Fraassen, Bastiaan Cornelius 218 

 

W 

Watkins, John 155  

Weingartner, Paul 155 

Williams, Peter M. 6, 8, 40, 129, 277   

Winnie, John A. 8, 37, 113, 114, 126  

Wojnicki, Stanisław 73  

Wójcicki, Ryszard 16, 28, 38, 73, 74, 103, 110, 145, 148, 160, 165, 193, 195, 197, 267, 273   

 

Z 

Zadeh, Lotfi Asker 192  

Zinnes, Joseph L. 104