Thematic seminar: Lvov-Warsaw School. History, Program, Members

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Course ID:	WF-FI-SWIETO18-PCECE
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Thematic seminar: Lvov-Warsaw School. History, Program, Members
Name in Polish:	Thematic seminar: Lvov-Warsaw School. History, Program, Members
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	FI2_W09 FI2_W10 FI2_U03 FI2_U06 FI2_U13
Short description:	The Lvov-Warsaw School is a unique phenomenon of the world philosophy of the turn of the 20th century, the legitimacy of Polish intelectuals which has its current continuation. The historical and theoretical importance of the LWS is not questionable. The presented material is a documentation of the most repesentative ideas present in LWS. We consider genealogy of main members of LWS, we focus on their philosophical investigations. There are presented philosophical achievements of K. Twardowski, J. Łukasiewicz, K. Ajdukiewicz, S. Leśniewski, T. Kotarbiński, A. Tarski. We give also a description of the second generation of LWS (among others: Lindenbaum, Mostowski, Sobociński, Bocheński, Salamucha) and point the influence of LWS on logical philosophy currenctly being developed in Poland.
Full description:	1. – 3. Theoretical foundations of Lvov-Warsaw School: philosophy of Franz Brentano and its exposition by Kazimierz Twardowski 4. – 7. Program of Lvov-Warsaw School: methods of scientific philosophy (analysis; logic; methodology), its foundations (descriptive psychology; semiotics), the neutrality toward religion 8. – 9. Areas of interest: logic and methodology of science, history of philosophy and linguistics, ontology, philosophy of God, ethics, psychology 10.– 13. Some members of the Lvov-Warsaw School: - Logic and ontology: Jan Łukasiewicz, Stanisław Leśniewski - Methodology and praxeology: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbiński - Philosophy of God: Józef M. Bocheński, Jan Salamucha 14-15 - FOrmal results of II generation of LWS - elements of metalogic: A/ Lindenbaum, A. Tarski.
Bibliography:	1. Jadacki, J. J., 2009, Polish Analytical Philosophy, Semper: Warszawa. 2. Jadacki, J. J., Paśniczek, J. (eds.), 2006, The Lvov-Warsaw School — the New Generation, Rodopi: Amsterdam. 3. Kijania-Placek, K. and Woleński, J., 1998, The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy, Dordrecht: Kluwer. 4. Krajewski, W. (ed.), 2001, Polish Philosophers of Science and Nature in the 20th Century, Rodopi: Amsterdam. 5. Lapointe, S., Woleński, J., Mathieu, M., Miśkiewicz, W., 2009, The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy. Kazimierz Twardowski's Philosophical Legacy, Dordrecht: Springer. 6. Woleński, J., 1989, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School, Dordrecht: Kluwer. 7. Sinisi, V. and Woleński, J. (eds.), 1995, The Heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Amsterdam: Rodopi. 8. Woleński, J. (ed.), 1990, Kotarbiński: Logic, Semantics and Ontology, Dordrecht: Kluwer. 9. Luschei, E., 1963, The Logical Systems of Leśniewski, Amsterdam: North-Holland. 10. Cavallin, J., 1997, Content and Object. Husserl, Twardowski and Psychologism, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Knowledge: The students will be introduced in some contemporary trend of analytical philosophy, which is also leading internationally. They They will know basic problems of analytic tradition, in particular the problem of connections between psychology and logic, methodological grounding of philosophical investigations, modern approach to the truth theory in frame of metalogic. Students will get to recognize the difference between non-analytical philosophy and the so-called logical philosophy. Skills: Students will be practicing the approach of synthetic presentation of both historical and theoretical material. Attitudes:Students get to know how to provide a scientific work in a systematical way. They will focus on the assigned problems, will also learn to work the problems piece by piece and be always ready to present their results in synthetic presentations.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Students should be present during lecture (maximal absence is 3). Course is finished with oral exam or a paper, which is evaluated and discussed.

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