Investigations in the Theory of Knowledge at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Marek Hetmański, Jan Pomorski (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72205-7 (ISBN)

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This collection presents concepts from epistemology, the methodology of sciences, logic and semiotics, as well as from philosophical anthropology by four philosophers from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin—Narcyz Łubnicki, Ludwik Fleck, Leon Koj, and Zdzisław Cackowski.

This collection consists of texts by four authors—Narcyz Łubnicki, Ludwik Fleck, Leon Koj, and Zdzisław Cackowski—who formed the first two generations of philosophers at the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University. They deal with the problems of human cognitive processes and activities, the structure of everyday and scientific knowledge, including its justification and normativity, extensional and intensional logic, semiotics and pragmatics, as well as the issue of human experience considered from the perspective of ethics and philosophical anthropology. The reader will learn about the history of the initiation and development of the science-oriented, anti-dogmatic, postulative method, and pragmatic directions of philosophical research conducted over half a century.

Marek Hetmański, Ph.D. (1988), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, is full Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at that university. He has published monographs and many articles on epistemology, including Rationality and Decision Making: From Normative Rules to Heuristics (Brill, 2018). Jan Pomorski, Ph.D. (1980), Adam Mickiewicz University, is full Professor of History and Methodology of History at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. He has published monographs and many articles on theory and methodology of history, including Homo Metahistoricus (UMCS, 2019).

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Notes on the Original Publications

1 Introduction: Narcyz Łubnicki, Ludwik Fleck, Leon Koj, and Zdzisław Cackowski

Four Founders of Philosophical Research at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Marek Hetmański, Jan Pomorski, Jacek Paśniczek, Zbysław Muszyński, and Józef Dębowski

Part 1 Philosophy of Science and Methodology

2 Key Aspects of the Positivist Worldview

Narcyz Łubnicki

3 How Did the Bordet-Wassermann Test Emerge? And How Does Any Scientific Discovery Come About?

Ludwik Fleck

4 Dissolving Metaphysical Problems by Applying the Postulate Method

Narcyz Łubnicki

Part 2 Theory of Knowledge and Epistemology

5 On Ultimate Justification

Narcyz Łubnicki

6 On the Justification of Beliefs

Leon Koj

7 The Theory of Knowledge: Its Subject Matter and Scope. Knowledge as Fact, Necessity, Possibility

Zdzisław Cackowski

8 Continuity and Discontinuity in Human Cognition

Zdzisław Cackowski

9 Epistemological Obstacle

Zdzisław Cackowski

Part 3 Semantics, Semiotics and Philosophical Logic

10 Introduction to Intensional Semantics

Leon Koj

11 Disputes Surrounding Extensional Semantics

Leon Koj

12 An Event-Based Conception of Signs

Leon Koj

13 The Uniqueness of Human Action: Mediation, Problem-Orientation, Symbolism

Zdzisław Cackowski

14 The Material Nature of Signs and the Function of Meaning

Zdzisław Cackowski

Part 4 Axiology and Philosophical Anthropology

15 Epistemological Issues in Ethics

Narcyz Łubnicki

16 Action, Counteraction, Valuation

Zdzisław Cackowski

17 The Definition of Obligation

Leon Koj

18 Pain, Suffering and Human Consciousness

Zdzisław Cackowski

Index of Terms and Names

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Polish Analytical Philosophy ; 122
Übersetzer	Patrick Trompiz
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	669 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	90-04-72205-X / 900472205X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-72205-7 / 9789004722057
Zustand	Neuware