Zygmunt Zawirski

Zygmunt Zawirski (29 July 1882 – 2 April 1948) 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.

Biography

Zawirski was born on 29 July 1882 in the village of Berezowica Mała (Berzovytsia Mala) near 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"). After 1945, he was president of the Krakowskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne ("Kraków Philosophical Society").

He died on 2 April 1948 in Końskie, Poland.

Notable works
  • —. (1936). L’évolution de la notion du temps (in French). Cracovie, etc.: Gebethner et Wolff. OCLC 10599561.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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References

Further reading
  • Piesko, Maria (2004). Naukowa metafizyka Zygmunta Zawirskiego (in Polish). Kraków, Tarnów: OBI, Biblos. ISBN 83-7332-207-8. OCLC 69577155.
  • Szumilewicz-Lachman, Irena (1994). Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work. With Selected Writings on Time, Logic & the Methodology of Science. Boston: Kluwer Academic. ISBN 0-7923-2566-4. 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 83-87963-20-8. OCLC 69528304.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)


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