Andrew Schumann: Lexicon of Polish Logicians 1900-1939, Gebunden
Lexicon of Polish Logicians 1900-1939
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- Verlag:
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 03/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783032160522
- Artikelnummer:
- 12667590
- Umfang:
- 357 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 26.3.2026
- Serie:
- Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
This book offers world-unique knowledge about outstanding Polish logicians of the first half of the 20th century. The book shows the achievements of Polish logicians, their influence on the development of science, interactions with philosophers and scientists from other countries, as well as cultural and social consequences. Containing over 140 entries accompanied by photographs of over half the discussed logicians, the volume is a comprehensive list of the period.
Topics in the book include many-valued logic, Leniewski's system, set theory and its foundations, semantic theory of truth, natural deduction, intuitionistic logic, and methodology in philosophy of science. The book is intended for both beginners and advanced researchers of logic, both students and logicians, philosophers, historians of ideas and historians of science.
Biografie (Andrew Schumann)
Andrew Schumann is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science Methodology at the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus. His research focuses on logic and philosophy of science with an emphasis on non-well-founded phenomena: self-references and circularity. He contributed mainly to such research areas as reasoning under uncertainty, probability reasoning, non-Archimedean mathematics, as well as their applications to cognitive science.
