Mathesis Universalis - No.6, Spring 1998
Polish Association for Logic
and Philosophy of Science
Polskie Towarzystwo Logiki i Filozofii Nauki - as called in Polish - has been officially established in 1994. Its founders referred to the traditions of Polskie Towarzystwo Logiczne (Polish Logical Society), founded in 1936 on the initiative of Jan Lukasiewicz.The Executive Committee of Polish Logical Society consisted of
- Jan Lukasiewicz as the President, and the following members:
- Adolf Lindenbaum
- Andrzej Mostowski
- Boleslaw Sobocinski
- Alfred Tarski.
The Society started to publish its journal Collectanea Logica which was to appear in German, English etc. Printing plates of its first issue were destroyed in bombing in September 1939 (the fact commented on by Gabriel Falkenberg in his essay on the Lvov-Warsaw School (search in that text for the word "Collectanea").
A representative sample of the activities of the Association can be found in the Report given in this issue (in Polish).
The Executive Committee of the Association
- Ewa Orlowska - President
- Wojciech Buszkowski - Past President
- Max Urchs - Vice-President
- Kazimierz Swirydowicz - Secretary
- Jacek Malinowski - Treasurer
The Association's address:
Polskie Towarzystwo Logiki i Filozofii Nauki
00-330 Warsaw, PL, Nowy Swiat 72,
Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
the Presidents e-mail: orlowska@itl.waw.pl
The picture of Jan Lukasiewicz (1878-1956)
the first who conceived the idea
of founding a society for logic in Poland.
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The photo is dawnloaded from Polish Philosophy Page as run by Francesco Conigline and Ariana Betti at the University of Catania, Italy.