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Kazimierz Twardowski

Kazimierz Twardowski
Born(1866-10-20)20 October 1866
Died11 February 1938(1938-02-11) (aged 71)
Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine)
NationalityPolish
EducationUniversity of Vienna
(Ph.D., 1891; Dr. phil. hab., 1894)
Era19th-century philosophy
20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolLwów–Warsaw school (founder) School of Brentano
Empiricism[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
(1894–1895)
Lwów University
(1895–1930)
Polish Philosophical Society (1904–1938, founder)
Theses
  • Über den Unterschied zwischen der klaren und deutlichen Perception und der klaren und deutlichen Idee bei Descartes (On the difference between clear and distinct perception and between clear and distinct ideas in Descartes) (1891)
  • Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (On the Doctrine of the Content and Object of Presentations) (1894)
Doctoral advisorRobert von Zimmermann
Other academic advisorsFranz Brentano
Doctoral studentsKazimierz Ajdukiewicz
Stefan Banach
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Stanisław Leśniewski
Jan Łukasiewicz
Bronislaw Bandrowski
Władysław Witwicki
Main interests
Notable ideas
Content–Object distinction
Lwów–Warsaw school
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Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski (20 October 1866 – 11 February 1938) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, logician, and rector of the Lwów University. He was initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Betti, Arianna. "Kazimierz Twardowski". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  2. ^ a b Maria van der Schaar (2015), p. 53.
  3. ^ Simons (2013), p. 15.
  4. ^ Maria van der Schaar, Kazimierz Twardowski: A Grammar for Philosophy, Brill, 2015, p. 53; Peter M. Simons, Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski: Selected Essays, Springer, 2013, p. 15.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Huemer, "Husserl's critique of psychologism and his relation to the Brentano school", in: Arkadiusz Chrudzimski and Wolfgang Huemer (eds.), Phenomenology and Analysis: Essays on Central European Philosophy, Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 210.
  6. ^ Grossmann, Reinhardt (2005). "Meinong, Alexius". In Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1.
  7. ^ Liliana Albertazzi, Immanent Realism: An Introduction to Brentano, Springer, 2006, p. 321.

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