Tadeusz Czeżowski

Tadeusz Czeżowski
Tadeusz Czeżowski (1936)
Born(1889-06-26)June 26, 1889
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
DiedMarch 28, 1981(1981-03-28) (aged 91)
Toruń, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Lviv
Notable workLogika
SchoolLviv-Warsaw School
ThesisPeoria Klas

Tadeusz Czeżowski (July 26, 1889 – March 28, 1981) was a Polish philosopher and logician. He is considered one of the most prominent members of the Lviv-Warsaw School.[1]

Biography

Czeżowski was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on July 26, 1889.[2][3] He was the son of a high-ranking state official a previous Prefect who later became the Counsellor of the Governorate of Galicia.[1] In 1907, he studied philosophy, mathematics, and physics at the University of Lviv.[1][3] His mother, Helena Kusche, was considered part of the petite bourgeoisie of the city.[3] He became a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, who conferred to Czeżowski his doctorate in philosophy in 1914 after completing his dissertation entitled, Teoria klas (Theory of Classes).[1] He also became a member of the Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic.

After qualifying as mathematics and physics teacher, he started teaching in a Lviv grammar school in 1912.[3] From 1923 to 1939 he was a professor at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, Lithuania, and from 1945 to 1960 a professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. In 1948 he became editor of the magazine Ruch Filozoficzny. He died in Toruń in 1981.[3]

He was named a member of the Righteous Among the Nations in 1963.[4]

Works

  • O metafizyce, jej kierunkach i zagadnieniach (On Metaphysics, its directions and problems) (1948)
  • Logika (1949)
  • Odczyty filozoficzne (1958 and 1969)
  • Filozofia na rozdrożu (1966)
  • Pisma z etyki i teorii wartości (1989)
  • Knowledge, Science, and Values. A Program for Scientific Philosophy Edited by Leon Gumanski, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2000

References

  1. ^ a b c d Czeżowski, Tadeusz (2000). Knowledge, Science, and Values: A Program for Scientific Philosophy. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 7. ISBN 978-90-420-1433-6.
  2. ^ Porębski, Czesław (2019). Lectures on Polish Value Theory. Leiden: BRILL. p. 122. ISBN 978-90-04-39110-9.
  3. ^ a b c d e Garrido, Ángel; Wybraniec-Skardowska, Urszula (2018). The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present. Cham: Birkhäuser. p. 133. ISBN 978-3-319-65429-4.
  4. ^ "The Righteous Among the Nations". Yad Vashem. Retrieved February 17, 2018.


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