Zygmunt Zawirski

Zygmunt Zawirski (1882–1948) 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 September 29, 1882 in the village Berezowica Mała near by 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"). Since 1945 president of the Krakowskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne ("Kraków Philosophical Society").

He died on April 2, 1948 in Końskie, Poland.

Notable works

* cite book
last=—.
title=L’évolution de la notion du temps
year=1936
language=French
publisher=Gebethner et Wolff
location=Cracovie, etc.
oclc=10599561

Further reading

* cite book
last=Piesko
first=Maria
title=Naukowa metafizyka Zygmunta Zawirskiego
year=2004
language=Polish
publisher=OBI, Biblos
location=Kraków, Tarnów
isbn=8373322078
oclc=69577155
* cite book
last=Szumilewicz-Lachman
first=Irena
title=Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work. With Selected Writings on Time, Logic & the Methodology of Science
year=1994
language=English
publisher=Kluwer Academic
location=Boston
isbn=0792325664
oclc=29223536
* cite book
last=Zawirski
first=Zygmunt
coauthors=Sepioło, Michał (ed.); Bednarczyk, Andrzej (ed.)
title=O stosunku metafizyki do nauk
year=2003
language=Polish
publisher=Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
location=Warsaw
isbn=8387963208
oclc=69528304

References

* cite web
title=Zawirski Zygmunt
work=Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
url=http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4000699
accessdate=2007-12-10
language=Polish
publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN
* cite web
title=Zawirski Zygmunt
work=WIEM Encyklopedia
url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/139,,,,zawirski_zygmunt,haslo.html
language=Polish
accessdate=2007-12-10

Persondata
NAME=Zawirski, Zygmunt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=philosopher, logician
DATE OF BIRTH=September 29, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH=Berezowica Mała
DATE OF DEATH=April 2, 1948
PLACE OF DEATH=Końskie