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Zygmunt Zawirski

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Name
  
Zygmunt Zawirski

Died
  
1948, Konskie, Poland

Role
  
Philosopher

Zygmunt Zawirski (1882–1948) was a Polish philosopher and logician.

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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 29 September 1882 in the village of Berezowica Mala (Berzovytsia Mala) near Zbarazh (now Ukraine). In 1928 he became a professor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and in 1937 professor of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 1936 he became an editor of Kwartalnik Filozoficzny ("Philosophical Quarterly"). After 1945, he was president of the Krakowskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne ("Krakow Philosophical Society").

He died on 2 April 1948 in Konskie, Poland.

Notable works

  • —. (1936). L’evolution de la notion du temps (in French). Cracovie, etc.: Gebethner et Wolff. OCLC 10599561. 
  • References

    Zygmunt Zawirski Wikipedia