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75Propositions et états de choses chez TwardowskiDialogue 44 (3): 469-492. 2005.Twardowski'sOn the Content and Object of Presentations(1894) is one of the most influential works that Austrian philosophy has left to posterity. The manuscriptLogik(1894–1895) supplements that work and allows us to reconstruct Twardowski's theory of judgement. These texts raise several issues, in particular whether Twardowski accepts propositions and states of affairs in his theory of judgement and whether his theory is acceptable. This article presents Twardowski's theory, shows that he accept…Read more
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175Leśniewski’s characteristica universalisSynthese 174 (2): 295-314. 2010.Leśniewski’s systems deviate greatly from standard logic in some basic features. The deviant aspects are rather well known, and often cited among the reasons why Leśniewski’s work enjoys little recognition. This paper is an attempt to explain why those aspects should be there at all. Leśniewski built his systems inspired by a dream close to Leibniz’s characteristica universalis: a perfect system of deductive theories encoding our knowledge of the world, based on a perfect language. My main claim…Read more
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16De veritate: Another Chapter the Bolzano-Leśniewski ConnectionIn Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Jan Woleński (eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw school and contemporary philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 115--137. 1998.
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557On Tarski's foundations of the geometry of solidsBulletin of Symbolic Logic 18 (2): 230-260. 2012.The paper [Tarski: Les fondements de la géométrie des corps, Annales de la Société Polonaise de Mathématiques, pp. 29—34, 1929] is in many ways remarkable. We address three historico-philosophical issues that force themselves upon the reader. First we argue that in this paper Tarski did not live up to his own methodological ideals, but displayed instead a much more pragmatic approach. Second we show that Leśniewski's philosophy and systems do not play the significant role that one may be tempted…Read more
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49Bolzano's universe metaphysics, logic, and truthIn Lila Haaparanta & Heikki Koskinen (eds.), Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 167. 2012.This chapter has two aims. The first aim is to present an overview of Bolzano's universe from the point of view of his metaphysics and its relationship to logic, relying fundamentally on Bolzano's Wissenschaftslehre. The author's preferred reading of Bolzano is one according to which he is a 'platonistic nominalist': a platonist about propositions and a nominalist about properties. Bolzano's nominalistic tendencies are particularly conspicuous in his mereological analyses, which play a major rol…Read more
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130The road from vienna to lvov twardowski’s theory of judgement between 1894 and 1897Grazer Philosophische Studien 67 (1): 1-20. 2004.In several manuscripts, written between 1894 and 1897, Twardowski developed a new theory of judgement with two types of judgement: existential and relational judgements. In Zur Lehre he tried to stay within a Brentanian framework, although he introduced the distinction between content and object in the theory of judgement. The introduction of this distinction forced Twardowski to revise further Brentano'stheory.His changes concerned judgements about relations and about non-present objects. The l…Read more
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84Lesniewski's Early Liar, Tarski and Natural LanguageAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic 127 (1-3): 267-287. 2004.This paper is a contribution to the reconstruction of Tarski’s semantic background in the light of the ideas of his master, Stanislaw Lesniewski. Although in his 1933 monograph Tarski credits Lesniewski with crucial negative results on the semantics of natural language, the conceptual relationship between the two logicians has never been investigated in a thorough manner. This paper shows that it was not Tarski, but Lesniewski who first avowed the impossibility of giving a satisfactory theory of…Read more
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153Explanation in metaphysics and Bolzano’s theory of ground and consequenceLogique Et Analyse 211 281-316. 2010.
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30Tadeusz Czezowski, Knowledge, Science and Values-A Program for Scientific Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (1): 22-24. 2002.
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15Polish axiomatics and its truth: On Tarski's Lesniewskian background and the Ajdukiewicz connectionIn Douglas Patterson (ed.), New essays on Tarski and philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 44. 2008.
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211.3. Contro i fattiRivista di Estetica 49 55-72. 2012.This paper argues that the hypothesis that there are facts is ungrounded. I first introduce a series of important theoretical distinctions to say what facts are not – and to avoid misunderstandings as to what I take to be facts, states of affairs and relations. Then I present the so-called problem of the glue, which is linked to Bradley’s regress. Finally, I propose a stronger version of the problem of the glue, which I call the problem of directional glue, with the aim of giving additional evid…Read more
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18The Road from Vienna to Lvov. Twardowski's Theory of Judgement between 1894 and 1897Grazer Philosophische Studien 67 1-20. 2004.
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21Review of the book Leśniewski, lecteur de Frege (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2): 200-201. 2009.N. Gessler. Leśniewski, lecteur de Frege. Avant-propos de Denis Miéville. Neuchâtel: Centre de Recherches Sémiologiques – Travaux de log...
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