Tadeusz Kotarbiński (Warsaw, Poland, March 31, 1886 - October 3, 1981, Warsaw), a pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, was a Polish philosopher, mathematician, logician, one of the most representative figures of the Lwów-Warsaw School, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He created a philosophical theory called "reism" (Polish: reizm).

Works

• Elementy teorii poznania, logiki formalnej i metodologii nauk (1929)
• Traktat o dobrej robocie (1955)
• Sprawność i błąd (1956)
• Medytacje o życiu godziwym (1966)

• ''Leçons sur l'histoire de la logique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1964. Original Polish edition 1957.
• ''Praxiology. An introduction to the sciences of efficient action. New York: Pergamon Press 1965. Originally published in Polish in 1955
• ''Gnosiology. The scientific approach to the theory of knowledge. Oxford: Pergamon Press 1966. Original Polish edition 1929; second revised edition 1961.

External links

• Polish Philosophy page: Tadeusz Kotarbiński
• Kotarbinski from Reism to Pansomatism

1886 births | 1981 deaths | Polish logicians | Polish mathematicians | Polish philosophers

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