Maria Kokoszyńska: Between the Lvov-Warsaw School and the Vienna Circle

Abstract

<p><br />Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa (1905–1981) was one of the most outstanding female representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School. After achieving her PhD in philosophy under Kazimierz Twardowski’s supervision, she was Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s assistant. She was also influenced by Alfred Tarski whose results in semantics she analyzed and popularized. After World War II, she got the chair of logic in University of Wrocław and she organized studies in logic in this academic center.</p><p>In the 1930s, Kokoszyńska kept in contact with members of the Vienna Circle and became a kind of connecting factor between Polish logicians and the Viennese group. In Poland, she presented the views of members of the Vienna Circle. In Vienna, she emphasized the results of her Polish colleagues.</p><p>In the present paper, some of Kokoszyńska’s results connected with the matters discussed in the Vienna Circle are presented, namely with the problem of metaphysics, the status of logic and the idea of unity of science.</p><p> </p>

Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa i Witkacego „ostatni w życiu Abhandlung o logice”

“…Była łączniczką między polskim środowiskiem filozoficznym a Wiedeńczykami, przekazując wzajemnie idee obu stron (zob. Brożek 2017). Przebywała w Wiedniu na stypendium badawczym w latach 1934-1935.…”

Carnap and the Members of the Lvov–Warsaw School. Carnap’s Warsaw Lectures (1930) in the Polish context

“…As mentioned earlier, Carnap's program was carefully followed by Ajdukiewicz. Primarily, though, it was Maria Kokoszyńska who was in close social and academic contact with the Vienna Circle (hereafter: VC), which I describe extensively elsewhere (Brożek 2017). It could generally be said that the contacts between the Lvov-Warsaw School and the Vienna Circle during the interwar period were lively.…”