The Significance of Kazimierz Twardowski in Philosophy and Culture

Vol.15,No.1(2014)

Abstract
The paper presents the academic personality of Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938). Twardowski was born and educated in Vienna, where he was a student of Franz Brentano. After achieving habilitation, he moved to Lvov, where he organized serious philosophical research and became the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School of philosophy and logic. The Twardowski’s achievements in three dimensions: as a teacher, as an organizer and as a scientist are briefly described.

Keywords:
Kazimierz Twardowski; Lvov-Warsaw School; Polish philosophy
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