Logic and Its History in the Lvov-Warsaw School

Abstract

We take into account two areas of the logical research of the Lvov-Warsaw School. First, we consider a new approach to research in the history of logic introduced and practiced by Łukasiewicz and some of his followers. In this style of doing history of logic, the knowledge of original philosophical and logical texts was combined with competence in modern logic. This method resulted in many important discoveries both in history and in logic and philosophy. At the same time, we pay attention to contemporary historical research devoted to the logic created by the School itself. In this context, we present an overview of the six papers included in the special issue ‘Logic and its History in the Lvov-Warsaw School’. These papers were presented at an international symposium, ‘History in/of the Lvov-Warsaw School’, held in October 2022 in Warsaw, and they cover various aspects of historical-logical and logical achievements of the School. They concern topics from history of ancient logic, history of modern proof theory, and the issues of applying logic to philosophy and theology in the same way as the one implemented at the Lvov-Warsaw School.

Keywords:

• Lvov-Warsaw School
• Warsaw School of Logic
• logic
• history of logic
• philosophical applications of logic

Notes

1 For the period 2018–2023, the Google Scholar search engine found in 0.06 seconds 315 Polish-language publications whose titles include the name ‘Szkoła Lwowsko-Warszawska’ and 823 and 238 English-language publications with titles containing the names ‘Lvov-Warsaw School’ and ‘Lviv-Warsaw School’, respectively.