“The Tragedy of Verbal Metaphysics” by Leon Chwistek
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This is the first English translation of Leon Chwistek’s “Tragedia werbalnej metafizyki (Z powodu książki Dra Ingardena: Das literarische Kunstwerk),” Kwartalnik Filozoficzny, Vol. X, 1932, 46–76. Chwistek offers a scathing critique of Roman Ingarden’s Das literarische Kunstwerk (translated into English as The Literary Work of Art) and of the entire Phenomenology movement. The text also contains many hints at Chwistek’s own philosophical and formal ideas. The book that Chwistek reviews attracted wide attention and was instrumental in winning Ingarden a position as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lwów in 1933. Chwistek’s alienation from his fellow logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school is clear from his ridicule of Leśniewski’s project.References
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Chwistek, Leon, 1923. “The Theory of Constructive Types, (Principles of Logic and Mathematics), Part I.” Annales de la Société Polonaise de Mathématique (Rocznik Polskiego Towarzystwa Matematycznego) II: 9–48.
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Conrad-Mauritius, Hedwig, 1929. “Farben. Ein Kapitel aus der Realontologie.” Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Phänomenologische Forschung 10 supp. vol.: 338–70.
Feferman, A. B. and S. Feferman, 2004. Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Husserl, Edmund, 1900. Logische Untersuchungen, vol. I. Halle: Niemeyer.
——— 1901. Logische Untersuchungen, vol. II. Halle: Niemeyer.
——— 1929. “Formale und Transzendentale Logik.” Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Phänomenologische Forschung 10: 1–298.
——— 1969. Formal and Transcendental Logic, translated by Dorion Cairns. The Hague: Nijhoff.
——— 1970. Logical Investigations, translated by J. N. Findlay. Routledge, Kegan and Paul: London.
Ingarden, Roman, 1929. “Bemerkungen zum Problem Idealismus Realismus.” Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Phänomenologische Forschung 10 supp. vol.: 159–90.
——— 1931. Das Literarische Kunstwerk. Halle: Niemeyer.
——— 1936. “Der Logistische Versuch einer Neugestaltung der Philosophie.” In Actes du huitième Congrès internationale de Philosophie à Prague, pp. 203–08. Prague: Comité d’organisation du Congrès.
——— 1979. The Literary Work of Art, translated by George G. Grabowicz. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Linsky, Bernard, 2009. “Leon Chwistek’s Theory of Constructive Types.” In The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy: Kazimierz Twardowski’s Philosophical Legacy, edited by Jan Woleński, Mathieu Marion, Sandra Lapointe and Wioletta Miśkiewicz, pp. 203–19. Dordrecht: Springer.
——— 2011. The Evolution of Principia Mathematica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Myhill, John, 1950. “A Complete Theory of Natural, Rational, and Real Numbers.” Journal of Symbolic Logic 15: 185–96.
Russell, Bertrand, 1912. The Problems of Philosophy. London: Home University Library.
Simons, Peter, 2000. Parts: A Study in Ontology. Oxford: Clarendon.
Twardowski, Kasimir, 1977. On the Content and Object of Presentations: A Psychological Investigation, translated by R. Grossmann. The Hague: Nijhoff.
Whitehead, Alfred North and Bertrand Russell, 1910. Principia Mathematica, vol. I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Woleński, Jan, 1989. Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
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