Polish Philosophical Society

The Polish Philosophical Society is a scientific society based in Poland, founded in 1904 in Lwów by Kazimierz Twardowski.[1] The statutory goal is to practice and promote philosophy, especially onthology, theory of knowledge, logic, methodology, ethics, history of philosophy as well as the history of social science.

The Society has over 800 members and several branches, which included Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Olsztyn, Poznań, Szczecin, Toruń, Warszawa, Wrocław, Zielona Góra.[2] It publishe the quarterly Ruch Filozoficzny, which was founded in 1911[3] and later continued by the University of Torun.[4]

The Polish Philosophical Society (PTF) is a member of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. The headquarters of the Society is in Warsaw. The current president (2010) is Władysław Stróżewski.[5]

References
  1. Betti, Arianna. "Kazimierz Twardowski". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  2. Services, United States Dept of Commerce Office of Technical (1974). OTS: Polish Research Guide. Springfield, VA: U.S. Department of Commerce. p. 349.
  3. Schaar, Maria van der (2015). Kazimierz Twardowski: A Grammar for Philosophy. Leiden: BRILL. p. 12. ISBN 978-90-04-30402-4.
  4. Coniglione, Francesco; Poli, Roberto; Woleński, Jan (1993). Polish Scientific Philosophy: The Lvov-Warsaw School. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 30. ISBN 978-90-5183-508-3.
  5. Porębski, Czesław (2019). Lectures on Polish Value Theory. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-39432-2.


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