Jan Woleński born on , Polish

Poles

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 philosopher. He is currently Professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

 (since 1991); he graduated both in philosophy and law

Law

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, attaining his doctorate and "habilitation" (second degree) in jurisprudence. He belongs to the tradition of analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy

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, and considers himself close to the heritage of Lwow-Warsaw School. His main fields of research are philosophy of language

Philosophy of language

Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for analytic philosophers is concerned with four central problems: the nature of meaning, language use, language cognition, and the relationship between language...

 and epistemology (mainly theory of truth), however among his numerous (ca. 800) papers and books (ca. 20) many focus on the theory of law and politics. Jan Woleński is also involved in the Jewish (secular) movement, i.e. commenting on Polish-Jewish common past and today's relationships.

Main works in English

• Logic and philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw school, Dordrecht, London, Kluwer, 1989.
• Kotarbinski: logic, semantics and ontology (ed.), Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.
• Philosophical Logic in Poland (ed.), Dordrecht, London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
• Alfred Tarski
  Alfred Tarski
  Alfred Tarski was a Polish logician and mathematician. Educated at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of...
  
   and the Vienna circle
  Vienna Circle
  The Vienna Circle was an association of philosophers gathered around the University of Vienna in 1922, chaired by Moritz Schlick, also known as the Ernst Mach Society in honour of Ernst Mach...
  
  : Austro-Polish connections in logical empiricism, with Eckehart Köhler, Dordrecht, London, Kluwer Academic, 1999.
• Essays in the history of logic and logical philosophy, Cracov, Jagiellonian University Press 1999.

Main works in Polish

• Z zagadnień analitycznej filozofii prawa, Quaestiones ad philosophiam analyticam iuris pertinentes, Warsaw, PWN, 1980.
• Filozoficzna szkoła lwowsko-warszawska, Warsaw, PWN, 1985.
• Kotarbiński, Wiedza Powszechna, Warszaw, 1990.
• Metamatematyka a epistemologia, Warszaw, PWN, 1993.
• W stronę logiki, Aureus, Cracow, 1996.
• Szkoła Lwowsko-Warszawska w polemikach, Warsaw, Scholar, 1997.
• Okolice filozofii prawa, Cracow, Universitas, 1999.
• Epistemologia, 3 volumes, Cracow, Aureus, 2000 (reedited in one volume in 2005 by WN PWN, Warsaw).
• Granice niewiary, Cracow, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2004.

Online Works

• Humanism and Rationalism