Philosopher
Jan Łukasiewicz
Overview
Jan Leopold Łukasiewicz (Polish: [ˈjan wukaˈɕɛvit͡ʂ] ; 21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician, and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic. His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle, offering one of the earliest systems of many-valued logic. Contemporary research on Aristotelian logic also builds on innovative works by Łukasiewicz, which applied methods from modern logic to the formalization of Aristotle's syllogistic.
The Łukasiewicz approach was reinvigorated in the early 1970s in a series of papers by John Corcoran and Timothy Smiley that inform modern translations of Prior Analytics by Robin Smith in 1989 and Gisela Striker in 2009. Łukasiewicz is regarded as one of the most important historians of logic.
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Philosophers who discussed Jan Łukasiewicz
- Tadeusz Kotarbiński
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Heraclitus
- Arthur Prior
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- Alfred Tarski
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
- Leon Chwistek
- Stanisław Jaśkowski
- Grigore Moisil
- Henryk Hiż
Ideas Jan Łukasiewicz discusses
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- University of Warsaw
- Alan Turing
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Lwów–Warsaw school
- Analytic philosophy
- Karl Popper
- Law of excluded middle
- Logical connective
- Propositional logic
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Mathematical logic
- Russian Empire
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Poland
- Polish language
- Three-valued logic
- Polish notation
- Switzerland
- Stephen Cole Kleene
- Austria-Hungary
- Philosophical logic
- Aristotle
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.