I am happy to announce the third session of our History of Logic seminar series. The session will be held online (via Zoom) on Tuesday, January 22nd, from 3 pm to 5 pm (CET) via Zoom. To have the Zoom link, you need to be subscribed to the mailing list of the seminar series. The contacts can be found here.
This time, we will host a talk by Zuzana Rybaříková, Assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava, Czechia. She focuses mainly on the history and philosophy of logic. Recently, she was awarded the “Research in Poland” scholarship of the Mieroszewski Center for 2025 from 1st February to 30th April.
Her talk is titled Łukasiewicz's concept of logic and anti-psychologism. Here is a short abstract:
Edmund Husserl and Gottlob Frege are the most renowned representatives of anti-psychologism, i.e., the attempt to separate logic and psychology. These two thinkers were followed by the Polish logician Jan Łukasiewicz, who was the first to promote anti-psychologism in his homeland. Nevertheless, Łukasiewicz's later concept of anti-psychologism differed significantly from that of Husserl and Frege. Namely, Łukasiewicz denied almost all the principles that defined anti-psychologism in the works of these two thinkers. However, he vindicated anti-psychologism to the end of his life. In my talk, I will present the development of Łukasiewicz's concept of anti-psychologism. It had an influence not only on his philosophy of logic but also on his philosophy of science. Besides being interesting from a historical point of view, Łukasiewicz's approach may also show important issues for anti-psychologism at a time when psychology is a method of scientific philosophy again.
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On behalf of the History of Logic team, I wish you all a happy new year.
