Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski: Selected Essays

Presentation; Witold Marciszewski. 1. Introduction: Central Europe in the History of Philosophy. 2. Bolzano, Tarski, and the Limits of Logic. 3. Brentano's Reform of Logic. 4. The Formalization of Husserl's Theory of Wholes and Parts. 5. Frege's Theory of Real Numbers. 6. The Anglo-Austrian Analytic Axis. 7. On What There Isn't; The Meinong-Russel Controversy. 8. Meinong, Lukasiewicz, and Many-Valued Logic. 9. On Understanding Lesniewski. 10. A Brentanian Basis for Lesniewskian Logic. 11. Lesniewski's Logic and its Relation to Classical and Free Logics. 12. A Semantics for Ontology. 13. The Old Problem of Complex and Fact. 14. Tractatus-Mereologico-Philosophicus? A Brentanian Look at Wittgenstein. 15. Wittgenstein, Schlick, and the a priori. 16. Categories and Ways of Being. Bibliography. Index of Persons. Index of Subjects. Indiex of Cities.