Observation, Hypothesis, Introspection

✍ Scribed by Adam Wiegner

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 87
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wiegner's work belongs to Polish analytical philosophy, but it falls outside of its main current, the Lvov-Warsaw School, which was influenced by Hume's ideas, Wiegner, influenced by neo-Kantianism, developed a non-Humean conception of holistic empiricism, which anticipates some of the ideas of K.R. Popper and W.V.O. Quine. Some of his ideas remain original to this day.His main research interests included epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science especially philosophy of psychology, analytical history of philosophy, interpretation of traditional logic in terms of mathematical logic.

✦ Table of Contents

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OBSERVATION, HYPOTHESIS, INTROSPECTION
CONTENTS
Introduction: Adam Wiegner's Nonstandard Empiricism
OBSERVATION, HYPOTHESIS, INTROSPECTION
Translator's Note
List of Selected Translational Decisions
HOLISTIC EMPIRICISM
A Note on Holistic Empiricism (1964)
The Problem of Knowledge in light of L. Nelson's Critical Philosophy (1925)
The "Proton Pseudos" in Wundt's Criticism of R. Avenarius' Philosophy (1963)
Philosophical Significance of Gestalt Theory (1948)
The Idea of a Logic of Knowledge (1934)
OTHER EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Remarks on Indeterminism in Physics (1932)
A Note on the Concept of Relative Truth (1964)
On the so-called "Relative Truth" (1963)
On Abstraction and Concretization (1960)
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY
On the Nature of Mental Phenomena (1933)
On the Debate about Imaginative Ideas (1932)
On the Subjective and Objective Clarity in Thought and Word (1959)
References
Original Sources
Appendix: Wiegner's Conception of Holistic Empiricism