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Izydora Dąmbska was one of the most creative women-representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School. The paper presents her extraordinary personality, life, as well as the list of her main works and the greatest scientific achievements. The main area of her interest was the logic of natural language, methodology and the history of Greek semiotics. She gave meticulous analysis of the relation between conventionalism on one hand, and relativism, scepticism and agnosticism on the other. In semiotics, she proposed new approach to the problem of empty names and material implication, of the correct definition of truth, as well as of pragmatic functions of silence and namelessness. In methodology, her reconstruction of the notion of scientific laws is of great importance.
The main thing is to remain in harmony with ourselves and with the truth, not caring about the rest. Letter to Maria Obercowa. January 19, 1951 (Dąmbska [5])
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Izydora Dąmbska’s Works Mentioned in the Paper
La théorie du jugement de M. Edmond Goblot. Towarzystwo Naukowe we Lwowie, Lwów (1930)
O prawach w nauce [On Laws in Science]. Gubrynowicz i Syn, Lwów (1933)
Zarys historii filozofii greckiej [Outline of the History of Greek Philosophy]. Filomata, Lwów (1935)
Irracjonalizm a poznanie naukowe [Irrationalism and the scientific cognition]. Kwartalnik Filozoficzny XIV(i. 2), 83–118 (1937); (i. 3), 185–212 (1938)
List do Marii Obercowej [Letter to Maria Obercowa]. In: Perzanowski, J. (ed.) Izydora Dąmbska. 1904–1983, p. 23. Wydawnictwo PAU, Kraków (2001) (Personal communication, 1951)
Sceptycyzm francuski XVI i XVII wieku [French Skepticism of 16th and 17th Centuries]. Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu, Torun (1958)
Dwa studia z teorii naukowego poznania [The Studies from the Theory of Scientific Cognition]. Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu, Torun (1962)
O narzedziach i przedmiotach poznania: z teorii instrumentalnego poznania. O filozofii lingwistycznej [Instruments and Objects of Congition: from the Theory of Instumental Congition. On Linguistic Philosophy]. PWN, Warszawa (1967)
Dwa studia o Platonie [Two Studies on Plato]. Ossolineum & PAN, Wroclaw (1972)
O konwencjach i konwencjonalizmie [Conventions and Conventionalism]. Ossolineum & PAN, Wroclaw (1975)
Znaki i myśli. Wybór pism z semiotyki, teorii nauki i historii filozofii [Signs and Thoughts. Selected Writings in Semiotics, Epistemology and the History of Philosophy]. PWN, Warszawa (1975)
Gdy myśle o słowie “wolność” [When I think about the word “freedom”]. Znak XXXIII(6), 855–860 (1981)
O niektórych koncepcjach metafilozoficznych w Szkole Lwowsko-Warszawskiej [On some metaphilosophical conceptions in the Lvov-Warsaw School]. In: Perzanowski, J. (ed.) Jak filozofowac? Studia z metodologii filozofii [How to Philosophise? Studies from the Methodology of Philosophy], pp. 22–29. PWN, Warszawa (1989)
Kowledge, Language and Silence. Selected Papers. Brill/Rodopi, Leiden & Boston (2016)
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Brożek, A., Jadacki, J. (2018). Izydora Dąmbska: The First Lady of the Twentieth-Century Polish Philosophy. In: Garrido, Á., Wybraniec-Skardowska, U. (eds) The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present. Studies in Universal Logic. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_16
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