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Adam Mahrburg (6 August 1855 – 13 November 1913) was a Polish philosopher—the outstanding philosophical mind of Poland's Positivist period.

Life

Adam Mahrburg was a philosopher and theoretician of knowledge. He taught in Warsaw's secret university and published in learned and popular journals.

He reduced philosophy to the theory of knowledge. He regarded science as a tool for ordering and anticipating phenomena and for effective action. He was an exponent of determinism.

Works

• Teoria celowości ze stanowiska naukowego (The Theory of Purpose from a Scientific Standpoint, 1888),
• Co to jest nauka (What Is Science? 1897)

See also

• History of philosophy in Poland
• List of Poles

Notes

1. Jan Zygmunt Jakubowski, ed., Literatura polska od średniowiecza do pozytywizmu (Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to Positivism), p. 572.
2. ^ "Mahrburg, Adam," Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (PWN Universal Encyclopedia), vol. 2, p. 818.

References

• "Mahrburg, Adam," Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (PWN Universal Encyclopedia), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, vol. 2, 1974, p. 818.
• Jan Zygmunt Jakubowski, ed., Literatura polska od średniowiecza do pozytywizmu (Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to Positivism), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979, ISBN 83-01-00201-8.
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), volume 3: Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Philosophy, Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978, p. 178 and passim.

External links

• Mahrburg Adam, Pisma filozoficzne, Tom 1 (Adam Mahrburg, Philosophical Writings, volume 1)

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