Adam Mahrburg (6 August 1855 â 13 November 1913) was a Polish Positivist philosopher.
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 celowoÃ
Âci ze stanowiska naukowego (The Theory of Purpose from a Scientific Standpoint, 1888),
- Co to jest nauka (What Is Science? 1897)
See also
Notes
References
- "Mahrburg, Adam," Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (PWN Universal Encyclopedia), Warsaw, PaÃ
Âstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, vol. 2, 1974, p. 818.
- Jan Zygmunt Jakubowski, ed., Literatura polska od Ã
Âredniowiecza do pozytywizmu (Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to Positivism), Warsaw, PaÃ
Âstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979, .
- WÃ
ÂadysÃ
Âaw Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), volume 3: Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Philosophy, Warsaw, PaÃ
Âstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978, p. 178 and passim.
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