Adam Mahrburg [SEP] date of birth
Adam Mahrburg
Adam Mahrburg (1855–1913) 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
the Middle Ages to Positivism), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979, .
- 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)