Kazimierz Twardowski

Kazimierz Twardowski
Born(1866-10-20)20 October 1866
Died11 February 1938(1938-02-11) (aged 71)
Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine)
Education
EducationUniversity of Vienna
(Ph.D., 1891; Dr. phil. hab., 1894)
Theses
  • Über den Unterschied zwischen der klaren und deutlichen Perception und der klaren und deutlichen Idee bei Descartes (On the difference between clear and distinct perception and between clear and distinct ideas in Descartes) (1891)
  • Zur Lehre vom Inhalt und Gegenstand der Vorstellungen (On the Doctrine of the Content and Object of Presentations) (1894)
Doctoral advisorRobert von Zimmermann
Other advisorsFranz Brentano
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolLwów–Warsaw school
School of Brentano
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
(1894–1895)
Lwów University
(1895–1930)
Polish Philosophical Society (1904–1938, founder)
Doctoral studentsKazimierz Ajdukiewicz
Stefan Banach
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Stanisław Leśniewski
Jan Łukasiewicz
Bronislaw Bandrowski
Władysław Witwicki
Main interests
Notable ideasContent–object distinction
Lwów–Warsaw school

Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski (Polish: [tfarˈdɔfskʲi]; 20 October 1866 – 11 February 1938) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, logician, and rector of the Lwów University. He was initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory.