Roman Ingarden
Roman Ingarden | |
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Portrait of Roman Ingarden by Witkacy | |
| Born | 5 February 1893 |
| Died | 4 June 1970 (aged 77) |
| Children | Roman Stanisław Ingarden |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Göttingen University of Freiburg (PhD, 1918) Lwów University (Dr. phil. hab., 1925) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edmund Husserl |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Phenomenology Realist phenomenology Neoplatonism |
| Main interests | Aesthetics, epistemology, formal ontology, nature vs nurture |
| Notable ideas | Ontology of the work of art |
Roman Witold Ingarden (5 February 1893 – 14 June 1970) was a Polish philosopher who worked in aesthetics, ontology, and phenomenology.
Before World War II, Ingarden published his works mainly in the German language and in books and newspapers. During the war, he switched to Polish out of solidarity with his homeland after the German invasion, and as a result, his major works in ontology went largely unnoticed and undetected by the wider world and philosophical community. Nevertheless, Ingarden's writings have made some indirect cultural impact through the writings of his student and eventual Pope, Karol Wojtyla.