Jakub Karpiński w kręgu Szkoły Lwowsko-Warszawskiej
Jakub Karpiński in the Circle of the Lvov-Warsaw School

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the philosophical background of Jakub Karpiński’s views. In this respect, he took his stand on the program of the Lvov-Warsaw School. This fact is understandable, because his main teachers where representatives of this school. The following suppositions compose the aforementioned background: (1) the reality described by science is ontologically very differential (ontological pluralism); (2) events that compose this reality are repeatable and mutually connected by causal relations (determinism); (3) scientific theories are estimated in many respects – not only on account of truthfulness of their theses. In the paper, the following problems are also discussed: (a) Karpiński’s views concerning the notion of cause; (b) his approach to the problem of operational defining scientific terms; (c) Karpiński’s typology of schemes (scil. methods) of sociological research; (d) his analysis of controversies in science.

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