Online Book Launch: A New Organon. Science Studies in Interwar Poland, ed. by Friedrich Cain and Bernhard Kleeberg (2024)

20. Nov. 2024, 16:15-17:45

with Friedrich Cain (ed.), Tulsi (Tuesday) Bhambry (translator) and Jan Surman (author) at the Commission for the Hist. of Science at the Polish Academy of Arts and Science in Cracow

To access the online meeting, please contact Friedrich Cain.

On the volume: When Poland gained independence in 1918, knowledge about how the state and society should be organised became particularly important. Until 1939, representatives of various disciplines (sociology, philosophy, education and the natural sciences) met around the journal Nauka Polska and the Science Circle Working Group (Koło Naukoznawcze) to discuss the development of science and the academic system. Among other things, they asked about the impact of scientific creativity and ways of controlling it (Antoni B. Dobrowolski), what a socio-psychological ‘science of knowledge’ should look like (Florian Znaniecki) or how society would benefit from a ‘science of science’ (Maria Ossowska and Stanisław Ossowski). In contrast to similar contemporary approaches from the East-Central European context, such as those of Ludwik Fleck, these works are generally little known today. This volume reconstructs the forgotten history of this Warsaw science research and presents key contributions in English translation for the first time.

For more information see the website of the publishing house Mohr Siebeck.