Logical Culture as a Common Ground for the Lvov-Warsaw School and the Informal Logic Initiative

Abstract

In this paper, we will explore two initiatives that focus on the importance of employing logical theories in educating people how to think and reason properly, one in Poland: The Lvov-Warsaw School; the other in North America: The Informal Logic Initiative. These two movements differ in the logical means and skills that they focus on. However, we believe that they share a common purpose: to educate students in logic and reasoning (logical education conceived as a process) so that they may be able to apply their skills to analyze the issues in their society (logical culture as a result of logical education). The aim of the paper is to justify this claim by exploring research objectives and products that are common to both movements.

On Good Mental Work: Techniques of Mental Work as a Subject of Pragmatic Logic in the Lvov-Warsaw School

“…They defended it against objections from formal logicians, formulated its program, and stressed its importance for the education of critically thinking citizens (cf. Kotarbiński 1925a, b, 1951, 1956a, b, 1967, Ajdukiewicz 1951, Czeżowski 1958, Johnson, Koszowy 2018, Będkowski 2020). Here, I would like to limit myself to mentioning two contributions -i.e., those given by Ajdukiewicz and Kotarbiński -to the issue which I find the most important from the perspective of the place of good work in the program of pragmatic logic.…”