Andrzej Grzegorczyk
Andrzej Grzegorczyk was a Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, and ethicist noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics.
Historical family background
Andrzej Grzegorczyk's foundational family background has its origins in the Polish intellectual, religious, patriotic, and nationalist traditions. He was the only child to the Galician family of well-educated and wealthy parents, his father Piotr Jan Grzegorczyk was a polonist and historian of Polish literature involved into literary criticism, bibliographic studies, and chronicles of the Polish cultural life. Andrzej's mother Zofia Jadwiga née Zdziarska was a Medical Doctor from a purely Polish landed gentry family.Rich historical family background was the most fundamental element in the shaping of Andrzej Grzegorczyk's further both intellectual formation and professional academic career. In particular, this heritage laid the foundations of his philosophical system which was a specific apologetics which mixed the Christian doctrine with certain elements of the Communist Ideology, the ecumenic approach towards both the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Russian Orthodox Church, the manifestly friendly attitude to the Eastern European countries and their national philosophers, and problems in the social assimilation in the Western European countries which served him at most for short time visits.
Educational formation
During the 1939–1944 Nazi–Soviet occupation of Poland in the course of the World War II, Grzegorczyk was a voluntary member of the Home Army, the dominant Polish resistance movement formed in February 1942 by the Union of Armed Struggle and other Polish partisans with allegiance to the Polish Government-in-Exile as the armed wing of the Polish Underground State. As an insurgent of the Warsaw uprising under the pseudonym Bułka, he provided a voluntary military service in the rank of Shooter in the 2nd Platoon of the Company 'He got primary education at a private School of the Roman Catholic Educational Society Future, the same as for other Warsaw Uprising's insurgent a Polish politician Władysław Bartoszewski who under the pseudonym Teofil served to the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Headquarters of the Home Army in the rank of Corporal and in 1940–1941 was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Since 1938, Grzegorczyk had obtained the Polish secondary underground education at the :pl:VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Tadeusza Reytana w Warszawie|6th Tadeusz Reytan Lyceum in Warsaw to be matriculated in May 1940 on the day of France's capitulation. In order to be saved from a forced displacement to the Nazi Germany for a forced labour, he started another education at a chemical high school and then, when the Nazi authorities allowed vocational secondary education in the occupied Poland, at a 3-year chemical school localized on the area of the Warsaw University of Technology where in 1942–1944 he was taught by the professors of this university. At the same time, he completed a clandestine higher education at two then secret Polish universities – in physics at the University of Warsaw, where physics was taught by Czesław Białobrzeski and Leonard Sosnowski, and in philosophy at the University of the Western Lands, where among others Władysław Tatarkiewicz had read to the students the parts of himself authored and then being created book O Szczęściu, whereas history of philosophy was lectured by his protégé a Polish-Jewish philosopher :pl:Mieczysław Milbrandt|Mieczysław Milbrandt who as an insurgent of the Warsaw uprising under the pseudonym Noemi since August 1944 during the assault on the Sejm in September 1944 lost a leg and died of the heavily injures in a field hospital. At the stage of higher education, Grzegorczyk was especially attracted to logic by a broadcast lecture on stoic logic by a logician and mathematician Jan Łukasiewicz, who served as the Minister of Religious Denominations and Public Education of the Second Polish Republic in the :pl:Rząd Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego|1919 government of a pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski, led the development of a Polish curriculum which replaced the Russian–German–Austrian curricula of the Partitioned Poland and focused on the early acquisition of elementary both logic and mathematics, in 1923 was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Stanisław Wojciechowski, in 1922–1923 and 1931–1932 was a rector of the University of Warsaw, in 1938 was awarded by doctor honoris causa title of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and in May 1939 was elected a councillor of the :pl:Rada Miasta Lwowa |Council of the City of Lwów as a representative of the Camp of National Unity based in the Sanation movement.
Practical exercises in mathematical logic were provided by Tadeusz Kotarbiński's student :pl:Henryk Hiż|Henryk Hiż, who in the late 1930s was a member of the anti-Sanation :pl:Klub Demokratyczny|Democratic Club, as an insurgent of the Warsaw Uprising in the rank of Second Lieutenant was imprisoned in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp :pl:Oflag II D Gross-Born|Oflag II D Gross-Born, after liberation by the 4th Infantry Division of the First Polish Army immigrated to the US, where in 1948 as Henry Thadeus Hiz got a doctoral degree at the Harvard University for a thesis An economical foundation for arithmetic supervised by a famous American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine and worked for the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Logic was also lectured therein by a Roman Catholic priest and Christian philosopher :pl:Jan Salamucha|Jan Salamucha who was a student of logicians and philosophers Stanisław Leśniewski and Jan Łukasiewicz, a medical orderly in the 1919–1921 Polish–Soviet War, an organizer of the Cracow Circle for the logico-methodological analysis of the traditional metaphysics and Thomism – especially formalization of Thomas Aquinas' proofs for existence of God – in 1934 along with a Dominican friar and philosopher Józef Maria Bocheński who in 1964–1966 was a rector of the Universität Freiburg in Switzerland, a Thomist philosopher :pl:Jan Drewnowski |Jan Franciszek Drewnowski, and logician and philosopher :pl:Bolesław Sobociński|Bolesław Sobociński, a member of the National Radical Camp along with Sobociński, a professor and the head of the Chair of Christian philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków since 1938 after he completed habilitation in 1937 and doctoral degree in 1927 for the thesis on modal sentences in Aristotle's logic, a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps in Sachsenhausen and Dachau in 1939–1940 as a result of the Nazi operation Sonderaktion Krakau against the Jagiellonian University's professors, a Christian ministry chaplain to the National Armed Forces and the Home Army Sub-district IV of Warsaw Ochota, an awardee of the Cross of Valour and an insurgent of the Warsaw uprising under the pseudonym Jan who was brutally murdered in the aftermath of the fall of the last major resistance point known as the Reduta Wawelska during the August 1944's Warsaw Ochota massacre by the Russian Nazis' collaborationists of the S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. commanded in 1942–1944 by SS-Brigadeführer Bronislav V. Kaminski, a Polish-German Russian nicknamed the Ochota's butcher who served in the Red Army during the 1917–1922 Russian Civil War to be expelled from the CPSU in 1935 and be arrested in 1937 during the Great Purge for both criticism of Stalin's policy of farm collectivisation and work with Germans and Poles. Meanwhile, psychology was taught by a Catholic priest :pl:Piotr Chojnacki |Piotr Julian Chojnacki, historian of philosophy and ethicist who in 1921 got a doctoral degree in philosophy from the Universität Freiburg in Switzerland for the critical thesis on the neo-Kantian Marburg school's approach to both Immanuel Kant's ethics as well as socialist ethics and in 1927 got a docent degree for a psychologic-epistemological study of notions and ideas at the former Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Warsaw to become its dean for 1938–1939 along with heading the Chair of Christian Philosophy and a Full Professor in 1947, who in 1952–1955 lectured at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and since 1954, when both the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Warsaw and the Theological Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków were dissolved and transformed into the Academy of Catholic Theology which in 1999 was renamed to the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, until retirement in 1964 he was the dean of the Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the ATK and the head of the Chair of Logic, General Methodology of Sciences and Epistemology. Furthermore, fine arts were lectured by a Polish art historian Michał Marian Walicki, who worked at the Department of Polish Architecture of the Warsaw Technical University in 1929–1936 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1932–1939 and 1945–1949, was awarded by the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1947 and in 1949 was arrested and imprisoned till 1953 on the grounds of both false accusations and a fabricated evidence.
On the other hand, one of Grzegorczyk's underground teachers was a philosopher of science and culture Bogdan Suchodolski, a professor at the Chair of Pedagogy of the Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów since 1938, a professor at the University of Warsaw in 1946–1970 and a member of the PAU since 1946, since 1952 a member and in 1965–1970 a deputy of scientific secretary and in 1969–1980 a member of the presidium of the PAS, in 1953–1973 the chairman of the Committee on Education Studies of the PAS, the head of the Department of History of Science and Technology of the PAS for 1958–1974 and the founding director of the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences at the :pl:Wydział Pedagogiczny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego|Faculty of Education of the University of Warsaw for 1958–1968, since 1968 a member of the Front of National Unity, in 1983 a member of its successor the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth created to demonstrate unity and support for the communist Poland's both government and governing party Polish United Workers' Party in the aftermath of the 1981–1983 martial law in Poland with a crucial role of a Polish centrist political party Alliance of Democrats and a pro-communist secular Roman Catholic organization PAX Association which in 1949 formed a publishing house :pl:Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax"|Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax", in 1985–1989 a member and a Senior Marshal of the :pl:Sejm PRL|communist Poland's Parliament, in 1982–1989 the chairman of the National Council of Culture created by the martial law's main author Wojciech Jaruzelski, during more than four decades of the Polish People's Republic he was awarded by the crucial state decorations such like the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Order of the Builders of People's Poland, the Medal of the National Education Commission, and twice the 1st class Order of the Banner of Work.
Similarly to another Polish mathematician Helena Rasiowa whose first unfinished master thesis in philosophy prepared under Jan Łukasiewicz burned with all house during the Warsaw uprising, Grzegorczyk was able to complete his originally underground education only after the World War II finished. Already in 1945 at the :pl:Wydział Filozoficzny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego|Philosophical Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, supervised by a renowned philosopher of physics Zygmunt Michał Zawirski who in 1938–1939 was the Faculty's dean and in 1937 relocated to Kraków after uninterrupted nine years as the head of the Chair of Theory and Methodology of Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and investigated the problems on the borderline of philosophy and physics, Grzegorczyk finished the first higher study by a magister degree in philosophy with the thesis The Ontology of Properties, wherein with a help of Kotarbiński's reism, also propagated by Henryk Hiż, in the formal version by Stanisław Leśniewski, he successfully presented interpretation of Leśniewski's elementary ontology as a theory of higher logical types. Soon after graduation, he got a postgraduate scholarship targeted to the study logic and the foundations of mathematics at the University of Warsaw, and on 26 May 1950 by examinations in philosophy and chemistry he completed a doctoral degree in mathematics with the thesis On Topological Spaces in Topologies without Points supervised by a famous mathematician Andrzej Stanisław Mostowski, in 1954 awarded by Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and in 1963 elected a real member of the PAS, who after the World War II also supervised Rasiowa's both master and doctoral theses in logic and the foundations of mathematics.
All the aforementioned teachers, both underground and post-war, by their teaching style and general attitude very deeply impacted onto Grzegorczyk's youthful mind. In his later years, the influence was strictly reflected by his various life choices, individual mental features, overall academic career both inside and outside Poland, both style and methods of research and teaching work. What is much more fundamental for his creativity, this impact straightforwardly shaped his personal world view which paradoxically mixed the ideas being in a deep mutual opposition, and resulted in the creation of a borderline philosophical system based on discrimination against the features of a human mind which are either inborn or beyond a personal choice.
Academic career
In 1946–1948, he was an assistant to Władysław Tatarkiewicz, and, since at this time Tatarkiewicz was the editor-in-chief of the first Polish philosophical journal :pl:Przegląd Filozoficzny|Przegląd Filozoficzny, he served also as the secretary of the editorial board. In 1948, he submitted a paper on the semantics of descriptive language to the 10th International Congress of Philosophy in Amsterdam, but, similarly to most Polish philosophers invited by the organizers or submitting papers, he did not get passport and could not participate in this event, although his abstract was included in the proceedings. This fact was the omen of a difficult political time, and at this time logic focused attention of many Polish philosophers, young Grzegorczyk selected the way of majority. Soon after completion of the doctoral degree, he was employed by the :pl:Instytut Matematyczny PAN|Institute of Mathematics of the PAS and after 3 years he completed qualification procedure to a docent position on the basis of a book Some Classes of Recursive Functions, what at this time was an equivalent of the habilitation procedure. In 1950–1968, he worked at a secondary employment for the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw, in 1957 he was awarded by the :pl:Nagroda im. Stefana Banacha|Stefan Banach Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society, in 1961 he was appointed an associate professor of mathematics. In 1963, along with Andrzej Mostowski and Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, he participated in the famous logical conference The Theory of Models at the University of California, Berkeley where he met Alfred Tarski and where his both individual research results and research results co-authored with Mostowski and Ryll-Nardzewski were the subjects of few lectures. When a famous Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth died in 1964, the University of Amsterdam offered him the position of the head of the chair after Beth, he came to Amsterdam for few months and returned to Warsaw because he could not find a mental place for himself in the Netherlands, at this time on the eve of the cultural revolution which made Amsterdam the 'magic centre' of Europe. Also in 1967 he lectured four months at the University of Amsterdam and was appointed a member and an assessor to the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, while in 1970 he lectured two months at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1960, he contributed a philosophical essay to the festschrift volume to honor Władysław Tatarkiewicz on the occasion of his 70th birthday anniversary, whereas his father contributed Tatarkiewicz's bibliography to this volume. In the aftermath of the March 1968 Polish political crisis, as a result of a long-lasting confirmed direct involvement into the anti-governmental oppositional actions such like signing every open letter against restriction onto freedoms under communist regime, the inconvenient political circumstances motivated him to leave the University of Warsaw for the Institute of Mathematics of the PAS, where, in the 1960s, he was appointed the head of the Department of Foundations of Mathematics after Andrzej Mostowski left this position and remained the head of the Chair of Foundations of Mathematics at the University of Warsaw. In 1972, he was appointed a Full Professor, in 1973 he organized the pioneering semester in mathematical logic at the :pl:Międzynarodowe Centrum Matematyczne imienia Stefana Banacha|Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center of the Institute of Mathematics of the PAS, also known as the Banach Center and formed in January 1972 by the mutual agreement between the PAS and the Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, East German, Hungarian, Romanian, and Soviet national academies of sciences, which started the 1973–1992 cyclic three-to-four-month long lectures and allowed both the logicians and philosophers of the isolated Eastern Bloc to interact with their Western colleagues. In 1974, by mutual agreement he left the Institute of Mathematics of the PAS for the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the PAS to work at the Section of Logic then headed by a model theorist Ryszard Wójcicki who founded the series Trends in LogicOn the other hand, he was well known as an active member the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, in 1964 as one of the first Poles he appeared in the French commune Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy to associate with an ecumenical Christian monastic group known as the Taizé Community, and this visit initiated the systematic contacts of the Polish Catholic intellectuals with this ecumenic group. He was a member of the Warsaw branch of the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia, particularly he was appointed a deputy president in 1972–1973 and a member of the government in 1973–1974 and 1976–1978, formed in 1956 after the Gomułka Thaw to stimulate independent thought and inform Polish Catholics on the Catholic philosophy in the countries outside the Eastern Bloc. Starting the 1970s, he practiced independent ecumenical activities, in particular the dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church in Poland for which he organized encounters between the Polish Catholic intellectuals the Russian Orthodox intellectuals at his own apartment, which in the late 1970s and the early 1980s was also the location for the lectures of the Flying University organized by the :pl:Towarzystwo Kursów Naukowych|Society of Scientific Courses. His model of the Catholic-Orthodox ecumenism found a good realization in the collaboration with the Russian Orthodox priest Alexander V. Men of Moscow, an eminent chaplain of independent Russian intellectuals who was murdered in 1990. He was a dedicated supporter of Russia and Ukraine, he felt that the Soviet Union was his second home, he actively collaborated with many Soviet and Russian scholars and claimed that Russians and Poles have a similar expression of the world and many in common by the culture. Among the anti-communist oppositionists in the Polish academia, he was well known as both supporter and propagator of the philosophy of nonviolence, a fight without making use of any kind of violence, and as the spiritual masters he followed the teachings of the leader of Indian nationalism Mahatma Gandhi, the leader in the civil rights movement Martin Luther King who got the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, as well as both :pl:Henryk Hiż|Henryk Hiż and his mentor Tadeusz Kotarbiński, who in 1958–1968 was a deputy chairman to the All-Poland Committee of the Front of National Unity of the communist Poland under first Aleksander Zawadzki and then Edward Ochab.
Censorship in the Polish People's Republic strictly blocked public information on Grzegorczyk, and, similarly to other Polish mathematician Stanisław Hartman of the University of Wrocław who got the Stefan Banach Prize in 1953, already in 1977 his name was enlisted for the strengthened control of the censorship. Every attempt of popularization of his name in the mass media was immediately signalized to the directors of the central office of the state censorship directly controlled by the authorities of the communist party which then governed Poland. The censorship rules made exception solely for the publications in the specialist press, academic journals, and university lecture notes. However, as compared to the aforementioned famous case of Hartman, he had never been involved into a real political activity, such like direct supporting of anti-governmental student protesters, membership in oppositionist organizations, membership in a political party. Hence, he almost completely smoothly came through the communist period of Polish statehood and avoided the various unpleasant circumstances produced by the state authorities and services against their ideological enemies in the Polish academia, which usually included regular persecutions and repressions by sudden often brutal hearings, firing from a university teacher's job, ban on public lectureship, forced political emigration, internment during the period 1981–1983 of the martial law in Poland. Similarly to Hartman, for his oppositionist activity he was "exiled" from his alma mater to the Institute of Mathematics of the PAS. However, he always placed his personal intellectual development on the top priority, and made professional advancements both inside and outside the communist fatherland, particularly in 1979 he was elected a member of the :de:Institut International de Philosophie|International Institute of Philosophy in Paris, France with respect to which he did not hide the critical views.
After the pioneering Revolution of 1989 in Poland, he was celebrated as an intellectual authority of the post-communist Republic of Poland. He was appointed a corresponding member of the PAU in Kraków after its finally successful restoration in 1989, and an active member of the Section of Philosophy of the :pl:Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II|Scientific Society of the KUL. In 1990, he took an early retirement and enhanced his organizational activity for the Polish philosophical academia as a director of research grant The Hundred Years of the Lwów–Warsaw School, within which there he organized a huge conference in Warsaw and Lvov on the occasion of Kazimierz Twardowski's centenary as the head of a chair at the former Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów, and translation of his book to Ukrainian language. In 1995, he was elected the chairman of the editorial board of the restored weekly :pl:Przegląd Filozoficzny|Przegląd Filozoficzny. In 1997, under the rationale for his outstanding merits to the Polish science
Legacy
Mathematical logic and mathematics
Both inside and outside Poland he was most known for continuation of the Interwar period's intellectual traditions of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic, in particular with the substantial help of Grzegorczyk and other Andrzej Mostowski's student Helena Rasiowa, as well as independently Alfred Tarski's student Wanda Szmielew, Warsaw rejoined the chart of the worldly foundational studies. He shared the view of Tarski and Mostowski that logical investigations should respect deductive sciences, in particular, mathematics, and was skeptical in the matter of a value of investigations, developed by Łukasiewicz's school, which looks for the shortest logical axioms or the simplest axiomatic bases of various logical systems. It is important to notice that a role of both Grzegorczyk and Rasiowa for earlier unpublished work in computable analysis by Stanisław Mazur, a member of the Polish United Workers' Party who was a member of communist Poland's Parliament in 1947–1956 and the director of the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Warsaw in 1964–1969 awarded by the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1946, the Stefan Banach Prize in 1949, and the Order of the Banner of Work in 1951 and 1954, who investigated nonlinear functional analysis and Banach algebras and who in 1936–1939 elaborated the concept of computable real numbers and functions along with Stefan Banach. It is well known that Mazur was unfortunate in extension of his pre-war work to general computable mathematical objects, and the results were successfully assembled and published only in 1963 just under edition of Grzegorczyk and Rasiowa, what had a comparatively small influence on development of computable analysis, but developed careers of both the editors at the University of Warsaw.Among his achievements in logic, one can find the issues of computability and decidability such like recursive functions, computable analysis, axiomatic arithmetic, and concatenation theory. On the other hand, he made research in the system of logics such like logical axioms, axiomatic geometry, non-classical logics, and interpretations of logic where, in particular, he defended psychologism since the beginning of his research. His two famous articles of 1958 and 1961 co-authored with Andrzej Mostowski and Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski became the starting point for research in the axiomatic second-order arithmetic and the arithmetic with an infinite conclusion rule, in particular the 1958's paper introduces the second-order arithmetic formalized in the first-order logic wherein both numbers and number sets are taken into account. He contributed research of the fundamental importance for theoretical computer science and precursory for the computational complexity theory, in 1953 he described and investigated classes of recursive functions generated by superposition, restricted recursion and the restricted minimum operation from some prescribed basic functions which contain addition and multiplication, and satisfy the condition that every class in question includes more complicated primitive recursive functions, and he got the sub-recursive hierarchy which fills the class of primitive recursive functions and is named the Grzegorczyk hierarchy. This originally recursion-theoretic hierarchy takes into account a strictly increasing infinite sequence of classes of functions of which the sum is a class of primitive recursive functions considered earlier, the n+1-th level functions are generated by iteration of the n-th level functions the number of times indicated by one of the arguments and by the closure under primitive recursion scheme bounded from above by an already defined function.
In 1964–1968, he researched relational and topological semantics for the intuitionistic logic, what in the context of the famous work due to J.C.C. McKinsey and Alfred Tarski was also a semantics for modal logic. Inspired by Paul Joseph Cohen’s notion of forcing and Evert Willem Beth's semantics for intuitionistic logic, on the basis of the Heyting arithmetic and Jaśkowski's formulation of the intuitionistic propositional calculus, he proposed the model theory for the intuitionistic logic of constant domains and found a modal formula which is valid in all partially ordered frames with descending chain condition but not in all topological spaces. Because the logic resulting from this semantics includes the intuitionistically unprovable Grzegorczyk's schema, where x is not free in a sentence A, it is stronger than intuitionistic predicate logic. He proposed the semantics as a 'philosophically plausible formal interpretation of intuitionistic logic
In 2005, Grzegorczyk gave a new proof of the undecidability of the first-order functional calculus without making use of Gödel's arithmetization, and, moreover, demonstrated undecidability of a simple concatenation theory, the operations of matching two texts understood as sequences of symbols into one text with the next text being a continuation of the first one. Grzegorczyk's undecidability of Alfred Tarski's concatenation theory is based on the philosophical motivation claiming that investigation of formal systems should be done with a help of operations on visually comprehensible objects, and the most natural element of this approach is the notion of text. On his research, Tarski's simple theory is undecidable although seems to be weaker than the weak arithmetic, whereas, instead of computability, he applies more epistemological notion of the effective recognizability of properties of a text and relationships between different texts. In 2011, Grzegorczyk introduced yet one more logical system, which today is known as the Grzegorczyk non-Fregean logic or the logic of descriptions, to cover the basic features of descriptive equivalence of sentences, wherein he assumed that a human language is applied primarily to form descriptions of reality represented formally by logical connectives. According to this system, the logical language is equipped in at least four logical connectives negation, conjunction, disjunction, and equivalence. Furthermore, he defined this propositional logic from scratch, argued that neither classical propositional logic nor any of its non-classical extensions can be applied as an adequate formal language of descriptions, whereas the paradoxes of implication and equivalence are due to classical logic's restricting itself to considering only one, admittedly the most important, parameter of the content of a claim, namely its truth value. He rejected all the classical logical tautologies except the law of contradiction and added two logical axioms: : ≡ represents an equivalence relation and obeys the appropriate Extensionality property, that is equal descriptions can be substituted for each other, and : ≡ joins some of the Boolean properties of descriptions, such like associativity, commutativity, and idempotency of ∧ and ∨, distributivity of ∧ over ∨, distributivity of ∨ over ∧, involution of ¬ that additionally satisfies the De Morgan laws. His results in the concatenation theory and the propositional calculus with the descriptive equivalence connective provided an important addition to his signal achievements.
By his investigations in psychologism, he converted the paradox of Eubulides into a positive theorem : an ideal human tackling a linguistically properly stated problem is able to think on this consistently, sincerely and fully consciously. In opposition to Alfred Tarski and other anti-psychologist logicians who taught that the natural language leads to contradiction by its very nature, he rejected this conviction and proposed a formal system of the Universal Syntax which imitates the versatility of colloquial language. On his approach, the axiomatization of quotation-operator is the best device which allows to marry logic with metalogic and prove the adequacy theorem for the notion of truth. He dealt with the problem on invasion of logic by postmodernity, because the deconstruction of logical rules is not at stake, there would be no logic, while the foundation of logic could be rocked. Despite that in the mathematical genealogy he was and a son of Andrzej Mostowski and a grandson of Alfred Tarski, he manifestly undermined and rebutted the classical anti-psychologism of modern logic. His best known logico-mathematical book is An Outline of Mathematical Logic: Fundamental Results and Notions Explained with All Details published in Polish in 1961 and in English in 1969. His book Fonctions Récursives became the standard handbook at the French universities. His other book Zarys arytmetyki teoretycznej became the basis for the Mizar system by the University of Białystok's team of a notable computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec. In Poland, Grzegorczyk was the first who popularized logical calculus by the book Logika popularna, also translated into Czech in 1957 and Russian in 1965, and the problems of decidability theory by the book Zagadnienia rozstrzygalności.
He studied computable real numbers, in particular provided few different definitions of these numbers and the ways to development of mathematical analysis based only on these numbers and computable functions determined on these numbers. He investigated computable functionals of higher types and proved undecidability of different weak theories such like elementary topological algebra, he considered axiomatic foundations of geometry by the means of solids instead of points, he showed that mereology is equivalent to the Boolean algebra, he approached intuitionistic logic with a help of semantics of intuitionistic propositional calculus built upon the notion of enforced recognition of sentences in the frames of cognitive procedures, what is similar to the Kripke semantics which was created parallelly, and he studied Kotarbiński's reism. He proposed an interpretation of the Leśniewski ontology as the Boolean algebra without zero, and demonstrated the undecidability of the theory of the Boolean algebras with the operation of closure. He investigated intuitionistic logic, just a modal interpretation of the Grzegorczyk semantics for intuitionism, which predetermined the Kripke semantics, leads to the aforementioned S4.Grz. He sought logic as a vivid area placed in the mainstream of the European philosophy, and, although that he belonged to rather hermetic Lwów–Warsaw School of thought, in opposition to his intellectual masters and academic mentors he contributed the approach to logic by the means of psychology. For him, logic is a collection of principles which preserve the emphatic declarations of the majority of properly educated and free from either violation or corruption people, that is, he attributes logic to a perfect human mind formed as a result of ideal educational background, ideal upbringing process, and ideal propriety. On his idealist views, classical logic is a formal theory of existence lexicalized by the existential quantification, and all that is logical is nothing but a text. As a fervent follower of the classical Aristotelian attitude, he sought logic not only as the fundamental tool but also as the basic ontology wherein semantics dealing with human utterances is preceded by attributes of humankind such like rationality, life, and existence. In his methodological approach, logic lays the foundations of science and the overall European invention.
Philosophy and ethics
In the field of philosophical logic he defended the ontological interpretation of the logical laws, on the basis of his personal belief on describing the world by these laws. In a straightforward opposition to the teachings by the fathers-founders of the twentieth-century European transcendentalism a German logician Gottlob Frege and an Austrian phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, thanks to which anti-psychologism also known as logical realism or logical objectivism dominated both the common understanding of logic and the formal reasoning in logic, he defended psychologism which he approached as a thesis about dependence of the relationship of meaning and determination on the human factor and its description attributed to a human behavior, what in itself was very far from continental philosophy and appropriate to an English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke and a British utilitarianist philosopher John Stuart Mill who was criticized by Husserl for the logical psychologism. According to Grzegorczyk's interpretation, any description is in a language of someone and done for someone, whereas logic is applied to describe the world strictly. As a result of such an approach, he produced the reinterpretation of the semantic antinomies which claims on limitations of applicability of concepts rather than self-contradiction of a language. Particularly, in the book Logic – a human affair, by the style appropriate to Tarski, he discussed with anti-psychologism and presented the formal construction of the Universal Syntax which led him to the hypothesis 'Furthermore, he contributed a series of writings in philosophical anthropology and ethics in the methodological framework of philosophy which he named rationalism open for values, which was basically no more than a mixture of the Christian theology and the selected teachings of the Lwów–Warsaw school, and for which he developed the selected ideas of the Marxist thought in the context of theology and philosophy. The best example of the latter context is his book Mała propedeutyka filozofii naukowej issued by the aforementioned pro-communist Catholic publisher :pl:Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax"|Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax" on the eve of the fall of communism in Poland in December 1989, when the Marxist-Leninist references were removed from the July 1952 Constitution of the Polish People's Republic and the country was renamed to the Republic of Poland, the dissolution of the PZPR in late January 1990 by its last First Secretary Mieczysław Rakowski and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact on 1 July 1991 in Prague. However, Grzegorczyk yet in his 1989's book fully and fervently developed the crucial ideas of the Marxist ideology, where in particular the name '
In the matter of philosophical anthropology, on the basis of the ways of reasoning pivotal for the development of the European philosophy, he provided the systematic analysis of mutual relationships between the forms of thinking and cognition in the context of the beginnings of the European culture, gave precise description of the phenomenon of European rationalism, where rational means successful as well as efficient and well-founded, through joining this concept to the internal flow of intellectual life of the European civilization and to a specific literary topos, that is a place where this way of intellectual life is localized. Meanwhile, in the matter of ethics, he claimed that in a mind cleaned from egoism and disciplined by logic there should appear elements of a general human axiology whose presence in a human expression needs a deep ethical shock, experience of either own or others' strong testimony. Particularly, he sought it in the context of Christianity where cultivated saints are the sinners who came through the stage of a great internal conversion metanoi which principally demolished their earlier life's rules, and pointed out that this procedure was unsuccessfully attempted to be implemented on the area of a secular communist society. He specifically criticized mathematicians, thus including himself, by claiming that sometimes seeing on the might of mathematical brains focused on abstract problems it seemed that there is a satanic force which causes that the most able intellectually individuals are paid for the works meaningless for wellness of humans. By his ethics, he manifestly argued against his own life choices and looked for psychological either self-defense or justification, particularly he claimed that scientists are employed in an intellectual circus whenever they do not try to think on what really is worthy to do, and, for this reason, in the isolated intellectuals there should emerge a remorse and the will of more dedicated participation in realization of socially important tasks of either a country or the world, because quite well-paid mathematical games are a waste of energy which could be utilized for thinking on real actions having a good purpose. In the case of natural scientists, he claimed that they present a world view in a careless way, although by their scientific authority and reference to a concrete research they get a substantial expertise in general philosophic beliefs, but by propagation of unfriendly ways they propagate absence of precision because they avoid logical constructions of proofs in favour of a better visual impact. He sought logic as the method against epistemological particularism, for example, he claimed that a world view demands logical culture and analytic-philosophic insight, and the way against an intellectual trapping, for example, he had a radical and unpopular point of view that the only formal logic can be the security for language against the issues of a system of assessment by clear extracting, indicating and ordering. In his philosophy, a human condition is a free existence restricted by the various limitations. Accordingly, a human as an animal has the specific features, such like persistent enrichment of life quality, creation of an environment, sensitivity on values, spiritual sphere, investigating sainthood and transcendence, ability to creativity and creative thinking, and, moreover, usage of language and symbolic reasoning which gives a control over emotions. However, his psychologist approach collapses in absence of any of his determinants of a perfect human, what means that his philosophical system, including the psychologist logic, is case-dependent and applies to a selected group of humans by emergence on the basis of discrimination against intellectual features, often either inborn or independent on a personal choice.
He was interested in an ethical standpoint and the method of conflict solving known as nonviolence, what means an action without a violence. In relation to this of his research interests, he co-organized stays in Poland for a French pacifist Jean Goss and an Austrian Christian theologian and anti-war activist Hilderad Gross-Mayr, who in 2009 got the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award established by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport in the U.S. state of Iowa to commemorate Pope John XXIII's the 1963 encyclical Pacem in terris and in 1986 along with her husband got the Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award by a Catholic peace organization Pax Christi USA. In particular, at the beginning of the Polish trade union federation Independent Self-governing Labour Union Solidarity, he organized the meeting of Jean Goss with the then movement leader Lech Wałęsa, who after being awarded by the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize to which the Goss couple were also nominated got also the 2001 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award to recognize his leadership non-violent attitude. The Goss couple became famous as the apostles of nonviolence, particularly for preparation of the 1986 People Power Revolution in Philippines, and lobbying for recognition of the conscientious objection by the Roman Catholic Church during the 1962–1965 Second Vatican Council opened by Pope John XXIII and closed by Pope Paul VI. In 1991, just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Grzegorczyk was instrumental in organization of a symposium in Moscow dedicated to the nonviolence philosophy with participation of the Goss couple as well as a Canadian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Jean Vanier who was awarded by the 2013 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award and the 2015 Templeton Prize and an American political scientist and writer on strategy of a nonviolent struggle Gene Sharp who in 1983 was the founding father of the Albert Einstein Institution to explore the methods of nonviolent resistance in conflicts and in 2009–2015 was four times nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite of some kind of liberalism present in his thought, he was a definitely radical thinker, in particular, he propagated a nonviolent dialogue with everyone including terrorists, he was particularly fervent in forcing towards both logic and dialogue with everyone, and he claimed that going towards defense in any conditions of own dignity and inventory is harmful because the Christian Doctrine of turning the other cheek is correct. He applied his ethics to a conflict resolution, put a particular emphasis onto to the methods of nonviolence professed by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the laureate of the 1965 Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award, he was also one of the first public figures in Poland who focused attention on the ecological issues, and, before it was widely understood in Poland, he popularized the warnings due to the Club of Rome which have claimed that the resources of our planet are scarce and the idea of permanent growth is dangerous.
Morality and religious study
In his philosophical marriage between religious involvement and both reism and a specific variant of naturalism, the particular position was occupied by the moral dimension of the religious study from the point of view of Christianity. In his pseudo-essays, pseudo-sermons, and pseudo-treatises collected in the book Moralitety awarded in 1987 by the prize Warszawska Premiera Literacka, he emphasized the central elements of the Christian doctrine such like the radical command to give a selfless care testimony, especially with respect to an enemy. He attempted to place himself in the role of a Catholic priest who claims that a self-demolition is not important if personal intentions are not allowed to be reduced, whereas in the book Europa: odkrywanie sensu istnienia he emphasized the role of a logical reasoning in the foundations of civilization achievements to give an axiological theory of history. He claimed therein that the evolutionary development of humankind is accompanied by a specific participation of divine forces into development of human cultures, especially he pointed out altruism and a voluntary service as the examples of such either biological theology or theological biology. Without taking into account directly the Roman Catholic Church's domination in Europe and its enormous impact onto the foundations of the European philosophy in the form of various intellectual restrictions, such like in the most known cases of the Italian scholar Galileo Gailei and philosopher Giordano Bruno, he claimed European scientific theories were always logically ordered and based on deduction, empiricism and phenomenology, and limited the sense of the world to nothing but seeing the world as similar to an understandable text – hence he claimed that the explored world is already a humanly ordered structure. For him, history of religion is just deepening of this sense, with Abraham placed as the initiator of a new epoch of monotheism and a biblical reasoning as a pictorial system, which both married with the ancient Greco-Roman intellectual traditionalism gives the most appropriate philosophical system.On his theory, Jesus Christ of Nazareth appeals for a well-defined individual testimony, and the issues of a daily life are nothing when compared to the extreme situations because Christianity for him is a realization of spiritual rather than vital values. He saw the teachings of Jesus as the acceptance of the European logic, he radically saw Jesus Christ as the provider of the European moral pattern because Jesus demanded and demonstrated coherent individual testimony. According to Grzegorczyk, in a wide sense logic lays the foundations of the European rationalism, with respect to which he identified himself as a cultivator, which says that any knowledge must emerge by logic and empiricism and must go only towards the essential points. By his personal religious standpoint shared with the passion to logic, he always fought against himself and was limited to no more than two possibilities: the way of ethics and its universality and allowing the inexpressible in order to kill the conflict between a reason and religion. Thus, by his point of view, a rational theology is useless in favour of an imprecisely defined spiritual religiousness merely based on ecumenic approach to Christianity, that is for Grzegorczyk the biblical traditionalism of Catholicism losses the intellectual value when compared to the moral testimony of its creator Jesus Christ – a reason married with an openness towards values. What is more interesting for Grzegorczyk's religious creativity, although his formal membership at the Roman Catholic Church he frequently expressed critical opinions on concrete policies of this religious organization, even on the pages of free-thinkers periodicals, and, similarly to a Russian religious philosopher Vladimir Slovyov, he manifestly ignored the East–West Schism between the Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity, for example he took the Eucharist sacrament at both the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. He was a fervent follower of Roman Catholics who felt an affinity to the Russian Orthodoxy, his religious reflection merged Christian morality to the European cultural tradition and by his views the same values lay the foundations of both Christianity and European rationalism. In his approach, history of Christianity, including its biblical roots, can be considered the history of how a sense and understanding of the world can be deepened by contemplating the sacred and transcendent.
He convinced that Modernity with its technological development creates the new challenges for humans, whose realization demands both an appropriate ethical mode, such like dedication to other and conscious self-limitations, and the rationalist standpoint. What is intriguing, in practice he realized this of his ideas for a general public in the form of a monk-like modest appearance joined with straightforward and often manifestly ignorant and arrogant if no blatant speech, which by virtue of the dogmatic Christianity could be interpreted in terms of either demonic possession or act of blasphemy. For example, in his article Odpowiedzialność filozofów he claimed that a philosopher whose texts are at the service of state authorities, creates a vicious circle of unquestionable truths which have not much in common with reality and strengthen the authorities's monopoly on a political violence, similarly to the Roman Catholic Church's theorists who referred to the holy books instead of commenting on the facts, whereas this article was published in May 1981 on the pages of the Polish Catholic quarterly :pl:Więź |Więź with death of the Primate of Poland Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński as the main subject of the issue and on the eve of introduction of the martial law in Poland by the communist authorities to crush the political opposition. It was not the only one and episodic case when Grzegorczyk could not clearly and unambiguously decide on his intellectual position with respect to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and the political ideology of the communist state authorities. He openly presented himself in a straightforward opposition to a religious organization when it was convenient and useful to his professional activities and when it gave him a professional advance or other at least societal profit, whereas he became suddenly manifestly religious when he sought any gains to support his ideology by a religion. In particular, the latter feature was ostentatiously expressed by his idea of ecumenism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, especially when he sought the profits in the academic contacts with Russian and Ukrainian academic professionals who humbly supported promotion of his borderline philosophical ideas motivated by himself arranged hospitability and grants.
The big gap in conformity with respect to both political and social association which he adopted from the Roman Catholic-oriented teachers of his war-time underground education supported by his father's attitude was completely filled with a big conformity towards his academic career based on the politicized part of the Polish academia independently on a political system of Poland, what he made with extraordinary intellectual autonomy and a coherent reasoning. Following his personal pseudo-clerical image and pseudo-homiletic written style formed on the dogmatic philosophical traditionalism appropriate to both the Fathers and Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church enriched by the arguments of neo-Thomism and Christian existentialism, he attempted to defend a manifestly old-fashioned model of academic work understood as a humble dedication to ideas and humanity rather than a professionalism. In particular, in his part of the 2005's survey Gdzie ta nasza filozofia? he sought new circumstances of philosophizing as generated by the current fashions and the collective factors such like massiveness of higher education and general commercialization of life, he compared the present-day both philosophers and generally all humanists to businessmen who first of all look for their personal professional success by the way of a relatively fast and an appropriately high return of the incurred hardships rather than a long and arduous effort which leads to a perfect product, and, moreover, he claimed that the sham achievements are fully able to give quite good living conditions to scientists and philosophers because social control over these products is already impossible as a result of development of an academic specialization beyond such control.
Social issues
For Grzegorczyk, the greatest intellectual challenge was an axiological approach to history of the world. Taking from the Marxist sociology, he approached cultural conflict by wealth of a privileged social class as contrasted to poverty of the rest of a society marginalized and excluded from a system focusing on rich, powerful, and clever individuals. He enriched the Marxian thought by emphasis onto the role of intellectual divisions in perpetuation of conflicts, and, similarly to the creators of the Aryan race theory based on the common proto-language, contributed the Utopian necessity of a common language for agreement and reconciliation in the global scale, as well as the Utopian idea of an identical insight of all people in understanding the wholeness of human affairs. Furthermore, he attempted to convince that the suitable theoretical apparatus is the only way for the worldly peace, that since needs of everyone can not be satisfied there is the necessity to endure limitations collectively and introduce global regulations on the basis of a persuasive argument, and that a synthesis of scientific knowledge is necessary to serve the fair and peaceful coexistence, a theory solidified in 1956 by a Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in the Marxist-Leninist-inspired Soviet foreign policy at the 20th Congress of the CPSU and applied by the Soviet Union and the Soviet-allied socialist states such like the communist Poland during the 1947–1991 Cold War, especially in the phases Cold War and Cold War. Grzegorczyk doctrinally did not respect any form of pluralism and any kind of diversity among humankind, he sought the order in a large scale uniformity which is appropriate to the political ideologies which laid the foundations of the 20th century totalitarianism in Europe – both German Nazism and Soviet communism. For this reason, implicitly, he sought the European totalitarianism as the consequence of the European cultural heritage supported by his logic. On the basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he appealed to the United Nations to take into account the principle that every person has the right to help any other person in a worse position than himself or herself in whatever country that person may reside, what in 1977 met the applause due to an American-Jewish leftist philosopher and left-wing activist Noam Chomsky who published a fragment of his correspondence with Grzegorczyk.In the aftermath of the famous 1972's report The Limits to Growth by the Club of Rome, he developed his general Utopian idea of all-human solidarity by propagation of self-limitations on consumption and combating wastefulness. In contrary to his 'general well-being' utopia, in the case of political ethics he mostly contributed to criticism of the Solidarity, the Eastern bloc's first independent trade union recognized by a communist regime and created in September 1980 at the Vladimir Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa, in the time when the communist Poland was strongly divided between its supporters and opponents, and when there was not a place for the 'middle option' between the yes and the no for the anti-communist opposition. Despite that Grzegorczyk at this time was not an open supporter to the Polish government, it was understood as his direct conformity with the communist authorities in the name of his false concept of peace, and, consequently, the society of the Catholic intellectuals related to the magazine Tygodnik Powszechny broke collaboration with him. Moreover, although he survived the 1939–1945 Nazi–Soviet occupation of Poland and was injured as an insurgent of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, he manifestly demonstrated a glaring absence of sensitivity on the problem of the Holocaust, and also in this case his attitude entirely confirmed the crucial impact due to the war-time underground teachers of strictly nationalist-Catholic orientation. In 1993, he authored an article Dekalog rozumu which proposed the moral rules 1. You will not clap, 2. You will not whistle, 3. Listen to the content, not the tone of expression, 4. Fight with an argument, not with a human, 5. Do not flatter other and yourself, 6. Distrust other and yourself, 7. Search for what is important, 8. Try to build something better, instead to look for scapegoats, 9. Do not generalize too hastily, 10. Do not use proverbs, they are usually a stupidity of nations, which imitated and caricatured the Ten Commandments by an Old-Testament Jewish leader Moses to ridicule the biblical foundations of Judeo-Christianity by comparing them to the academic work.
Education
Grzegorczyk had a paradoxically formed mindset, a mind which was as modal as a modal logic. By the variety of his views, he criticized and was criticized by more radical exponents of various ideological positions – Catholics disliked his contacts with Atheists, Atheists accused him of clericalism, anti-communists disliked his attempts for searching the middle position, communists questioned his defense of freedom. He wanted to marry all with everyone, but his idea of unification was able to create only a borderline philosophical system whose followers create a dramatic minority even in the academic philosophy of Poland. The unpopularity of his system is contained in the open discrimination inherited with idealism, especially the German idealism such like of Friedrich Nietzsche which served as the philosophical basis for the Nazi Germany political ideology by Adolf Hitler. His logically trivialized philosophical views were inadequate for both communists and anti-communists, for both religious and irreligious individuals, for both philosophers and scientists, because he manifestly avoided a strict association with any concrete group and, in fact, participated in a one-person struggle for independence and freedom.Despite that he was a well functioned academic personality among few major specialized groups – mathematicians, philosophers, Catholic intellectuals, people of art – and was active in the international society of socio-political activists, he solicitously worked on the public self-picture which presented him as independent on political, social, religious, and scientific relationships to get some popularity among students in the times when the Polish academia was directly dependent on the communist ideology and governed by the politicized scholars. Nevertheless, in his daily work, he tended to the goals which created the appraisal of an inexhaustible way towards extraordinary egoism and self-comfort with a help of conformity with any of the aforementioned systems, he simply used his social links and professional connections within these systems when it was necessary to him. For example, he manifestly declared in public to audiences and students that he had never tended to get any higher positions in academia, whereas actually he easily accepted all higher positions offered to him and abandoned a work only when he sought is as inconvenient with respect to his purposes, such like the cultural and political ones met in Amsterdam which were in a direct conflict with his religious and ideological views adequate to the reduced both intellectual and social expression in the communist Poland.
He had never attempted to be a favourite academic teacher, he openly avoided any close cooperations with his students and deflected their attention by lack of will to co-authorship with a parallel will to interact with them for knowing more about them, he preferred a bold individual research work although he had multiple collaborations. He was hungry for knowledge on world and people, such like in the 'ecumenic dialogue' with the Soviets and the various Polish communists, but was never able to fully follow any concrete system, had never joined any political party, and was focused merely on collecting information only for construction of a possible either critique or irony. Even those very few students who decided to prepare their doctoral dissertations under his supervising, never felt to contribute in the work of their mentor and to continue his intellectual traditionalism, because emergence of an academic school dedicated to development of his heritage in mathematics, logic, ethics, philosophy was impossible by his attitude. He was able to attract the attention of students extremely rarely, the facts say for themselves in the best way – over more than six decades of his academic work, he was able to produce no more than three doctoral students with 10–20 years of difference between the graduations, he supervised a computer scientist Stanisław Waligórski's thesis in mathematics Equations in closure algebras and their applications, a Polish-Jewish philosopher and mathematician Stanisław Krajewski's thesis in logic Nonstandard classes of satisfiability and their applications in investigating of some extensions of axiomatic theories, and an aesthetician Bohdan Misiuna's thesis in ethics Philosophical analysis of disgust phenomena and its axiological consequences.
Since the time of his underground higher education, both he had supported and he was supported primarily by the politically involved academic teachers such like Bogdan Suchodolski and also Jan Łukasiewicz. When Suchodolski organized interdisciplinary meetings for professors in the Palace of Congresses and Conferences of the PAS in Jabłonna near Warsaw in presence of a meticulously chosen audience, in particular the students who had the preferred 'social origin', then he served humbly as the pillar. In the time of the dominant socialist orthodoxy, he presented himself as the 'Jesus Christ' of the Polish humanities – for students his philosophy was beyond the bias, intellectual enslavement and hardline correctness of the state ideology. For the communist Poland's state authorities he was officially a persona non grata secured by the politically useful historical family background, whereas for the academic youth he served as the 'socrealist Messiah' against the system teachings. He was a talented speaker towards the youth, in both philosophizing and personal action he avoided biased and emotional notions, particularism, cultivation of a scheme, routine, institution in favour of an individual, and impressive words. He impacted onto an authentic individual attitude by his analytical, synthetic and globalist reasoning, criticism on own activities, selflessness in cognitive actions, promotion of a selective truth, constant attention and control over research by the selective values based on the specific union of the Christian theology and liberalized Marxist thought.
On the one hand, his style of giving opinions was particularly distinctive in both criticism and straightforwardness, often manifestly explicit and giving the impression of directly either conflicting with or fighting against the ideals which he supported theoretically, but, on the other hand, he expressed opinions only when it was fully convenient and safe for his professional and intellectual position and preserved his personal world view. His logically radicalized philosophical system was the specific mixture of the Christian theology and the Communist Ideology which directed his primary logical thought onto the intellectual margins to walk on the borderlines with a liberation theology and a religious communism, and to visit these extremist and anarchistic territories time by time for an intellectual explosion. In a clear opposition to pluralism of the world, he manifestly claimed existence of the selective values which are absolute and universal in the earthly scale. His theoretical pedagogy, more precisely philosophy of education, was based on the specific ideological mode of nonviolence philosophy, which was particularly attractive in the period of development of anti-communist opposition and political repressions in the communist Poland. He left an explicit context of the Communist Ideology in favour of his own ideology on both similarity of life and creativity, and action and rationalism which by an ecumenic approach married the Christian theology with selected concepts of Marxism with the background in logic. However, his philosophy was able to inspire educational theory and practice in Poland by freedom, tolerance, independent choice, individual rights, and the dictate of the related professional duties of an educator. On the other hand, also his ideology of democracy was attractive for some young intellectuals of the communist Poland, because it employed the concepts of a civil society and discussion community formed by a scattering between totalitarianism and anti-totalitarianism.
Family
In 1953, he married :pl:Renata Grzegorczykowa|Renata Maria Grzegorczykowa née Majewska who is an internationally renowned Polish philologist and expert in polonist linguistics, since 2001 a professor emeritus at the Section of Grammar, Semantics and Pragmatics of the Institute of Polish language of the :pl:Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego|Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw. In 1964 she got a doctoral degree for a thesis in Polish verbs, in 1974 she completed habilitation with a book in semantic and syntactic functions of Polish adverbs, in 1976–1979 she was a deputy-director and in 1981–1984 was the director of the Institute of Polish Language, she was appointed an associate professor in 1983 and a Full Professor in 1995, and, in 1982–2001, she was the head of the Section of Grammatical Structure of Modern Polish Language. Grzegorczykowa is a full member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, in 2007–2011 she was a member the Phraseology Commission and the Commission of Language Theory, and to which in 2015–2018 has been a collaborator along with the Ethnolinguistic Commission, of the Committee of Linguistics of the PAS. In 1997–1999, she was the head of an international project in comparative lexical semantics at the University of Warsaw in collaboration with specialists from the universities of Prague, Moscow, Kiev, and Stockholm. She contributed to word formation, syntax, and semantics of Polish language, her interests were also related to slavistics, neopragmatism, and philosophy, in her investigations she made use of the methods of structural linguistics, cognitive linguistics and generative grammar. In particular, she investigated the semantic-syntactic interpretation of language and text based on the analysis of predicate-argument structures, the logical structure of Polish sentences such like reference and modality, semantic-pragmatic relationships studied in the context of the theory of speech acts and functions of language and text, linguistic foundations of cognitive science and its role for language mechanisms. By many years until retirement she was a member of the Commission of Grammatical Structure of Slavic languages of the :fr:Comité international des slavistes|International Committee of Slavists.Her father, Polish mining engineer and industrialist Leszek Majewski, in 1920–1948 was the director of the Pruszków factory of pencils :pl:Fabryka ołówków "Majewski St. i S-ka"|Majewski St. i S-ka, created by his father a Polish engineer, industrialist, and writer :pl:Stanisław Jan Majewski|Stanisław Jan Majewski who was a member of the Legislative Sejm and the :pl:Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej I kadencji |1st Parliament of the Second Polish Republic as a representative of the Popular National Union, and on 2 May 1924 was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Stanisław Wojciechowski. Stanisław's brother a Polish scientist and novelist :pl:Erazm Majewski|Erazm Majewski created the foundations of the Polish academic archeology and in 1919 was appointed the head of the Chair of Prehistoric Archeology of the University of Warsaw. Similarly to Grzegorczyk, during the World War II her older brother Second Lieutenant and Sub-Scoutmaster Jacek Majewski was an insurgent of the Warsaw uprising pseudonymed Sielakowa in the rank of acting Commander of Platoon, since 1942 he served in the Assault Groups of the Gray Ranks which was the underground paramilitary of the Polish Scouting Association, in 1944 he commanded the 1st Platoon Sad of the 2nd Company Rudy of the AK Battalion 'Zośka' of the Diversionary Brigade Broda 53 of the 'Radosław' Group of the Home Army, and was killed on 31 August 1944 at :pl:Ulica Bielańska w Warszawie|the Bielańska street in Warsaw during the unsuccessful attempt of transfer of the Group Północ soldiers, including young Grzegorczyk, by the city canals from the Warsaw Old Town to the Warsaw Śródmieście, and he was awarded by the Cross of Valour. Since her mother Maria née Borsuk was the only daughter of a Polish physician-surgeon Marian Stanisław Borsuk, an active member of the :pl:Towarzystwo Lekarskie Warszawskie|Warsaw Medical Society who in 1907–1923 was the head of the Surgical Department of the former Wolski Hospital in Warsaw and whose origins were in the Wilno Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic which is a part of the modern-day Lithuania, the family members include also her younger brother a famous Polish mathematician Karol Borsuk of the University of Warsaw and his only daughter a Polish paleontologist and phylogeneticist Maria Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka who is a Full Professor at the :pl:Instytut Paleobiologii im. Romana Kozłowskiego PAN|Roman Kozłowski Institute of Paleobiology of the PAS. Grzegorczyk's other kins are also her husband a Polish algebraic geometer Andrzej Szczepan Białynicki-Birula who pioneered in differential algebra and is both a full member of the PAS and a Full Professor at the University of Warsaw, his older brother a Polish theoretical physicist :pl:Iwo Białynicki-Birula|Iwo Białynicki-Birula who is a full member of the PAS with the positions of a Full Professor at the :pl:Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej PAN|Center for Theoretical Physics of the PAS and a professor emeritus at the University of Warsaw, and his wife a Polish theoretical physicist Zofia Białynicka-Birula née Wiatr who is a Full Professor at the :pl:Instytut Fizyki PAN|Institute of Physics of the PAS.
Grzegorczyk had a daughter and a son. His son Tomasz Grzegorczyk, who was born in 1954 and in 2003 authored the French-Polish translation of a classical academic book in pedagogical ethics Le choix d'éduquer: éthique et pédagogie by a French theorist of education Philippe Meirieu, studied psychology at the University of Warsaw and at this time was an oppositionist student activist and under the pseudonym Grzegorz Tomczyk collaborated with the Workers' Defense Committee, a major dissident and civil organization which was founded in June–September 1976 by dominantly Jacek Kuroń as a result of Piotr Jaroszewicz's :pl:Rząd Piotra Jaroszewicza|government crackdown on strikes and imprisonment of striking workers under the 1970–1980 First Secretary of the KC PZPR Edward Gierek when the communist Poland had came into a multi-aspect economic crisis, was intellectually inspired by Kołakowski's 1971 essay Tezy o nadziei i beznadziejności published in the No. 6 of the Kultura paryska who himself in 1977–1980 officially represented the KOR in the United Kingdom and was responsible for its contacts with the Polish emigration of 1968 to give the idea of creation of the Free Trade Unions of the Coast in April 1978 which by the Gdańsk Agreement in August 1980 generated the Independent Self-governing Labour Union Solidarity which finished the Gierek Decade. Grzegorczyk's son-in-law a Roman Catholic journalist and activist :pl:Marcin Przeciszewski|Marcin Przeciszewski is a historian of the Roman Catholic Church graduated at the University of Warsaw who also studied at the Institute of Historical geography of the KUL, and who since 1993 has been the editor-in-chief and the president of the :pl:Katolicka Agencja Informacyjna|Catholic Information Agency, is a consulor to the Polish Episcopal Conference's Council for Mass Media and the president to the Polish Episcopal Conference's Foundation for Exchange of Religious Information, since 2003 has been a co-organizer of the cross-cultural :pl:Zjazdy gnieźnieńskie|Gniezno congresses, former member of the program board of the state-funded and government-controlled Polish Television. His father a Polish economist and nationalist activist Tadeusz Przeciszewski was an insurgent of the Warsaw Uprising under the pseudonym Michał, he served at the Home Army in the rank of Corporal Officer Cadet, in 1939 was mobilized as a soldier to the World War II and served in Wołyń, in 1940 joined the National Party and co-organized the Interwar period's nationalist :pl:Młodzież Wielkiej Polski|Youth of Grand Poland, few months of 1945 was imprisoned in the Soviet NKVD forced labour camp Kashai in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, in 1945 got a magister degree at the Faculty of Law of the KUL, in 1946 graduated at the Warsaw School of Economics and was appointed an assistant at the Department of Political Economics of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw where in 1948 got a doctoral degree for a thesis on J.M. Keynes' economics, in November 1948 – December 1953 was imprisoned for creation of a massive Catholic-nationalist movement after the common trial with his future wife :pl:Hanna Iłowiecka-Przeciszewska|Hanna Iłowiecka-Przeciszewska and Wiesław Chrzanowski who in 1991–1993 was the Marshal of the Sejm of the post-communist Poland, in 1954 co-created the Catholic quarterly :pl:Więź |Więź along with Tadeusz Mazowiecki who in 1989–1991 was the first Prime Minister and a Catholic activist Janusz Zabłocki who was a member of the PAX Association in 1950–1955 and the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia in 1957–1976, in 1957 was appointed an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Economics of the University of Warsaw and in 1963 completed habilitation procedure therein, in 1964 for declining to join the communist party was forced to delegation to the Faculty of Economics of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin as a docent and lectured at the KUL, in 1965–1992 was the founder and head of the Section of Planning and Economic Politics at MCSU, in 1966–1967 stayed at the University of Paris and in 1975 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in 1971 was elected the chairman of the Section of Cultural Economics at the Warsaw branch of the :pl:Polskie Towarzystwo Ekonomiczne|Polish Economic Society, in 1973–1979 was a member of the Committee of Work and Social Politics of the PAS, in 1981–1996 was a member of the Committee of Economic Sciences of the PAS, in 1972 was appointed an associate professor and in 1982 was appointed a Full Professor, in 1971–1989 was a member of a centrist political party Alliance of Democrats where attempted to create a Christian-social fraction, in 1990 was elected the chairman of the reactivated Christian Democratic Labour Party, was awarded by the Knight's Cross and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta as well the Home Army Cross. His wife :pl:Hanna Iłowiecka-Przeciszewska|Hanna Iłowiecka-Przeciszewska was a Catholic and social activist who studied pedagogy at the University of the Western Lands, in 1948–1952 was imprisoned by the communist authorities, since 1956 was a member of the Warsaw branch of the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia and its many-year president, and was awarded by the Gold Cross of Merit.
One of Grzegorczyk's publicly known grandchildren are a Polish physician-internist Franciszek Grzegorczyk who has worked for a few hospitals in Warsaw, including the academic :pl:Instytut Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc w Warszawie|Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases which was earlier the former Wolski Hospital, an economist Jacek Przeciszewski who graduated at the Warsaw School of Economics and is an activist of the Warsaw branch of the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia, and a lawyer Jan Przeciszewski.
Grzegorczyk died of natural causes in Warsaw on 20 March 2014 at the age of 91. His body is buried in the Cemetery of Pruszków.
Famous quotes
"The achievements of Alfred Tarski were the most brilliant result of a favorable cultural entanglement which took place in Poland in the first half of the twentieth century." - from the book Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic by Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman
Selected publications
Books
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Psychiczna osobliwość człowieka. :pl:Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar|Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Europa: Odkrywanie sensu istnienia. Studium Generale Europa: :pl:Instytut Politologii Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie|Instytut Politologii Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Logic – a Human Affair. :pl:Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar|Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Życie jako wyzwanie: Wprowadzenie w filozofię racjonalistyczną. :pl:Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN|Wydawnictwo Instytutu Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa
- *in Ukrainian: Життя як виклик: Вступ до раціоналістичної філософії. :pl:Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar|Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa & ВНТЛ, Львів, 1997
- *in Russian: Жизнь как вызов: Введение в рационалистическую философию. «Вузовская книга», Москва, 2006
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Mała propedeutyka filozofii naukowej. :pl:Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax"|Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax", Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Etyka w doświadczeniu wewnętrznym. :pl:Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax"|Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax", Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Moralitety. :pl:Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax"|Instytut Wydawniczy "Pax", Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Próba treściowego opisu świata wartości i jej etyczne konsekwencje. Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich: Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wrocław
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Filozofia czasu próby. :fr:Éditions du Dialogue|Éditions du Dialogue, Paris
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Zarys arytmetyki teoretycznej. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : An Outline of Mathematical Logic: Fundamental Results and Notions Explained with All Details. D. Reidel, Boston
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Basic notes in foundations. Instytut Matematyki PAN, Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Schematy i człowiek: Szkice filozoficzne. Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Zarys logiki matematycznej. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Fonctions Récursives. :fr:Gauthier-Villars|Gauthier-Villars, Paris
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Zagadnienia rozstrzygalności. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Logika popularna: Przystępny zarys logiki zdań. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa
- *in Czech: Populární logika. Státní Nakladatelství Politické Literatury, Praha, 1957
- *in Russian: Популярная логика: Общедоступный очерк логики предложений, «Наука", Москва, 1965
Journal articles
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Wizja wartości i dramat wyboru wartości w myśli europejskiej. Wspólnotowość i Postawa Uniwersalistyczna: Rocznik PTU 2012–2013, Number 8, pp. 5–20
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : . :pl:Przegląd Filozoficzny|Przegląd Filozoficzny – Nowa Seria, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 29–48
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Filozofia logiki I formalna logika niesymplifikacyjna. :pl:Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa|Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa, Volume 47, Issue 190, pp. 445–451
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Uczciwość w nauce. Próba podsumowania . Kwartalnik NAUKA, Number 3, pp. 194–200
- :pl:Marian Przełęcki|Przełęcki, Marian; Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; :pl:Jacek Juliusz Jadacki|Jadacki, Jacek Juliusz; Brożek, Anna; Baranowska, Małgorzata Maria; :pl:Władysław Stróżewski|Stróżewski, Władysław Antoni : Inspired by the Bible . :pl:Kwartalnik Filozoficzny|Kwartalnik Filozoficzny, Volume 37, Issue 2, pp. 137–160
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Prawdziwość cecha ważna, łatwa do określenia, trudniejsza do osiągnięcia. :pl:Przegląd Humanistyczny|Przegląd Humanistyczny, Volume 52, Number 2, Issue 407, pp. 71–81
- :pl:Antoni B. Stępień|Stępień, Antoni Bazyli; Krajewski, Radosław; Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Gdzie ta nasza filozofia? – Dyskusji ciąg dalszy. :pl:Znak |Miesięcznik Znak, Issue 602–603, pp. 107–114
- Heller, Michał Kazimierz; :pl:Bohdan Chwedeńczuk|Chwedeńczuk, Bohdan; :pl:Andrzej Szahaj|Szahaj, Andrzej Jarosław; :pl:Marian Przełęcki|Przełęcki, Marian; :pl:Hanna Buczyńska-Garewicz|Buczyńska-Garewicz, Hanna; :pl:Wojciech Sady|Sady, Wojciech Henryk; Bołtuć, Piotr; Piłat, Robert; Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; :pl:Leon Koj|Koj, Leon Józef; :pl:Czesław Porębski|Porębski, Czesław; :pl:Ireneusz Ziemiński|Ziemiński, Ireneusz; Marciszewski, Witold : Gdzie ta nasza filozofia? – ankieta. :pl:Znak |Miesięcznik Znak, Issue 600, pp. 29–54
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Undecidability without Arithmetization. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 79, Issue 2, pp. 163–230
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : A Philosophy for That Time: The Philosophy of Selflessness. Dialogue and Universalism, Volume 14, Issue 5–6, pp. 167–171
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Decidability without Mathematics. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, Volume 126, Issue 1–3, pp. 309–312
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Czasy i wyzwania. Wspólnotowość i Postawa Uniwersalistyczna: Rocznik PTU 2002–2003, Number 3, pp. 5–20
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Europe: discovering the meaning of existence. Dialogue and Universalism, Issue 6–7, pp. 111–126
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Racjonalizm europejski jako sposób myślenia. Wspólnotowość i Postawa Uniwersalistyczna: Rocznik PTU 2000–2001, Number 2, pp. 5–8
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Antropologiczne podstawy edukacji globalnej. Forum oświatowe, Number 1–2, Issue 20–21, pp. 5–13
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : The vocation of Europe. Dialogue and Universalism, Issue 5–6, pp. 11–41
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; Morokhoyeva, Zoya Petrovna; Zapaśnik, Stanisław : Universalistic Social Education. Dialogue and Universalism, Volume 8, Number 5–6, pp. 159–163
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Dekalog rozumu. :pl:Wiedza i Życie|Wiedza i Życie, Volume 3, pp. 18–20
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Działania pokojowe a postawy etyczne. :pl:Studia Philosophiae Christianae|Studia Philosophiae Christianae, Issue 1, pp. 141–159
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Wierność i świadectwo. :pl:Studia Filozoficzne|Studia Filozoficzne, Issue 5, pp. 33–39
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Pojęcie godności jako element poznawczej regulacji ludzkiego zachowania. :pl:Studia Filozoficzne|Studia Filozoficzne, Issue 8–9, pp. 57–76
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Odpowiedzialność filozofów. :pl:Więź |Więź, Volume 23, Issue 5, pp. 49–56
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : My Version of the Christian Vision of Sense. Dialectics and Humanism: The Polish Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 51–53
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : On Certain Formal Consequences of Reism. Dialectics and Humanism: The Polish Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 1, pp. 75–80
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Przeżycie transcendencji a mity kultury. :pl:Znak |Znak, Issue 236, pp. 224–235
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : An unfinitizability proof by means of restricted reduced power. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 73, pp. 37–49
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Klasyczne, relatywistyczne i konstruktywistyczne sposoby uznawania twierdzeń matematycznych. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 151–161
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Logical uniformity by decomposition and categoricity in . Bulletin de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences: Série des sciences mathématiques, astronomiques, et physiques, Volume 16, Issue 9, pp. 687–692
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Assertions depending on time and corresponding logical calculi. Compositio Mathematica, Volume 20, pp. 83–87
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Non-classical propositional calculi in relation to methodological patterns of scientific investigation. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 117–132
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Some relational systems and the associated topological spaces. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 60, pp. 223–231
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Nasi bracia mariawici. :pl:Więź |Więź, Volume 12, Issue 92, pp. 40–45
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Recursive objects in all finite types. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 54, pp. 73–93
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : A note on the theory of propositional types. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 54, pp. 27–29
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : A philosophically plausible formal interpretation of intuitionistic logic. Indagationes Mathematicae, Volume 26, pp. 596–601
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Sprawdzalność empiryczna a matematyczna. In Kotarbiński, Tadeusz; :pl:Izydora Dąmbska|Dąmbska, Izydora : Rozprawy logiczne: Księga pamiątkowa ku czci Kazimierza Ajdukiewicza. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, pp. 73–76. Republished as translation Mathematical and Empirical Verifiability in :pl:Marian Przełęcki|Przełęcki, Marian; Wójcicki, Ryszard : Twenty-Five Years of Logical Methodology in Poland. D. Reidel, Boston & PWN–Polish Scientific Publishers, Warszawa, pp. 165–169
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Zastosowanie logicznej metody wyodrębniania formalnej dziedziny rozważań w nauce, technice i gospodarce. :pl:Studia Filozoficzne|Studia Filozoficzne, Issue 3–4, pp. 63–75
- Mazur, Stanisław; edited by Grzegorczyk, Andrzej and Rasiowa, Helena : Computable analysis. Rozprawy Matematyczne, Volume 33
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Uzasadnianie aksjomatów teorii matematycznych. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 197–202
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : On the concept of categoricity. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 39–66
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : A kind of categoricity. Colloquium Mathematicae, Volume 9, pp. 183–187
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : A theory without recursive models. Bulletin de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences: Série des sciences mathématiques, astronomiques, et physiques, Volume 10, pp. 63–69
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : An example of two weak essentially undecidable theories F and F*. Bulletin de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences: Série des sciences mathématiques, astronomiques, et physiques, Volume 10, pp. 5–9
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Le traitement axiomatique de la notion de prolongement temporel. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 31–34
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Aksjomatyczne badanie pojęcia przedłużenia czasowego. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 23–30
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; Mostowski, Andrzej; Ryll-Nardzewski, Czesław : Definability of sets in models of axiomatic theorems. Bulletin de l'Académie polonaise des sciences. Série des sciences mathématiques, astronomiques, et physiques, Volume 9, pp. 163–167
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Metafizyka rzeczy żywych. :pl:Znak |Znak, Issue 80, pp. 154–162
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Metafizyka bez spekulacji. :pl:Znak |Znak, Issue 77, pp. 1417–1421
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : O nie najlepszym rodzaju apologetyki. :pl:Znak |Znak, Issue 76, pp. 1343–1344
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Axiomatizability of Geometry without Points. Synthese, Volume 12, pp. 228–235
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Analiza filozoficzna, kontemplacja, wartościowanie. :pl:Studia Filozoficzne|Studia Filozoficzne, Volume 5, Issue 14, pp. 161–173
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Między dyskursywnym a kontemplacyjnym myśleniem. :pl:Znak |Znak, Issue 43, pp. 36–57
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; Mostowski, Andrzej; Ryll-Nardzewski, Czesław : The classical and the ω-complete arithmetic. Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 23, pp. 188–206
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Uwagi z historii logiki. :pl:Myśl Filozoficzna|Myśl Filozoficzna, Volume 1, Issue 27, pp. 164–176
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : On the definitions of computable real continuous functions. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 44, pp. 61–71
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Some proofs of undecidability of arithmetic. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 43, pp. 166–177
- Mostowski, Andrzej; Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; Jaśkowski, Stanisław; Łoś, Jerzy; Mazur, Stanisław; Rasiowa, Helena; Sikorski, Roman : The present state of investigations on the foundations of mathematics. Rozprawy Matematyczne, Volume 9
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Uwagi o rozumieniu praw logiki. :pl:Myśl Filozoficzna|Myśl Filozoficzna, Volume 1, Issue 15, pp. 206–221
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Uwagi o nauczaniu logiki. :pl:Myśl Filozoficzna|Myśl Filozoficzna, Volume 1, Issue 4, pp. 174–177
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : On the definition of computable functionals. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 42, pp. 232–239
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Computable functionals. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 42, pp. 168–202
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Elementarily definable analysis. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 41, pp. 311–338
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : The Systems of Leśniewski in Relation to Contemporary Logical Research. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Volume 3, pp. 77–95
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Some classes of recursive functions. Rozprawy Matematyczne, Volume 4, pp. 1–45
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Konferencja logików. :pl:Myśl Filozoficzna|Myśl Filozoficzna, Volume 1, Issue 7, pp. 340–349
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; Kuratowski, Kazimierz : On Janiszewski's property of topological spaces. Annales de la Société Polonaise de Mathématique, Volume 25, pp. 69–82
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Undecidability of Some Topological Theories. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Volume 38, pp. 137–152
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : The Pragmatic Foundations of Semantics. Synthese, Volume 8, pp. 300–324. Republished in :pl:Marian Przełęcki|Przełęcki, Marian; Wójcicki, Ryszard : Twenty-Five Years of Logical Methodology in Poland. D. Reidel, Boston & PWN–Polish Scientific Publishers, Warszawa, pp. 135–164
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Próba ugruntowania semantyki języka opisowego. :pl:Przegląd Filozoficzny|Przegląd Filozoficzny, Volume 44, Issue 4, pp. 348–371
Other papers
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej; Zdanowski, Konrad : Undecidability and Concatenation. In Ehrenfeucht, Andrzej; Marek, Victor Witold; Srebrny, Marian : Andrzej Mostowski and Foundational Studies. IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 72–91
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Empiryczne wyróżnienie duchowości. In Grzegorczyk, Anna; Sójka, Jacek; Koschany, Rafał : Fenomen duchowości. :pl:Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM|Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, pp. 29–34
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Prawda przemieniająca. In Grzegorczyk, Anna; Sójka, Jacek; Koschany, Rafał : Fenomen duchowości. :pl:Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM|Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, pp. 247–266
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Tezy europejskiej samoświadomości. In :pl:Andrzej Góralski|Góralski, Andrzej : Życie pełne, dobrze urządzone a kultura doraźności: intelektualiści i młoda inteligencja w Europie przemian. Materiały VIII Międzynarodowej Konferencji PTU, Warszawa, 9–11 maja 2005 roku. Wspólnotowość i Postawa Uniwersalistyczna: Rocznik PTU 2004–2005, Number 4, pp. 18–25
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzek : Używanie "rozumu" a stan aktualny ludzkości. In Wojnar, Irena; Kubin, Jerzy : Bogdan Suchodolski w stulecie urodzin – trwałość inspiracji: zbiór studiów. :pl:Komitet Prognoz "Polska 2000 Plus"|Komitet Prognoz "Polska w XXI Wieku" przy Prezydium Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, pp. 257–274
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Czasy i wyzwania. In :pl:Jan Łaszczyk|Łaszczyk, Jan : Pedagogika czasu przemian: praca zbiorowa. Wydawnictwo Zakładu Metodologii :pl:Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej w Warszawie|Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogiki Specjalnej, Warszawa, pp. 9–21
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Non-violence: wychowanie do negocjacji, demokracji i współistnienia. In Wojnar, Irena; Kubin, Jerzy : Edukacja wobec wyzwań XXI wieku: zbiór studiów. :pl:Komitet Prognoz "Polska 2000 Plus"|Komitet Prognoz "Polska w XXI Wieku" przy Prezydium Polskiej Akademii Nauk & :pl:Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa|Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, Warszawa, pp. 57–92
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Dekalog rozumu. In :pl:Mieczysław Omyła|Omyła, Mieczysław : Nauka i język: :pl:Marian Przełęcki|Marianowi Przełęckiemu w siedemdziesiątą rocznicę urodzin. Biblioteka Myśli Semiotycznej, Volume 32, edited by :pl:Jerzy Pelc|Pelc, Jerzy. :pl:Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego|Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa & Znak-Język-Rzeczywistość: Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne, pp. 81–85
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : The Principle of Transcendence and the Foundation of Axiology. In Geach, Peter; :pl:Jacek Hołówka|Holowka, Jacek : Logic and Ethics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 71–78
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Moralistyczna wizja dziejów. In Ajnenkiel, Andrzej; :pl:Janusz Kuczyński|Kuczyński, Janusz; :pl:Andrzej Wohl |Wohl, Andrzej : Sens polskiej historii. Program Badań i Współtworzenia Filozofii Pokoju Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, pp. 48–60
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Filozofia człowieka a pedagogika. In :pl:Kazimierz Doktór|Doktór, Kazimierz; Hajduk, Edward : Humanizm, prakseologia, pedagogika: materiały konferencji zorganizowanej dla upamiętnienia 100 rocznicy urodzin Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego. :pl:Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN|Wydawnictwo Instytutu Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa & Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich: Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wrocław, pp. 199–208
- Grzegorczyk, Andrzej : Axiomatic theory of enumeration. In Fenstad, Jens Erik; Hinman, Peter Greayer : Generalized Recursion Theory: Proceedings of the 1972 Oslo Symposium. North Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 429–436
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