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Rękopisy Mariana Smoluchowskiego – ważne źródło do studiów nad filozofią w nauce

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Polak P., Dziekan M.

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

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2017

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issue 62

141-169

PL

The aim of tis article is to present the selected Marian Smoluchowski's manuscripts to be published in this volume. At the beginning, a history and current state of research of his manusript legacy was showed. Next there were characterized a philosophical significance of his unpublished manuscripts and a short analysis of the manuscripts published in this volume. At the end of the article the details about the current edition of Smoluchowski's manuscripts were described.

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Światy indeterministyczne Franza-Serafina Exnera i Mariana Smoluchowskiego

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Rodzeń J.

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

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2017

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issue 62

73-98

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The paper presents philosophical views which have been propagated in the first decade of the 20th-century by Austrian experimental physicist Franz-Serafin Exner (1846-1926). According to Exner all apparently deterministic laws are only a kind of the macroscopic limit of the indeterministic random events and processes in nature. The paper attempts to show whether Exner’s ideas have influenced the views on randomness and probability developed by renowned Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872-1917) who belonged to informal circle of Exner’s students and assistants (so-called Exner-Kreis).

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Marian Smoluchowski’s Contributions to the Philosophy of Causation

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Roskal Z.

Organon

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2018

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vol. 50

5-18

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Marian Smoluchowski was a prominent Polish physicist whose greatest achievement was the development – independently of Albert Einstein – of the mathematical theory of Brownian motion. In his theoretical view of the problem of Brownian motion Smoluchowski employed the concept of causal relevance, which was never analysed in numerous publications devoted to his scientific achievement. In this article I am attempting to demonstrate that the concept of causal relevance which Smoluchowski employed in his works devoted to the issue of Brownian motion may be interpreted as analogous to the concept of causal relevance articulated by Max Kistler. I present a number of arguments which demonstrate that just such a concept of causal relevance was established by Smoluchowski. Since the explanation of the phenomenon of Brownian motion presented by Smoluchowski has been universally accepted, so in the same way the physicalistic concept of causal relevance has been widely propagated. In this I detect Smoluchowski’s contribution to the philosophy of causality.

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Fluktuujący świat Mariana Smoluchowskiego

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Fuliński A.

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

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2017

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issue 62

127-138

PL

The main goal of this paper is to present the Marian Smoluchowski’s work on thermal and primordial fluctuations which are the main cause of Brownian motion and one of the first empirical evidences for molecular structure of matter.

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Zagadnienie hipotez i teorii naukowych w rozważaniach filozoficznych Mariana Smoluchowskiego

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Dziekan M.

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

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2017

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issue 62

7-71

PL

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate and reconstruct the philosophical thoughts in Marian Smoluchowski’s papers (in his publications and in unknown manuscripts as well). He was an outstanding Polish physicist, who lived at the turn of the XIX and XX century. Smoluchowski was particularly interested in theoretical physics. His achievements in this discipline, some even very significant, have caused him to be perceived mainly as a physicist. His work in the theory of fluctuations and kinetic theory of gases, especially in the theory of Brownian motions, is well known to physicists. My attention in this paper is focused on the metascientific problems which dominated his philosophical reflections. His analysis in the fields on philosophy of science (the concept of hypothesis, theory) ought to be perceived in light of physics. Philosophical reflections were at the margins of science which he practiced – physics was always the background to his deliberations. An important limit to our deliberations was set by concentrating on issues typical of the philosophy of science. In Smoluchowski’s case, however, it is difficult to say that his branch of philosophy is characterized by systematic reflection. It is difficult to classify his reflection in the framework of any given philosophical trend.

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4 Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

1 Organon

1 2018

4 2017

2 Dziekan M.

1 Fuliński A.

1 Polak P.

1 Rodzeń J.

1 Roskal Z.

Rękopisy Mariana Smoluchowskiego – ważne źródło do studiów nad filozofią w nauce

Światy indeterministyczne Franza-Serafina Exnera i Mariana Smoluchowskiego

Marian Smoluchowski’s Contributions to the Philosophy of Causation

Fluktuujący świat Mariana Smoluchowskiego

Zagadnienie hipotez i teorii naukowych w rozważaniach filozoficznych Mariana Smoluchowskiego