Adam Mahrburg (6 August 1855 – 13 November 1913) was a Polish
philosopher—the outstanding philosophical mind of Poland's
Positivist period.[1]
Life
Adam Mahrburg was a philosopher and
theoretician of knowledge. He taught in
Warsaw's secret university and published in learned and popular journals.[2]
He reduced
philosophy to the
theory of knowledge. He regarded science as a tool for ordering and anticipating phenomena and for effective action. He was an exponent of
determinism.[2]
Works
Teoria celowości ze stanowiska naukowego (The Theory of Purpose from a Scientific Standpoint, 1888),
Jan Zygmunt Jakubowski, ed., Literatura polska od średniowiecza do pozytywizmu (Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to Positivism), Warsaw,
Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979,
ISBN83-01-00201-8.