Art of philosophy : a selection of Jerzy Perzanowski's works / Jerzy Perzanowski ; edited by Janusz Sytnik-Czetwertyński.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2013).

Chiefly a collection of texts partly published previously.

Includes bibliographical references.

Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic. Perzanowski began as a logician, his early works being on modal logic, then gradually shifted his interest to "logical philosophy", meaning not so much philosophy of logic as philosophy informed by logic. Perzanowski was a rare breed of analytical philosopher who thought that a philosophical "theory of everything" was worthwhile. In this systematic spirit, he began with method. He presented his "method of total analys.

Front matter -- SOURCES -- CONTENTS -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- Jerzy Perzanowski -- Real Man and Real Philosopher / Sytnik-Czetwertyński, Janusz -- Preface -- Jerzy Perzanowski's Way to the Monadology / Sytnik-Czetwertyński, Janusz -- Art of Philosophy -- In Praise of Philosophy -- Reasons for Monodeism -- Towards Combination Metaphysics -- Ontological Melioration -- Locative Ontology -- In Search of Ontological Conditions for Emergence -- Towards Psycho-ontology -- Modal Logics of Truth and Falsity -- Classical (Modal) Logics of the Square of Oppositions -- Combination Semantics for Intentional Logics, Makings and Their Use in Combination Semantics -- A Profile of Masonic Synthesis -- Bibliography

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