Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science   [Institute of Psychology AMU]

Prof. Andrzej Wiśniewski

Name: Andrzej Wiśniewski
Date of birth: February 4, 1958
Place of birth: Poznań, Poland
Nationality: Polish
Marital status: Married, one child

Qualifications:

• 1981: MA in Philosophy from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Dissertation: Związki między problemami filozoficznymi a logiczne teorie pytań (Relations between philosophical problems from the point of view of logical theories of questions).
• 1986: Ph. D. degree from Adam Mickiewicz University. Dissertation: Generowanie pytań przez zbiory zdań (The generating of questions by sets of sentences). Supervisor: Tadeusz Kubiński. Referees: Tadeusz Batóg (Poznań), Eugeniusz Żabski (Wrocław).
• 1991: 'Habilitation' degree from Adam Mickiewicz University. Dissertation: Stawianie pytań: logika i racjonalność (The posing of questions: logic and rationality). Referees: Leon Gumański (Toruń), Jerzy Kmita (Poznań), Leon Koj (Lublin).
• 1999: State professorship, conferred by the President of the Republic of Poland. Referees in the procedure: David Harrah (Riverside, CA), Witold Marciszewski (Białystok), Leszek Nowak (Poznań), Jerzy Perzanowski (Toruń).

Posts held:

• Professor, Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2005 --
• Professor, Institute of Philosophy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland, 2001--2005.
• Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University in Zielona Góra, Poland, 1995--2001.
• Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1993--1995.
• Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1992--1993.
• Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1987--1992.
• Research and Teaching Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, 1981--1987.

Institutional activities:

• Head, Section of Logic and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2005 - 2007
• Rector (i.e. Vice-Chancellor in British terms) of Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University in Zielona Góra, September 1999- August 2001.
  [In September, 2001, Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University in Zielona Góra was transformed by a parliament act into (full-profile) University of Zielona Góra.]
• Member of the Committee of Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1999-2003.
• Head, Institute of Philosophy, Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University, 1996-1999.
• Head, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy, Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University, and the University of Zielona Góra, 1995 - 2002.
• Treasurer of the Polish Association of Logic and Philosophy of Science, 1993-1996.
• Member of the Committee of Polish Association of Logic and Philosophy of Science, 1996-1999.
• Treasurer of the Poznań Division of Polish Philosophical Association, 1983-1989.

Office address:

Research interests:

• Logic, in particular:
  • the logic of questions,
  • epistemic logic,
  • proof theory.
• Philosophy of Science, in particular:
  • explanatory procedures,
  • abduction and discovery.

• books
• papers in English
• papers in Polish
• papers in Russian

• Andrzej Wiśniewski, The Posing of Questions: Logical Foundations of Erotetic Inferences, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/ Boston/ London 1995, "Synthese Library", vol. 252, 255 p.  [Google Scholar link]  {BibTeX}
• Andrzej Wiśniewski, Stawianie pytań: logika i racjonalność, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 1990, Series "Realizm Racjonalność Relatywizm", 28, 145 p.  {BibTeX}
• Leon Koj and Andrzej Wiśniewski, Inquiries into the Generating and Proper Use of Questions, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 1989, Series "Realizm Racjonalność Relatywizm", 12, 157 p.  {BibTeX}
• Andrzej Wiśniewski and Jan Zygmunt (eds.), Erotetic Logic,Deontic Logic and Other Logical Matters. Essays in Memory of Tadeusz Kubiński [Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis 1890, Logika 17], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 1997, 175 p.

• in English:
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Propositional logic and erotetic inferences, Bulletin of the Section of Logic PAN 14, No. 2, 1985, pp. 72-78. Erratum, ibid., 15, No. 1, 1986, p. 35.
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, The generating of questions: A study of some erotetic aspects of rationality, in: Leon Koj and Andrzej Wiśniewski, Inquiries into the Generating and Proper Use of Questions, Lublin 1989, pp. 91-155.
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Implied questions, Manuscrito. Revista Internacional de Filosofia 13, No. 2, 1990, pp. 23-38.
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Erotetic arguments: A preliminary analysis, Studia Logica 50, No. 2, 1991, pp. 261-274. [Request a copy from the author]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Reducibility of questions to sets of yes-no questions, Bulletin of the Section of Logic 22, No. 3, 1993, pp. 119-126.  [file *.dvi]
  • Andrzej Wisniewski, Erotetic implications, Journal of Philosophical Logic 23, No. 2, 1994, pp. 174-195. [Request a copy from the author]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, On the reducibility of questions, Erkenntnis 40, No. 2, 1994, pp. 265-284. [Request a copy from the author]
  • Theo A. F. Kuipers and Andrzej Wiśniewski, An erotetic approach to explanation by specification, Erkenntnis 40, No. 3, 1994, pp. 377-402. Link
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, The logic of questions as a theory of erotetic arguments, Synthese 109, No. 1, 1996, pp.1-25. [Request a copy from the author]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Some foundational concepts of erotetic semantics, in: M. Sintonen (ed.), Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on Jaakko Hintikka's Epistemology and Philosophy of Science [Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 51], Rodopi, Amsterdam/ Atlanta 1997, pp. 181-211. [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Kubiński's theory of questions, in: Andrzej Wiśniewski and Jan Zygmunt (eds.), Erotetic Logic, Deontic Logic and Other Logical Matters, Wrocław 1997, pp. 29-50.  [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Two logics of occurrent belief, Logika 18 [Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis 2023], 1998, pp. 115-121. [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Erotetic logic and explanation by abnormic hypotheses, Synthese 120, No. 3, 1999, pp. 295-309. [Request a copy from the author]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Questions and inferences, Logique et Analyse 173-175, 2001, pp. 5-43. [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski and Piotr Leśniewski, Reducibility of questions to sets of questions: some feasibility results, Logique et Analyse 173-175, 2001, pp. 93-111. [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Weak epistemic logics, immediate consequence, and paraconsistency, Logique et Analyse 177-178, 2002, pp. 175-184. [file *.pdf
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Erotetic search scenarios, Synthese 134, No.3, 2003, pp. 389-427. [Request a copy from the author]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Socratic proofs, Journal of Philosophical Logic 33, No. 3, 2004, pp. 299-326. [Request a copy from the author]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Erotetic search scenarios, problem-solving, and deduction, Logique et Analyse 185-188, 2004, pp. 139-166. [file *.pdf]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Guido Vanackere and Dorota Leszczyńska, Socratic proofs and paraconsistency: A case study, Studia Logica 80, 2005, pp. 431-466. [Request a copy from the author]  {BibTeX}
  • Adam Grobler and Andrzej Wiśniewski, Explanation and theory evaluation, in: Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda, and Jeanne Peijnenburg (eds.), Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry. Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers [Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 84], Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York 2005, pp. 299-310. [file *.pdf]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Reductibility of safe questions to sets of atomic yes-no questions, in: J.J. Jadacki and J. Paśniczek (eds.), Lvov-Warsaw School: The New Generation [Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 89], Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York 2006, pp. 215-236. [ file *.pdf]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski and Vasilyi Shangin, Socratic proofs for quantifiers, Journal of Philosophical Logic 35, No. 2, 2006, pp. 147-178. [Request a copy from the author]
  
  
• in Polish:
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Charakterystyka pewnych związków między problemami filozoficznymi (Some relations between philosophical problems), Studia Filozoficzne 8-9, 1983, pp. 211 225.
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, O pewnych konsekwencjach postulatu empirycznej falsyfikowalności twierdzeń logiki (On some consequences of the postulate of empirical falsifiability of logical theorems), Studia Metodologiczne 26, 1991, pp. 129-138.
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Sceptycyzm a kryterium prawdy (Scepticism and the criterion of truth), Poznańskie Studia z Filozofii Nauki 12, 1992, pp. 173-190. [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Erotetyczne aspekty racjonalności (Erotetic aspects of rationality), in: J. Such et al. (eds.), Rozprawy i szkice z filozofii nauki, PWN, Warszawa-Poznań 1992, pp. 212-226.
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, O logice stwierdzania (On some version of epistemic logic), in: J. Paśniczek et al. (eds.), Między logika a etyką. Prace ofiarowane Profesorowi Leonowi Kojowi, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 1995, pp. 53-63. [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Logika a zbiory sytuacji (Logic and sets of situations), in: R. Kubicki, P. Zeidler (eds.), Od logiki do estetyki. Prace dedykowane Profesorowi Włodzimierzowi Ławniczakowi, Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, Poznań 1997, pp. 13-25. [file *.pdf] [file *.zip]
  • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Kilka uwag o pytaniach rozstrzygnięcia (A few remarks about decision questions), in: W. Strawiński, M. Grygianiec, A. Brożek (eds.), Myśli o języku, nauce i wartościach. Księga ofiarowana Profesorowi Jackowi Juliuszowi Jadackiemu w sześćdziesiątą rocznicę urodzin, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, Warszawa 2006, pp. 131-141.
  
  
  
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International Congresses, Symposia, and Lectures

1. The generating of questions and erotetic inferences, 8th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Moscow, August 1987.
2. Multiple-conclusion arguments and erotetic arguments, 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, August 1991.
3. Multiple-conclusion consequence and erotetic implication, British-Polish Symposium on Philosophy of Logic and Language, Oxford, September 1991.
4. Reducibility of questions to sets of questions, International Symposium LOGICA'93, Liblice (Czech Republic), June 1993.
5. The logic of questions as a theory of erotetic arguments, Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, Session "Erotetic Logic: A Dialogue", second speaker: Jaakko Hintikka, Boston, February 1994.
6. Some results on the reducibility of questions, 1994 Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (USA), Gainesville, March 1994.
7. Reducibility of questions to sets of implied questions, 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Firenze, August 1995.
8. Erotetic implication and problem-solving, Symposium "The Logic of Science as a Logic of Questioning", Helsinki, September 1995.
9. Valid erotetic inferences and problem-solving, Second German-Polish Workshop on Logic and Logical Philosophy, Żagań, March/April 1998.
10. Valid erotetic inferences, problem-solving and discovery, International Congress on Discovery and Creativity, Ghent, May 1998.
11. Erotetic logic and explanation by abnormic hypotheses, 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998.
12. Questions and complete search scenarios, 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999.
13. Search scenarios and the logic of questions, Second Flemish-Polish Workshop on the Ontological Foundations of Paraconsistency, Ghent, April 2000.
14. On a family of (possibly paraconsistent) logics based on subsystems of Łukasiewicz's 4-valued modal logic, Fourth Flemish-Polish Workshop on the Ontological Foundations of Paraconsistency, Ghent, April 2001.
15. Inferential erotetic logic and Search scenarios, search rules, and "abduction", Fifth Flemish-Polish Workshop on Adaptive and Erotetic Logics and their Applications to the Philosophy of Science, Zielona Góra, November 2001.
16. Erotetic search scenarios, explanation and abduction, International Congress on Causation and Explanation in the Natural and Social Sciences, Ghent, May 2002.
17. Some remarks about weak erotetic implications and elimination, International Workshop 'Patterns of Scientific Reasoning: Adaptive and Interrogative Perspectives', Ghent, October 2002.
18. Erotetic search scenarios and deduction, International Workshop 'Problem Solving in the Sciences: Adaptive and Interrogative Perspectives', Brussels, May 2003.
19. Socratic proofs and erotetic logic, 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, August 2003.
20. Socratic proofs, 50 Years of Studia Logica, Madralin, September 2003.
21. Socratic proofs for CPC and CLuN, Eight Flemish-Polish Workshop on Adaptive and Erotetic Logics and Their Application to the Philosophy of Science (VlaPoLo8), Zielona Góra, November 2003.
22. Hypersequents, questions, and proofs, 9th Symposium on Applications of Logic in Philosophy and the Foundations of Mathematics, Karpacz, April 2004.
23. Socratic proofs for quantifiers: a single-conclusion approach, International Workshop 'Patterns of Scientific Reasoning: Adaptive and Interrogative Perspectives', Ghent, May 2004.
24. General erotetic semantics, 37th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, April 2006.
25. Internal question processing and information seeking, Argumentation as a Cognitive Process, Toruń, May 2008.
26. Questions, inferences, and dialogues, LONDIAL 2008: the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, London, June 2008.
27. (with Jerzy Pogonowski) Questions, recursion, and incompleteness, 6th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Cracow, August 2008.
28. (with Jerzy Pogonowski) Incompleteness of effective double frames, Applications of Algebra in Logic and Computer Science XIII, Zakopane, March 2009.

1. Erotetic implication and the reducibility of questions, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, February 1993.
2. Erotetic implication and the arising of questions, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, EURIDIS Institute, April 1993.
3. Implied questions and problem solving; Rijksuniversitëit Groningen, April 1993.
4. Inferences that result in questions and their validity, University of California, Riverside, December 1994.
5. Explanation by abnormic laws, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, November 1997.
6. Valid erotetic inferences; Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Brussels, November 1997.
7. Socratic Proofs and the Logic of Questions, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, January 2003.
8. Static and Dynamic Reducibility of Questions, Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Brussels, March 2003.

Research Fellowships

1. Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA; October 1993 - July 1994. Fulbright Scholarship.
2. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, February - June 1997. Mellon Scholarship.
3. The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels; October 2002 - March 2003. Academy Award Fellowship.

1. Clare College, University of Cambridge, September 1991.
2. Institute of Philosophy, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, January - February 1993.
3. Institute of Philosophy, Rijksuniversitëit Groningen, April 1993.
4. Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University; May 2003, June 2003.

Conference Co-organizer

1. Second German-Polish Workshop on Logic and Logical Philosophy, Żagań, March 1998 (Organizing Committee).
2. International Congress on Discovery and Creativity, Ghent, May 1998 (Congress Committee).
3. 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999 (National Organizing Committee).
4. International Congress on Causation and Explanation in Natural and Social Sciences, Ghent, May 2002 (Congress Committee).
5. International Workshop 'Patterns of Scientific Reasoning: Adaptive and Interrogative Perspectives', Ghent, October 2002 (Congress Committee).
6. International Workshop 'Problem Solving in the Sciences: Adaptive and Interrogative Perspectives', Brussels, May 2003 (Organizing Committee).
7. International Workshop 'Patterns of Scientific Reasoning: Adaptive and Interrogative Perspectives', Ghent, May 2004 (Congress Committee).
8. Seventh Polish Philosophical Congress, Szczecin, September 2004 (Co-chairman of the Logic Section).
9. Eight Polish Philosophical Congress, Warsaw, September 2008 (Co-chairman of the Logic Section).

Editorial Boards

1. Studia Metodologiczne
2. Studia Logica (Associate Editor, 2000-2003)
3. Filozofia Nauki

Referee's Reports for: Synthese, Studia Logica, Logique et Analyse, The Journal of Philosophical Research.

Assessment of Grant Applications for: The Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO); Belgian-American Educational Foundation; University of Ghent; Polish-US Fulbright Commission; State Committee for Scientific Research, Poland, Council for Science, Poland.

Ph.D. Students

1. Piotr Leśniewski, Ph. D. 1997, Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Dissertation (in Polish): The Problem of Reducibility in Non-Reductionistic Theories of Questions.
2. Mariusz Urbański, Ph. D. 2001, Institute of Philosophy, Tadeusz Kotarbiński Pedagogical University, Zielona Góra, Poland. Dissertation (in Polish): Synthetic Tableaux and the Logic of Questions.
3. Dorota Leszczyńska, Ph. D. 2006, Institute of Philosophy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland. Dissertation: The Method of Socratic Proofs for Normal Modal Propositional Logics (book publication in 2007).
4. Paweł Łupkowski, Ph. D. 2009, Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Dissertation: The Turing Test and the Logic of Questions

Courses Currently Taught

• Logic I (link)
• Logic II (link)
• Introduction to Philosophy (link)
• Logic for Cognitive Science (link)