Adam Mahrburg
Polish philosopher (1855–1913)
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Adam Mahrburg (6 August 1855 – 13 November 1913) was a Polish Positivist philosopher.[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),
- Co to jest nauka (What Is Science? 1897)