Postcard from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 18.02.1937

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Ingarden Family archives

Date of creation 18.02.1937

Related places Lviv, Zakopane

Reference code in archive ARI

Resource type postcard

Subject matter academic issues, organizational issues, personal issues, publication issues, travel

Field philosophy

Tags #? Pietukiewicz, #Alfred North Whitehead, #Analysis of Matter, #Bertrand Russell, #brochure, #idealism, #Joachim Metallmann, #Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, #Kazimierz Twardowski, #Lviv, #manuscript of lecture, #Maria Ingarden, #operationalists, #Percy Williams Bridgman, #philosophical convention, #Philosophical Movement, #physicalist, #polemics, #Polish Philosophical Society, #PTF, #Roman Ingarden, #Rudolf Carnap, #solipsism, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Tadeusz Kotarbiński, #Witkacy, #Zakopane

18.II 1937
Honoured and Dear Professor:
I keep postponing the long letter because I am almost always on the point of leaving for Z[akopane] and end up staying because of my teeth and commissions. I have already written to Adjukiewicz and sent him Kotarbeusz’s and my brochure, asking him to give you the manuscript of my lecture at the conference – but I don’t know if he has done it, ye know, eh!
I have sent the summary of the lecture for the philosophical society to Twardowski, for the “Ruch” Press (he wanted it), but I do not know if he will print it. I have finished the polemics with Metallmann about Whitehead, and I wrote about solipsism and idealism (ontological evidence against). I am conducting discussions with physicalist operationalists, v[ery] i[nteresting]. Bridgman’s last piece is excellent. But what Russell is doing in An[alysis] of matter, God forbid. I would v[ery] much like to see and chat with you. Maybe I will go to Lviv in the spring. Now I am turning to Carnap, because I have to fell this beast anyhow.
I enclose words of deep respect and gratitude for both of you. F.G. [family gretings]
Witkacy
PS. My cousin Pietukiewicz is delighted with your response to his letter.

Postcard

Dr. Roman Ingarden
Prof. U.J.K.
Lviv
Zacharjewicz Street, 7 apt. 8