About Adam Mahrburg
Lived 1855 – 1913 (aged 58). Adam Mahrburg was a Russian philosopher, writer, psychologist and translator.
Adam Mahrburg (6 August 1855 – 13 November 1913) was a Polish Positivist philosopher.
Life Adam Mahrburg was a philosopher and theoretician of knowledge. He taught in Warsaw's secret university and published in learned and popular journals.
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.
Works Teoria celowości ze stanowiska naukowego (The Theory of Purpose from a Scientific Standpoint, 1888), Co to jest nauka (What Is Science? 1897)
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Who was Adam Mahrburg?
Polish philosopher (1855-1913)
When was Adam Mahrburg born?
Adam Mahrburg was born on 6 August 1855 in Čyki.
When did Adam Mahrburg die?
Adam Mahrburg died on 13 November 1913 in Warsaw.
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Adam Mahrburg was a philosopher, writer, psychologist and translator.
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Adam Mahrburg was Russian.
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