Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa

Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa (born Maria Kokoszyńska, 6 December 1905 – 30 June 1981^[1]) was a Polish logician, philosopher of language and epistemologist. She belonged to the third generation of the Lwów–Warsaw school. She is mostly known as the author of the important argumentation against neopositivism of the Vienna Circle as well as one of the main critics of relativistic theories of truth.^[2] She was also noted for popularising Tarski's works on semantics.

Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa
Born	6 December 1905 Bóbrka, Austria-Hungary
Died	30 June 1981(1981-06-30) (aged 75) Wrocław, Poland
Other names	Maria Lutman, Maria Lutman-Kokoszynska
Spouse	Roman Lutman

Kokoszyńska studied philosophy in Lwów under Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (and Kazimierz Twardowski) at the Jan Kazimierz University, and at the University of Cambridge under Ludwig Wittgenstein.^[1][3]

She later held the chair of logic at the University of Wrocław.^[1][2]

Selected publications

• Kokoszyńska, M., (1936), 'Über den absoluten Wahrheitsbegriff und einige andere semantische Begriffe', Erkenntnis 6, 143–156.
• Kokoszyńska, M., (1948), 'What means "relativity of truth"?', Studia Philosophica 3, 167–176.
• Kokoszyńska, M., (1951), 'A refutation of the relativism of truth', Studia Philosophica 4, 1–57.

*For a complete listing of Kokoszyńska's publications see Jan Zygmunt's Bibliography.^[4]