Adam Mahrburg

Adam Mahrburg (6 August 1855 – 13 November 1913) was a Polish philosopher—the outstanding philosophical mind of Poland's Positivist period.

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)