Life
Giedymin, of Polish origin, was born in 1925.
He studied at the University of Poznan under Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. In 1953 Jerzy Giedymin succeeded Adam Wiegner at the Chair of Logic at the Faculty of Philosophy.
The so-called Poznan School was a Marxist current of philosophy marked by an idealisational theory of science which emphasised the scientific features of Marxism in close confrontation with contemporary logic and epistemology.
In 1968 Giedymin moved to England and attended seminars by Karl Popper at the London School of Economics.
In 1971 he came to Sussex to become Professor at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the University of Sussex.
Giedymin died during a trip to Poland on 24 June 1993.
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