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said of Lewy: "At Cambridge the great influence on all of us in Trinity was Casimir Lewy; he was a Polish Jew who had left Germany just in time before the Second World War. He lost either all or nearly all of his family; he was a charismatic teacher with an enormous influence on a whole generation of
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His father, Ludwig Lewy, was a doctor and died in 1919 when he was an infant, so he grew up with his mother Izabela's family. After nine years at the Mikolaj Rej school in Warsaw, he travelled to the UK in 1936 with the intention of improving his English. He was admitted to
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philosophy students in Trinity—Ian Hacking, Edward Craig and myself, Crispin Wright—many of us became academics." A Festschrift,
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but published scantly. He was an influential teacher; several of his students went on to be prominent philosophers, including
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that he realized he would not be able to return to his native country. Most of his relatives were murdered in the
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while Moore was lecturing in the United States, and he participated in meetings of the
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For a full listing of published papers, book reviews and critical notices see:
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shows his influence on many Cambridge philosophers that he taught.
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Some philosophical considerations concerning the survival of death
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In a 2009 interview with Alan Macfarlane, Cambridge philosopher
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Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
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Exercises in Analysis: Essays by Students of Casimir Lewy
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Warsaw
Second Polish Republic
Cambridge
England
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Contemporary philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Analytic
Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
G. E. Moore
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Simon Blackburn
Edward Craig
Ian Hacking
Crispin Wright
Philosophical logic
modal logic
truth
property
propositions
sentences
Polish
Polish
philosophical logic

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