Rolandas Pavilionis (July 3, 1944,

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– May 10, 2006,

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) was a Lithuanian philosopher, politician and

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Biography

In 1962 Pavilionis graduated from a night-school for workers in

. He attended the school at night after finishing his work at a bicycle factory. The same year he was admitted to the

Vilnius University Vilnius University ( lt, Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, oldest in the Baltic states and in Northern Europe outside the United Kingdom (or 6th overall following foundations of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Glasgow and ...

to study foreign languages. In 1968 he graduated the university with a degree in

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. From 1968 to 1971 he continued postgraduate studies at the Science Academy of Ukraine and earned doctor's degree in logic. Pavilionis then returned to Lithuania and joined Vilnius University as member of the faculty (1971–1977 docent, 1982–1990 professor). For some time he was the head of the Department of History of Philosophy and Logic. Pavilionis took courses at the

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of Paris with prof.

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. In 1981 Pavilionis defended his thesis in the field of language logic and philosophy of logic, earning degree of Habilitated Doctor of Logic. In 1990 Pavilionis was elected as the rector of the Vilnius University. He held the post until 2000, when was elected to

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(parliament). In 2004, he was elected to the

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. In 2006 he died in Santariškės hospital, Vilnius.

Works

Pavilionis was the author of works in

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, Lithuanian and

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. *„Язык и логика“, 1975, *„Kalba. Logika. Filosofija“, Vilnius: Mintis, 1981. *„Проблема смысла: современный логико-философский анализ языка“, Москва: Мысль, 1983. *„Meaning and conceptual systems“, Moscow: Progress, 1990. *„Prieš absurdą“, 2000. *„Tarp šviesos ir tamsos“, 2000. *„Prieš absurdą II“, 2004. *„Prasmė ir tapatumas, arba kelionė į save“, Vilnius: Lietuvos mokslas, 2005. 1944 births 2006 deaths Order and Justice MEPs MEPs for Lithuania 2004–2009 Rectors of Vilnius University Vilnius University alumni People from Šiauliai Logicians 20th-century Lithuanian philosophers Philosophy of logic Philosophers of language Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the Seimas {{Lithuania-MEP-stub