Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska (born 1940) is a Polish

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...

ian whose research topics have included rough sets and inference rules for rejecting certain propositions as invalid.

Education and career

Wybraniec-Skardowska was born in

Jastrzębie-Zdrój Jastrzębie-Zdrój (; german: Bad Königsdorff-Jastrzemb, originally ''Jastrzemb'', cs, Lázně Jestřebí, szl, Jastrzymbie-Zdrōj or ''Jastrzymbje-Zdrůj'') is a city in south Poland with 86,632 inhabitants (2021). Its name comes from the Poli ...

, in 1940. She graduated from the

University of Wrocław , ''Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau'' (before 1945) , free_label = Specialty programs , free = , colors = Blue , website uni.wroc.pl The University of Wrocław ( pl, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, U ...

in 1963, with a master's degree in mathematics, earned a Ph.D. in mathematics there in 1967, and completed her habilitation in humanistic sciences (D.Sc.) in 1985. She was given the title of professor in 1992. She worked at the

University of Opole The University of Opole ( pl, Uniwersytet Opolski) is a public university in the city of Opole. It was founded in 1994 from a merger of two parallel educational institutions. The university has 17,500 students completing 32 academic majors and 53 ...

for many years, including as full professor from 1995 to 2005. After retiring from Opole she worked at WSB University in Chorzów as head of the department of logic and methodology of sciences from 2005 to 2010, and also at

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW) (Latin: ''Universitas Cardinalis Stephani Wyszyński Varsoviae'') is a Polish state university created on the basis of the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. UKSW is a public university t ...

Books

Wybraniec-Skardowska is the author of ''Theory of Language Syntax: Categorial Approach'' (Kluwer, 1991), and the editor of ''The Lvov–Warsaw School: Past and Present'' (with Ángel Garrido, Springer/Birkhauser, 2018). She is also an author of several books in Polish.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wybraniec-Skardowska, Urszula 1940 births Living people Polish logicians Polish women mathematicians University of Wrocław alumni Academic staff of the University of Opole Academic staff of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw 20th-century Polish philosophers 21st-century Polish philosophers Polish women philosophers Philosophers of language