Izydora Maria Józefa Dąmbska (3 January 1904 – 18 June 1983) was a philosopher, logician, epistemologist, translator and poet related to the Lwów–Warsaw school. She was student and assistant of Kazimierz Twardowski.
Biography She came from the nobility; the daughter of , and Antonina née Zaleska.
She studied philosophy (at the seminar of Kazimierz Twardowski, at Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Roman Ingarden and ) and Polish philology (at Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński, Juliusz Kleiner and ) at the University of Lviv. In 1927 she obtained doctorate in philosophy upon dissertation Teoria sądu E. Gobblota written under the supervision of Kazimierz Twardowski.
From 1926 to 1930, she was an assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lviv. In 1930–1931 she went on an eight-month research trip to Austria, Germany and France; visiting Vienna, Berlin and Paris; the trip was financed from the scholarship of the Fund for National Culture. After returning, she worked at the University Library in Lviv and in secondary education, teaching introductions to philosophy, pedagogical subjects, and the Polish language. She passed professorial exam for teachers in 1927.
From 1928, she was a member of the Polish Philosophical Society; she was a member of its board from 1937. In 1938–1939, together with , she edited the journal Ruch Filozoficzny. At the same time, she collaborated on compiling a Polish philosophical bibliography for the publishing house of the International Institute of Philosophy and for the American publisher Philos. Abstracts.
In 1946 she obtained habilitation at the University of Warsaw upon dissertation Irracjonalizm a poznanie naukowe. From autumn of 1946 she lectured at the University of Warsaw. Zbigniew Herbert dedicated her a poem Potęga smaku.
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