forthcoming in Pozna ñ Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Tadeusz Szubka (ORCID: 0000-0002-8560-2785) CASIMIR LEWY AND THE LVOV-WARSAW SCHOOL The Polish-born British philosopher Kazimierz (known as Casimir) Lewy (1919–1991) was an inspiring and influential university teacher. His passionate and inimitable lectures and tutorials at the University of Cambridge significantly contributed to the intellectual formation of a number of British philosophers in the second half of the twentieth century. He was characteristically analytic philosopher along the lines of his Cambridge mentors, in particular G. E. Moore and John Wisdom. However, his philosophical interests arose in Warsaw through the encounter with writings and lectures by Tadeusz Kotarbiñski. Even though Lewy was well acquainted with the tradition of Polish analytic philosophy, embodied in the Lvov-Warsaw School, and discussed it occasionally in his work, he was rather resistant to it. In what follows, after an account of Lewy’s exposure to that school, I shall try to suggest, as succinctly as possible, what could be the rationale of his resistance. Kotarbiñski, Tarski, and Cze¿owski It has been claimed that Casimir Lewy was attracted to philosophy as a teenager while attending the Miko³aj Rej High School in Warsaw. According to the biographical note included in the collection of essays Exercises in Analysis when Lewy was 15 years old „his interest in philosophy and logic was aroused by an article in a literary weekly about the philosophy of T. Kotarbiñski. He thereupon 1