Marta Sznajder

Marta Sznajder is a philosopher and a historian of 20th-century inductive logic. She holds a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and the University of Groningen. After finishing her dissertation about the final stages of Rudolf Carnap’s inductive logic project, she became interested in doing archival research into the lives of thinkers with which she shared philosophical interests. This led her to the discovery of a Polish female inductive logician, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum, a philosopher of induction born in 1899 in Warsaw, whose work - nowadays largely forgotten - predated and inspired Carnap’s. 

Since Fall 2023, Marta is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna. She is running a project called: “What was and what could have been: Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum’s role in the philosophy of probablity". The project studies on the life and work of Hosiasson-Lindenbaum. During her visiting fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Marta will be working on translating the results of her scholarly research into a narrative intellectual biography.