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Institute of Philosophy

The Institute was founded in 1970. It used to consist of three departments where 22 employees were hired. Nowadays, the Institute has developed significantly: it comprises 14 departmens, where 57 academics are employed.

The scholars published many books and articles in volumes and journals all over the world. They also established international relationships and scholarly cooperation with various foreign institutions.

BA and MA Full Time Study Programs:

Philosophy (Specializations: Public Life, Social Communication, Ethics, Knowledge Management).

DEPARTMENTS:

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Head: Prof. Tadeusz Buksiński

Phone: +48-61 829 22 80, e-mail: tabu@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Head: dr. hab. prof. UAM Antoni Szczuciński

Phone: +48-61 829 22 76, e-mail: antonisz@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF AESTHETICS

Head: Prof. Anna Jamroziakowa

Phone: +48 61 829 21 24, e-mail: nimia@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF ETHICS

Head: dr. hab. prof. UAM Ewa Nowak

Phone: +48-61 829 22 87, e-mail: ewanowak@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF EPISTEMOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Head: Prof. dr. hab. Krzysztof Brzechczyn

Phone: +48-61 829 22 82, e-mail: brzech@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF DIDACTICS OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Head: Prof. Roman Kubicki

Phone: +48-61 829 21 03, e-mail: rokub@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Head: Prof. Ewa Piotrowska

Phone: +48-61 829 22 46, e-mail: piotrow@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY OF CIVILIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Head: dr. hab. prof. UAM Danuta Sobczyńska

Phone: +48-61 829 22 86, e-mail: danutas@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Head: dr. hab. prof. UAM Norbert Leśniewski

Phone: +48-61 829 21 23, e-mail: norle@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATIONS

Head: Prof. Bolesław Andrzejewski

Phone: +48-61 829 22 90, e-mail: boland@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF LOGICS AND METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE

Head: Prof. Paweł Zeidler

Phone: +48-61 829 22 73, e-mail: zeidlerp@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE

Head: prof. Anna Pałubicka

Phone: +48-61 829 22 74, e-mail: annapal@amu.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH ON ANCIENT AND BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY
Head: prof. Marian Wesoły

Phone: +48-61 829 22 79, e-mail: wesoly@amu.edu.pl

STATISTICS

The Institute of Philosophy is one of the four institutes in the Faculty of Social Sciences next to Insitiute of Sociology, Institute of Cultural Studies, and Institute of Psychology.

Institute (Student enrollment in the academic year 2012-2013) consists of:

BA: 501

MA and other programs: 315

Ph.D. candidates: 59

Academic staff:

including:

Full professors (ordinarius): 10

Professors and tenured doctors (doctor habilitatus): 17

Doctors: 30

THE MAIN SCIENTIFIC DIRECTIONS

  • Philosophy and methodology of natural science
  • Idealization in science
  • Rationality
  • Theory of communication
  • The role of procedures of interpretation and modeling in science and philosophy
  • Mathematical Logic
  • Realism – antirealism controversy
  • The role of non-casual (functional, genetic, subjective-rational) kinds of determination in development of science
  • Problems of theory – experiment relation
  • Postmodern concept of knowledge
  • History of philosophy
  • Ways of functioning of culture in various societies
  • The contemporary German Philosophy

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

  • Andrzejewski, B. (2008). Karl Jaspers und das Phaenomen des (schisophrenen) Genies (Kasus Swedenborg). w: A. Cesana, G. J. Walters, Koenigshausen & Neumann (red.), (s. 107 – 114 ). Wuerzburg.
  • Andrzejewski, B. (2009). Investigation en el aula en LI y L2, experentisa y reflexiones. w: B. Andrzejewski (red.), Universidad National de Bogota (s. 207 – 216 ). Bogota.
  • Andrzejewski, B., & Wendland, M. (2009). Zu Hegels Auffassung von Sprache und Kommunikation. w: B. Henn-Memmesheimer & J. Franz (red.), Die Ordnung des Standard und die Differenzierung der Diskurse, Reihe: Linguistik International Bd. 24 (s. 811-821). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  • Bakke, M. (2008). Zoe-philic Desires – Wet media Art and Beyond. Parallax, 14, 3, 21 – 34.
  • Brzechczyn, K. (2009). The Distinctiveness of Central Europe in light of the Cascadeness of the Historical Process. Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, t. 97 (Idealization XIII: Modeling in History), 231 – 269.
  • Brzechczyn, K. (2009). Idealization XIII: Modeling in History; Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, t. 97: Rodopi, Brzechczyn K.
  • Brzechczyn, K. (2009). Idealization XIII: Modeling in History; Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, t. 97: Rodopi, Brzechczyn K.
  • Buksiński, T. (red.). (2009). Democracy in Western and Postcommunist Countries. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Publishing House.
  • Buksiński, T. (2009). Democracy between Interests and Identities (The Case of Poland).  Democracy in Western and Postcommunist Countries (s. 139 – 163). Frankfurt/Main Peter Lang Publishing House.
  • Buksiński, T. (2008). How Can Existence Be Cognized? Dialogue and Universalism, Dialogue and Universalism, 1 – 3 (XVIII), 69 – 75.
  • Cern, K. (2009). Between Complexity of Law and Lack of Order. Philosophy of Law in the Era of Globalization. EUropean (Legal) Culture Reconsidered, 313 – 332.
  • Domaradzki, M. (2009). Studies on Supernaturalism. ’Plotinus’ Rejection of Supernaturalism, 107 – 125.
  • Juchacz, P. W. (2009). EUropean (Legal) Culture Reconsidered w: B. Wojciechowski, M. Zirk – Sadowski & M. J. Golecki (red.), Between Complexity of Law and Lack of Order. Philosophy of Law in the Era of Globalization (s. 313 – 332). Toruń – Beijing
  • Juchacz, P. W. (2009). On Post – Schumpeterian vision of competitive – managerial model of local democracy by Great – Poland self – government elites. w: T. Buksiński (red.), Democracy in Western and Eastern Europe. Hamburg: Peter Lang Verlag.
  • Kotowa, B. (2008). A Historical and Cultural Research Perspective in Epistemology. Dialogue and Universalism, 7 – 8/2008, 43 – 50.
  • Kubicki, R. (2009). On the Aesthetic Sources and Boundaries of the Art of a Free Life. ART INQUIRY. RECHERCHES SUR LES ARTS, XI (XX), 7 – 32.
  • Kubicki, R. (2009). Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity. Reconstructions and Interpretations.  In Search of the Lost God of Supermarkets (s. 87 – 103). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Kwiek, M. (2008). Entrepreneurialism and Private higher Education in Europe. w: M. Shattock (red.), Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy. Diversification and Organisational Change in European Higher Education (s. 100 – 120). Maidenhead, New York: Open University Press.
  • Kwiek, M. (2008). Higher Education and the Nation-State: Global Pressures on Educational Institutions. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 45, No. 1 April, 109 – 131.
  • Kwiek, M. (2008). Revisiting the Classical German Idea of the University (on the Nationalization of the Modern Institution). Polish Journal of Philosophy, 2 No. 1, 55 – 79.
  • Leśniewska, A. (2010). Philosophical Education for Democracy and the Development of Discursive Competences. w: S. Popławski (red.), The Social Contexts of Communication (s. 37 – 48). Poznań: Publishing House of Poznań University of Technology.
  • Leśniewski, P., Gan-Krzywoszyńska K. (2009). On Existence and Some Ontologies. Ruch Filozoficzny, 66/2009, 71 – 79.
  • Pakszys, E. (2008). Organizational Olympians. Heroes and Heroines of Organizational Myths. w: M. Kostera (red.), Gender–content-Myths and their Role in Nation Forming (s. 57 – 60): Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Raburski, T. (2009). Can Hegel Contribute to the Contemporary Theory of International Relations? Hegel-Jahrbuch, 2009, 57 – 62.
  • Rzepiński, T. (2008). „Redundant Information in Diagnostic Reasoning” w: X. Arrazola & J. M. Larrazabal (red.), Proceedings of the First ILCLI International Worshop on Logic and Philosophy of Knowledge, Communication and Action (s. 319 – 334): University of the Basque Country Press.
  • Such, J. (2009). Scientific Law versus Historical Generalization. An Attempt ad an Explication. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Idealization XIII: Modeling in History. T. 97, 337 – 350.