Department of the Theory of Cognition and Philosophy of Science

Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Czarnocka – Kierownik
dr Mariusz Mazurek
dr Anna Michalska
 

The Department of the Theory of Cognition and Philosophy of Science implements a multi-year research program (order number: 3) entitled Philosophy of the Foundations of Science.  The Department also initiates and implements other research projects that are generally not subsidized (with rare exceptions, see below).

Strategic, long-term goal of the research: Its goal is to develop theoretical and metatheoretical foundations in the form of models (partial, because due to the scope of the problem field others are not possible) of cognition, in particular scientific cognition. The research also aims at presenting those aspects of cognition (or, speaking precisely, interpretations of cognition), especially in science, which are currently emerging in effect of the reconstruction of the social world.

Conferences organized or co-organized by the Department

1. Philosophy and Computing
   Organized by Philosophers assembled over the years around the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers and the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers (both now discontinued) and related organizations: Association on Philosophy and Computing (APC) affiliate of the APA, which started in 2020. The current conference was its first external activity; philosophy interest group within BICA Society (which also organizes its own conference at this IS4SI); PHAEDE (Philosophy of Engineering and Artifact in the Digital Era (within the Romanian Society for Philosophy, Engineering and Techno-ethics) with the long tradition of organizing related conferences and publications; Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies journal.
2. On the Occasion of the World Philosophy Day and the Year of Stanisław Lem — this symposium has been devoted to philosophical threads in Lem’s work, co-organized by Institute of Philosophy of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, and Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies.
3. Knowledge in the Academy and beyond the Academy. Organizers: the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Lublin Branch of the Polish Social Society, Branch of the Sociology of Science of the Polish Sociological Society, journal Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies, online, September 9–10, 2020.
4. Philosophy in Computer Science V. Organizers: Institute of Philosophy the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Humanities of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, journal: Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies, November 28–29, 2019.
5. Science as a Theoretical and Meta-theoretical Problem. Organizers: Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, October 18, 2017.
6. World Congress of Philosophy — International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD), Values and Ideals. Theory and Praxis, Warsaw, 146 lecturers from 30 countries around the world. The organization of the ISUD Congress in Warsaw was the result of many years of cooperation with this international society, a form of cooperation is the publishing of the Dialogue and Universalism journal.

Grants

•  2023–2024. Donation given by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the editorial project under the “Development of Scientific Journals” program for the journal Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies
• 2022–2023. Donation given by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the editorial project “Development of scientific journals” for the journal Dialogue and Universalism
• 2013–2017. “Philosophy about Science. Diversification of Traditions and Concepts” (no. 11 H 120302 81, module 1.1 of the National Program for the Development of the Humanities). The result of this project was the founding of the journal Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2013, publishing about 40 texts in scientific journals, as well as the following monographs:
   – Paweł Bytniewski – Francuska filozofia nauki. Szkice epistemologiczne [French Philosophy of Science. Epistemological Sketches], Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2017.
  – Małgorzata Czarnocka – Koncepcje podmiotu poznania we współczesnej filozofii [Conceptions of the Subject of Cognition in Contemporary Philosophy], Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2017.
  – Stanisław Czerniak – Wybrane koncepcje wiedzy i nauki we współczesnej filozofii niemieckiej [Selected Conceptions of Knowledge and Science in Contemporary German Philosophy], Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2017.
  – Ignacy S. Fiut, Marcin Urbaniak — Wiedza w perspektywie ewolucyjnej [Knowledge in an Evolutionary Perspective], Aureus, Kraków  2017.
  – Mariusz Mazurek – Modele w filozoficznych koncepcjach nauki [Models in Philosophical Conceptions of Science], Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2017.
  Anna Michalska – Pragmatyzm nieinstrumentalny a filozoficzne koncepcje nauki [Non-instrumental Pragmatism and Philosophical Conceptions of Science], Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2017.
  – Barbara Trybulec – Wiedza i jej podmiot w szerokich systemach poznawczych [ Knowledge and Its subject in Broad Cognitive Systems], Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, 2017.
  – Marcin Urbaniak – Biologiczne wymiary rozumienia. Od ewolucji do hermeneutyki ludzkiego myślenia [Biological Dimensions of Understanding. From Evolution to the Hermeneutics of Human Thinking] ,Aureus, Kraków 2017.
• 2016 – 2017. Grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the dissemination of scientific results of the ISUD World Congress. The dissemination took the form of four monothematic issues, Dialogue and Universalism, with a total volume of over 900 pages. Modified (for publication purposes) and redacted contents of papers presented at the congress have been published. All publications were double-reviewed: by congress reviewers and by reviewers appointed by Dialogue and Universalism.

Publishing and editorial activities

On the initiative and permanent work of the Department, two academic journals are published: Dialogue and Universalism (dialogueanduniversalim.eu) (editor-in-chief: M. Czarnocka) and Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies (FILOZOFIA I NAUKA | Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne), editor-in-chief: M. Czarnocka.

The publishers of Dialogue and Universalism are: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Philosophy for Dialogue Foundation, and the actual substantive supervisor and co-creator of the journal’s program line and its sponsor is the International Society for Universal Dialogue (the Society is registered in Maine, USA).
The journal currently has 70 points on the Ministry of Education and Science list of rated journals.

Journal Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies has been published by Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2013, and since 2018 the Institute of Philosophy of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University is the official co-publisher.

The journal currently has 70 points on the Ministry of Education and Science list of rated journals.

Research projects initiated and directed or co-managed by the Department, the results of which have been published as thematic blocks or monothematic issues of the journal PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies and the journal Dialogue and Universalism . Most of the research projects carried out in Dialogue and Universalism were developed through international collaboration with the International Society for Universal Dialogue .

 Dialogue and Universalism:

New Faces of Democracy. In Searching of the Global Health of Democracy
Environmental Philosophy as World Philosophy
Problems of Digitization
Clashes of Cultures, Religions and Models of Democracy
Do We Need a New Enlightenment for the Twenty-first Century? – 4 monothematic issues
Philosophy in an Age of Crisis (in cooperation with the International Society for Universal Dialogue) – 4 monothematic issues
Janusz Kuczyński (1930 – 2017) – Work and Life
Comparative Culture Studies in Philosophy and Aesthetics

PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. Philosophical and interdisciplinary studies:

• 2022–2023. Philosophy and computing
  Organized by Philosophers assembled over the years around the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers and the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers (both now discontinued) and related organizations: Association on Philosophy and Computing (APC) affiliate of the APA, which started in 2020 – the current conference is its first external activity; philosophy interest group within BICA Society (which also organizes its own conference at this IS4SI); PHAEDE (Philosophy of Engineering and Artifact in the Digital Era (within the Romanian Society for Philosophy, Engineering and Techno-ethics) with long tradition of organizing related conferences and publications; Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies
• 2022–2023. Philosophical ideas, concepts and inspirations of Stanisław Lem, in  cooperation with Institute of Philosophy of the University Maria Curie-Skłodowska
• 2021. Knowledge in the academy and beyond the academy (in cooperation with  Institute of Philosophy of the University Maria Curie-Skłodowska)
• 2020. The era of computerization
• 2019. Philosophical problems of biological sciences. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Professor Leszek Kuźnicki

Publishing series
Towards Universal Civilization, Peter Lang Verlag , series editor Małgorzata Czarnocka.
Publications in the series since 2017:
Małgorzata Czarnocka , A Path to a Conception of Symbolic Truth , 2017
Michael H. Mitias , A Conception of Symbolic Truth 2022
Michael Mitias , Human Dialogue , 2023.

Seminars

Seminar conducted in cooperation with the Department of Philosophy of Culture of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Models of subjectivity (Maria Gołębiewska, Anna Michalska) from 2020; previously, the seminar had the main topic: Pragmatics, Pragmatism, Performance Studies

International cooperation
There are two main permanent lines of cooperation. The first consists in research projects undertaken together with the International Society for Universal Dialogue. The result of this long-term cooperation is many monothematic volumes Dialogue and Universalism (see. https://dialogueanduniversalism.eu/tables-of-contents/ )
The second line consists in inviting, organizing and coordinating the work of groups of specialists, including foreign specialists, to develop topics initiated by the Philosophy and Science. Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Studies journal. International cooperation is developing mainly in the areas of computerization, virtuality, philosophy of informatics. The selected results of the research are presented in both journals (listed above).

Monographs published by employees of the Department since 2017

• M. Czarnocka – Koncepcje podmiotu poznania we współczesnej filozofii [Conceptions of the Subject of Cognition in Contemporary Philosophy], Warsaw, Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Publishers 2017.
• M. Czarnocka , A Path to a Conception of Symbolic Truth, Peter Lang Verlag 2017. Warsaw:
• M. Mazurek, Modele w filozoficznych koncepcjach nauki [Models in Philosophical Conceptions of Science], Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2017.
• A. Michalska, Non-instrumental Pragmatism and Philosophical Conceptions of Science, Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2017.
• A. Michalska, Facts, Norms, Ideals: Idealization and Self-regulation in Human Regulations, Publishing House of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2019.

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