Research areas

The research interests of the employees of the Institute of Philosophy include the following areas:

• history of modern philosophy, especially the history of German philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Husserl, Gadamer), Spinoza’s philosophy and British philosophy (Hobbes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Berkeley, Hume)
• history of ancient and medieval philosophy
• contemporary philosophy: the Frankfurt school, postmodernism, neo-pragmatism (Rorty)
• historiosophy of modern times, social philosophy, philosophy of politics, philosophy of culture
• history of Polish philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries, incl. positivism, Twardowski, Czeżowski, Elzenberg, the Lwów-Warsaw school
• philosophical anthropology (including Scheler, Gehlen, Horkheimer)
• axiology, ethics, ecological and environmental ethics, bioethics
• aesthetics (German, French and British)
• philosophy of science, methodology, philosophy of language, sociology of knowledge, studies of science and technology
• theories of mind and cognitive science
• mereology, mereotopology
• tableaux systems
• epistemic logics
• relating logic
• modal logics
• paraconsistent logics
• algebraic logic