Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw

The Department of Philosophy of Culture of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw and „Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture” invite for the international conference: Re-writing Cultural Geography: Toward a New Meaning of Eastern Europe (December 8-10 2023). The conference brings together Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Belarusian philosophers. Details and programme below.

The organisers of the international conference “Relation in Phenomenology – Phenomenology in Relation. Intra- and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” to be held on December 1-2, 2023 in Pałac Staszica (Staszic Palace) in Warsaw, invite everybody to take part in this event. See details concerning the admission and a programme of the conference below.

On Monday, November 27 at 16:45 in room 4 of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, prof. Leon Horsten from the University of Konstanz will give an open lecture entitled “Truth and Finite Conjunction.” Everybody is invited.

Dr. Mateusz Łełyk from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, received the Young Scholar Medal (Medal Młodego Uczonego) during the Warsaw University of Technology celebration on November 15, 2023. For the first time in history, this honorable distinction, awarded by the Warsaw University of Technology, was awarded to a representative of the humanities faculty.

Prof. María de Ponte Azkarate from the University of the Basque Country will give a lecture “A Minimalist View of Necessity” during the webinar from the series “Sign – Language – Reality” (“Znak – Język – Rzeczywistość,” ZJR) on Friday, November 17 at 5 p.m. (4 p.m. in London, 11 a.m. in NYC). Link below.

Dr. Ralph Weir from the University of Lincoln and the University of Oxford will give an open lecture “Science and Soul” on Wednesday, November 15 at 4.45 p.m. in the Maria Ossowska Hall (room 116) and online (link below). Below we also publish the invitation of Dr. Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode.

The Department of Philosophy of Culture of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw invites you to a series of lectures by prof. Gintautas Mažeikis from Vytautas the Great University in Kaunas. They will cover such issues as: cultural archetypes in critical iconology, epistemology of cultural diplomacy, critical theory and phenomenology, and Adorno’s assessment of

Eduardo Torres from Trinity College Dublin will speak on November 3 at 5 p.m. CET (4 p.m. London, 11 a.m. NYC) at the next webinar in the series “Sign – Language – Reality.” He will give a lecture entitled: “Convention and Context: Strawson on the Semantic/Pragmatic Distinction.” The meeting will be held online on Zoom.

Next Friday, September 29 at 1:00 p.m., the ceremonial inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw will begin in room B in the Auditorium Maximum. The ceremony will be attended by His Rector, Prof. Alojzy Nowak. It will be broadcast on our YouTube channel (link below).

The Dean of the Faculty and the head of the Department of Ethics prof. Paweł Łuków invites to a meeting with prof. Michael Boylan from the University of Chicago who will give a lecture “Health as Self-Fulfillment”. It will be held in the Maria Ossowska Hall (116) on September 21 at 5 p.m.

Key philosophical problems in 3 days. On June 28-30, 2023, students from Ukraine met in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw to discuss them with such experts as: Dr. Mahrad Almotahari, prof. Paweł Okołowski, prof. Benjamin Ferguson, Prof. Peter Adamson, Dr. Aaron Wendland. (See pictures below.)

Eleven lectures complemented by more than twenty critical comments and very lively discussions. “The Nature of Belief” workshop was held at the University of Warsaw on May 18-20 and gathered participants from all over the world online and on site, and resulted in fruitful and vivid discussions, as well as high quality publications.