Notes on Contributors
Michał Dobrzański
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, and head of the German Philosophy Lab. He graduated in 2016 jointly at the University of Warsaw and Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research interests include social philosophy and non-classical German philosophy. In 2016 he was a visiting lecturer in Mainz. He has published in Polish, German, English, and Italian.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0718-643X
Filip Gołaszewski
received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warsaw in 2024 for his dissertation entitled Phenomenology, Truth and Narrative—a study of the philosophical relationship between Hegel and Husserl. His primary areas of interest are phenomenology, narratology and history of philosophy, but he also has active interests in anthropology and creative writing (he has finished the course of Creative Writing at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw). Gołaszewski is author of articles on Husserl, Hegel, phenomenology and modern philosophy. He has translated to Polish Nicolas de Warren’s A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time: On Krzysztof Michalski’s Nietzsche and Michael Tanner’s Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction (along with Alicja Chybińska). He is a member of the Polish Phenomenological Association.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6698-0177
Onni Hirvonen
is Senior Researcher in philosophy at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His main research interests include the Hegelian philosophy of recognition, critical social philosophy, and contemporary social ontology. Hirvonen has published on such themes as collective responsibility, recognition and philosophy of work, and populism. His recent work includes an edited book The Theory and Practice of Recognition (with Heikki J. Koskinen, Routledge, 2023).
ORCID: 0000-0001-8493-7420
Amadeusz Just
received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warsaw in 2024 for his dissertation on non-discursive social practices. His primary areas of interest are Wittgenstein and social philosophy, but he also has active interests in German idealism, philosophy of mind, and cultural anthropology. He is a researcher in the project “Locality of Reason: Social, Cultural, and Anthropological Contexts of Rationality.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0556-3083
Adam Klewenhagen
received his PhD in 2024 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. In his dissertation The Division of Linguistic Labor and the Social Production of Meanings. Towards a Critique of the Theory of Meaning he proposed a Marxist reading of a sociolinguistic hypothesis supporting semantic externalism. His research is focused on the interrelationships between the material sphere of production and the production of knowledge, conceptual resources, reasons and modes of rationality.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1221-165X
Wojciech Kozyra
works as an assistant in the Department of Social Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research focuses on Kant’s philosophy of religion in the context of the early modern period and the Enlightenment. His recent publications include a book entitled Kant on Judaism and Christianity in the Context of the German Enlightenment (University of Warsaw Press, 2024; in Polish), chapters: Saul Ascher’s Misgivings about Kant’s Political Theology (Routledge, forthcoming), The Gospel of the New Principle: Marcionian Leitmotif in Kant’s Religious Thought in the Context of Thomas Morgan and the German Enlightenment (Brill, 2022), and articles: “Kant and Spinoza on the Old Covenant” (Diametros, 2022), “Moral Self-Realization in Kant and Spinoza” (Problemos, 2022).
ORCID: 0000-0003-2210-4559
Jens Lemanski
is the managing director of the Center for Philosophy of Science (Zentrum für Wissenschaftstheorie, ZfW) at the University of Münster and Extraordinary Professor of Philosophy at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. His research is also funded by the projects ‘History of Logic Diagrams in Kantianism’ (Thyssen Foundation) and ‘Gestures and Diagrams in Visual-Spatial Communication’ (DFG, German Research Foundation). He holds a cotutela-PhD in philosophy from the JGU Mainz and the Università del Salento (Lecce). He has been a research fellow at the WWU Münster, the RU Bochum and the University of Tübingen, and he has published on the history and philosophy of logic, science, metaphysics, and the foundations of mathematics. He advocates a modern variant of rational representationalism, a philosophical position developed in his recent book World and Logic (College Publications, 2021).
ORCID: 0000-0003-3661-4752
Annette Mülberger
is Professor for Theory and History of Psychology (Heymans Institute, University of Groningen). She is linked to her previous institution, the Institute for History of Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Her research deals with studies on the mind and mental testing, historiography, crisis debates and the question about the boundaries of psychological sciences. She is currently involved in the following research projects: the Dutch Expertise Centre for Theory & History of Education and Psychology (DEEP); “Exceptional childhood” (INEX), History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern Catalonia, and Historicizing Intelligence (Oslo University).
For more information see:
https://www.rug.nl/staff/a.c.mulberger/
https://rug.academia.edu/AnnetteMulberger
ORCID: 0000-0002-7260-9734
Tommaso Ostillio
is an economist and a philosopher whose primary research interest is the influence of the digital revolution on sociopolitical and socioeconomic trends. Ostillio holds a B.A. in Philosophy (University of Warsaw, 2014), an M.Sc. in Management (Kozminski University, 2017), a PhD in Philosophy (University of Warsaw, 2023), and a PhD in Economics and Finance (Kozminski University, 2023). He worked at the Department of Economics of Kozminski University as Assistant Professor for two years. He currently works at the Department of Economic Empirical Analysis at Kozminski University, where he is also the program coordinator of the study program in Big Data Analysis.
ORCID: 0009-0002-2159-6395
Marcin Poręba
is Professor and Head of the Department of Modern Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. His main areas of research are metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the history of modern and contemporary philosophy.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8843-0894
Piotr Rosół
is an ethicist and social philosopher, currently serving as an Adjunct Professor at The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. His research interests encompass the ethical responsibility of science and technology, Hans Jonas’ philosophy, the social and ethical dimensions of environmental studies, and the metaphysical foundations of ethics. Dr. Rosół has an extensive international experience, including a research stay at the Hans Jonas Zentrum in Berlin in 2012, guest lecturing at the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaty in 2017, and a training course in teaching excellence at the University of Oslo in 2019.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7651-701X
Lara Scaglia
is Associate Researcher (in the area of history of philosophy) at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Between 2020 and 2023 she was Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Philosophy at the University of Warsaw in the framework of the project “The Locality of Reason. Social, Cultural and Anthropological Contexts of Rationality.” She has been a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Frankfurt (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Willaschek) and has collaborated with the University of Bonn (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Horn) and the Kant-Forschungsstelle at the University of Mainz. She received her doctorate from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Sturm) with a thesis on transcendental schematism and its legacy.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7148-7456
Tomasz Tiuryn
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. His main research interest is in the area of Ancient and Medieval philosophy, in particular Aristotle and his ancient commentators, Neoplatonism, and the philosophy of Aquinas. His focus is on topics from philosophy of language, metaphysics, theories of the soul and the mind-body problem. He has received scholarships from FNP, DAAD and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; he has written two books: Boecjusz i problem uniwersaliów (Boethius and the Problem of Universals, 2009) and a commentary on Aristotle’s De Interpretatione (2018).
ORCID: 0000-0001-6970-1196
Paolo Valore
is Professor of Epistemology at the University of Milan, and formerly of Theoretical Philosophy at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. Recipient of several fellowships and scholarships, twice a Fulbrighter, he has had visiting appointments at NYU, Rutgers, Columbia University, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and the Complutense University in Madrid. He is the author of 10 books and more than 100 articles and book chapters. His research focuses on ontology and metaphysics, with recent applications in cosmology and biomedical sciences. Among his publications are Fundamentals of Ontological Commitment (De Gruyter, 2019) and “Ontological Relativity and Conceptual Analysis as Theoretical Frameworks for Epistemic Injustice” (Metaphilosophy, 2024).
ORCID: 0000-0003-0036-6486