Departament of the Philosophy of Inanimate Nature

 

In the research area of the Departament of Philosophy of the Inanimate Nature there are issues of philosophical cosmology, theory and history of philosophy of nature, history and philosophy of the natural sciences, including philosophy of technology. Issues of the origin and the development of the main concepts of philosophy of nature - such as time, space, space-time, causality - belong to central issues of the Departament's interest. Axiology of science as a branch of philosophy of science is also being developed, especially of the connections of science with cognitive and non-cognitive values. Epistemic axiology, as regards the subject of research, is a branch of the problem of the relationship between science and respective kinds of values. Axiological problems concerning the development and the progress in science, intro- and inter-theoretical connections among different units of methodological analysis are also of the interest. The deductive trend of the XX-century cosmology and contemporary Francophone philosophy of science are investigated, as well as technical and technological circumstances of the scientific cognition.


Master's, doctoral and postdoctoral programs are executed in the master's and the doctoral seminar, which mostly belong to the above sketched research area of the Departament. Researchers execute tasks within the framework of the long-time collaboration with many domestic and foreign institutes (e.g. Association Ferdinand Gonseth, Switzerland). They also tutor for seminaries and give lectures for other polish research institutes.

 

 

 

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