Departament of the Philosophy of Animate Nature


Departament of Philosophy of Animate Nature is engaged in the scientific research of a wide range of philosophical dilemmas concerning animated entity and philosophical problems of environmental protection.


In the research from the area of the philosophy of animated entity we are focused on the problem of the nature of life from historical and systematical perspective, on the concepts of life which are present in the theory of pro-ecological actions (axiological aspect of life), and there is conducted the research in the anthropological field focused on the variety of the criteria used in the current classifications of genus Homo.


The research concerning concepts of life's nature and anthropological questions are focused on following currents:

  1. epistemological and methodological aspects of the nature of life,
  2. the main conceptions of nature in XX century philosophy of nature and philosophy of ecology,
  3. evolution of genus Homo, current classifications of genus Homo,

Currently the research concerning the following issues is conducted:

  • Teleological reasoning in the practical philosophy of nature (dr Zbigniew Wróblewski),
  • Fossil remains of genus Homo in the light of poly- and monocentric paradigms (mgr Zuzanna Kieroń).