Monika Walczak - hab. PhD, associate professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (2015-2020), its Vice-Dean (2013-2015); manager of the project awarded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to the Catholic University of Lublin “Regional Initiative of Excellence” (2019-2023); employed at the Department of Methodology of Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
general philosophy of science and methodology of sciences, contemporary epistemology (especially Anglo-Saxon, transcendental philosophy), methodology of the humanities, informal logic, and most recently philosophy and methodology of interdisciplinarity.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Currently working on a research project on the category and phenomenon of interdisciplinarity in contemporary theory and institutional (administrative) praxis.
ACADEMIC CAREER
2013 Habilitation in philosophy; habilitation book: "Insight and Knowing. Bernard J. F. Lonergan's Epistemology", Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL 2012 (in Polish).
2001 PhD. in philosophy; doctoral thesis: "The Rationality of Science. Epistemological and Methodological Study" (in Polish), supervisor: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Bronk (KUL).
EDUCATION
1989-1994 Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy KUL; MA in philosophy in 1994; MA dissertation: "Rationality of Science according to John Watkins" (in Polish), supervisor: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Bronk.
1987-1992 Studies at the Faculty of Theology KUL; MA in theology in 1992; MA dissertation: "The Nature and Attributes of God in Saint Augustine Confessiones" (in Polish), supervisor: dr Franciszek Szulc.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses in informal logic (critical thinking), logical semiotics, philosophy of science, theory of science and methodology of sciences for students of philosophy, humanities, educational studies, cultural studies, and recently of cognitive science.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017-2019 Chair of the Programme Committee of the 11th Polish Philosophical Congress, September 8-14th 2019 (https://zjazdfilozoficzny.kul.pl/).
2015-2020 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
2013-2015 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs (in Polish):
2022 co-authored with Andrzej Bronk, Stanisław Majdański, Logos problematicos or Problem with Problem, Lublin: Academicon 2022 (in Polish), in print.
2012 Insight and Cognition. Epistemology of Bernard J. F. Lonergan (Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL).
2006 The Rationality of Science: Problems, Conceptions, and Arguments (Lublin: TN KUL).
Collective works (in Polish):
2019 co-edited with Stanisław Janeczek, Anna Starościc, Methodology of Sciences, Part 1 What is Science?, Part 2 Methodological Specificity of Sciences, series "Didactics of Philosophy", vol. 9 (Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL).
2010 Methodology: Tradition and Perspectives (Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL).
1998 co-edited with Andrzej Bronk, Worldview – Religion – Theology. Philosophical and Methodological Issues, Volume 5 of Selected Works of Professor Stanisław Kamiński (Lublin: TN KUL).
Articles:
Over fifty articles in Polish and in English, some on interdisciplinarity in science:
2024 Wgląd, nieświadomość i podmiotowość. Kilka uwag do problemu genezy wglądu w klasycznych koncepcjach wglądu, "Roczniki FIlozoficzne" 72, nr 2, s. 259-276, DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf24722.12
2022 (Nie)samodzielność epistemiczna wiedzy przez znajomość , „Przegląd Filozoficzny – Nowa Seria” 31, nr 4 (124), s. 237-254; DOI: 10.24425/pfns.2022.143862
2022 The Interdisciplinary Problem: An Analysis. „Analiza i Egzystencja” 60 (2022), s. 21–42; DOI: 10.18276/aie.2022.60-02k
2020 The Categories of Interdisciplinarity and Integration in Relation to Stanisław Kamiński’s Analytical-Ordering Schemas, w: J. Wojtysiak, Z. Wroblewski, A. Gut (red.), Lublin School of Philosophy - A Comparative Perspective, Lubin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 183-216.
2020 Kategoria statusu metodologicznego nauki (The category of methodological status of science), w: J. Maciaszek (red.), Analiza, racjonalność, filozofia religii. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Ryszardowi Kleszczowi, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 121-136.
2019 Kategorie interdyscyplinarności i integracji a analityczno-porządkujące schematy Stanisława Kamińskiego, w: J. Wojtysiak, Z. Wróblewski, A. Gut (red.), Lubelska Szkoła Filozoficzna w porównaniach, Seria: Pomniki polskiej myśli filozoficznej, teologicznej i społecznej: lubelska szkoła filozoficzna, Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 207-243.
2016 Is Interdisciplinary Knowledge Possible?, „Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa” nr 1, 113-126 (in Polish).
2015 The Classical Notion of Knowledge and Interdisciplinarity of Science, „ATINER Conference Paper Series” No: PHI2015-1437, http://www.atiner.gr/papers/PHI2015-1437.pdf.
2015 The Interdisciplinary Nature of the Cultural Studies Concept of Culture, „Człowiek i Społeczeństwo” 39, 135-152 (in Polish).
2010 Between Discipline and Interdisciplinary Domain: Comments on the Methodological Status of Cultural Studies, „Roczniki Kulturoznawcze” 1, nr 1, 7-41 (in Polish).
SELECTED GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND DISTINCTIONS
2019-2022 Head of the grant "Philosophy and Theology in the Context of Contemporary Transformations of Science" under the Ministry of Science and Education Regional Excellence Initiative program received by the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin for the disciplines of philosophy and theology, grant nr rej028/RID/2018/19.
2010 and 2013 One month scholarship for Lonergan studies from Lonergan Institute Boston College/ USA
2009-2011 Individual grant nr 1499/B/HO3/2009/37 founded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the research on epistemology of B. Lonergana, titled: "Insight – Self-knowledge – Objectivity. Study of Epistemology of Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)".
May 2007 Scholarship of the program SOKRATES-Erasmus, Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Filosofia (Spain).
2007 Individual prize of the President of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) for the book "The Rationality of Science. Epistemological and Methodological Study" (Lublin: TN KUL 2006).
2001/2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Boston College/USA.
2001 scholarship of Batory Foundation for young scholars.
2000 Grant for the doctoral thesis founded by Committee of Research in Poland (now: National Science Centre, Poland).
