Indian philosophy with special focus on Samkhyayoga tradition and Indian Buddhism
Philosophy of culture; cross-cultural aesthetics; geography of thought; gender context of self-identity; conceptualisations of nature; eco-feminism, etc.
Philosophy of mind & cognitive studies: Asian and Western conceptions of mind, cognition and the self
Comparative philosophy; philosophy of religion; varieties of the mystical experience; contemplative studies; non-theistic devotion, etc.
Habilitation in Philosophy (2014), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Faculty of Philosophy & Sociology
PhD in Philosophy (1998), Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy. Dissertation: Categories of 'Subject' and 'Object' in Classical Indian Yoga [in Polish]
MA in Philosophy (1992), Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy. Thesis: The Concept of Mind (citta) in Patañjali’s Yoga System of Philosophy [in Polish]
Associate professor in philosophy at the Department of Philosophical Research on Culture, Institute of Culture, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, since March 2024
Associate professor of philosophy in University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, since March 2015 till Feb 2024
Founder and Editor-in-chief of the ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, since April 2010 till February 2024
Head of the Philosophy Board, Pedagogical University of Krakow (2019-2023)
Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities, Pedagogical University of Krakow (2016-2019)
Member of the Rector's Committee for Equal Treatment, Pedagogical University of Krakow, since October (2019-2020)
Assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Pedagogical University of Krakow (2002-2015)
Assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Silesia, Katowice (1998-2002)
PhD candidate and teaching instructor at Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1992-1998)
Assistant lecturer at Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University (1991-1992)
2024-2028 – Management Committee Member in European Cooperation in Science and Technology - COST Action CA23144: Europe's Representations of India: Texts, Images, and Encounters, funded by the European Union. The main aim and objective of the Action is to create a pan-European network of researchers with the shared goal of mapping and analysing the crystallization of modern European representations of India and identifying their impact on past and present encounters between Europeans and Indians [project description]
2003 – Research Grant founded by University of Oxford, Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme, Balliol College, UK, 06-07.2003
2001 – Travel Grant founded by Foundation of Polish Science, the 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, University of Tokyo, Japan, 06.2001
2000 – Research Grant founded by the Polish State Committee of Scientific Research, BHU, India, 09-10.2000
1997 – Research Grant founded by the Lanckorońskis' Foundation, School of the Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, 09-10.1997
1997 – Travel Grant founded by the Stefan Batory Foundation, the 10th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangalore, India, 10.1997–01.1998
1994–1995 – Research Grant founded by the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Found, School of the Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Book Review Editor | South Asia, Philosophy East and West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy (since 2023)
Board Member of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (2018-2024)
Regional Associate of Leiden University Center for Intercultural Philosophy, Netherlands (since 2018)
Member of an interdisciplinary research group of Yoga Research Lab, University of Wrocław (since 2022)
Member of the Board of Examiners for PhD degree in Philosophy at Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, Chennai, India (since 2015)
Editorial Board Member of Sophia. International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (since 2020).
Board Member of Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica (since 2015)
Board Member of Gnosis. An International Journal of English Language and Literature (since 2014)
Polish Society of Systematic Philosophy, since 2011
Other periodical membership: International Association of Buddhist Studies | Polish Philosophical Association | American Academy of Religion
Reviewing grant applications for funding agencies:
Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland (SNSF - 2025)
AIAS-COFUND fellowships, Denmark, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie action
FWO - Research Foundation - Flanders, Belgium (2016, 2017)
National Science Center Poland (NCN - 2020)
University of Wrocław "Initiative of Excellence – Research University" programme (IDUB - 2024)
Reviewing book proposals for academic presses:
Routledge | Taylor & Francis | Lexington Books | Equinox Publishing | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Metropolitan University Prague Press | Wyd. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego | Wyd. Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza | Wyd. Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego | Wyd. Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego | TAiWPN Universitas | Wyd. Naukowe Tygiel | Wyd. Libron
Evaluating paper proposals for academic journals:
Analiza i Egzystencja (ISSN 1734-992) | Anthropos? (ISSN 1730-9549) | Arc: Journal of the School of Religious Studies (ISSN 0156-1650) | Ethos (ISSN 0860-8024) | Folia Philosophica (ISSN 2353-9445) | Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica (ISSN 0208-6107) | History of Philosophy Quarterly (ISSN 0740-0675) | InterAlia (ISSN 1689-6637) | Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (e-ISSN 2363-9962) | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (ISSN 1744-9855)| Journal of World Philosophies (e-ISSN 2474-1795) | Kultura i Wartości (ISSN 2299-7806) | Numen: International Review for the History of Religions (ISSN 568-5276) | Przegląd Orientalistyczny (ISSN 0033-2283) | Roczniki Filozoficzne (eISSN 2450-002X) | Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (ISSN 0038-1527) | South Asian History and Culture (ISSN 1947-2498) | Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis (ISSN 1897-3035) | Studia Religiologica (ISSN 0137-2432) | uniGender (ISSN 2081-292) | Quart (ISSN 2449-928)
My interest in Indian Philosophy started when I was doing my Masters in Philosophy at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Originally, I felt inspired by the Greek and early Christian thinkers, then by the German idealists, and numerous contemporary philosophers. However, what I found most formatting and stimulating, more than any particular view, was training in critical thinking and western philosophical methods, esp. phenomenological, hermeneutic, and analytic.
In the late 1980s I started studying the history of Indian and Buddhist philosophy along with the regular Sanskrit classes. At that time I also extended my program taking some extra courses in psychology and religious studies, which proved to be very helpful in completing my MA thesis devoted to the concept of mind (citta) in the classical Yoga system.
After 1992 I continued my education at Jagiellonian University, doing also some research at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I gained my PhD degree in 1998 defending a dissertation that discussed the subject vs. object distinction in terms of Sāmkhya-Yoga tradition.
In the following years, I continued my post-doc research in Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy & religion, and philosophy of mind. Due to my teaching assignments, I also extended my research interests by conducting the studies in cross-cultural aesthetics and ethics, gender issues, philosophy of mind and cognitive studies.
The major research projects I realized were supported by grants awarded by SYLFF (the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund), Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme, Foundation of Polish Science, Polish State Committee of Scientific Research, the Lanckorońskis’ Foundation, the Stefan Batory Foundation. Thanks to these scholarships and numerous travel grants I could participate in international conferences in Asia, Europe and USA, and spent longer study periods at University of London (SOAS) and University of Oxford (Oriental Institute).