About me

Michał Piekarski, PhD (with habilitation)

I am a philosopher. I deal with the philosophy of cognitive science and epistemology. My current research addresses the normative and epistemological commitments of Bayesian research frameworks such as Predictive Processing and and the Free energy principle (FEP). In addition, I deal with folk psychological beliefs and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Currently, I am employed as a associate professor in the Department of Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
I am a member of Project Avant. I also cooperate with the journals "Avant" (http://avant.edu.pl/en/) and "Studia Philosophiae Christiane" (https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/spch).

Research areas

predictive processing - mechanistic explanation - normativity - free energy principle - Bayesian models - beliefs - folk psychology - justification - Ludwig Wittgenstein - phenomenology

Carrer

from 2022 - associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
2012-2022 – assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
2011-2012 – assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Bogdan Jański Academy in Warsaw.

Education

2022 - Habilitation in the discipline of Philosophy awarded on the basis of the scientific achievement "Predictive mechanisms and their normativity".
2019-2020 – Postgraduate studies "Pedagogical qualifications" at the Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Krajowej in Kutno.
2019-2020 – Postgraduate studies "History and knowledge of society with elements of European education" at the Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Krajowej in Kutno..
2018 – Course "English language at C1 level" carried out at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University as part of the project "Lepsza Kadra=Lepszy Student" No. POWR.03.04.00-00-D051/16. 2007.
2007-2010 – PhD studies at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. The degree of doctor of humanities in the field of philosophy was obtained in 2010 on the basis of the dissertation entitled "Evolution of Wittgenstein's concept of the relationship between language and the world" (supervisor: prof. dr hab. Marek Maciejczak, reviewers: prof. dr hab. Janina Buczkowska, prof. dr hab. Andrew Leder).
2003-2007 – Master's studies in the field of Philosophy at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw - studies completed with honors. Master's degree in philosophy received in Warsaw (CSWU) on the basis of the dissertation entitled "Transcendental interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus.

Research projects

2023-2028 - contractor in the project "Classics of Polish Christian philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries" (National Program for the Development of Humanities, NPRH/DN/SN/507076/2021/11) (module on the philosophy of Andrzej Półtawski).
2017-2018 - head of the research project entitled "Pattern and affordance recognition in predictive processing" (National Science Centre, 2017/01/X/HS1/00165).
2018 – contractor in the project "Forum Logicum" (National Center for Research and Development, WND/POWR-03.01.00-00.EF46/16).

Reviewer

Synthese - Axiomathes - Frontiers in Psychiatry - Ethics and Information Technology - Philosophy&Technology - Entropy - Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology - Avant. Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies - Analysis and Existence - Philosophy and Science - Studia Philosophiae Christianae - Dialogue and Universalism - Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica
Fullbright program

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