Andrzej Klawiter

Andrzej Klawiter is a cognitive scientist and philosopher, which mainly focuses on processes underlying perception, in particular its auditory aspect, identifying usability of things, affordances and relations between perception and emotions (consciousness, subjectivity). For many years he was associated with Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan – firstly with Institute of Philosophy, then Institute of Psychology. He earn his M.A. degree in Law, then in 1976 was honored with Ph.D. in Philosophy and defended Habilitation in the same discipline in 1993. His membership of the Polish Philosophical Society started in 1976 and in 2000 - he co-founded the Polish Society of Cognitive Science. 

Certainly, not without significance, is his huge contribution to teaching and supervising generations of students. One of his most popular work, “mandatory” for every beginner in CS is „Charm and Explanatory Power of Cognitive Science” published in 2004. Year after, there appeared post-conference publication written with Anna Preis „The audition of natural sounds — its levels and relevant experiments” (Forum Acusticum, Budapest 2005). The text highlighted that the basic function of audition is similar to the function of vision .. and that’s how the story begins.

In addition to a large number of written articles, he is also the author/co-author of books and chapters, e.g. Forms of mind activity (polish “Formy aktywności umysłu”), Brain and its minds (“Mózg I jego umysły”), Auditory perception of things (“Percepcja słuchowa przedmiotów”). He also developed “Elements of the cognitive conception of hearing" (“Elementy kognitywistycznej koncepcji słyszenia”).