Recent and upcoming talks and events:
21.10.2024 Goethe Institute London, Panel: Kant and Climate Change
17-19.10.2024 Catania, Conference: Immanuel Kant, 300 Years from now, Paper: Kant's Cosmopolitanisms: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
8-13.09.2024 Bonn, 14. Internationaler Kant-Congress, Paper: The Realm of Ends, The Ethical Commonwealth and Kant’s Heaven on Earth
10-11.07.2024 Swansea, ASPP Annual Conference, Paper: Kant’s Racial Cosmopolitanism
3.07.2024 Bochum, Digital Kant Centre, Paper: Kant und offene Fragen der Migration
18-20.03.2024 Chicago, Conference: What's Left Of Kant?, Paper: Paper: Structural Injustice: Lessons from Kant’s Doctrine of Right
2-4.02.2024, Bochum, Conference: Kantian Perspectives: Borders/Exploitation/Degradation, Paper: Structural Injustice: Lessons from Kant’s Doctrine of Right
12.12.2023, Forschungskolloquium Dortmund/Bochum, Paper: Structural Injustice and Hope:Lessons from Kant’s Justice
4-6.11.2023, Lancaster University, Conference: Kant: politics/markets, Paper: Kant and Structural Injustice
25.10.2023, University of Lodz, Introduction to the screening of the film ‘Newcomers’ by Ma’an Mousli
23.10.2023, Warsaw University, Introduction to the screening of the film ‘Newcomers’ by Ma’an Mousli
15-16.09.2023, University of Cologne, Conference: Kant on Epistemic Autonomy and Authority, Invited Commentator: Sophie Møller, Kant on Discipline and Autonomy in Thought
Recent relevant publications
2022 Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and The Value of Humanity – Implications for a Universal Right to Citizenship, in Horn, C., dos Santos R. (eds), Kant’s Theory of Value, pp.163-180, Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte Vol 2019, Berlin:De Gruyter.
2022 The Application of Metaphysical Principles to the Empirical World. A Brief Reconstruction of the Core of Kant’s Doctrine of Right, in Practica et speculativa. Studies offered to Andrzej M. Kaniowski, Lodz: University of Lodz Press, pp. 543-560.
2021 Kantian Moral Education for The Future of Humanity: The Climate Change Challenge, in Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55(4), 1045-1056
Areas of specialisation
Kant, Political and Social Philosophy, Philosophy and Migration
Areas of competence
History of Continental Philosophy, History of Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Didactics of Teaching Ethics and Philosophy
Professional appointments
1.03.2023 - 28.02.2026 Postdoc at the DFG/AHRC Project Using people well, treating people badly (Eigene Stelle) at Ruhr-University Bochum
1.07.2019 – 31.12.2022 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bonn
1.04.2021 – 30.09.2021 Deputy Professor for Ethics at the University of Bayreuth
1.10.2018 – 30.06.2019 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bayreuth
1.10.2015 – 30.09.2018 Assistant Professor (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Chair for Ethics of Prof. Andrzej M. Kaniowski, University of Lodz
1.10.2009 – 30.06.2013 Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte) at the University of Lodz (yearly fixed contracts)
University education
1.10.2009 – 25.06.2015 PhD Student at the Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Lodz, Poland; Doctoral Thesis: The Project of Universal Rightful Condition in Kant’s Legal Philosophy (in Polish), defended on 15.10.2015. Supervisor: Andrzej M. Kaniowski; Internal Referee: Artur Banaszkiewicz (University of Lodz); External Referee: Paweł Łuków (University of Warsaw)
23.08.2012 – 28.02.2013 Fulbright Visiting Graduate Student, Brown University, USA, Host: Paul Guyer
1.04.2011 – 30.08.2011 KAAD Visiting Graduate Student, University of Bonn, Germany, Host: Christoph Horn
1.10.2006 – 22.06.2009 MA Studies in Philosophy, University of Lodz, Poland; Master Thesis: The Idea of Metaphysics and The Theory of Morals in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (in Polish) Supervisor: Andrzej M. Kaniowski
1.10.2005 – 30.09.2006 Socrates-Erasmus Exchange Student at the Department of Political Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
1.10.2003 – 9.06.2008 MA Studies in International Relations (Specialization: German Speaking Countries), University of Lodz, Poland; Master Thesis: Immanuel Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” as a Philosophical Essay in the Perspective of Contemporary Political Science (in Polish) Supervisor: Krzysztof Kuczyński
Grants and awards
2018 (decision) Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Grant
2018 Bavarian Gender Equality Grant
2012 Fulbright Junior Advanced Research Award
2011 KAAD Osteuropaprogramm Research Scholarship
2010-2013 Scholarship of the Rector of the University of Lodz
2009-2013 Doctoral Scholarship of the University of Lodz
2009 Medal of the Rector of the University of Lodz “For Praiseworthy Studies” (graduation summa cum laude)
Academic year 2008/2009 Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship
Research projects
2023-2026 Co-investigator in the project Using people well, treating people badly. Towards a Kantian Realm of Ends and Means funded a collaboration of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany).
2019-2022 Manager and Principal Investigator in the project: Systematische Stellenwert von Immanuel Kants Anthropologie, Religions- und Geschichtsphilosophie im Verhältnis zu seinem Entwurf der praktischen Philosophie, financed by Alexander von Humboldt Research Grant.
2013-2018 Co-investigator in the project: Etyka w systemie edukacji w Polsce i wybranych krajach świata zachodniego (Niemcy, Wielka Brytania, Hiszpania, Portugalia, Francja, USA, Norwegia, Finlandia) [Ethics in The System of Education in Poland and Selected Western Countries (Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, USA, Norway, Finland)] Project Financed by Polish Ministry of Culture, Principal Investigator and Manager: Andrzej M. Kaniowski.
2012, 2013-2017 Assistant in management of the project: Rechtsstaatlichkeit als Kernbestandteil des europäischen Denkens und der Europäischen Union im Lichte rechtsphilosophischer Ideen von Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel und Jürgen Habermas. Project financed by: Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung. Project Manager: Andrzej M. Kaniowski
2009-2012 Co-investigator in the project: Aktualność i historyczne znaczenie Kantowskiej filozofii państwa i prawa [The Topicality and Historical Significance of Kant’s Philosophy of State and Law] Principal Investigator and Manager: Andrzej M. Kaniowski
Reviewing activities
Papers reviewed for: Studi Kantiani, Social Theory and Practice, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Human Affairs, Con-Textos Kantianos, Folia Philosophica. Ethica-Aesthetica-Practica, Eastern Review, Hybris