Interactive, discussion-based teaching with direct access to professors
Opportunities to join ongoing theoretical and experimental projects
Erasmus+ partnerships with universities across Europe
Rights to award PhD in humanities (philosophy)
All programs are taught in Polish. However, our staff also teaches courses in English for exchange students.
The first adaptation of the Oxford PPE format in Poland and one of the first in Central Europe. Educating active citizens aware of contemporary climatic, social, economic, and political challenges.
Interdisciplinary program integrating philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and AI. Understand how the mind works and how we communicate.
Classical philosophical education with emphasis on ethical reasoning. Develop critical thinking, argumentation skills, and deep understanding of fundamental questions.
Advanced studies for those who want to deepen philosophical knowledge. Open to graduates of philosophy as well as other humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields.
Our faculty conducts research across a wide spectrum of philosophical and cognitive science topics:
Consciousness, mental representation, imagistic cognition
Perception, attention, embodied cognition, AI
Capitalism, political theory, social systems
Ethics of life, medical ethics, philosophical anthropology
Mysticism, intercultural dialogue, phenomenology
Formal logic, philosophy of language, semiotics
Human-AI interactions, context engineering
ADHD and ASD spectra, aphantasia, hyperphantasia
The Faculty of Philosophy and Cognitive Science was established in 2019 and became a full faculty in October 2023. We emerged from the Faculty of History and Sociology, combining the university's decades-long philosophical traditions with new directions in mind and cognition research.
Our researchers address classical questions of philosophy and ethics, contemporary problems of state and society, and how the mind works. Many faculty members are active in public debates as television program authors, experts, essayists, and popular science communicators. We hold the right to award doctoral degrees in humanities (philosophy).
We combine decades of philosophical tradition with cutting-edge research in cognitive science. Our small faculty means direct access to researchers, discussion-based teaching, and real opportunities to contribute to ongoing projects.
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr hab. Bartosz Kuźniarz, prof. UwB | Dean of the Faculty | [email protected] |
| Dr hab. Piotr Kozak | Vice-Dean for Research | [email protected] |
| Dr Maja Kittel | Vice-Dean for Teaching | [email protected] |
| Dr hab. Robert Poczobut, prof. UwB | Vice-Dean for Cognitive Science | [email protected] |
Faculty of Philosophy and Cognitive Science
University of Białystok
Plac Niezależnego Zrzeszenia Studentów 1
15-420 Białystok, Poland
Mgr Olgierd Borowiecki (incoming and outgoing students)
[email protected]
Dr Joanna Smakulska (inter-institutional agreements)
