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Początki filozofii przyrody w Ośrodku Badań Interdyscyplinarnych w Krakowie
Beginnings of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Cracow

Author(s): Michał Heller, Janusz Mączka
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: philosophy of nature; history of the philosophy of nature; status of the philosophy of nature; method of the philosophy of nature; the Pontifical Academy of Theology; the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Cracow

Summary/Abstract: We present a short account of the early history of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Cracow. These beginnings go back to the inter-war period when the tradition was established of close interactions between philosophers and scientists, especially physicists (Smoluchowski, Natanson). In the post-war period, under the communist regime, this tradition was continued at the Theological Institute (later the Pontifical Academy of Theology) in Cracow, erected by Cardinal Wojtyła, the then archbishop of Cracow, after the Theological Faculty had been removed from the Jagiellonian University by the communists. The collaboration of the Cracow Center with the Catholic University of Lublin and with the Warsaw Academy of Theology is briefly described, and the style of philosophy in Cracow presented.

  • Issue Year: 54/2006
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 49-62
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish