Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Piotr Machura, PhD, DLitt, Associate Professor

Institute of Philosophy

Faculty of Humanities, the University of Silesia
Katowice, ul. Bankowa 11, 3rd floor, room 321
tel.: +48 32 359 17 09
e-mail: piotr.machura@us.edu.pl

Position

Associate Professor

Academic Biography

• 2002 – Master’s degree (through Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities)
• 2006 – PhD (with distinction)
• 2011 – Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics, London Metropolitan University
• 2014 – Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham
• 2020 – DLitt (habilitation)
• Coordinator in the field of humanities, theology, and the arts at the Doctoral School

Research Projects

• 2010-2011 – project “Central-European Ethos or Local Traditions: Freedom, Responsibility, Equality, Justice” (standard grant no. 20820190 from the International Visegrad Fund)

Scientific Societies, Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals, and Academic Committees

• The International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry (USA) – Steering Committee member
• Polish Philosophical Society – member
• Editorial board member of “Folia Philosophica”
• Editorial board member of the Studies in Social and Global Justice series (published by Rowman and Littlefield International, University of Nottingham)
• Member of the Ethics Committee for Scientific Research at the University of Silesia
• Member of the Publishing Board of the University of Silesia

Awards

• 2010 – Second-Degree Individual Award of the Rector of the University of Silesia for scientific and research activity
• 2011 – Second-Degree Individual Award of the Rector of the University of Silesia for scientific achievements
• 2018 – Third-Degree Team Award of the Rector of the University of Silesia for organizational activities
• 2020 – Second-Degree Team Award of the Rector of the University of Silesia for outstanding scientific research achievements
• 2020 – Second-Degree Team Award of the Rector of the University of Silesia for outstanding organizational contributions to the University

Research Interests

Normative ethics, theoretical ethics, virtue ethics, ethics of technology, social philosophy

Publications

Authored Books

• Wokół koncepcji dobra we współczesnym neoarystotelizmie anglosaskim: normatywność, działanie, praktyki, University of Silesia Press 2019, ISBN 978-83-226-3652-7
• Ideał człowieka filozofa w koncepcji Alasdaira MacIntyre’a­, Katowice: Śląsk, 2009, ISBN 978-83-7164-600-3.

Edited Books

• Central-European Ethos or Local Traditions: Equality, Justice, eds. J. Jurova, M. Jozek, A. Kiepas, P. Machura, Albert, Boskovice 2010, pp. 165, ISBN 978-80-7326-187-0.
• Central-European Ethos or Local Traditions: Freedom, Responsibility, eds. J. Jurova, M. Jozek, A. Kiepas, P. Machura, Boskovice: Albert, 2011, ISBN 978-80-7326-196-2.

Selected Articles

• Practices, Virtues and Embedded Moral Cognition, “Filozofia” 2019, vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 194-208.
• Schools vs. Market: Towards the Aristotelian Concept of Education, “Filozofia” 2018, vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 145-157.
• Maszyny, cnoty i „dżihad butleriański”, ”Śląskie Studia Historyczno-Teologiczne” 2018, No. 51, vol. 2, pp. 276-290.
• Natura i emancypacja – o pewnych aspektach normatywności dobra, ”Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia” 2016, vol. 11, fasc. 1.
• Luck, Ignorance, and Moral Attitude, “Folia Philosophica. Supplementary Volume: Forms of Criticism in Philosophy and Science”, 2015, No. 34, pp. 231-250.
• Goods, interests and the language of morals, in: Virtue and Economy, eds. A. Bielskis, K. Knight, Boulder: Ashgate 2015, pp. 155-170.
• Dobro a wolność. Wokół teorii możliwości Marthy Nussbaum, ”Folia Philosophica” 2015, No. 33, pp. 211-230.
• Etyka doradzania – cnoty, dobra i relacje społeczne, [in:] Filozofia jako sztuka życia. Teorie, modele i wzorce dla doradztwa filozoficznego, eds. A. Woszczyk, D. Olesiński, Katowice: Expol – University of Silesia Press 2013, pp. 77-92.
• Normy moralne, ideały i supererogacja, “Folia Philosophica” 2011, 29, pp. 277-305.
• Central-European Ethos Freedom, Responsibility and Social Imaginaries, In: Central-European Ethos or Local Traditions: Freedom, Responsibility, eds. M. Jozek, J. Jurova, A. Kiepas, P. Machura, Boskovice: Albert 2011, pp. 103-111.
• Central-European Ethos: Equality, Social Emergence and Claims to Justice, in: Central-European Ethos or Local Traditions: Equality, Justice, eds. J. Jurova, M. Jozek, A. Kiepas, P. Machura, Albert, Boskovice, 2010, pp. 16-25.
• MacIntyre’s Radical Intellectualism: Philosopher as a Moral Ideal, ”Analyse und Kritik” 2008, vol. 1, pp. 121-138.
• MacIntyre a Gadamer, ”Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia” 2007, vol. 2, fasc. 2, pp. 79-95.