Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Tomasz Kubalica, PhD, DLitt

Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, the University of Silesia
Katowice, ul. Bankowa 11, 3rd Floor, Room 327
tel.: +48 32 359 16 87
e-mail: tomasz.kubalica@us.edu.pl
website: www.kubalica.edu.pl

Position

Associate Professor

Academic Background

2019 – Associate Professor, the University of Silesia in Katowice

2016 – DLitt (habilitation), the University of Silesia

2006 – PhD in Philosophy, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

2006 – master’s degree in law, the University of Silesia

2001 – master’s degree in philosophy, the University of Silesia

Research Projects

Grant Projects:

• Specyfika humanistyki jako nauki według Heinricha Rickerta (The Specificity of the Humanities as a Science According to Heinrich Rickert), 2023–2028 (principal investigator), National Programme for the Development of the Humanities, the University of Silesia
• Johannes Volkelt i możliwość metafizyki (Johannes Volkelt and the Possibility of Metaphysics), 2012–2013 (principal investigator), National Science Centre, the University of Silesia
• Neokantyzm w Polsce (Neo-Kantianism in Poland), 2012–2014 (principal investigator), National Programme for the Development of the Humanities, the University of Silesia
• Leonard Nelson a problem niemożliwości teorii poznania (Leonard Nelson and the Problem of the Impossibility of the Theory of Knowledge), 2014–2016 (principal investigator), National Science Centre, University of Silesia
• Podstawy etyki profesjonalnej (Foundations of Professional Ethics), 2007–2008 (co-investigator), Foundation for Polish Science (professorial subsidy of Prof. Włodzimierz Galewicz within Mistrz programme)

Research and Teaching Fellowships

• Research Fellowship, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW – Deutsche Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung), Berlin, 01.08.2022–31.10.2022
• Teaching Fellowship, LLP-Erasmus Programme – Individual Teaching Programme for Teaching Staff Mobility, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 21–27.04.2013
• Research Fellowship,  Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Faculty of Philosophy – Philipps University of Marburg, 01.10.2010–30.09.2011
• Research Fellowship, scholarship for research and work stays of academic teachers and scientists,  German Academic Exchange Service, (DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), Philipps University of Marburg, 20.06.2010–20.08.2010
• Teaching Fellowship, LLP-Erasmus Programme – Individual Teaching Programme for Teaching Staff Mobility, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg, 22–28.03.2010
• Research Fellowship, Swiss Scholarships for University Studies, Fine Arts and Music Schools, Hermann Cohen-Archiv, Philosophischen Seminar University of Zurich, 01.09.2003–31.10.2004

Roles and Responsibilities

• Head of the research team “Contexts of German Philosophy” at the Institute of Philosophy, the University of Silesia
• Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Katowice Branch
• Vice-Director of the Institute of Philosophy, the University of Silesia
• Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Philosophy, the University of Silesia

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

• Hermann Cohen – Gesellschaft
• Committee of Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Polish Bioethics Society
• Polish Philosophical Society – Katowice Branch
• Editorial Board of Folia Philosophica
• Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum

• Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Schriftenreihe der Archivbibliothek „Post-Neukantianismus und kritischer Idealismus der Gegenwart“ (APIG)

Awards

• Second-Degree Rector’s Individual Awards for scientific and research activity, the University of Silesia – 2010, 2015, 2017, 2022
• Third-Degree Individual Rector’s Award for scientific and research activity, the University of Silesia – 2014
• Second-Degree Rector’s Team Awards for organizational work, the University of Silesia – 2020, 2021
• Third-Degree Rector’s Team Award for scientific and research Activity, the University of Silesia – 2019
• Third-Degree Rector’s Team Award for organizational work, the University of Silesia – 2013
• Friend of the Library title awarded by the Director of the Municipal Public Library in Jaworzno – 2019
• Distinction for doctoral dissertation awarded by the Faculty of Philosophy, the Jagiellonian University – 2007
• Golden Badge Meritorious for the University of Silesia – 2019

Research Interests

• axiology
• modern Philosophy
• neo-Kantianism

Selected Publications

• Hans Kelsen a problem interpretacji prawa [=Hans Kelsen and the problem of legal interpretation]. University of Silesia Press, Katowice 2021. 169 pp. ISBN 978-83-226-4073-9.
• Unmöglichkeit der Erkenntnistheorie. Leonard Nelsons Kritik an der Erkenntnistheorie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Neukantianismus [Impossibility of the Theory of Knowledge. Leonard Nelson’s Critique of the Theory of Knowledge with Special Consideration of Neo-Kantianism]. Series: Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M. 2017, 238 pp., ISBN:9783631715963, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b10702.
• Johannes Volkelt und das Problem der Metaphysik [Johannes Volkelt and the Problem of Metaphysics]. Serie: Studien und Materialien zum Neukantianismus, Bd. 35, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014, 269 pp., ISBN 978-3-8260-5498-3.
• Wahrheit, Geltung und Wert: Die Wahrheitstheorie der Badischen Schule des Neukantianismus. Serie: Studien und Materialien zum Neukantianismus, Bd. 27, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, 168 pp., ISBN 978-3826047350.
• Prymat rozumu praktycznego w logice. Teoria prawdy neokantowskiej szkoły badeńskiej. UŚ, Katowice 2009, 235 pp., ISBN 978-83-226-1889-9.
• The Old and New Critique of Pure Reason based on Immanuel Kant and Jakob Friedrich Fries. In: Thinking Critically: What Does It Mean? The Tradition of Philosophical Criticism and Its Forms in the European History of Ideas, by Dariusz Kubok, De Gruyter 2017, pp. 111–126, ISBN (Online): 9783110567472, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110567472-008.
• Leonard Nelson and Metaphysical Knowledge against the Neo-Kantian Background. „ICF Diametros“ 2017, No 52, pp. 64-80, ISSN 1733-5566, DOI: 10.13153/diam.52.2017.1059.