We are pleased to invite you to the Nicolai Hartmann International Conference, dedicated to various aspects of Nicolai Hartmann’s philosophy. The event will bring together researchers from many countries who will present the results of their research on Hartmann’s philosophy.
Nicolai Hartmann International Conference 2025
September 25th-26th
spinPLACE, Klub Rawa
Bankowa 5, Katowice
September 25th
09:00–09:30 – Registration and Coffee
09:30 – Official Opening of the Conference
10:00–11:00 – Luis Fernando Mendoza Martinez (National Autonomous University of Mexico): Notes on the Socio-Political Structure of the Question on Being as Such
11:00–12:30 – Predrag Cicovacki (College of the Holy Cross): Hartmann’s Personalism
12:30–13:00 – Coffee Break
13:00–14:00 – Alicja Pietras (University of Silesia in Katowice): Social Ontology Between Spirit and Psyche: The Need for a New Conceptualization of Socio-Cultural Being
14:00-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00–16:00 – Jordi Claramonte & Gema Hernandez Gomez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia): Marx, Lukács and Hartmann’s Modal Ontology
16:00 – 17:00 – Antoni Płoszczyniec (University of the National Education Commission): Nicolai Hartmann and Transhumanist Gnosis
17:00-17:30 – Coffee Break
17:30–19:30 – Discussion Panel: Hartmann and Social Ontology
Panelists: Alicja Pietras, Predrag Cicovacki, Luis Fernando Mendoza Martinez
Moderator: Magdalena Wolska-Augustyn
20:00 – Official Dinner
September 26th
09:00–10:00 – Coffee
10:00–11:00 – Keith Peterson (Colby College): Problemgeschichte and Environmental Philosophy: Applying Hartmann’s Aporetics
11:00–12:00 – Ana Mateos Calvo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia): Nicolai Hartmann’s Concepts of Categorical Stratification and Dependence as Foundations of an Environmental Philosophy
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30–13:30 – Carmen Garcia-Blanco (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia): Is Quantum Mechanics a New Metaphysics? What Hartmann Has to Say About It.
13:30–14:30 – Lunch Break
14:30–15:30 – Adriana Wierzba (Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław): Relations Between Values, Values of Relations. On Aesthetic Sensitivity and the Tasks of Photography Based on the Works of Nicolai Hartmann
15:30–16:30 – Miloš Kratochvíl (University of West Bohemia): Nicolai Hartmann in the Philosophy of Jan Patočka
16:30–17:30 – Ricardo Valenti (Ca’ Foscari, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne): Lebendige Gegenwart. Nicolai Hartmann’s Crypto-Phenomenology of Science and the Pedagogical Pursuit of Meaning
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00-19:45 Discussion Panel: Hartmann and Environmental Philosophy
Panelists: Keith Peterson, Ana Mateos Calvo, Jordi Claramonte
Moderator: Joanna Glinkowska
19:45 – Official Closing of the Conference
Organizers:
Institute of Philosophy, University of Silesia in Katowice
Scientific committee:
Alicja Pietras (University of Silesia in Katowice), Luis Fernando Mendoza Martínez (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Metaphysics Seminar)
Organizing committee:
Alicja Pietras, Pylyp Bilyi, Przemysław Starowicz, Magdalena Wolska-Augustyn, Kamila Zbączyniak
The conference is co-funded by the budget of the Republic of Poland under the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education entitled “National Programme for the Development of the Humanities”, project number NPRH/U22/SP/0024/2023/12.
