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of the Jagiellonian University

The beauty of a scientific adventure lies in the fact that you will never run out of question marks - Michał Heller

Two calls for positions of assistant professor

in domains of metascience research, and mind & cognition research

Łukasz Lamża’s paper is out in Foundations of Science

The paper concerns Superorganisms of the Protist Kingdom.

Michał Eckstein and colleagues’ paper in Physical Review A

This paper of our faculty members and collaborators concerns causality in spacetime.

Mateusz Hohol and colleagues’ paper in Scientific Reports

The study concerns cognitive foundations of mathematical competences.

Mateusz Hohol’s book published by Routledge

„Foundations of geometric cognition” is the first monograph in cognitive science of geometry.

Bartosz Brożek’s book in Cambridge University Press

A book entitled "The Legal Mind" will be published by Routledge on January 2020

Oxford University Press published book by Teresa Obolevitch

Oxford University Press has published a book "Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought"

Copernicus Festival 2019 has ended

This year's edition of Copernicus Festival was devoted to the concept of chance.

The Council of the Copernicus Center is elected

Rector of the Jagiellonian University has elected the Council of the Copernicus Center for 2019-2023.

John-Dylan Haynes, Free will and mind-reading

We invite you to the participate in the lecture entitled "On reading thoughts and free will" by Professor John-Dylan Haynes as part of the "Big Questions in Krakow" series.

Copernicus Center is unit of Jagiellonian University

Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies has been transformed into an extra-faculty unit of the Jagiellonian University, and Professor Bartosz Brożek has been elected its director.

Live streaming of the lectures within the series “The Limits of Science”

XI and XII series of lectures "The Limits of Science" will be livestreamed online.

Events calendar

Hohol Mateusz

Foundations of geometric cognition

London-New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429056291

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Professional mathematicians do not differ from others in the symbolic numerical distance and size effects

Scientific Reports, 2020, 10(11531). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68202-z

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Michał Eckstein
Paweł Horodecki
Tomasz Miller
Ryszard Horodecki

Operational causality in spacetime

Physical Review A, 2020, 101, 042128. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.042128

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Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga
Jerzy Król
Tomasz Miller

Does our Universe prefer exotic smoothness?

Symmetry, 2020, 12(1), 98. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12010098

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Leszek Pysiak
Wiesław Sasin
Michał Heller
Tomasz Miller

Functorial differential spaces and the infinitesimal structure of space-time

Reports on Mathematical Physics, 2020, 85(3), 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0034-4877(20)30046-X

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Explanations in cognitive science: Unication versus pluralism

Synthese, 2020, online first. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02777-y

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Łukasz Lamża

Superorganisms of the protist kingdom: A new level of biological organization

Foundations Science, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09688-8

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Mateusz Hohol
Marcin Miłkowski

Cognitive artifacts for geometric reasoning

Foundations of Science, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-019-09603-w

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Marcin Miłkowski
Mateusz Hohol
Przemysław Nowakowski

Mechanisms in psychology: The road towards unity?

Theory and Psychology, 2019, 29(5), 576-578. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319875218 (the entire Special Issue is here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tapa/29/5)

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Marcin Miłkowski
Robert Clowes
Zuzanna Rucińska
Aleksandra Przegalińska
Tadeusz Zawidzki
Joel Krueger
Adam Gies
Marek McGann
Łukasz Afeltowicz
Witold Wachowski
Fredrik Stjernberg
Victor Loughlin
Mateusz Hohol

From wide cognition to mechanisms: A silent revolution

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018, 9(2393). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02393

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Mateusz Hohol
Kinga Wołoszyn
Hans Christoph Nuerk
Krzysztof Cipora

A large-scale survey on ﬁnger counting routines, their temporal stability and ﬂexibility in educated adults

PeerJ: the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2018, 6(e5878). https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5878

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Marcin Miłkowski
Witold M. Hensel
Mateusz Hohol

Replicability or reproducibility? On the replication crisis in computational neuroscience and sharing only relevant detail

Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2018, 45(3), 163–172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-018-0702-z

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Law & Mind Conference #2 (2018)

22nd KMC: Emergence of the Classical (2018)

Law & Mind Conference #1 (2017)

21st KMC: On What Exists in Physics (2017)

Machine Ethics & Machine Law (2016)

20th KMC: Philosophy in Science (2016)

19th KMC: One Hundred Years of General Rel...

18th KMC: The Limits of Physics and Cosmol...

17th KMC: The Normative Mind. Dimensions o...

16th KMC: The Causal Universe (2012)

The Many Faces of Normativity (2012)

Philosophy in Science (2012)

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The philosophy of science in a European perspective

The research project was devoted to the analysis of several issues relevant from the perspective…

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Humanities in dialogue

The development of humanities is determined by dialogue with culture (art, literature, religion) as well…

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The Limits of Scientific Explanation

The grant "The Limits of Scientific Explanation" was financed by The John Templeton Foundation.

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Conceptual Problems in Unification Theories

Within the project, we have been fathoming out the conceptual problems lurking in unification theories…

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