Current Research: Dissertation
This research program takes its most developed form in my doctoral dissertation. My doctoral dissertation is currently in progress under the supervision of Professor Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, Chair of the Department of the Methodology of the Sciences at KUL. Focusing on Sheila Jasanoff's account of co-production and civic epistemology, the dominant framework in Science and Technology Studies, the dissertation reconstructs the philosophical assumptions underlying her treatment of science and uncertainty, and assesses them from the standpoint of the classical philosophical methodology of the Lublin Philosophical School. It argues that a classical realist philosophical framework offers a more coherent basis for understanding the nature of science and the dialectical deliberation required in science-policy settings, while respecting the role of uncertainty in contemporary scientific reasoning.
Working Title: Science in Society: Science Advisers in Policymaking. Analysis and Criticism of Sheila Jasanoff's View
Expected Completion: 2026.
The Boethian Renewal
My dissertation is one expression of a broader research program I call the Boethian Renewal, a systematic effort to recover the classical realist tradition, and in particular the methodological inheritance of the Lublin Philosophical School, for contemporary philosophy of science, science policy, and institutional decision-making. I use the term “Boethian” deliberately: like Boethius, who transmitted the wisdom of the ancient world across a civilizational rupture, this program seeks to recover and retransmit a philosophical tradition that, despite developing rigorous responses to the same problems occupying Western philosophy of science, remained largely unknown to English-speaking scholars for decades due to the political partition of Europe after 1945. The Boethian Renewal is an effort to complete that transmission and to demonstrate the tradition’s relevance to live questions in the sciences, in policy, and in organizational life.
For a fuller personal and intellectual account of this program, see the Boethian Renewal page.
Areas of Ongoing Research Inquiry
These concerns extend into several interconnected lines of inquiry:
Philosophy of Science and the Methodology of the Sciences. The nature of scientific knowledge, the hierarchy of the sciences, and the relationship between metaphysics and the methodology of the sciences, drawing on the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition and the Lublin Philosophical School.
Science Policy and Science Advice. The philosophical foundations of science advisory institutions, the role of values and uncertainty in science-policy deliberation, and the limits of constructivist frameworks such as co-production theory when confronted with questions requiring classical realist analysis.
The Lvov-Warsaw School and KUL. The intellectual genealogy connecting the Lvov-Warsaw School to the Lublin Philosophical School, with particular attention to Maria Kokoszyńska's 1935 demonstration that the Vienna Circle's exclusion of metaphysics was stipulative rather than logically necessary, and to Kamiński and Krąpiec's 1961 synthesis as the completing move that fulfilled the Lvov-Warsaw School's unfinished project.
Interdisciplinarity and the Unity of the Sciences. The formal object tradition as an alternative to contemporary transdisciplinary frameworks, with particular attention to Nicolescu's Hidden Third and the argument that classical philosophy restores rather than integrates the unity of knowledge fragmented by modern academic specialization.
Classical Philosophy and Institutional Decision-Making. The application of Aristotelian-Thomistic principles, including practical wisdom, the hierarchy of the sciences, and the human person as the common starting point of the social sciences, to leadership, organizational judgment, and public policy.