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Project data, study materials, screenshots, related files, and the SPP 2026 conference poster are collected below. OSF project: NeoHusserlian Propositions SPP 2026 conference poster (PDF) Co…
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The Experiment: Design and ResultsEN
The Team Head of the Project: Mieszko TałasiewiczStudents: Filip Kolasa, Bartosz Młotkowski Preliminaries Given the absence of any suggestions in the existing literature as to how the allege…
Neo-Husserlian Account of PropositionsEN
Mieszko Tałasiewicz The project addresses the problem of how to account for the fact that propositions, understood as representational structures, have truth-conditions and serve as the cont…
GrantsEN
“Meta-analyses in experimental philosophy”NCN OPUS 26 grantPrincipal investigator: Bartosz MaćkiewiczCo-investigator: Katarzyna Kuś “The method of thought experiments and the epistemology of…
PublicationsEN
2026 Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz. Knowing, Risking, and Being Responsible: A Qualitative Study of the Epistemic Side-Effect Effect. Episteme, 1–28 (2026). Open Access Katarzyna Kuś, Ba…
Sources of intuitionsEN
ArchivePrincipal investigator: Bartosz MaćkiewiczTeam: Joanna Andrusiewicz, Jan Wodowski, Katarzyna Kuś Funding: NCN, 2018/29/N/HS1/02863, “In search of the sources of philosophical intuitions – ne…
Non-Doxastic AttitudesEN
Team: Wojciech Rostworowski (Principal Investigator), Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz MaćkiewiczStudents: Anna Jasińska, Grzegorz Płuciennik, Maciej Chlebny Funding: NCN, 2020/37/B/HS1/01605 Non-Doxa…
MembersEN
Katarzyna Kuś Head of the Laboratory Assistant professor, Department of Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, UW Justyna Grudzińska-Zawadowska Professor, Department of Analytic Philosophy, Fa…
Reference and salienceEN
ArchiveTeam: Wojciech Rostworowski, Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz Students: Alicja Krasnowska, Marta Kasprzyk, Małgorzata Rębisz Funding: National Science Centre, 2017/27/B/HS1/00130 “Theory of…
ManifestoEN
Our inquiries are inspired by the need for critical reflection on the methodological foundations of so-called experimental philosophy: the increasingly prominent tendency in philosophical re…
Our goalsEN
To conduct research in experimental philosophy, social psychology and linguistics, particularly experimental semantics. To create research facilities for empirical, including experimental, r…
Epistemic side-effect effectEN
ArchiveTeam: Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman, Marta Zaręba, Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz MaćkiewiczStudents: Katarzyna Marczewska Funding: NCN, 2018/29/B/HS1/02861 „Epistemic side effect effect and the knowl…
Issues in Experimental Philosophy of Language: Context, Perspective, and Utterance Content (2026/2027)EN
The seminar examines ordinary intuitions about how utterance content depends on context and perspective. It asks whether empirical evidence can support, challenge or refine semantic contextu…
Issues in Experimental Philosophy: Identity Over Time, Sameness, and Change (2025/2026)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines ordinary intuitions about identity over time, sameness and change. Topics include personal and object identity, the effects of moral, functional and material changes on …
Issues in experimental philosophy: folk theories of causation (2024/2025)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines issues in folk theories of causation studied within experimental philosophy. Convenors: Katarzyna Kuś, Adrian ZiółkowskiCourse code: 3800-PFE24-S. Language of instructio…
Issues in experimental philosophy: experimental philosophy of mind (2023/2024)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines issues studied in experimental philosophy of mind. Convenors: Katarzyna Kuś, Adrian ZiółkowskiCourse code: 3800-PFE23-S. Language of instruction: Polish. Course descript…
Issues in experimental philosophy: experimental philosophy of language (2022/2023)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines issues studied in experimental philosophy of language. Convenors: Adrian Ziółkowski, Katarzyna KuśCourse code: 3800-PFE22-S. Language of instruction: Polish. Course desc…
Issues in Experimental Philosophy: Sources of philosophical intuitions (2021/2022)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines recent theoretical and empirical research into psychological explanations of the sources of philosophical intuitions. Convenors: Bartosz Maćkiewicz, Katarzyna KuśCourse …
Issues in Experimental Philosophy: Folk Action Theory (2020/2021)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines folk theories of action as a subject of experimental philosophy. Convenors: Katarzyna Kuś, Adrian ZiółkowskiCourse code: 3501-PFE20-S. Language of instruction: Polish. C…
Issues in Experimental Philosophy: Replication Studies (2019/2020)EN
ArchiveSeminarium poświęcone jest problematyce badań replikacyjnych w filozofii eksperymentalnej.Prowadzący: Mieszko Tałasiewicz, Adrian Ziółkowski Convenors: Mieszko Tałasiewicz, Adrian Ziółkowski…
Issues in Experimental Philosophy: Cross-Cultural Differences (2018/2019)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines cross-cultural and inter-group differences in ordinary intuitions studied in experimental philosophy. Convenors: Katarzyna Kuś, Adrian ZiółkowskiCourse code: 3501-PFE18-…
Issues in Experimental Philosophy: Folk Epistemology (2017/2018)EN
ArchiveThe seminar examines folk epistemology within experimental philosophy: systematic empirical research into ordinary intuitions about philosophically significant issues such as knowledge and t…
Experimental PhilosophyEN
We began holding regular meetings of the “Issues in Experimental Philosophy” seminar at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, in the academic year 2017/2018. Successive editions…
Experimental SemanticsEN
Experimental semantics combines philosophy of language and linguistics with empirical research on meaning. Earlier courses formed a specialisation block comprising theoretical, practical, pr…
Experimental Semantics (2026/2027)EN
The course introduces empirical research on linguistic meaning in philosophy of language and linguistics. It combines a general introduction to the questions, methods and challenges of exper…
Experimental Semantics (2025/2026)EN
ArchiveThe course introduces empirical research on linguistic meaning in philosophy of language and linguistics. It combines a general introduction to the questions, methods and challenges of exper…
Folk epistemologiesEN
ArchiveUniversal or specific folk epistemologies? Methodological implications for cognitive science and analytic philosophy Principal investigator: Krzysztof Sękowski Funded by the Polish Ministry …
Empirically adequate semantics of indefinite descriptionsEN
ArchiveTeam: Justyna Grudzińska, Bartosz Maćkiewicz Students: Sebastian Jagła (from 2018), Aleksandra Bilińska (2017–2018), Agnieszka Gajewska (2017–2018), Maria Strzelecka (2017–2018). Indefinite …
“Eugenics” is a bad word (from 2018)EN
ArchiveTeam: Szymon Bocian, Katarzyna Kuś Eugenics, from the Greek for “well-born” and also historically called racial hygiene, is a social and scientific movement seeking to improve a population t…
Philosophy of perceptionEN
ArchiveTeam: Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz, Agnieszka Morusiewicz The project was conducted in collaboration with Eugen Fischer and Paul Engelhardt (University of East Anglia, Norwich).
The development of philosophical intuitionsEN
ArchiveTeam: Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz Philosophical expertise has been an important topic in experimental philosophy. Its defenders maintain that philosophical education provides the prepa…
Epistemic contextualismEN
ArchiveA project description is not available.
Donkey sentencesEN
ArchiveProject outcomes: The influence of the ontology of the domain of quantification on the interpretation of so-called donkey sentences. Grant N N101 188840. The immediate subject of the researc…
The Knobe effect and the Butler problemEN
ArchiveResearch group: A theoretical and experimental study of the Knobe effect and the Butler problem Principal investigator Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman Research results StudyAuthors 2015/2016 Int…
DescriptionsEN
ArchiveTeam: Wojciech Rostworowski, Natalia Pietrulewicz Publications Wojciech Rostworowski, Natalia Pietrulewicz (2018). “Are Descriptions Really Descriptive? An Experimental Study on Misdescripti…
ContactEN
Please contact us by email with any questions or suggestions: Laboratory: kognilab@uw.edu.pl LocationKogniLab Laboratory of Experimental PhilosophyNowy Świat 69, rooms 43 and 44 (4th floor)W…
Doctoral dissertationsEN
English translations are provided for dissertation titles originally written in Polish. Bartosz Maćkiewicz, “In search of the sources of philosophical intuitions: new methods in experimental…
Take part in a study!EN
ArchiveWE INVITE YOU TO TAKE PART IN OUR RESEARCH! We are recruiting participants for a study at KogniLab. We are looking for people who: are native speakers of Polish;have no visual difficulties t…
Invitation to take part in a studyEN
ArchiveThe research team at the KogniLab Experimental Philosophy Laboratory, affiliated with the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, would like to invite you to take part in a stud…
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New publication (a must-read for the end of the summer)EN
ArchiveAdrian Ziółkowski (2019), The Stability of Philosophical Intuitions: Failed Replications of Swain et al. (2008), Episteme,1-19. doi:10.1017/epi.2019.20 [Author manuscript PDF]
Experimental Philosophy Conference in BernEN
ArchiveThe Experimental Philosophy Conference took place on 19–21 September 2019 at the University of Bern, in the Unitobler building at Lerchenweg 36. It formed part of the Experimental Philosophy…
The 2nd Context, Cognition and Communication ConferenceEN
ArchiveThe second Context, Cognition and Communication Conference, “Contexts, Concepts, Objects”, took place on 16–19 June 2018 at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. It was organise…
UK XPHI Conference 2018EN
Archive“We Are Open! Reproducibility and Replicability in Psychology and Experimental Philosophy” was an open-science workshop held on 14–16 June 2018 at University College London. Bringing togethe…
Philosophical intuitions: should we fear that the world does not exist?EN
ArchiveKatarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz Philosophy of Science Student Society7 May 2019Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, room 0.06, 6 p.m. Can the methods of cognitive psychology, psycholi…
Experimental philosophy: methods, results, controversiesEN
ArchiveLecture by Dr Adrian Ziółkowski Institute of Philosophy seminar7 May, 3 p.m., room 205 (Old University Library). ABSTRACTExperimental philosophy: methods, results, controversiesExperimental …
On the ambiguity of “the same person”EN
ArchiveFull entry for Vilius Dranseika’s guest lecture Vilius Dranseika (Vilnius University) 29 March 2019, 11:30 a.m., room 4, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw (Krakowskie Przedmieści…
On the ambiguity of “the same person”EN
ArchiveVilius Dranseika (Vilnius University) Guest lecture: On the ambiguity of ”the same person’” 29 March 2019, 11:30 a.m., room 4, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw (Krakowskie Przed…
Our team (archive)EN
ArchiveKatarzyna KuśHead of the LaboratoryAssistant professor, Department of Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of WarsawEmail ↗Justyna Grudzińska-ZawadowskaProfessor, Department of An…
Bachelor’s and master’s thesesEN
English translations are provided for thesis titles originally written in Polish. 2024/2025 Grzegorz Kasperski, bachelor’s thesis in Cognitive Science, “What constitutes the folk concept of …
Warsaw Workshop in Philosophy of LanguageEN
ArchiveThis philosophy of language workshop, featuring international guests, took place on 4 September 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. Date: 4 September 2026, 10:30–17:00.V…
6th European Experimental Philosophy ConferenceEN
ArchiveThe sixth European Experimental Philosophy Conference took place on 9–11 September 2026 at the University of Cagliari. The programme covered experimental-philosophy methodology, philosophy o…
5th European Experimental Philosophy ConferenceEN
ArchiveThe fifth European Experimental Philosophy Conference took place on 10–12 July 2025 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Organised by the UEA Experimental Philosophy Group, it featur…
4th European Experimental Philosophy ConferenceEN
ArchiveThe fourth European Experimental Philosophy Conference took place on 30 May–2 June 2024 at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The programme included the pre-conference symposium “LLMs for xP…
2nd European Experimental Philosophy ConferenceEN
ArchiveThe second European Experimental Philosophy Conference took place on 8–10 September 2022 at the University of Granada, Spain. This in-person event concerned empirical approaches to philosoph…
1st European Experimental Philosophy ConferenceEN
ArchiveThe first European Experimental Philosophy Conference took place entirely online on 17–19 June 2021. Organisers associated with Charles University in Prague, the Czech Academy of Sciences an…
Experimental Semantics: specialisation block (2018/2019)EN
ArchiveIn 2018/2019, Bartosz Maćkiewicz taught three specialist modules in experimental semantics: the practical, programming and corpus analysis modules. Modules and instructors Theoretical module…
Experimental Semantics: specialist modules (2019/2020)EN
ArchiveIn 2019/2020, Bartosz Maćkiewicz taught three specialist modules in experimental semantics: the practical, programming and corpus analysis modules. Modules and instructors Practical module: …
Experimental Semantics: specialist modules (2020/2021)EN
ArchiveIn 2020/2021, Bartosz Maćkiewicz taught three specialist modules in experimental semantics: the practical, programming and corpus analysis modules. Modules and instructors Practical module: …
Experimental Semantics: specialist modules (2022/2023)EN
ArchiveIn 2022/2023, Bartosz Maćkiewicz taught three specialist modules in experimental semantics: the practical, programming and corpus analysis modules. Modules and instructors Practical module: …
Experimental Semantics: theoretical module (2023/2024)EN
ArchiveIn the winter semester of 2023/2024, Wojciech Rostworowski taught the theoretical module in experimental semantics. The module comprised 30 teaching hours. Modules and instructors Theoretica…
Experimental Philosophy of Mind and LanguageEN
An English-language seminar for Cognitive Science students at the University of Warsaw, taught by Katarzyna Kuś and Krzysztof Sękowski. It combines philosophical analysis with empirical meth…
Experimental Philosophy of Mind and Language (2025/2026)EN
ArchiveAn English-language seminar for Cognitive Science students, taught by Katarzyna Kuś and Krzysztof Sękowski in the summer semester of 2025/2026. The course combines critical analysis of exist…
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