Department of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy is one of the five Departments within the Faculty of Humanities. Students might apply for the BA programme Philosophy and MA programme Practical Philosophy. Lecturers of the Department work with contemporary philosophy: contemporary ethics and esthetics, social and political philosophy, political anthropology, fenomenology, biopolitics, ecosofics, time and memory theories, and philosophy of feminism.
BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMME
- History: Philosophy and History of Ideas (taught in Lithuanian)
MASTER DEGREE PROGRAMME
- Practical Philosophy (taught in Lithuanian)
Dr. Mantas Antanas Davidavičius
Head of the Department
Research interests: eco-philosophy, theories of biopolitics
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Prof. dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė
Research interests: contemporary philosophy, philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, biopolitics, biophilosophy, posthumanism
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Prof. dr. Dalius Jonkus
Research interests: phenomenology, Lithuanian philosophical history, philosophy of culture
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Prof. dr. Gintautas Mažeikis
Research interests: contemporary social and political philosophy, critical theory, philosophy of the Renaissance era
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Prof. dr. Jay Daniel Mininger
Research interests: contemporary esthetics, psychoanalysis as philosophy, contemporary political philosophy
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Prof. dr. Tatjana Aleknienė
Research interests: philosophy of antiquity, dialogues of Plato and tradition of Platonism, earlier Greek Christians writing
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomas Kavaliauskas
Research interests: political philosophy, philosophy and human rights, European identity and regional studies, dissidents and social critics, business ethics, art philosophy, creative fiction writing
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Assoc. prof. Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas
Research interests: contemporary ethics, Philosophy of 19th-20th century
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Dr. Bronė Gudaitytė
Research interests: philosophy of religion, Medieval philosophy, Eastern philosophy
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Dr. Jurga Jonutytė
Research interests: philosophical narratology, memory and time theories, ecosophy, philosophy of disability
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Dr. Adas Diržys
Research interests: Ontology, epistemology, contemporary realisms, esotericism studies, weird studies
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Dr. Kęstutis Mosakas
Research interests: applied ethics; philosophy of technology; bioethics; theoretical ethics
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Audrė Gruodytė
PhD topic: Monstrosity: flesh and fantasy or the line between sexuality and violence
Supervisor: dr. Jurga Jonutytė
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Augustas Pinkevičius
PhD topic: The Problem of Epistemic Opacity in Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Explainability as a Normative Concept
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas
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