Prof. Dr. Hab. Paweł Kawalec
Full Professor, Institute of Philosophy KUL, Department of Epistemology
Research interests:
theory and methodology of science and innovation studies, methodology of economics, Bayesian epistemology and cognitive science, early analytic philosophy, cholera in the 19th c., microRNAs, economic growth models, communication studies.
Recent publications:
2024. The Original Conception of the Science of Science and Innovation Studies. In: F. Cain, B. Kleeberg (eds.), A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland, Mohr Siebeck (9783161543159), 375-384 (in print).
2024. R. Carnap. Logical foundations of probability. Translation and introduction to the Polish edition. Polish Scientific Publishers (forthcoming, pp. 900).
2022. (with Kawalec, A.) Knowledge Routines, Threads and Network Dynamics. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 67: 247-268.
https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2022-0013.
2022. (with Kubiak, A.) Prior Information in Frequentist Research Designs: The Case of Neyman’s Sampling Theory.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-022-09600-x.
2021. (with Kubiak, A.) The epistemic consequences of pragmatic value-laden scientific inference.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00370-9.
2021. (with Kubiak, A., Kiersztyn, A.) Neyman-Pearson Hypothesis Testing, Epistemic Reliability and Pragmatic Value-Laden Asymmetric Error Risks.
Axiomathes.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-021-09541-y.
2020. Cognitive Dynamics of Research Routines: Case Study of MicroRNA. In
The Logic of Social Practices, ed. Raffaela Giovagnoli and Robert Lowe, 133–152. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37305-4_9.
2020. The dynamics of theories of economic growth: An impact of Unified Growth Theory.
Economics and Business Review 6: 19–44.
https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2020.2.3.
2019. The Science of Science – Some Recent Advances.
Ruch Filozoficzny 75: 33–57.
https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2019.019.
2018. Transformations in Breakthrough Research: The Emergence of miRNAs as a Research Routine in Molecular Biology.
Open Information Science 2: 127–146.
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2018-0010.
2018. Integral methodology: A study of science dynamics (in Polish). Wydawnictwo KUL: Lublin (ISBN: 978-83-8061-563-2, pp. 388).
Professional Membership: Philosophy Committee and the Science Studies Committee of the Polish Academy of Science. Review Panel of the Program COST (representing the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Council of the National Science Centre in Poland). EC evaluator in Framework Programes (FP7 onwards). Expert of The Polish National Science Centre and the National Centre for Research and Development. Former Member of the EC Horizon 2020 Expert Group on Green Growth and Jobs. Member of The John Snow Society in London.
Awards: Foundation for Polish Science (1999; 2004; 2006); The Prime Minister’s Award for the Doctoral Dissertation (2001), Visiting Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science (Pittsburgh, 2004-2005), The Rector of CUL 1st grade individual award (2013; 2019); Medal of the Commission of National Education (2014).
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