(UA) PHILOSOPHY

The group offers interdisciplinary expertise from sociology, philosophy, political science, social work, health sociology, multiculturalism and qualitative/quantitative methods.

Man has always been driven by a longing to understand the contemporary world and his/ her role in it. Research offers a variety of theories to explain human relationships, identity, culture and how we create meaning in a changing world.

CAPHI is a research unit in philosophy that covers different specialties divided into four themes: practical and political philosophy, metaphysics, the history of philosophy, and aesthetics.

Our research group deals with a whole range of bioethical issues, but mostly animal ethics and bioethical education. In that context and following the idea of integrative bioethics, it is open for contributions from different scientific perspectives to philosophical analysis concerning moral regard toward non-human living beings and the ways in which it can be applied in education. A chance for dialogue on these issues is especially our annual (in October) conference Days of animal STudies.

The impact of (cultural) identity features on forming attitudes on migration. The research is structured into three levels:

i. into the general attitude towards migration,

ii. the relationship between attitudes on migration and general beliefs and values,

iii. subjects' political and ethical backgrounds

The Border Studies Research Group at the University of Gdansk is an interdisciplinary group of scholars from fields of linguistics, literary studies and theory, history, performance arts, and sociology who share a common interest in the subject of border studies not only in the field's usual connotation signifying a focus on regional, socio- and geo-political issues but also in the broadest of senses which encompasses but is not limited to literary theory, history and emigration studies, spectrality and liminality, intercultural and transnational studies, performance studies, and more.