Vol. 60 No. 2 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-31
Studia Philosophiae Christianae (SPCh) is a biannual (until 2010 it was a biannual, 2011-2020 - quarterly), published continuously since 1965, edited by the Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the Academy of Catholic Theology, and since 2000 - by the Institute of Philosophy of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. SPCh publishes original articles on philosophy, as well as book reviews and reports on philosophical events. Articles are published mainly in Polish or English.
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2025-02-20
Stefan Swieżawski: Several remarks on the philosophy of nature in 15th-century Latin Europe [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 15(1979)1, pp. 27-59]. Link to the text: https://bazhum.muzhp. en/media/texts/studia-philosophiae-christianae/1979-vol-15-issue-1/studia_philosophiae_christianae-r1979-t15-n1-s27-59.pdf Stefan Swieżawski (1907-2004) was an outstanding Polish historian of philosophy, author of, among others, History of European Philosophy in the 15th Century (published by ATK in Warsaw), the most comprehensive work in world literature devoted to the philosophy of this period...
2025-02-11
Józef Życiński: Evolution of the concept of rationality in epistemology [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 28(1992)2, p. 159-172]. Link to the text: https: //bazhum.muzhp. pl/media/files/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r1992-t28-n2/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r1992-t28-n2-s159-172/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r1992-t28-n2-s1 59-172.pdf. 10 February 2025 marked the 14th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Prof. Józef Życiński, a philosopher specialising in the philosophy of science and the relationship between the natural sciences and theology, who received a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw (now the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) in 1977...
2025-02-06
Michael Walzer: Just war and holy war: again [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 53(2017)3, pp. 21-40]. Link to the text: https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/spch/article/view/3387. The author of this article is Professor Michael Walzer (b. 1935), American philosopher, currently Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton...
2025-02-01
HOW THE COVER OF SPCh HAS CHANGED. In the 60 years of Studia Philosophiae Christianae ‘s existence, the journal's cover has changed four times...
2025-01-31
Andrzej Kobylinski: Ethical aspects of the contemporary pentecostalisation of Christianity [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 50(2014)3, pp. 93-130].
Link to text:
https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media/files/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r2010-t46-n1/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r2010-t46-n1-s17-24/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r2010-t46-n1-s17-24.pdf. Dr. Andrzej Kobyliński's article is currently the most cited text published in SPCh...
2025-01-27
Michał Heller: Necessity and chance in the evolution of the Universe [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 46(2010)1, pp. 17-24]. Link to text: https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media/files/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r2010-t46-n1/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r2010-t46-n1-s17-24/Studia_Philosophiae_Christianae-r2010-t46-n1-s17-24.pdf. This is one of nine articles that Rev. Prof. Michal Heller, winner of the Templeton Award, has published in SPCh....
2025-01-20
REV. PROF. JÓZEF IWANICKI - CO-FOUNDER AND FIRST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE SPCh. Rev. Prof. Józef Iwanicki (1902-1995) was the co-founder (together with Rev. Prof. Kazimierz Kłósak) and the first editor-in-chief of the SPCh...
2025-01-18
Józef Tischner: Structural issues of reflection and immanent insight in the light of some of Edmund Husserl's theses [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 2(1966)1, pp. 205-257]. Link to the text: https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/journals/384/issues/41627. This is one of Joseph Tischner's first publications, published after he received his doctorate (1963), and is also his only article, albeit an extensive one, published in SPCh....
2025-01-11
Edward Nieznański: The sufficient reason for the existence of the world [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 40(2004)2, pp. 189-195]. Link to text: https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/journals/384/issues/41584. The author of this article is Professor Edward Nieznański, a Polish logician who died on 10 December 2024....
2025-01-11
Józef Iwanicki: ‘Psychic’, ‘spiritual’ in man according to dialectical materialism and according to Thomism [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 1(1965)1, pp. 17-74]. Link to text: https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/journals/384/issues/41625. The text appeared as the second article published in SPCh in issue one of the journal in 1965....
2025-01-11
THE BEGINNINGS... The first issue of "Studia Philosophiae Christianae", published in 1965, contained 7 articles and 34 other texts, mainly reviews of articles, books and reports on scientific events...
2025-01-11
The year 2025 marks the 60th anniversary for SPCh of the journal, which was founded in 1965 at the Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the then Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw (now UKSW).
The main event of the jubilee will be an international scientific conference ‘Philosophy and Christianity. Past - Present - Future’ , 12-13 June 2025(https://sites.google.com/view/ph-and-ch-conf/).
In addition, throughout the year we will be recalling the most interesting texts published in SPCh during the 60 years of the journal's existence in a series of posts: ‘60/60 the best of SPCh’. We will recall the 60 articles that we considered to be the most important for our journal.
We will also publish some SPCh-related trivia and material on the history of the journal in the post series ‘60 years gone...’.
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