I am a philosopher working at WAiNS PW since 2010. Interests: analytical philosophy and phenomenology. I work actively in fields:
history of philosophy,
of philosophical logic,
of the philosophy of science,
of methodology,
of social philosophy,
ethics,
epistemology,
ontology.
I am an author of publications in the field of analytical philosophy, philosophy of logic, philosophical anthropology, subject philosophy, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, phenomenology, methodology, philosophy of politics, ethics in administration.
I am a graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Silesian University in Katowice. In 2008 I defended at WNS UŚ a thesis entitled About the Concept of possibility in Wittgenstein's Tractatus (promoter: prof. dr hab. P. Łaciak (UŚ); reviewers: prof. dr hab. A. Noras, prof. UŚ dr hab. D. Kubok).
In 2015 I was awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy on the basis of the dissertation On Wittgenstein's Transcendental Logic (supervisor: Prof. Z. Król (PW, IFiS PAN); reviewers: Prof. M. Soin (IFiS PAN), Prof. J. Rolewski (UMK)). My doctoral dissertation in a substantially changed form was published as part of the book On Wittgenstein'sTranscendental Logic. Logic-philosophical studies. Warsaw 2018.
Scientific interests: ethics, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of dialogue, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, anthropology, mathematics, cosmology, cognitive science, sociology of knowledge, theology.
Apart from his scientific interests, he deals with art, I create music.
Hobbies: sport, music.
Lectures:
Logic;
Classical problems of philosophy and the development of science and technology;
Intuition, science and philosophy;
Philosophical concepts of intuitive cognition;
Philosophy and some problems of today;
Philosophy, culture, technology;
Philosophy, science and art;
About certainty;
Bioethics;
Social philosophy;
The art of thinking and discussing;
The art of thinking and learning.
Current lectures:
Classical problems of philosophy and development of science and technology;
Intuition, science and philosophy;
Philosophical concepts of intuitive cognition;
Ethics in administration.
Texts:
M. Stelmach: Wittgenstein a concept a priori; in: Issues of Science 2010, 3-4.
M. Stelmach: Character and foundations of Ludwig Wittgenstein's meta-science; in: The Issues of Science 2011, 1.
M. Stelmach: Logic, Ethics, Self - Weininger inspirations in Wittgenstein's writings. Philosophical Magazine, no. 4/5 October 2009.
M. Stelmach: An attempt at philosophical interpretation of the subject-object relation in the book by P. Zimbardo Lucifer Effect. In: A. Drabarek, Z. Król (ed.) The Lucifer Effect in scientific perspective. How can science participate in answering the question of how good people can do evil?, Warsaw 2013.
M. Stelmach: A sentence as a philosophical object in Wittgenstein's early philosophy. In: J. Zubelewicz (ed.) Wokół niektórych wartości podstawowych, vol. 2, Truskaw 2015.
M. Stelmach: The issue of war in Józef Tischner and Antoni Kepiński and "being in untrue". In: J. Zubelewicz (ed.) Wokół niektórych wartości podstawowych, vol. 3, Truskaw 2016.
M. Stelmach: On Wittgenstein's Transcendental Logic. Logic-philosophical Studies. ( monography) (2018)
M. Stelmach: Silence. (poetry volume). Oświęcim 2002.
M. Stelmach: The possibility of dispute and the question of value. Warsaw 2017.
M. Stelmach: Anaximander of Milet as the initiator of a concept of information. Warsaw 2020.
http://repo.bg.pw.edu.pl/index.php/pl/ludzie-pw/osoby
The texts are currently being prepared:
Anaximeter and the concept of environmental information;
On the Top of the Wittgensteins Ledder-Values, Religion, and Ethics in Tractatus;
The New Wittgenstein - Critical Argumentation;
Philosophical aspects of silence - Plato and Wittgenstein.
Conferences (selected):
The Lucifer Effect in a scientific perspective. How can science participate in answering the question "How good people do evil"? IFiS PAN 2012, organization, published paper: An attempt at philosophical interpretation of the subject-object relationship in the book by P. Zimbardo Lucifer Effect.
Philosophical problems of knowledge base. IFiS PAN. 2012, paper: Philosophical aspects of silence. Plato and Wittgenstein.
Philosophical problems of the knowledge base. IFiS PAN. 2017. paper: The possibility of dispute and the issue of values.
Theology after Auschwitz. CDiM Oświęcim, 2018.
Philosophy in computer science V. Lublin UMCS 2019. Paper: The notion of information in the theory of energy-informational metabolism by Antoni Kępiński.
Projects:
http://repo.bg.pw.edu.pl/index.php/pl/r#/info/author/WUT58733/Micha%25C5%2582%2BStelmach?r=project&tab=projects&sort=&lang=pl
Organizational activities for the PW:
- Organizing and leading the Student Discussion Group at WAiNS PW in the field of philosophy;
- Participation in the Electoral Council for 2016-2020;
- Organization of seminars at the Department of Philosophy and Ethics in the Administration of WAiNS PW (https://www.ans.pw.edu.pl/Nauka/Seminaria-naukowe-na-WAiNS/Seminaria-zakladowe-WAiNS)
