STRAND 3: RELIGION
teaM MEMBERs
Dr. Hab. Anna Tomaszewska
Principal Investigator
Anna Tomaszewska is the PI in the research team at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In the project, she works on superstition and enthusiasm in religion, science, and public life against the background of Kant’s idea of enlightenment. Anna has published Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment: From Spinoza to Contemporary Debates (Bloomsbury 2022), edited Between Secularization and Reform: Religion in the Enlightenment (Brill 2022), and co-edited The Sources of Secularism: Enlightenment and Beyond (Palgrave 2017).
Dr. Mario Pati*
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mario Pati is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a member of the research team working on Enlightenment and publicity. He received his PhD from the University of Turin (FINO Convention) with a thesis on Kant's conception of philosophy as a doctrine of wisdom. Prior to that, he graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. In 2025, he won the Silvestro Marcucci Prize, awarded by the Italian Society of Kant Studies (SISK) for the best Kantian paper. Among his publications, he has a monograph on Hegel, published in Italian with the title Hegel e la logica della filosofia. Concetto, realtà, sistema (Studium, Roma 2021).
*Dr. Pati has ceased to be a part of the project team in June 2026.
Dr. Hasse Hällström
Associated Researcher
Hasse holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. In addition to building and maintaining the project website, he researches radical philosophes’ conception of religion as deception. He has published research related to the earlier projects in which he has worked in Journal of Early Modern Studies, Intellectual History Review, Diametros, and International Philosophical Quarterly. His publications also include a co-edited volume with Anna Tomaszewska, The Sources of Secularism: Enlightenment and Beyond (Palgrave 2017).
Dr. Konrad Wyszkowski
Associated Researcher
Konrad Wyszkowski holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Warsaw. He is an author of the book Towards a New Rationality: Hegel, Trentowski and the Quest for the Lost Truth (original title: W stronę nowejracjonalności. Hegel, Trentowski i poszukiwania zaginionej prawdy; 2025). Wyszkowski’s research interests, elaborated in contributions published both in English and in Polish, can be written into a theoretical triangle of German and Polish philosophical traditions since 18th century till today, the concept of normativity, and speculative philosophy.