STRAND 3: RELIGION
teaM MEMBERs

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).

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).

Postdoctoral Researcher

Stanisław Jędrczak is an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2025, he received his PhD in philosophy with distinction from the University of Warsaw, where he currently teaches philosophy. He is the author of Transcendental Arguments: Models and Applications (Warsaw 2025). His research interests include contemporary metaphysics, philosophical logic, and transcendental philosophy. Within the Enlightenment and Publicity project, he investigates accounts of the illusions of reason in Enlightenment philosophy, particularly in the thought of Immanuel Kant.

Research Assistant

Radzisław Franczak holds a PhD in philosophy. His doctoral dissertation examined conceptions of social, political, and economic order in the thought of Wilhelm Röpke. From 2014 to 2018 he was affiliated with the Institute of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the Centre for Political Thought. His research interests lie in political philosophy, especially at the intersection of classical and Thomistic political thought and the tradition of classical liberalism.

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 nowej racjonalności. 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.

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.