Program

Place: Juliusz Kindermann Palace, Piotrkowska 137/139, Łódź (Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Łódź)

16:00–16:30	Opening of the Conference Jacek Jurczakowski, Administrative Director of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences Prof. Dr. Marek Gensler, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Łódź Dr hab. Andrzej M. Kaniowski, Professor at the University of Łódź
16:30–17:45	Session 1: Invited Lecture and Discussion Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Schelkshorn “Postmetaphysical Thought as a Normative Matrix for Global Modernity? Constellations of Secularity and Religion: With and Against Habermas” Chair: Andrzej M. Kaniowski
17:45–18:00	A brief organizational break
18:00–19:00	Presentation of the publication “Ancient Medicine and Philosophy” Result of the collaboration between the Institute of Philosophy, University of Łódź, and the Institute of the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, University of Ulm Presenters: Prof. Dr. Florian Steger and Prof. Dr. Andrzej M. Kaniowski
19:30–21:00	Conference Dinner

Place: The Professor Ija Lazari-Pawłowska Hall, 3rd floor, Institute of Philosophy, University of Łódź, Williama H. Lindleya 3/5

09:30–10:45	Session 2: Invited Lecture and Discussion Prof. Dr. Christoph Horn “Habermas on Christian Platonism and the Birth of the Catholic Church” Chair: Ewa Nowak
10:45–11:15	Coffee Break
11:15–12:30	Session 3: Invited Lecture and Discussion Prof. Dr. Paul Guyer “Habermas on Kant on Reason and the Highest Good” Chair: Christoph Horn
12:30–13:45	Lunch Break
13:45–15:00	Session 4: Invited Lecture and Discussion Prof. Dr. Matthias Kettner “Normotivität – Habermas 2019 und die Geschichte der Normativität / Habermas 2019 and the History of Normativity” Chair: Rainer Adolphi
15:00–15:30	Coffee Break
15:30–16:45	Session 5: Invited Lecture and Discussion Prof. Dr. Guido Löhrer “Autonomie und moralischer Fortschritt” Chair: Andrzej M. Kaniowski

Place: The Professor Ija Lazari-Pawłowska Hall, 3rd floor, Institute of Philosophy, University of Łódź, Williama H. Lindleya 3/5

09:30–10:45	Session 6: Lecture and Discussion Pedro Pacheco e Zan “Legitimation Crisis in the Public Sphere: Habermas’ diagnosis of late capitalist societies” Chair: Justyna Nowotniak-Poręba
10:45–11:15	Coffee Break
11:15–12:30	Session 7: Lecture and Discussion Dr Bartosz Pokorski “Remarks on Habermas’s Concept of the Public Sphere” Chair: Matthias Kettner
12:30–13:45	Lunch Break
13:45–15:00	Session 8: Lecture and Discussion Prof. Dr. Andrzej M. Kaniowski “Kołakowski vs. Habermas – zwei Formen der »Gegewnärtigkeit des Mythos«?” Chair: Guido Löhrer
15:00–15:45	Closing Remarks

Thursday, 12 November 2026