Barbara Maria Tomczyk

Dr hab. Barbara Maria Tomczyk is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology and the Department of Logic and Cognitive Studies. Her academic journey includes a Master's degree in Philosophy (2005), a PhD in Epistemology (2009), and a habilitation in 2021 focused on the epistemic subjectivity of extended cognitive systems.

• Education: MA in Philosophy (2005), PhD in Epistemology (2009), Habilitation (2021)
• Research Grants: Co-investigator in MNiSW's National Program for the Development of Humanities (2013-2016) and NCN's Sonata grant (2015-2018).

Her research explores the extended mind thesis, naturalized epistemology, and the epistemic subject, with recent publications addressing autopoiesis, collective agency, and cognitive integration. She investigates how artifacts extend human cognition and redefine epistemic autonomy.

Key publication trends include interdisciplinary analyses of epistemic agency in distributed systems, critiques of internalism, and debates on collective rationality. Her work bridges philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and epistemology.

She supervises research within the Department of Logic and Cognitive Studies, contributing to debates on knowledge-how, virtue epistemology, and situated cognition. Her office hours are held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology building in Lublin, with virtual consultations via Microsoft Teams.