Marcin W. Bukała

Marcin W. Bukała, PhD, habilitacja (2015), is a Professor at the Department of the History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy within the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN) in Warsaw. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Prakseologia (since 2019), a member of the Permanent Committee of Polish Medievalists, and affiliated with international societies like the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale and International Society for Praxiology.

• Alumnus of the University of Wrocław
• Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (2005-2007)

His research focuses on the history of economic ethics before the emergence of economics as a discipline, medieval practical philosophy, and the reception of Aristotelian ethics in scholastic texts. He has contributed to critical editions of medieval works, including the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas (II-II, qq. 57-80, 101-122) and texts by Polish thinkers like Matthew of Krakow and Stanisław Zaborowski.

His 15 most recent publications (2007-2023) explore topics such as:

• Just Price and Medieval Market Concepts
• Usury and Renaissance Thought
• Canon Law and Producer Responsibility
• Arabic Commentaries' Influence
• Bocheński's Ontological Analysis of Business
• Thomas Aquinas' Ethics of Economic Exchange
• Polish Anti-Usury Treatises

Scientific Awards:

• 2016 Prime Minister of Poland Award for Habilitation Research
• 2005 Polish Science Foundation (FNP) START Award

He has delivered lectures at the Science Festival Warsaw 2023, the Ecclesiastical Latin Congress 2023, and contributed to the 7th Congress of Polish Medievalists 2023. His editorial work includes co-editing the Summa Theologiae translation and organizing the 2019-2022 seminar on Thomas Aquinas' Economic Ethics at Warsaw University's Faculty of Liberal Arts.