Marek Piwowarczyk

Prof. Dr. Hab. Marek Piwowarczyk is a faculty member at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy of Religion. His research bridges classical, analytic, and process philosophical traditions.

• Academic Focus: Metaphysics, philosophy of religion, substantialism vs. processualism, identity through time, and substance-property relationships.
• Philosophical Traditions: Phenomenological ontology (Ingarden), classical philosophy (Aristotle, Aquinas), analytic philosophy (Lowe, Armstrong), and process philosophy (Whitehead, Hartshorne).

Key Research Areas include:

• Substantialism and its challenges
• Ontological status of integral parts of substances
• Divine simplicity, eternity, and immutability
• Metaontological foundations of numerical identity
• Process philosophy's critique of substantialism
• Leibnizian and Ingardenian models of substance

Scientific Awards:

• 2017: First Degree Individual Award from the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education
• 2016: Rector's Award for outstanding habilitation dissertation

Advising and Grants:

• Advised numerous MA and BA theses on topics like substance identity, divine attributes, and Ingarden's ontology.
• Led NCN-funded projects including Basic Problems of Substantialism (2011–2013) and Two Models of the Subject-Properties Structure (2016).