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Establishment of the Department of Philosophy

In the first years of its existence, the department carried out a service function and taught social sciences for the University of Mechanical and Textile Engineering. The Department of Philosophy was incorporated into the newly created Faculty of Education and began, in line with the idea behind the university, to provide teaching in the social sciences at all of the Technical University’s faculties apart from the Faculty of Architecture. It is also involved in teaching at the Centre for Continuing Education and the Institute of Health Studies.

During its thirty-year history, the Department of Philosophy has organized or co-organized a whole host of scientific conferences and professional meetings, among which the series of regular meetings of Scholé Philosophie stood out, followed by several large conferences and workshops focused on the humanities and their place in the contemporary world. Recently, the Department of Philosophy has taken part in preparing the accompanying programme of the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and is a co-organizer of a bi-annual conferences focused on psychosomatics and its broader context. Besides this, however, it also offers a range of interesting activities for students, of which the debating and film clubs stand out.