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The Department has a long and developing history of multifaceted research in the following areas: modern philosophy (Descartes, Lebiniz, German Enlightenment philosophy, Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, etc.), the 19th- and 20th century Polish philosophy and Spanish philosophy. The research team comprised of Professor Dorota Leszczyna, Doctor Mariusz Pandura and Łukasz Ratajczak, MA, and formed and managed by Professor Radosław Kuliniak, conducts archival research on the 19th- and 20th century Polish philosophy (Polish reception of modern philosophy, the philosophy of the Lviv School, Roman Ingarden’s phenomenology). In 2017, Professor Bogusław Paź founded The Polish Leibniz Society dedicated to the popularisation of Gottfired Wilhelm Leibniz’s philosophy. Starting from 2013, Professor Dorota Leszczyna has been collaborating with The Madrid Foundation of José Ortega y Gasseta-Gregorio Marañon (The Fundación José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón), conducting research and publishing papers on the 19th- and 20th century Spanish philosophy. The Department of Modern Philosophy has been pursuing several research projects funded the National Science Centre in Poland (Sonata and Opus research grants) and the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities.