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The Department conducts research on the methodology of ontology (related to the various applications of the Ockham razor). Another major area of research involves the ontology of time, broadly understood: the physical, phenomenological and social (specifically – the Marxist labour theory of value) aspects of the temporality of being. Phenomenologically oriented ontology of consciousness has been developed. Possible ontological interpretations of the real world are addressed, including such problems as: realness, elementary entities, continuity, infiniteness, the temporality of existence, the limits of the materialist conception of the world. Another important subject of ontological and epistemological research involves Polish inter-war philosophy: the theories of S.I. Witkiewicz, B.J. Gawecki, J. Metallmann. The research conducted in the Department is strongly rooted in natural sciences – the areas of research also include the mathematization of natural sciences (the mathematization of biology) and Robert Boyle’s philosophy of sciences. The results of all these research activities are published in prestigious Polish philosophical journals and presented during many academic conferences.