Curiculum Vitae of Professor Dr. Jerzy Kosiewicz

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1 Curiculum Vitae of Professor Dr. Jerzy Kosiewicz I. Education and sports achievements Professor Jerzy Kosiewicz was born on 13 th October 1949 in Wrocław. A primary and a secondary school (XIX Liceum Ogólnokształcące) were graduated by him in Łódź. During his secondary school education and for some subsequent years he practiced boxing. He won a bronze medal in the junior middleweight weight class during the Junior Polish Championships in Włocławek in He twice represented Poland in matches against Hungary and the German Democratic Republic. Fe fought over a dozen international duels. He belonged to the Youth Polish Team and to a 1 st league team of Gwardia Łódź. He has the 2 nd dan grade in aikido and 3 rd dan grade in jujitsu. He was a student of the University of Physical Education in Warsaw and in 1973 he got a MA title in physical education together with diplomas of 2 nd class boxing coach, of a judo instructor and of a specialist in massage. In 1983 he graduated Łódź University and he became a Master of Arts in philosophy. At the same university he was also studying culture studies (specialization: Theatre Studies) at the Faculty of Philology and he got a title of MA in Theatre Studies in He graduated also the Postgraduate Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Warsaw University (1984). His PhD dissertation on Conception of the Human Being in the Theory of Physical Culture (which after alterations was published with the title Physical Culture, Personality, Education. Methodological Issues ) was defended by him at the University of Physical Education in Warsaw in 1984 and he got a title of PhD in physical culture sciences. The supervisor was Professor Zbigniew Krawczyk. Proceedings connected with his habilitation on the basis of a dissertation Body and Spirit as Objects of Christian Philosophical Culture took place in the Institute of Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Their prerequisite was a book The Human Being and His Body in Church s Teaching and in Early Christian Philosophy Issues and Problems. A Monograph (Moscow 1991). As a result he got a title of a habilitated doctor in the humanities in the field of philosophy. He decided to undergo habilitation proceedings in Russia mainly because of his research on philosophical anthropology of Russian Orthodox Christianity (it refers to the so-called prohibita, which then were available only with consent of the authorities and in their place) and because of the fact that it enabled him to discuss with and consult local experts in the issue. In 2003 he was awarded professorship and in 2004 he was appointed an ordinary professor in Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw. 2. Publications He is the author of over 700 publications (including over than 200 in English and some in Russian). He wrote 8 books: Kultura fizyczna i wychowanie. Zagadnienia metodologiczne ( Physical Culture and Education. Methodological Issues (1986 Warszawa); The Human Being and His Body in Church s Teaching and in Early Christian Philosophy Issues and Problems. A Monograph (Moscow 1991); Bóg, cielesność i przemoc ( God, Corporeality and Violence ) (Warszawa 1997); Myśl wczesnochrześcijańska i katolicka wobec ciała ( Attitude of Early Christian and Catholic Thought towards the Body ) (Warszawa 1998); Bóg, cielesność i miłość ( God, Corporeality and Love ) (Warszawa 1998); Kultura fizyczna i sport w perspektywie filozofii ( Physical Culture and Sport from the Viewpoint of Philosophy ) (Warszawa 2000); Filozoficzne aspekty kultury fizycznej I sportu ( Philosophical Aspects of Physical Culture and Sport ) (Warszawa 2004); Philosophy and Sport: From Methodology to Ethics (Warszawa 2010).

2 He was also the editor of two selections of texts in the field of philosophy: Współczesna filozofia człowieka. Wybór tekstów ( Contemporary Philosophy of Man. A Reader ), vol. I and II (Warszawa 1985) and (together with Z. Krawczyk) Filozofia kultury fizycznej. Koncepcje i problemy ( Philosophy of Physical Culture. Conceptions and Problems ), vol. I and II (Warszawa 1990). He was also the scientific editor or a co-editor of 31 collective books (including 18 in English): Z zagadnień teorii i praktyki kultury fizycznej ( Physical Culture Theoretical and Practical Issues ), scientific editors Kosiewicz J., Dąbrowski A., Warszawa 1985; Społeczne wartości kultury fizycznej ( Social Values of Physical Culture, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Krawczyk Z., Kaniuk R., Warszawa 1986; Marksizm po Marksie. Studia i szkice z dziejów filozofii marksistowskiej ( Marxism after Marx. Studies and Sketches of History of Marxist Philosophy, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Mackiewicz W., Miś A., Wojciechowski K., Skwieciński M., Warszawa 1989; Sport w procesie integracji europejskiej ( Sport in the Process of European Integration ), scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Krawczyk Z., Piłat K., Warszawa 1998; Sport in the Mirror of Values, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Obodyński K., Rzeszów 2003; Sports Involvement in Changing Europe, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Obodyński K., Rzeszów 2004; Sport and Society, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Obodyński K., Rzeszów 2004; Education through Sport: Towards an International Academy of Sport for All, scientific editors: Eichberg H., Kosiewicz J et al., Copenhagen 2004; Axiological Dimensions of Sport Practical Aspects, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Obodyński K., Rzeszów 2004; Physical Activity in Changing Europe, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Jaczynowski L., Warszawa 2004; Sport, Culture and Society, scientific editor: J. Kosiewicz, Warszawa 2005; Sport, kultura i społeczeństwo ( Sport, Culture and Society ), scientific editor: J. Kosiewicz, Warszawa 2006; Social Differentiation of Tourism, scientific editor: J. Kosiewicz, Legionowo 2006; Movement Recreation for All, scientific editor: J. Kosiewicz, Warszawa 2006; Turystyka i rekreacja wymiary teoretyczne i praktyczne ( Tourism and Recreation Theoretical and Practical Dimensions ), scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, K. Obodyński, Rzeszów 2006; Sport and Values Theoretical Foundations, scientific editor: J. Kosiewicz, Warszawa 2006; Sport for All as a Form of Education, scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, H. Eichberg, K. Obodyński, Rzeszów 2007; Tourism in Borderlands A Multi-Aspect Study of Development ), scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, K. Obodyński, W. Cynarski, Rzeszów 2007; Społeczne i kulturowe wartości sportu ( Social and Cultural Values of Sport ), scientific editor: J. Kosiewicz, Warszawa 2007; Social and Cultural Aspects of Sport, scientific editor: J. Kosiewicz, Warszawa Book of Abstracts, scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, M. Piątkowska, Warszawa 2009; Programme of the Conference and Book of Abstracts scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, M. Piątkowska, Warszawa 2010; Social Sciences towards Contemporary Sport, scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, M. Piątkowska, J. Żyśko, Warszawa 2010; Nauki społeczne wobec sportu współczesnego scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, M. Piątkowska, P. Bany, J. Żyśko, Warszwa 2010; Sport in the Context of Social and Cultural Changes, scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, M. Piątkowska, Warszawa 2011; Społeczne i kulturowe aspekty sportu ( Social and Cultural Aspects of Sport ), scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, M. Piątkowska, Warszawa 2011; Sport in the Context of Social Sciences, scientific editors: Kosiewicz J., Obodyński K., Cynarski W.; Kultura fizyczna i sport w zwierciadle nauk społecznych (Physical Culture and Sport in the Mirror of Social Sciences), scientific editors: W. Cynarski, J. Kosiewicz, K. Obodyński, Rzeszów 2012; Sport and Physical Culture in the Mirror of the Social Sciences Electronic Proceedings Book, Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University, scientific editors: I. Jrasek, J. Kosiewicz, D. N. Roberson, Jr., Olomouc 2012; Nauki społeczne wobec sportu i kultury fizycznej ( Physical Culture and Sport towards

3 Sport and Physical Culture ), scientific editors: Kosiewicz J. Michaluk T. Pezdek K., Wrocław 2013; Sport i turystyka. Uwarunkowania historyczne i wyzwania współczesności ( Sport and Tourism. Historical Conditions and Contemporary Challenges ), scientific editors: M. Kazimierczak, J. Kosiewicz. Poznań 2013; Social Sciences of Sport. Assumption and Perspectives, scientific editors: J. Kosiewicz, K. Obodyński, Rzeszów In spite of that Pror. Dr. Jerzy Kosiewicz has published (as the Editor-in-Chief) 16 issues of the journal Physical Culture and Sport. Studies Research. 3. Places of employment, posts and functions In the years Professor Kosiewicz worked as a PE teacher in the No. 101 Primary School. He conducted there a judo sports class. His pupils children athletes won the second place in primary schools judo rivalry in the school year 1973/4. In the years he worked also in the 4 th Complex of Textile Vocational Schools and in several secondary schools in Łódź. That time he was also employed as a judo instructor in the Sports Club Rezursa and in the Association of Popularization of Physical Culture Brzeziny. In the years he worked as a spa instructor in the sports club Start and in the years he was employed as a boxing coach in the 1 st league club RTS Widzew in Łódź. In the years he held a post of an assistant lecturer in the Unit of Philosophy of the Medical Academy in Łódź. He was employed there on Professor Wiesław Gromczyński s recommendation as one of the most promising students of the second year of philosophy at Łódź University. In 1981 he moved, because of family reasons, to Warsaw and he began to work in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, and then in the Department of Philosophy of the Josef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw. Currently he works in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology in this University. he is still employ. He worked also from 1986 to 1990 r. In University of Warsaw. He was a co-founder of the Higher Economical and Technical School in Legionowo, where he held a post of the Dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Recreation in the years He was also employed as a professor in the Higher School of Physical Culture and Tourism in Pruszków in the years and in Rzeszów University in the years , as well as in the Higher Public Vocational School in Biała Podlaska in the years He has been employed in the Higher School of Pedagogy and Administration in Poznań since From 1994 till 2007 he cooperated also with the Institute of Physical Education and then with the External Faculty of Physical Education in Biała Podlaska (the University of Physical Education in Warsaw). In the University of Physical Education, which is his basic workplace, Professor. Kosiewicz holds, among others functions, the posts of the director of the Department of Philosophy (in the years ) and the director of the Department of Social Sciences (in the years ), and the director of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology (since 2012). In the years he has been the chairman of the Senate Commission called the Library Council. He has been also elected as the vice-chairman of the Senate Commission of Sport. He was the founder of the Doctoral Studies and he held the post of its director in the years He was a member of the Management Board of the Academic Sports Union of the University of Physical Education in Warsaw in the years He was the Editor-in-Chief Redakcji of the publishing house named Studia i Monografie (studiem and Monographs), and also Editor-in-Chief a także przewodniczącym of the Journal Roczników Naukowych AWF ( Scientific Yearbook of Univesity Of Physical Education in Warsaw. Założył pismo o charakterze międzynarodowym

4 zatytułowane Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research ISSN : e-i ISSN , which is published In English. He is the member of the Editorial Board of the International Quarterly of Sport Sciences, ISSN: , published in Budapest, of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Eastern Sports & Physical Education (IJESPE), ISSN: , published in Wauri, Bongdam, Hwa-Sung City, Gyunggi-Do, printed in South Korea), of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ALESDE printed in Curitiba in Brasil, of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Motor Learning and Sport Performance (IJMLSP) ISSN: printed in Bhagoo, Majra, Kharar, Punjab in India, of Editorship of the International Journal of Sports &Health Education printed in Jalgaon, Pune, New Delhi in India, of the Scientific Board of the journal Journal of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, ISNN: printed in University of Beograd, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Serbia, in Scientific Committee of the Journal Education and Sport Studies, Series of books published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura (scientific publisher of Rome) Rome, Italy; Redakčni rada (Editorial Board) of journal Tèlesná Kultura printed in Olomouc, of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, ISSN: printed in University of Alicante, Spain, of the Editorial Board Member of Journal of Pro-Poor Growth. an International Perspective, ISSN: ; of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sports Science printed in Libertyville, USA, of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Education Review, ISSN: printed in New York, USA. Prof. Dr. J. Kosiewicz is also the member of the Editorial Committee of Studia Humanistyczne ( Humane Studies ), ISSN: , published in Kraków, of the Scientific Body of Idō. Ruch dla kultury ( Idō. Movement for Culture ) currently named Ido Movement for Culture. Journal of Martial Arts Anthropology, ISSN: PL printed in Rzeszow; of the Scientific Committee of Przegląd Naukowy Kultury Fizycznej Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego ( Rzeszow University Scientific Review of Physical Culture ) ISSN: , currently Scientific Review of Physical Culture ISSN: ISSN X printed in Rzeszow; Scientific Committee of Kultura Fizyczna ( Physical Culture ), ISSN: , published by Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa; Scientific Committee Rozprawy Naukowe ( Scientific Considerations ) ISSN: , which is published by University of Physical Education in Wrocław. He was a of a member of establishing committee and a member of the Editorial Board of European Journal for Sport and Society ISSN: (the journal published in Bern, Switzerland under the auspices of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport), He performed the function of the Chairman of the Editorial Staff of the Publishing House Studies and Monographs and the function of the Vice-chairman of the Editorial Committee of Wydawnictwa Dydaktyczne ( Didactic Publications ) of the Josef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, a member of the Editorial Staff of Edukacja Filozoficzna ( Philosophical Education ) and a member of the Editorial Board of Research Yearbook. Studies in the Theory of Physical Education and Sport. Since 2014 he is a member of the International Board of Advisors of the American Sports Institute (Mill Valley, USA). He has often been invited as a visiting professor to give lectures at the following universities: Univerzita Palackèho in Olomouc, the Czech Republic (5 times); Jyväskylä University, Finland (3 times); Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary (5 times); the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo (3 times); Deutschen Sporthochschule Koeln (3 times); Universidad de Las Palmas Gran Canaria (2 times); INEF de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain; Univerziteta Komenskeho in Bratislava, Slovakia (2 times); Tallinn Pedagogical University in Estonia (2 times); the Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education

5 in Kaunas, Lithuania; Universidad de Colima in Mexico; La Universidad de Guadalajara in Mexico and Universidad Iberoamericano in the Mexico City; the University of Southern Denmark in Odense and the University of Stirling in Scotland, Università degli Studi di Roma "Foro Italico", Polytechnic of Viseu, University of Florence, Universität Leipzig, Dalarna University. He hosted also professors giving lectures on philosophy and sociology of sport (some of them several times), such as: Gyongyi Foldesi from Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) 6 times; Bohuslav Hodan -2 times, and Ivo Jirásek from Univerzita Palackého (Olomouc, Czech Republic) 5 times, Ejgil Jespersen from Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (Oslo, Norway) - 3 times, Otmar Weiss from Institut für Sportwisenschaft der Universität (Wien, Austria) - 3 times, Georg Anders from Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft (Bonn, Germany) - 2 times Kimmo Suomi from University of Jyväskylä (Finland) 2 times, Emanuele Isidori from Universita degli di Roma Foro Italico (Italy) 2 times Arno Műller from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena University (Germany) 2 times, Patrizia Zagnoli from University of Florence (Italy) 2 times, Elena Radicchi from University of Florence (Italy) 2 times, Grant Jarvie from University of Stirling (Stirling, Scotland), Nuria Puig from INEF de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), Sigmund Loland Rector Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (Oslo, Norway), Bart Crum from Free University (Amsterdam, Netherlands), A. Erdem Cigerci from Kastamonu University (Turkey), Mait Arvisto from Tallinn Pedagogical University (Estonia), Dušan Leška from Univerzita Komenského (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Saulius Kavaliauskas from Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education (Kaunas, Lithuania), Roger Melin from Dalarna University w Falun (Sweden), Henning Eichberg from University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark), Ejgil Jespersen from University of Jyväskylä (Finland). Professor Kosiewicz is a member of the following scientific associations: 1. International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport (ISSSS- founder, the President), 2. European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS founder together with Prof. Dr. O. Weiss, past Vice President in the years ), 3. European Association for the Philosophy of Sport (member of the Establishing Committee EAPS, member of the Board since 2008) 4. International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS, since 2002), 5. British Philosophy of Sport Association (BPSA, since 2002 ), 6. International Sport Sociology Association (ISSA, since 1991), 7. International Society of Eastern Sports & Physical Education (ISESPE), 8. International Association for Greek Philosophy (IAGP), 9. European Society for Study on Science and Theology (ESSSAT, since 1994), 10. International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD, since 1981, (member of the Establishing Committee), 11. Polskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne (PTF, Polish Philosophical Association, since 1973), 12. Polskie Towarzystwo Religioznawcze (PTR, Polish Religions Study Association, since 1982), 13. Polskie Towarzystwo Nauk Społecznych o Sporcie (Polish Association for the Social Sciences of Sport fonder end the President since 2009), 14. Polskie Towarzystwo Naukowe kultury Fizycznej (PTNKF, Polish Physical Culture Scientific Association, since 1982). For many years he was also a member of the following scientific associations: European Association for the Management of Sport, International Sport and Culture Association, International Academy of Sport for All, International Academy for Sport Leaders.

6 He has established International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport (ISSSS) and Polish Society for the Social Sciences of Sport (PSSSS). On February 2009 the ISSSS and on November 2009 the PSSSS were placed in the National Judicial Register (District Court for Capital City Warsaw). He is also a regular member of the Zarząd Sekcji Krytyków Teatralnych Związku Artystów Scen Polskich (Vice President in Board of The Section of Drama Critics (since 1998) and the President of the Commission on Distinctions and Awards of The Union of Artists of Polish Stages (since 2008), member of The Programme Section Commissions), its member of many years standing (since 2012). On June 26, 2009 Professor Kosiewicz was granted the Doctor Honoris Causa award by the Senate of Semmelweis University of Budapest (Hungary). 4. Didactic and supervising achievements Professor Kosiewicz gives lectures and holds classes at the Faculty of Physical Education in the fields of history of philosophy, philosophy of man, philosophy of nature and ethics. He conducts master s seminars and earlier he conducted also bachelor s seminars. He has been the supervisor of over 200 master s and bachelor s theses. Professor Kosiewicz conducts classes for doctoral students in the fields of general (empirical and humane) methodology, formal logics and history of philosophy. He has been the supervisor of 5 PhD dissertations by: Dr. Jakub Mosz ( Obraz sportu wyczynowego w polskim filmie dokumentalnym / Image of Top Sport in Polish Documentaries /, 1997); Dr. Wojciech Cynarski, then a professor of Rzeszów University ( Dalekowschodnie sztuki walki w kulturze Zachodu / Far Eastern Martial Arts in Western Culture /, 1998); Dr. Konrad Zieliński ( Koncepcje człowieka w polskiej teorii wychowania fizycznego / Conceptions of the Human Being in Polish Theory of Physical Education /, 2000); Dr. Jarosław Kudelski ( Źródła i przemiany ideologii i filozofii olimpizmu / Sources and Transformations of the Ideology and Philosophy of Olympism /, 2003; Dr. Joanna Femiak ( Koncepcja ciała w naukach o kulturze fizycznej / Conception of the Body in Physical Culture Sciences /, 2005). Currently he is supervising four other PhD dissertations. Professor Kosiewicz has supervised also two habilitation dissertations in the Department of Philosophy which was directed by him. It refers to a professor of the University of Physical Education and its rector in the current term Prof. A. Przyłuska-Fiszer and Habilitated Dr. Henryk Benisz. Prof. A. Przyłuska-Fiszer underwent habilitation procedures on the basis of a monograph entitled Etyczne aspekty sporu o przrywanie ciąży ( Ethical Aspect of the Dispute over? Abortion (Warszawa, Wydawnictwo AWF, 1997) in the Institute of Philosophy of Warsaw University in 1998, and Prof. Benisz on the basis of a dissertation Nietzsche i filozofia dionizyjska ( Nietzsche and Dionysian Philosophy ) (Warszawa, Wydawnictwo AWF 2001) in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in Professor Kosiewicz took part, as a member of a Dean s Committee and simultaneously as a reviewer, in procedures connected with Prof. Dr. Anna Hogenova s professorship initiated at Univerziteta Palackého in Olomouc and positively finished in At the beginning of 2009 Prof. Kosiewicz has became a member of the next Dean s Committee connected with Docent Dr. Ivo Jirásek s procedure of professorship initiated at Univerziteta Palackého in Olomouc. He also took part, in a similar way, in 3 others professorship procedures related to Doc. Dr. Ales Sekot in Masaryk Uniwersity in Brno, Doc. Dr. Ludmila Fialova in Carol University in Prague and Prof. Dr. Jarmo Liukkonen in University of Jyvaskyla. Moreover, he took part in 4 others habilitation procedures, which were also positively finished. The first concerned Docent Dr. Ivo Jirásek; it was also initiated at Univerziteta

7 Palackého in Olomouc and completed in The second was initiated and finished at the University in Prešov in 2007 and it concerned Dr. Stanisław Cieszkowski. Third was connected with Dr Zbigniew Barabasz (2011); fourth was related to Dr. Emilian Zadarko, who initiated and finalized it in University Mateja Bela in Banska Bistrica (2013). Professor Kosiewicz reviewed also 4 PhD dissertations at Semmelweis University in Budapest. It was a dissertation by Lappas Kleomensis On the Deviant Behavior of Greek Football Spectators (2005), by Antonis Alexopulos Sport in the European Union from a Cypriot Perspective (2007), by Diana Christodoulou Social Status of Qualified Physical Education Teachers in Cyprus (2011). All these dissertations were supervised by Prof. Dr. Gyöngyi Földesi. The last dissertation has been prepared by Hamidrez Mirsafian). It was entitled Constraints in Physical Activity and Sport: A Comparative Study between Hungarian and Iranian Students (2014), and was supervised by Prof. Dr. Gyongy Földesi and Prof. Dr.. Gabor Geczi. He reviewed also 3 PhD theses in the field of social philosophy at Lublin Catholic University. It refers to doctoral dissertations by: MA Piotr Szulich on Adama Rodzińskiego koncepcja personalizmu społecznego ( Adam Rodziński s Conception of Social Personalism ) (2002); MA Tomasz Czernik on Koncepcja człowieka i społeczności w koncepcjach George a Santayany ( Conception of the Human Being and Community in George Santayana s Conceptions ) (2003) and MA Stanisław Srebro on Józefa Tischnera koncepcja życia społecznego ( Józef Tischner s Conception of Social Life ). The supervisor of the abovementioned dissertations was Prof. Dr. Rev. Stanisław Kowalczyk. 5. Scientific interests While speaking on Professor Kosiewicz s scientific interests in a synthesizing way one can proclaim that he carries out researches mainly in the fields philosophical anthropology (concerning sources and transformations of Christian conceptions of the body), philosophy of religion, general methodology and philosophy of physical culture and sport. He has considered also issues connected with cultural and educational aspects of tourism and recreation. He has numerously presented new interpretations of petrified issues and assumptions, controversial in their relation towards earlier viewpoints. It refers to negation of the existence of the philosophy of sport as an independent and mature (in the content-related sense) discipline, to total rejection of the conception of free time in its philosophical (e.g. Aristotelian) and non-philosophical interpretation and replacing it with a conception of time which is occupied in every moment of human life or any other living creature s life. It refers also to challenging of apotheosizing the fair play principle in sport, financial disinterestedness of the International Olympic Committee, Olympic education as allegedly the most important source of educational values and an ideological, as a matter of fact, conception assuming that Olympic sport is something more than sport. In the range of Professor Kosiewicz s interest there have been, among others, axiological problems connected with looking for and researching the source, sense, manifestations and influence of values in physical culture and sport. He has also dealt with issues from the field philosophical anthropology analyzing human being in the light of the dynamic theory of man and interpreting the subject as a being composed of three ontic layers: the relational (social) one, the ideal (mental) one and the material (bodily) one. It created a basis for formulation on the ground of the philosophy of physical culture - a conception of personality and health of ontic and phenomenal status, conceived as beings which appear or

8 not, and if they exist they do it only as ontic facts, mediated through man and society, what means that they can be regarded from the ontological viewpoint. The personality and health understood in such a way are the basis for philosophically interpreted pedagogy of physical culture a field whose aim is education, development and improvement of the human being according to the assumed aims and educational ideals referring to axiology the source and sense of values of physical culture. Reflection on the pedagogy of physical culture has been interpreted in the light of general assumptions of Hessen s philosophy of culture and pedagogy as a part of the philosophy of physical culture; that is, as a philosophy realizing the assumed world of values and changing on that basis ontic layers of the human individual, personality and health, creating and shaping the human being as the subject of culture and civilization. In the range of Professor Kosiewicz s interest there have been also methodological issues; that is, analysis of logical structure of optimizing propositions of the pedagogy of physical culture on the basis of the theory of physical education and other subdisciplines belonging to that pedagogy (health education, education through sport, pedagogy in the praxeological interpretation, training theory and theory of sports contest). As a result of the abovementioned researches he has come to a conclusion that the pedagogy of physical culture (as well as its sub-disciplines) is a typical practical discipline where there are constructed aims, complexes of values, educational ideals, ideals of personality and health of teleological and optimizing character, and where there are defined ways of their realization, fields and variants of practical activities. The discussed conceptions have been enriched by him with extensive considerations from the field of general methodology, philosophy of science and science studies presented in the papers On Methodology and Hypothesis and Methodology as a Form of Agnosticism, and in Verification and Hypothesis. Professor Kosiewicz is of an opinion that foundations of anthropological assumptions of physical culture and sport are constituted by conceptions of man taking into account the physical that is, bodily basis of the human subject. It results, among others, form the fact that physical culture is understood also as somatic culture that is, bodily culture (nota bene Professor Kosiewicz is against using the terms somatic culture and bodily culture ). Because of that reason, considerations on human corporeality are treated as fundamental researches form the viewpoint of physical education constituting the genetic basis of physical culture and of the connected disciplines. Professor Kosiewicz focuses attention also on problems of the body in Christian anthropology considered from the historical perspective from Orphism to modernity. It refers, first of all, to three books Bóg, cielesność i przemoc / God, Coporeality and Violence / (1997), Myśl wczesnochrześcijańska i katolicka wobec ciała / Attitude of Early Christian and Catholic Thought towards the Body / (1998) and Bóg, cielesność i miłość / God, Corporeality and Love / (1998) which have been reedited several times as well as to The Human Being and His Body in Church s Teaching and in Early Christian Philosophy Issues and Problems. A Monograph (1991), which characterizes over three thousand years of religious thought, theology and philosophy of European cultures. He turned attention there to Judaist and Hellenic roots of Christian anthropology, to the early Christian basis of development of Catholic conceptions of man and to its differentiated attitude to the human body. He presented also an analysis of a contemporary form of Catholic anthropology pointing out to significant Biblical influences - as well as religious influences of Greek and Roman antiquity - and their consequences. He discussed also attitudes of Russian Orthodox Christianity and Protestantism towards the human body and its needs. Considerations on ancient roots and various shapes of Christian anthropology and especially on conceptions of

9 the human body are especially useful when we try to explain the Christian Church s negative attitude towards corporeality, physical culture, physical education, sport, tourism and recreation, which has lasted for almost two thousand years. It refers to the early Christian Patristic Period, the Middle Ages, modern and contemporary times. That explanation can be also useful for explaining reasons of re-evaluation of that attitude in Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and Protestantism in the 20 th century, as well as a far-going affirmation of the body and its needs connected with various forms of physical culture. The pointed out researches in the field of philosophy of religion and Christian anthropology have been commented on in an encyclopaedia of Polish Scientific Publishers PWN entitled Religion (the entry Kosiewicz, Warszawa, vol. 6, 2003, p. 55). Another, strictly philosophical sphere of Prof. J. Kosiewicz s considerations is connected with ancient Greek philosophy and its influence on Western thought and culture. He, among others, turns his attention to the origins and transformations of that philosophy, and to its etymological, ontological, epistemological and anthropological foundations and determinants. Hence he deals with issues concerning religious and cognitive determinants of Pythagoreanism; refers to relations between Socrates agnosticism and contemporary epistemological scepticism and to problems connected with corporeality, sex and erotic love in the context of Plato s philosophy of culture saturated with madness and striving for immortality. He penetrates ancient interpretations of time in general and their influence on Cartesian, Kantian and Heideggerian theories of being and time. He refers also to relations taking place between Pythagorean and post-pythagorean philosophy of cosmos, on the one hand, and Copernican astronomy and its Kantian and Nietzschean reception, on the other. A manifestation of that activity is not only a membership in the International Association of Greek Philosophy and participation in its annual seminars and conferences but also many English-language publications under auspices of that institution and books dedicated to the abovementioned issues to be published in Polish and English. Professor Kosiewicz is also a drama critic and a reviewer although less active than some time ago. He has published over 40 papers connected with theatre and some concerning the theory of film. In recent years beginning from 2003 Professor Kosiewicz has been directing international team researches in the field of sport social sciences, which initially were participated by representatives of 8 states (Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Russia and Poland) and then of 13 states. The previous ones were joined by partners from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia and Greece. The abovementioned researches concerned: 1. Values and cultural patterns in sport (complementary-comparative research); and 2. Social and cultural values of sport. The latter were to be carried out from 2006 till They have been carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and University Education (and its earlier equivalents), the University of Physical Education in Warsaw and the European Association for the Sociology of Sport. Recently patronage for the abovementioned research activity have started to be provided by the International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport and the Polish Association of Sport Social Sciences, which have replaced the EASS. All the abovementioned books in Polish and English which have been published since 2003 were connected with the discussed researches. They include papers concerning first of all philosophy and sociology of sport, physical culture organizations as well as psychology and pedagogy of sport. In 2004 Professor Kosiewicz took part in two autonomies grant s researches under the umbrella of European Commission s. It was realized by European Academy for Sports Leaders (under the patronage of International Society for Sport and Culture); b) European Academy of Sport for All (under the patronage of ISCA).

10 Academic distinctions Professor Jerzy Kosiewicz has been awarded 5 times for scientific achievements: with the Individual Prize of the 1 st Degree three times: - with the Prize of the Minister of Physical Culture and Tourism in 1993; - with the Prize of the Minister of Sport in 2005; - with the Prize of the Minister of Science and Academic Education in 2007; and - with the Individual Prize of the 2 nd Degree: with the Prize of the Minister of Science and Academic Education in He received also the 3 rd Degree Prize of the Minister of Health and Welfare System in Moreover, he has received many times the 1 st Degree, the 2 nd Degree and the 3 rd Degree Prizes of the Rector of the University of Physical Education in Warsaw.