Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy is one of the five Departments within the Faculty of Humanities. Students might apply for the BA programme Philosophy and MA programme Practical Philosophy. Lecturers of the Department work with contemporary philosophy: contemporary ethics and esthetics, social and political philosophy, political anthropology, fenomenology, biopolitics, ecosofics, time and memory theories, and philosophy of feminism.

BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMME

  • History: Philosophy and History of Ideas (taught in Lithuanian)

MASTER DEGREE PROGRAMME

  • Practical Philosophy (taught in Lithuanian)

Dr. Mantas Antanas Davidavičius

Head of the Department

Research interests: eco-philosophy, theories of biopolitics
CRIS
mantas.davidavicius@vdu.lt

Prof. dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė

Research interests: contemporary philosophy, philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, biopolitics, biophilosophy, posthumanism
audrone.zukauskaite@vdu.lt

 

Prof. dr. Dalius Jonkus

Research interests: phenomenology, Lithuanian philosophical history, philosophy of culture
CRIS
dalius.jonkus@vdu.lt

Prof. dr. Gintautas Mažeikis

Research interests: contemporary social and political philosophy, critical theory, philosophy of the Renaissance era
CRIS
gintautas.mazeikis@vdu.lt

Prof. dr. Jay Daniel Mininger

Research interests: contemporary esthetics, psychoanalysis as philosophy, contemporary political philosophy
CRIS
jay.mininger@vdu.lt

Prof. dr. Tatjana Aleknienė

Research interests: philosophy of antiquity, dialogues of Plato and tradition of Platonism, earlier Greek Christians writing
CRIS
tatjana.alekniene@vdu.lt

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomas Kavaliauskas

Research interests: political philosophy, philosophy and human rights, European identity and regional studies, dissidents and social critics, business ethics, art philosophy, creative fiction writing
CRIS
tomas.kavaliauskas@vdu.lt

Assoc. prof. Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas

Research interests: contemporary ethics, Philosophy of 19th-20th century
CRIS
viktoras.bachmetjevas@vdu.lt

Dr. Bronė Gudaitytė

Research interests: philosophy of religion, Medieval philosophy, Eastern philosophy
CRIS
brone.gudaityte@vdu.lt 

Dr. Jurga Jonutytė

Research interests: philosophical narratology, memory and time theories, ecosophy, philosophy of disability
CRIS
jurga.jonutyte@vdu.lt

Dr. Adas Diržys

Research interests: Ontology, epistemology, contemporary realisms, esotericism studies, weird studies
CRIS
adas.dirzys@stud.vdu.lt

Dr. Kęstutis Mosakas

Research interests: applied ethics; philosophy of technology; bioethics; theoretical ethics
CRIS
kestutis.mosakas@vdu.lt

Audrė Gruodytė

PhD topic: Monstrosity: flesh and fantasy or the line between sexuality and violence
Supervisor: dr. Jurga Jonutytė 
audre.gruodyte@vdu.lt

 

Augustas Pinkevičius

PhD topic: The Problem of Epistemic Opacity in Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Explainability as a Normative Concept
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas
CRIS
augustas.pinkevicius@vdu.lt