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)
Assoc. prof. Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas
Head of the Department
Research interests: contemporary ethics, Philosophy of 19th-20th century
CRIS
viktoras.bachmetjevas@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. Jurga Jonutytė
Research interests: philosophical narratology, memory and time theories, ecosophy, philosophy of disability
CRIS
jurga.jonutyte@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
Dr. Adas Diržys
Research interests: Ontology, epistemology, contemporary realisms, esotericism studies, weird studies
CRIS
adas.dirzys@stud.vdu.lt
Dr. Bronė Gudaitytė
Research interests: philosophy of religion, Medieval philosophy, Eastern philosophy
CRIS
brone.gudaityte@vdu.lt
Dr. Kęstutis Mosakas
Research interests: applied ethics; philosophy of technology; bioethics; theoretical ethics
CRIS
kestutis.mosakas@vdu.lt
Dr. Mantas Antanas Davidavičius
Research interests: eco-philosophy, theories of biopolitics
CRIS
mantas.davidavicius@vdu.lt
Agnė Gintautaitė
PhD topic: Mourning as an Ontological Change
Supervisor: Assoc. prof. dr. Jurga Jonutytė
agne.gintautaite@stud.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
JOKŪBAS ANDRIJAUSKAS
PhD topic: The problematic of humanity in F. Nietzsche’s philosophy: between postmodern and naturalistic approaches
Supervisor: prof. dr. Gintautas Mažeikis
CRIS
jokubas.andrijauskas@vdu.lt
LINARTAS TUOMAS
PhD topic: Georges Bataille’s philosophy as a paradigm for the theory of libidinal economy
Supervisor: dr. Jurga Jonutytė
CRIS
linartas.tuomas@vdu.lt
Rūta Šileikytė-Zukienė
PhD topic: The influence of Neoplatonic thought on the translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy into Old English
Supervisor: prof. dr. Tatjana Aleknienė
CRIS
ruta.zukiene@stud.vdu.lt
ŽYGIMANTAS MENČENKOVAS
PhD topic: The relationship between city and nature: from confrontation to coexistence
Supervisor: prof. dr. Dalius Jonkus
CRIS
zygimantas.mencenkovas@vdu.lt
