Mgr Aleksandra Horowska visited Princeton University
Mgr Aleksandra Horowska, a doctoral student and a graduate in the field of philosophy at the University of Wrocław, presented a paper titled Do Animals Have Any Rights? The Leibnizian Perspective, opening the Leibniz Society of North America international annual conference, held October 21-23, 2022 at Princeton University. She was there at the invitation of the co-organisers of the XVI edition of the conference – prof. Daniel Garber of Princeton University and prof. Brandon Look of the University of Kentucky.
An honour for the young researcher from the University of Wrocław was a commentary on her speech presented by prof. Ursula Goldenbaum of Emory University, a well-known German historian specialising in the legacy of the political philosophy of Benedict Spinoza and G.W. Leibniz. The event brought together scholars from 16 universities, mainly from the US, but also from Europe (University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Paderborn University, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Wrocław) and Israel (Ben Gurion University of the Negev). The doctoral student’s stay in the US was funded by the Young Researcher 2022-2025 grant under the IDUB project.
Mgr Aleksandra Horowska serves as secretary of the Polish Leibnizian Society – Societas Leibnitiana Polonorum. Since the beginning of her scientific activity, she has been engaged in the practical philosophy of G.W. Leibniz, to which she devoted her bachelor’s degree, master’s degree as well as the currently prepared dissertation The Concept of the Obligatio in G.W. Leibniz’s Philosophy of Law, all supervised by prof. Bogusław Paź of the UWr. In 2019, the doctoral student qualified from among a large group of researchers from around the world – as the only non-professor – to participate in the X Annual Summer Seminar – Leibniz’s Philosophy of Law. At that time, along with prof. Julia Jorati of The Ohio State University, she was a speaker at the Leibnizian conference held at Emory University. In 2022, a volume of Peter Lang Verlag’s The Labyrinths of Leibniz’ Philosophy was published under her scientific editorship – the foreword to the book was written by prof. Daniel Garber of Princeton University. Mgr Horowska presented a paper on Leibniz’s Theory of Similarity at the IV Leibniz Ibero-American Congress (Mexico, 2021), as well as a lecture on Leibniz’s Philosophy of Law as part of a seminar in modern philosophy at the National Autonomous University of the State of Puebla (October 2022).
Information on the Institute of Philosophy website
Translated by Klaudia Chmura (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
