Professor Anita Pacholik

Associate Professor Anita Pacholik
Associate Professor

Research Areas

The continuous focus of my research is the problem of self-knowledge understood as privileged access to one’s own mental states in the context of embodied cognition. A central question here is whether we can be mistaken about ourselves, and if so, whether first-person authority should be rejected. I have extended my research to include the role of metacognition in education as part of a project conducted in Berlin on personalized learning. I also continuously conduct research on mental representations in models of the mind.


Key Publications

  1. Pacholik-Żuromska, A. (2024). Nonmonotonic logic in mind modelling. In J. Bremer (Ed.), Social Dictionaries. Cognitive Science (pp. 265–280). Ignatianum University Press.
  2. Pacholik-Żuromska, A. (2021). Self-regulation in the time of lockdown. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 15, 567920. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2021.567920
  3. Pacholik-Żuromska, A. (2016). Intentionality – understanding – self-knowledge. The philosophical problem of cognition in the light of cognitive sciences . Nicolaus Copernicus University Press.

Full list of publications: ORCID

Projects and Grants

  • Research grant from the Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University at the Polish Historical Mission at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (2020)
  • Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Excellent Young Scientists, Grant no. 771/E-337/STYP/7/2012 (2012–2015)
  • Research grant: The problem of self-knowledge in the field of RHI, BSI, and FBI experiments (original title: Problem samowiedzy na gruncie eksperymentów RHI, BSI, FBI), funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW), Grant no. 1458-H (2013)
  • Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (2018)

Academic Activities

  • Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University (2019–2021)
  • Pro-Dean for Students, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University (2016–2019)
  • Associate Director for Organization, Institute of Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University (2015–2017)
  • Associate Director for Didactics, Institute of Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University (2011–2014)
  • President of the Polish Society for Cognitive Science (2020–2024).
  • Vice President of the Polish Society for Cognitive Science (2014–2020).
  • Member of the Polish Society for Cognitive Science (since 2012).
  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief and member of the Scientific Council of Cognitive Science and Media in Education (2017–2019).
  • Member of the Council for the Centre of Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility (2017–2021).
  • Member of the Mind Group, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (since 2004).
  • Bednarowski’s Trust Scholarship, University of Aberdeen (2022)
  • Erasmus STT (Staff Mobility for Training), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015–2017)
  • Erasmus STA (Teaching Assignments), University of Rostock, Germany (2011, 2013)
  • DAAD Scholarship, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2006–2007)
  • GFPS Scholarship, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (2004–2005)
  • SOCRATES / ERASMUS Scholarship, University of Konstanz, Germany (2002–2003)

Contact

Email: apz[@]umk.pl
Office: Room 210, Institute of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina 39, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Personal webpage: https://anitapacholik.org