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The Faculty of Philosophy has a long history starting from 1661. It was then that Jesuits' collegium was transformed into a University with two departments: Theology and Philosophy. 

At that period there were about 200 students studying at the Faculty. The curriculum followed the ones of the Jesuits' schools of the 16th century, and considerable changes were made only in the 18th century. Aristotle's system, including Logic, Physics and Metaphysics provided the basis of the curriculum. Besides these, History, Geography, Greek and Latin were taught. The studies lasted for 3 years and after graduation students could continue studying at the Faculty of Theology. 

In the middle of the 18th century the Department of Mathematics was opened at the Faculty. Polish, French, German, Geography and History started to be taught as separate subjects. 
After abolishing the Jesuits' Order in 1773 the University was closed down. It was reopened in 1784 by the decree of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II. It consisted of the Faculties of Law, Medicine and Theology and the Faculty of Philosophy. Here philosophy played the role of preparatory courses to three other "higher" faculties. During their first year students studied Logic, "pure" Mathematics, General and Natural History and Diplomacy; during the second year - Physics, Applied Mathematics and continued General History; during the third year - Metaphysics, Natural Theology and Ethics, General History, Numismatics, Aesthetics, Practical Mathematics, Geometry and Technology. 

The first Dean  of the Faculty of Philosophy of the reopened University became Ignacy Juzech Martynowicz (1755-1795), the author of a two volume textbook on experimental Physics. Among the professors of Philosophical subjects the following should be mentioned: Petro Lodiy (1764-1829), a follower of the Cant Philosophy and the author of textbooks "Metaphysics" and "Logical Instructions", Ignac Jan Hanusch (1812-1869), professor of classical philology and aesthetics Victor Vaclav Hann. During the 19th century there were 80 to 189 students at the Faculty of Philosophy each year. Such prominent figures of Ukrainian culture and Politics as Ya.Holovatskiy, I.Franko, M.Pavlyk, O.Terletskiy, V.Navrotskiy were among them. In 1924 the Faculty of philosophy was divided into the Faculty of Humanities and Scientific-Natural. The first half of the 20th century at the Faculty of Philosophy of Lviv University was connected with the names of the pupil of Brentano, representative of analytical philosophy Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), a pupil and critic of Edmund Husserl phenomenologist Roman 
 Ingarden(1893-1970). 
After World War II the Faculty of Philosophy was closed down, instead only one Department of Philosophy was opened. In recent years it was headed by professors A.S.Brahinets, B.T.Kublanov, T.Ya.Starchenko, A.I.Pashuk. The teachers and professors of the department carried on research in the branches of History of Philosophy, Methodology and Logic of Scientific Cognition. 
In 1992 the Faculty of Philosophy was reopened. It comprises the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, History and Theory of Culture, Political Sciences. A Department of the History of Philosophy was created. The first Dean of the renewed Faculty was Professor Andriy Pashuk. Now there 54 teachers and professors working at the Faculty, about 300 undergraduate and postgraduate students study here. Certain courses are delivered by guest lecturers, invited from Canada, the United States of America, Germany, Austria, Poland. 
 

 Appointmemt / Structure

Name

Telephone

 Е-mail

Dean of Faculty

Volodymyr Mel'nyk

Dean's Office

Vice-Deans

or teaching and   
methodological work

Ihor Zakhara

for extra-curriculum work

L'ubov Staretska

for scientific work

Vasyl' Lysyy

Faculty Council

Head

Volodymyr Mel'nyk

Vice-Head

Vasyl' Lysyy

Scientific Secretary

Olha Sin'kevych

Specializing Scientific Counsil for the Doctoral Dissertations

Head

Volodymyr Mel'nyk

Vice-Head

Vasyl' Lysyy

Scientific Secretary

Valeriy Denysenko

Departments

History of Philosophy

Andriy Pashuk

Philosophy

Anatoliy Karas'

Political Science

Mykola Polishchuk

Psychology

Tatiana Partyko

History and Theory of Culture

Ol'ha Si'kevych

Subdsvisions

Center for Political Studies

Anatoliy Romaniuk

74-43-39

cpdfd@franko.lviv.ua

Methodical Cabinet of Philosophy

Methodical Cabinet of Philosophy