ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

Leszek Kuźnicki, Andrzej Grzegorczyk, Eugeniusz Kabatc, Jan Kaczmarek, Stefan Kozłowski, Wacław Sadkowski, Marek J. Siemek, Andrzej Targowski, Karol Bal, Zdzisław Cackowski, Zdzisław Czarnecki, Józef M. Dołęga, Zbigniew Gertych, Andrzej Góralski, Franciszek Grucza, Leon Gumański, Jerzy Kmita, Adam Koseski, Stanisław Kowalczyk, Stefan Kozak, Andrzej K. Koźmiński, Zbigniew Krawczyk, Zbigniew Kuderowicz, Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec, Stanisław Krajewski,  Józef Lipiec, Marek G. Niemiałtowski, Józef Niżnik, Marian Przełęcki, Marek Rocki, Zdzisław Sadowski, Adam Schaff, Adam Sikora, Elżbieta Smułkowa, Władysław Stróżewski, Karol Toeplitz, Tadeusz Tołłoczko, Adam Urbanek, Lech W. Zacher.

EDITOR

Janusz Kuczyński

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Małgorzata Czarnocka (Deputy Editor), Eugeniusz Górski, Jerzy Z. Hubert, Róża Jakubowska,

 Józef L. Krakowiak (Deputy Editor), Małgorzata Wójcik (Secretary), Andrzej Miś,
Sebastian Rejak, Wacław Sadkowski (Deputy Editor), Zbigniew Wendland

We are particularly grateful to Professor Dr. Franciszek Lyra of Warsaw University
—for the most competent linguistic and literary consultations

CO-EDITORS

Piotr Bołtuć (University of Illinois), Teresa Kwiatkowska (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana — Iztapalapa, México), Henryk Skolimowski, Jerzy J. Smolicz (Adelaide University), Wieńczysław J. Wagner

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITOR

Marek Gołębiowski, Andrzej Kopczyński, Yehudi Webster

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·     Venant Cauchy (Canada) — philosopher, Honorary President of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie

·     René Coste, P.S.S. (France) — theologian, Honorary Professor of the Catholic University of Toulouse; former consultant of the Pontifical Council for the Dialogue with Non-believers

·     Adam M. Dziewonski (USA) — seismologist, Harvard University; Crafoord Prize winner 1998

·     Jüri Engelbrecht (Estonia) — cyberneticist, President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

·     Leo Esaki (Japan) — physicist, Chairman of the Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki; Nobel Laureate 1973

·     Vilém Herold (Czech Republic) — philosopher, member of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

·     Steven V. Hicks (USA) — philosopher, former President of the ISUD, Chair of Philosophy, Queens College, City University of New York

·     Wacław Hryniewicz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, theologian, ecumenist, propagator of soteriological universalism

·     Benediktas Juodka (Lithuania) — biochemist, former President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

·     Yersu Kim (Korea) — philosopher, former  Head of the Division of Philosophy and Ethics, UNESCO

·     Janusz Kuczyński (Poland) — philosopher, founder and Honorary President of the International Society for Universalism (ISU), now ISUD

·     Ervin Laszlo (Hungary) — philosopher, President of the Budapest Club; Rector of the Vienna Academy of the Study of the Future; Science advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO

·     Edward B. Lewis (USA) — biologist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Nobel Laureate 1995

·     Stefan Luby (Slovakia) — physicist,  President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

·     Evanghelos Moutsopoulos (Greece) — philosopher, former Rector of the University of Athens

·     John Rensenbrink (USA) — philosopher, President of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, Bowdoin College

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·     Janis Stradins (Latvia) — chemist, President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences

·     Józef Szajna (Poland) — theatre director, writer, painter, set designer; Polish SEC Honorary President, Auschwitz prisoner no. 18729

·     Andrzej Wajda (Poland) — film and theatre director, honorary Oscar laureate (2000) for lifetime achievement

·     Igor Yukhnovski (Ukraine) — physicist, Head of the Western Centre of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

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