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I would like to present the biography and thought of Anna Tenenbaum (born 22nd of December 1900). Anna Tenenbaum was one of the first women students at the Jagiellonian University who were officially allowed to study. Although, as a Jewish women, she was discriminated, she successfully finished her studies and made PhD. in philosophy in 1926 and even started to work at the university. She did a PhD in strict philosophy and the topic of her dissertation was devoted to Descartes – ‘Psychologia zwierzeca u Descartesa...

I would like to present some ideas regarding historical process: its nature and principles. I will start with the idea of eternal return of Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE) and his „Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers” thought. From his conception of cyclical historical process drew Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), who devoted his doctoral dissertation to philosophy of this Ionian thinker. I will discuss extensively Spengler conviction about the collapse of Western civilization which wa...

The problem of orphan works is one of the main issues in modern copyright law (or we should say droit d'auteur because law of Continental Europe is much more concentrated on an author and his/her rights than on the problem of copying). Works labeled as orphan cannot be popularized because they are protected by law for seventy years from the moment of an author's death. The problem is that we do not know who the author is or what happened to him/her, if s/he is alive or not or who the heir apparents are and we cann...