Philosophy Festival, a project of two incurable enthusiasts (Bogdan Banasiak, Eugeniusz Obarski), embodies the idea of organizing noninstitutionalized philosophical meetings and conferences, to which the Festival organizers have invited academic teachers from more than 20 Polish universities and academic centers. Cooperation was also declared by philosophy magazines: “Hybris” (Łódź), “Nowa Krytyka” (Szczecin), “[fo:pa]” (Szczecin), “Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki” (Warszawa), "Rita Baum" (Wrocław) and "Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo" (Olsztyn).

The institutional patronage of the Philosophy Festival is provided by the foundation "Kocham moje miasto" ("I love my city"). From 2010 edition the Philosophy Festival will be held in collaboration with Warmińsko-Mazurski University in Olsztyn and the Bialystok School of Public Administration. Cooperation - Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Krakow.

The organizers intend to create tradition of regular annual (organized in mid-September) meetings of Polish and foreign scholars involved with philosophy, philosophy students and everybody who is interested in humanities but not involved professionally with the field of philosophy.

The aim of the Festival is to create a discussion forum for philosophy and corresponding sciences. Achieving the aim includes:

• organizing lectures, seminars, workshops, etc. (a new theme will be chosen for each consecutive edition of the Festival);
• publishing of conference papers, translations, commentaries and research projects carried out within the framework of the Festival.

Interested participants can take part in all festival events, except for the organizational meetings (by invitation only).

The zero edition of Philosophy Festival titled "Around Nietzsche" was held September 11-16, 2007 in Lewin Kłodzki.

The first edition of Philosophy Festival titled "Utopia - yesterday and today" was held September 8-13, 2008 in Międzygórze.

The second edition of Philosophy Festival titled Philosophy: view, thought or critic? was held September 7-12, 2009 in Centrum Nauk Humanistycznych of Warmińsko-Mazurski University in Olsztyn (Kortowo). poster

The third edition of Philosophy Festival titled Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault will be held September 6-11, 2010 in Olsztyn (Kortowo) in collaboration with Warmińsko-Mazurski University and the Bialystok School of Public Administration. poster

The themes of next conferences are the following:

– FPh 4 – 2011: Democracy, tolerance, enlightenment, will be held in Bialystok September 12-17.

– FPh 5 – 2012: Pessimism, scepticism, nihilism, decadence – the culture of exhaustion?

– FPh 6 – 2013: The „death of God”: the origins and the present day

The Festival plans and events are supervised by Festival Committee including representatives from different academic centers and universities:

Prof. Henryk Benisz (Uniwersytet Opolski)
Prof. Adam Chmielewski (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
prof. Ignacy S. Fiut (AGH w Krakowie)
Prof. Beata Frydryczak (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski)
Prof. Jan Hartman (Uniwersytet Jagielloński)
Prof. Krzysztof Jarosz (Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach)
Prof. Jerzy Kochan (Uniwersytet Szczeciński)
Prof. Jerzy Kopania (Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Rektor WSAP w Białymstoku)
Prof. Małgorzata Kowalska (Uniwersytet w Białymstoku)
Prof. Wojciech Kunicki (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
Prof. Jan Kurowicki (Kolegium Karkonoskie w Jeleniej Górze)
Prof. Krzysztof Matuszewski (Uniwersytet Łódzki, ASP w Łodzi)
Prof. Jacek Migasiński (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
Prof. Jadwiga Mizińska (UMCS w Lublinie)
Prof. Aleksandra Pawliszyn (Uniwersytet Gdański)
Prof. Paweł Pieniążek (Uniwersytet Łódzki)
Prof. Ryszard Różanowski (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
Prof. Beata Sierocka (Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa we Wrocławiu)
Prof. Ewa Starzyńska-Kościuszko (UWM w Olsztynie)
Prof. Tadeusz Sławek (Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach)
Prof. Andrzej Szahaj (UMK w Toruniu)
Prof. Stefan Symotiuk (UMCS w Lublinie)
Prof. Lech Witkowski (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, UKW w Bydgoszczy, IBE w Warszawie)
Prof. Cezary Wodziński (Polska Akademia Nauk, Uniwersytet Jagielloński)
Prof. Andrzej L. Zachariasz (Uniwersytet Rzeszowski)
Prof. Aleksandra Żukrowska (Rektor Collegium Balticum w Szczecinie)
PhD Jarosław Barański (Akademia Medyczna we Wrocławiu)
PhD Agata Janaszczyk (Akademia Medyczna w Gdańsku)

All current organizational work is done by Management Board, including:
Prof. Bogdan Banasiak (UŁ) - Director of the Festival - ,
PhD Andrzej Kucner (UWM) - ,
PhD Tomasz Sieczkowski (UŁ) - ,
mgr Kajetan M. Jaksender (UJ) - ,
PhD Piotr Wasyluk (UWM) - secretary - .