Marcin Mi?kowski

Marcin Miłkowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1976. After receiving his PhD in philosophy at the University of Warsaw, focused on Daniel Dennett's philosophy of mind as reverse engineering, he became assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) in 2005. In 2013, he became associate professor there. His work focuses on philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and general philosophy of science. Also, he translated several philosophical books into Polish (including Ernst Mach's 'Analysis of Sensations', Dave Chalmers' 'The Conscious Mind' and Dan Dennett's 'Sweet Dreams').

In 2014, he won two awards for his book, 'Explaining the Computational Mind': Tadeusz Kotarbiński prize for the best philosophical monograph from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the prestigious National Science Centre Prize in humanities, arts, and social sciences for young scholars. He is also a winner of Herbert A. Simon Award from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy for his contribution in foundations of computational neuroscience, awarded in 2016.

At the same time, Marcin enjoys being a hacker and actively participates in several natural language processing projects, the most important of which is LanguageTool: the open source proof-reading tool. LanguageTool supports a couple of dozen languages already. To make LanguageTool better, he authored the biggest (at the time) open source Polish morphosyntactic dictionary Morfologik, which is now part of an even bigger project, PoliMorf. He also led, with Dariusz Jemielniak, a team of linguists who worked on the great English-Polish dictionary for ling.pl, available for Kindle.