The article demonstrates the conflict between university and post-truth, namely the inability of university to fight post-truth due to the underestimation of objective truth in society. The facts that university is losing the opportunity to develop students’ critical thinking as a result of the deprivation of its independence in obtaining objective truth are given as arguments. The attention is focused on the historical context of this conflict. In conclusion, the need for university to defend its independence due to the terrible (...) consequences of post-truth for society is proved. (shrink)

This article aims at identifying the relevance of character research, conducted by Stepan Baley, a representative of the Ukrainian branch of the Lviv-Warsaw School. To achieve this, the author first analyzes the key points of Baley’s characterology, and then demonstrates its potential from the perspective of Twardowski’s philosophical tradition and within the ethical debate on the empirical approach to character. The author concludes that it is impossible, according to Baley, to obtain accurate and complete knowledge of character, as well as (...) it is impossible to educate a person in a certain way. (shrink)

A review of the conference «Educational Contexts of Constructivism», which was organized by the Department of General Didactics at the Institute of Pedagogy of the Szczecin University (Republic of Poland) on March 16-17, 2017, is presented. The attention is drawn to the interdisciplinary nature of the conference work and its focus on the consideration of the strict didactic issues associated with the multidimensionality of constructivism. The discussion of the participants confirms the urgency of changes in education, which, however, should be (...) taken into account in opposition to the constructivism of thought. (shrink)