Ruta Marija Vabalaitė

Ruta Marija Vabalaitė

PhD in Philosophy (Vilnius University)

Academic positions

Head of the Department of History of Lithuanian philosophy of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Professor at Mykolas Romeris University

A member of Lithuanian Philosophical Association, International Association for Aesthetics and The Society for German Idealism and Romanticism

 

Email: marijavabalaite@mruni.eu

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-4772

Scopus ID: 50162920400

Web of Science Researcher ID AAC-3041-2021

Google Scholar ID: mN2YD80AAAAJ

h-index: 3 (Scopus), 2 (Web of Science Core Collection), 4 (Google Scholar)

 

Research interests: philosophy of art, modern and contemporary philosophies, history of Lithuanian philosophy.

Main academic projects

In 2012 – 2018 was the Bachelor of Philosophy study program director at this university.

As an Erasmus professor lectured at Maynooth (Ireland, 2013) and Ioannina (Greece, 2022) Universities.

She took part at the research projects funded by EU (ESIFs) and Research Council of Lithuania, did the scientific internships at Warsaw University (2015) at the Institutes of Philosophy of National Academies of Science of Ukraine (2017) and Belarus (2019) and Lithuanian Research Center in Chicago, USA (2023).

 

Main publications

Published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed editions, made over 50 contributions at national and international conferences.

 

Recent relevant articles in Scopus, Web of Science Index journals

  1. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2025). Philosophical Reflection on the Autonomy of Art. Classical Conceptions. Logos Lithuania, 122, pp. 120–128. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2025.13
  2. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2025). Concepts of Artistic Autonomy in Post-Kantian Philosophy. Logos Lithuania, 123, pp. 141–149. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2025.38
  3. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2025). The spread of Teilhard de Chardin's ideas in the Lithuanian diaspora. Religiski Filozofiski, 35, pp. 70–87.
  4. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2023). The first józef Gołuchowski’s tractates in the Context of Western Philosophy. Logos Lithuania, 115, pp. 17–24. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2023.25
  5. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2022). Concepts of Physical Culture of Philosophers of the Third Decade of Independent Lithuania. Logos Lithuania, 111, pp. 100–106. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2022.32
  6. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2022). The Meaning of Ideas in the Tractates of Józef Gołuchowski. Logos Lithuania, 112, pp. 36–41. https://doi.org/10.24101/LOGOS.2022.46
  7. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2021). The concept of the purpose of philosophy in the tractates of józef goluchowski. Logos Lithuania, (106), pp. 21–25. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2021.03
  8. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2021). Between locality and globality: The problems of the history of philosophy in Lithuania. Sententiae, 40(2), pp. 46–54. https://doi.org/10.31649/sent40.02.046

Recent education-related monographs and chapters in monograph

  1. Vabalaitė, R. M. Labanauskas, R., & Aleksandravičius, P. (2024). Teilhard'o de Chardino idėjos ir diskusijos apie jas išeivijoje ir Lietuvoje : monografija = Teilhard de Chardin’s ideas and discussions on them within both Lithuania and the Diaspora. Vilnius: Mykolo Romerio universitetas. 172 p. ISBN 9786094880872. eISBN 9786094880865.<https://cris.mruni.eu/cris/handle/007/48768>

    Vabalaitė, R. M. (2018). Early Heidegger‘s concept of identity. In Identity and globalization : ethical implications / ed. by D. M. Stanciene, I. Darginaviciene, & S. Robbins. (Pp. 59-67). Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. ISBN 9781565183261. (Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change. Series IVA, Eastern and Central European Philosophical Studies. Lithuanian Philosophical Studies, VIII ; vol. 57).

    Aleksandravičius, P., Astra, L., Grigas, R., Jakimenko, V., Kuzmickas, B. J., Mickunas, A., Morkūnienė, J., & Vabalaitė, R. M. (2015). Lietuvos visuomenės mąstymo kaita Europiniame akiratyje : mokslo studija. Vilnius: Mykolo Romerio universitetas. 252 p. ISBN 9789955197294. <https://repository.mruni.eu/handle/007/16807>.

     

    Other recent articles about education

    Vabalaitė, R. M. et al. (2020). A forgotten philosopher Juozapas Čepėnas: ethic insights. Filosofija, sociologija, 31(1), 61-69. https://doi.org/10.6001/fil-soc.v31i1.4179. (Scopus; Web of Science)
  2. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2020). The Relationship of Vydunas' Ideas to Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy. Logos, 103, 81-88. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2020.29. (Scopus; Web of Science)
  3. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2019). The Search for True Selfhood in Karl Jaspers’s Philosophy. Logos, 100, 68-75. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2019.51. (Scopus; Web of Science)
  4. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2018). Anioł Dowgird’s Philosophy of Beauty and Art. Logos, 96, 28-35. (Web of Science)

  5. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2018). Anioł Dowgird’s Philosophy of Beauty and Art. Logos, 96, 28-35. (Web of Science)

  6. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2017). Activity and passivity in the creation of art: Heidegger and later philosophers. Filosofija. Sociologija, 28(1), 3-10. (Scopus; Web of Science)
  7. Vabalaitė, R. M. (2014). Questions about the art itself in the modern artworks = Klausimai apie patį meną moderniuose meno kūriniuose. Filosofija. Sociologija, 25(1), 29-34. (Scopus; Web of Science)