Michal Oleksowicz is a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Institute of Philosophy, Department of Logic) at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. From 2022–2025 he has been a board member of the Polish Association for Logic and Philosophy of Science. From 2022–2024, he was the principal investigator of the research project New Mechanicism and theology (2021/41/N/HS1/01338), funded by the National Science Centre in Poland. Currently, he is the principal investigator (2024–2027) of the project Philosophical-logical foundations of mechanistic causation (2024/52/C/HS1/00179), funded by the National Science Centre in Poland. The editor of the volume Hypotheses in Science, part of the book series Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 536). His main research interests are: philosophical logic, philosophical aspects of causation and causal explanations, especially mechanistic explanation and its application to various explanatory contexts.