Adam J. Chmielewski was born on January 6, 1959, in Łaszczów, Poland. In 1974-1979 he attended high schools in Puławy and Tarnów. In 1979-1984 he studied philosophy and social sciences at the Wrocław University, Poland. From 1984 he is employed in the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Wrocław.

In 1986-1997 he served a one year term in the Polish army. After his release, during the academic year 1988-1989, he completed a post-graduate programme at the Queen's College, Oxford.

In 1992 he received a Ph.D. in Philosophy on the basis of the thesis Science and Method in Karl Popper's Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. In 1992, having won as a scholarship from the Kościuszko Foundation, N.Y. USA, he studied at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, USA.

In 1997 he have received a Karl Popper Scholarship, sponsored by the Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw, which enabled him to complete his book on relativism. In 1998, on the basis of his book Niewspółmierność, nieprzekładalność, konflikt. Relatywizm we współczesnej filozofii analitycznej [Incommensurability, Intranslatability and Conflict. Relativism in Contemporary Analytical Philosophy] (1997) he have received a degree of a doctor habilitatus at the University of Wrocław.

In 1999 he have received a Mellon Foundation scholarship to continue his research in philosophy at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Edinburgh. Whilst at IASH, Edinburgh, he completed the book Społeczeństwo otwarte czy wspólnota? [Open Society or Community?] (2001), devoted to the philosophical and moral foundations of liberalism and its contemporary communitarian critique. In 2002, on the basis of that book, he received a presidential nomination of a Professor of Humanities in Philosophy.

Whilst in Edinburgh he wrote (in English) an essay Looking Westward. The Submissiveness of Polish Philosophy, published subsequently in the Times Literary Supplement, and an essay devoted to the Scottish culture and Scottish contributions to the civilisation (in Polish).

Upon his return from Edinburgh, at the beginning of 2000, he was nominated a Wrocław University Rector's Representative of General Affairs, responsible, among others, for the preparations of the University for its tercentenary jubilee held in 2002.

In this capacity he took part in organisation of a number of international events, among them: (1) an international session of the UNESCO devoted to the Tercentenary of the Wrocław University (Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, October 10, 2002); (2) an international meeting of the President of the Polish Republic, Mr Aleksander Kwaśniewski, with the German President, Dr Johannes Rau, Austrian Senate President, Mr. Ludwig Bieringer, Deputy Speaker of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Hungarian Republic, Mme Ibolya Dávid, and Minister Petr Buriánek, representative of the President of the Czech Republic, Dr Václav Hável (Wrocław University, November 15, 2002); (3) the Weimar Triangle Meeting of the President of the Polish Republic, Alexander Kwaśniewski, with the President of the French Republic, Mr Jacques Chirac, and German Chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schröder (Wrocław University, May 9th, 2003); (4) the visit of Javier Solana (Wrocław University, October 2, 2003); (5) an international conference Unified Europe as a Foundation of the New Global Order, with participation of honorary doctors of the Wroclaw Higher Education Institutions, on the occasion of accession of Poland to the Unified Europe (Wroclaw, April 30-May 2, 2004).

Throughout the period of his employment at the Wrocław University he published voluminously on different topics in Poland and abroad. He wrote five books of his own, translated from English into Polish, or edited, fifteen books, and published many papers of miscellaneous character. Total number of his publications approaches now 300 items.

Among his translations were five books by Karl Popper and a number of works related to the philosophy of critical rationalism (e.g. Alan Chalmers's What is this Thing Called Science? (1993), John Watkins's Explaining History (1992), as well as Jan Łukasiewicz's Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic (1988). I have translated as well Arnold Toynbee & Daisaku Ikeda's Choose Life (1999), Helena Eilstein's Life Contemplative, Life Practical (Rodopi, 1997), Klemens Szaniawski's selected papers On Inference, Information, and Decision Making (Kluwer 1998, with Jan Woleński). Among his translations were also Bertrand Russell's selected essays (1995) Alasdair MacIntyre's Short History of Ethics (1995) and After Virtue (1996), and a couple of novels of British and American writers.

Adam Chmielewski cooperates on a regular basis with many philosophical and literary journals, especially with the Wrocław monthly journal Odra, where he contributes to the philosophy section; he contributed there papers and translations about modern and post-modern philosophers (e.g. Karl Popper, Richard Rorty, Richard Shusterman, Zygmunt Bauman, Friedrich von Hayek, Bertrand Russell, Isaiah Berlin, Slavoj Žižek and others). He is also a member of the editorial boards of a few of philosophical journals (Nowa Krytyka, Szczecin, Kultura Współczesna, Warsaw, Principia, Cracow, The Newsletter, Toronto, Canada, and an internet journal The Critical Rationalist ). He also authored essays to "Polityka", "Gazeta Wyborcza", "Wiadomości Kulturalne", "Przegląd" and the local Wrocław press.

For his work as an author, scientist, translator, journalist and essayist he repeatedly won Wrocław University Rector's Awards, National Translators' Association Award (1993) and The Ministry of Education Award (1996).

Currently, apart from his academic and administrative duties at the Wrocław University, he is also a Director of the Wrocław University International Summer School for Czech, German, Polish and Ukrainian students.

In 2003 he was elected to the Committee of Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Science.