One of the factors that will enable Slovenia to continue to exist and to develop itself as an autonomous political and cultural entity in the conditions of the rapidly changing modern world of supranational political integrations is without doubt also the development of qualitative, mobile and competitive philosophical and scientific thought. The research program Inquires of Contemporary Philosophy, with its development of contemporary Slovenian thought and its inclusion in international philosophical debate, helps Slovenia participate as an equally entitled partner on the scientific and scientific-political level in European integration processes and helps it consolidate its scientific, cultural and political identity. The developed contemporary philosophical thought ensures that Slovenia have the level of cultural and political identity which enables it not only to enforce its own political and economic interests in the conditions of increased globalization and multi-culturalism, but also to instigate its own scientific-research and cultural initiatives. By developing Slovenian philosophical thought to the level of the theoretical and practical demands of its era, the research program has also contributed to the development of the social sciences and humanities.