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Basic aims of the Union are to initiate, promote, foster and part-fund long-term international research projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences. At its March meeting, the Academic Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic appointed the historian of philosophy, Ota Pavlíček, as the new delegate. He will follow in the footsteps of the current representative for the Czech Republic, Comeniologist Jiří Beneš, also from the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

May logic be seen as a science of patterns in the sense in which mathematics is a science of patterns? Or rather in the sense in which physics is? The proposal of logician Jaroslav Peregrin is that logic identifies, explores, and fixes the inferential patterns which de facto govern our argumentative practices. It can be seen as picking up the patterns and working from them toward the state of reflective equilibrium, where the laws it aims at are explicitly articulated. More in a recent article by Jaroslav Peregrin in Journal of Philosophy 121 (1):5-25, one of the most prestigious philosophical journals worldwide.

Dr. Iwona Janicka is Researcher at the Department of Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research concentrates on twentieth and twenty-first-century continental philosophy, political philosophy, feminist philosophy and environmental philosophy, with a particular focus on the question of social transformation in the 21st century. During her Fellowship at the Institute of Philosophy she will focuse on a project called Reconceptualizing Peace: From Social Ontology to Political Ecology. It is aimed at rethinking the concept of peace in the conditions of the 21st century, where peaceful practices are affected by the environmental crisis.

The Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague (CETE-P) – based at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme ERA Chairs – invites experienced postdoctoral researchers to apply for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) for 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh. Please send your Expression of Interest to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 1st April 2024. 
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Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! Conference on African Philosophy is jointly organized by the Professorship of African and Afrophone Philosophies of the University of Bayreuth and the Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. We invite papers that explore issues regarding the relationship between humans and nonhuman animals, humanness, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism. Detailed information. 

Thanks to the Transnational Access Fellowship Award, Radim Hladík from the Czech Academy of Sciences will be a guest of the Trier Centre for Digital Humanities (TCDH) at the University of Trier in April and May 2024. He will work on an innovative project aimed at expanding the capabilities of the free and freely accessible reQual application. It will now significantly support the possibilities of data exchange and publication in the research environment for qualitative analysis. Detailed information

The Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague (CETE-P) – based at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme ERA Chairs – is seeking to appoint a Postdoc Researcher in environmental ethics and/or technology ethics to collaborate with Mark Coeckelbergh and CETE-P research team on urgent ethical issues in Prague. Please deliver the application with attachments via email by 31 March 2024 to Petra Zákostelecká at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Detailed information | Download version

The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences regularly applies for CAS fellowships supporting postdoctoral researchers in the Programme to Support Prospective Human Resources – post PhD candidates. The competition is open to all institutes of the Academy of Sciences and takes place twice a year – in spring and autumn. At IP, the next deadline for submission of proposals in the 23rd round of the competition is set for 30 March 2024.

The programme is intended for holders of PhD (or equivalent) degree within two years after receiving it (i. e. degree received 30 April 2022 or later; time spent on maternity/parental leave is not included in the two-year period; in case of a long-term research stay in other than the candidate's country of residence the two-year period is extended to up to four years). Successful applicants receive a two-year fellowship to work on a project whose topic is directly related to the focus of the relevant CAS institute and they become members of one of its scientific teams.

Potential candidates may contact the Head of one of the scientific departments at IP to consult the research topic of their interest (proposals for internal competition at  IP are submitted by the Head of Department).

For more information about the programme please contact Julie Černá, Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Philosophy (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

We invite authors to critically reflect on this topic in a thematic issue of Teorie vědy/Theory of Science Journal, journal for interdisciplinary stdies in science. The deadline for your submissions is August 30, 2024. Detailed information

Pokojné Vánoce a šťastný nový rok 2024 přeje Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.
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