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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.

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 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 2021 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

The IPA - Intellectual Practice and Thought at Late Medieval And Early Modern Universities series, led by the ERC-ACADEMIA/TRIPTIC-EU research group aims at the history of thought and scholarly practice at medieval and early modern universities between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an emphasis on philosophy and the natural sciences, including related university teaching and various scholarly debates and disputations. The series is fully reviewed and suggestions for book projects are welcome. More. Editor of the series, Ota Pavlíček, also coordinates the TRIPTIC-EU: Research Group for Transdisciplinary Investigation of Philosophical, Textual and Intellectual Culture in the Early Universities which also includes his ERC funded project ACADEMIA. 

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