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An interview with Geoffrey Dierckxsens, head of the Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics (IRLaB) at the Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics in the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Prague and president of the Society for Ricoeur Studies for his alma mater University of Antwerp.

The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences regularly applies for the support of young researchers within the Programme of Promotion of Prospective Human Resources – Wage Support for Postdocs at the Czech Academy of Sciences´ institutes. The competition is open to all institutes of the Academy of Sciences and takes place twice a year – in spring and autumn. The current deadline for the submission of project proposals in the 22nd round of the competition is set for 30 August 2023. Detailed information. 

We are happy to announce Martin Šorm (Centre for Medieval Studies FLÚ AV ČR & FF UK) the winner of the CEFRES Platform Award 2023 for best article in social sciences and humanities in an international peer-reviewed journal. His article "Conflicting Popular Culture – Populism and Public History. Vlastimil Vondruška and the Instrumentalization of the Middle Ages" highlights the success of the populist presentation of the Middle Ages associated in contemporary Czech culture with the political extreme right. 

The Otto Wichterle Award will support 24 talented young scientists. Among them Lukáš Lička, a historian of philosophy and science at the Institute of Philosophy of the CAS. He is interested in the cultural transfer of philosophical ideas, texts, and manuscripts from Western European centres of university education (Paris and Oxford) to Central Europe (especially Prague and Vienna) and in the ways in which philosophical and natural science issues are transferred from university lectures into discursive practice. More.

Elon Musk and others are calling on humanity to put a brake on the development of artificial intelligence. Other experts disagree with them, pointing more to the specific risks, but also the benefits of AI. They include Mark Coeckelbergh of the Center for Environmental and Technological Ethics - Prague at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. "Banning or suspending is too crude a measure," he told Czech Radio. Full interview

The journal Theory of Science / Theory of Science ranked among about 10% of the journals of the Directory of Open Access database that received the DOAJ Seal award recognizing the best practices in the field of open access publishing! More about the award. 

Medieval logic, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical theology are the main areas of research of the French expert Alain de Libera. For his contribution to world philosophy, the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded him on April 19, 2023 with the Josef Dobrovsky Medal for Merit in Philological and Philosophical Sciences.