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Iwona Janicka from CETE-P, together with philosopher Eva von Redecker, were hosts in the new episode of the podcast VLÁKNA. They discussed the concept of "Life" and social transformation in the context of an environmental crisis from the perspective of the Frankfurt School and ecofeminist tradition. The episode is available in both Czech and English.

Mark Coeckelbergh from the Centre for Environmental and Technological Ethics - Prague (CETE-P) at our Institute of Philosophy is one of the members of the expert group that participated in the preparation of the so-called AI Act. It is the first ever comprehensive set of laws in the world from the European Union regulating the use of artificial intelligence. He described how the regulation came about in an interview with Forbes magazine. Mark Coeckelbergh also spoke about the ethical, political and legislative aspects of the AI Act at a recent workshop organized by the Centre for Environmental and Technological Ethics - Prague (CETE-P) in cooperation with the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. You can read about the workshop HERE.

Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, a legend in contemporary immunology and the discoverer of a special type of white blood cells, will be a guest at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He will contribute to the ongoing international discussion that places immunology in a new light and highlights philosophical approaches to science. During his visit, he will give a public lecture, participate in a workshop with Czech scientists, and meet with students. In Prague, he will also receive the Garnet Immunoglobulin: the highest award given by the Czech Immunological Society. More

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. Programme

Read an Interview with Iwona Janicka, the new Research Team Leader at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Iwona Janicka focuses especially on environmental philosophy, political philosophy and feminist philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the questions of social transformation. More about the researcher.

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