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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. 

The updated Rules and Regulations of the Institute of Philosophy Library with its appendices are available here.

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.