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In a wide-ranging interview for Radio Prague International, the philosopher says disinfo isn’t focused only on deceiving people but is also about “boring” them into losing interest in certain issues entirely. But, he argues, it is possible to combat it. The interview was conducted in connection with the recent publication of the book Disinformation and Hate Speech from the Perspectives of Philosophy, Law and Security, which he co-authored...

The Department of Analytic Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences is contributing to the organization of the major international conference PSA Around the World 2025, which focuses on current topics in the philosophy of science, with an emphasis on the Eastern and Central European region. The conference will take place online via Zoom on November 6, 14, and 22, in the afternoon hours, and will feature more than eighty presentations. Registration is still open.

We are pleased to invite proposals for papers for the XV International Symposium on the Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, to be held in Prague on 18–19 June 2026, on the theme: “The Long Bohemian Reformation, European Universities, and Scholarly Disputations.” The symposium will examine the intersections between the Long Bohemian Reformation and European academic life, with a particular focus on the role of disputations. The deadline for submitting contributions is January 31, 2026...

What do ordinary people think philosophy is for? That’s the question two of our philosophers, Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Zach, set out to answer in a nationwide survey of the Czech public. Their article on the Daily Nous platform presents the survey’s findings—how Czechs perceive philosophy, the roles they assign to philosophers, and what they consider to be philosophical texts.

Starting in October, Dr. Lukas Kob of Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg will receive a Feodor Lynen Postdoc Fellowship, which is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will spend a year working in the Department of Analytic Philosophy on the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems...

The conference will focus on the role of manuscript culture in exile communities of diverse religious backgrounds during the early modern period, with a particular emphasis on the 1620s and 1630s. Specifically, it will examine how the written word was used to sustain, transmit, and reshape collective and individual identities amid the pressures of displacement and religious conflict.

Since this August, Dr. Maximilian Schuh from Freie Universität Berlin has been a recipient of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Over the next three years, he will spend a total of 18 months as part of the Triptic-EU research group (Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought), where he will focus on the work of the English scholar William Merle. The main aim of his project is to prepare a critical edition of the hitherto almost unknown writings of this Oxford professor on weather forecasting and to draw attention to a so far overlooked chapter in the history of 14th-century science.

We invite proposals for the second edition of the conference on the philosophy of art, subtitled Resisting Divides: Contemporary Philosophy of Art. The event aims to create “in-between spaces” that enable resistance to divisions in contemporary approaches to art. It will address both the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, and divide between artworld practitioners and academic philosophers. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025. More details...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA.CZ) “fellowship” projects contribute to developing the international character and quality of the research environment in the Czech Republic, including the professional growth of individual scholars. Thanks to this program, philosopher and architectural theorist Jana Ndiaye Beránková, Ph.D. will begin her work in the Czech Republic in July. Conversely, Martin Pjecha, M.A., Ph.D., a Comenius scholar, will depart from the Institute of Philosophy for a research stay in Vienna....

The Institute of Philosophy of the CAS 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 26th round of the competition is set for 30 August 2025.