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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 Socie…
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…
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, wher…
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…
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…
