The Institute of Philosophy AV ČR invites foreign scholars to submit proposals for visiting stays in its scientific departments until the15th of September. The selection of registered applicants will be decided by the Council of the Institute in the Autumn Session according to the quality of the proposed projects. The selected applicant will work with the Institute in the post of a visiting scholar cooperating with various research departments. He or she will be provided with a scholarship of 27 000 Kc per month as well as free acommodation in the Institute´s one-room flat. The visit will extend for 6 months commencing on the 1st of January (which can be adjusted after the individual aggreement ).

Petr Dvořák, Jacob Schmutz (editors)
Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz: The Last Scholastic Polymath
Published by Filosofia, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7007-283-7
424 pages

Corporeity and Affectivity. Fifth Central and Eastern European Conference on Phenomenology, 28 September - 2 October 2008, Prague. Detailes are published HERE.

Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic is pleased to announce a conference Suárez's Metaphysics. Disputationes Metaphysicae in their Historical and Systematic Context (October 1-3, 2008). The conference aims to review and evaluate the metaphysical thought of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) in his key metaphysical treatise Disputationes Metaphysicae (1597). Details are published HERE.    

Conference Emotions and Intentionality, Prague, April 17-18th, 2008. More information HERE.

An international conference to commemorate Jan Patočka 1907 - 1977 and the 37th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle
April 22 - 28, 2007, Prague (link).
Scholars from around the world who are interested in the philosophy of Jan Patočka will gather in Prague to commemorate his centenary and the thirtieth anniversary of his death. The conference will explore the significance of his work and its continuing influence on contemporary philosophy.The conference will be organised in two sessions. One will be devoted to the work of Jan Patočka with papers in English, French, or German. At the same time, the Husserl Circle will be holding its annual meeting with all papers in English.

On 12th March 2007, a ceremonial completion of Agreement on scientific cooperation between the Vienna University, Austria, and the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic took place in Vienna on the occasion of the Dies academicus. Cooperating partners are the Institute of Classical philology, Medieval and Neolatin studies and the Institute of Slavic studies of the Faculty of Philology and Cultural history on the Austrian side, and the Institute for Classical studies on the Czech side.

The book considers the medieval reception of Aristotle’s philosophy of marriage, which became known in the Medieval West through the thirteenth century rediscovery of the Nicomachean Ethics, the Politics and the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics, then considered a genuine work of the Stagirite. The author shows how medieval readers interpreted the ideas on marriage contained in these Aristotelian texts, and how they used them to construct their own, mostly theological or philosophical, discourses on marriage. At the core stands a hitherto largely neglected, unedited commentary on the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics of Bartholomew of Bruges (1309).

František Šmahel,
Ph.D. (1965) is Professor at the Center for Medieval Studies at Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His publications on intellectual history, political history and  Czech Reform movement include Hussitische Revolution I-III, (MGH Schriften, 2002).