Prof. PhDr. Petr Koťátko, CSc.

• * 12. 1. 1955 in Brno, Czech Republic

• l974-79 study at the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University, Brno
• 1979-1983 post-graduate study at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
• 1983-1989 research worker at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology
• since 1990 head of the Department for Analytical philosophy, Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

• 1981 PhDr. (Philosophical Faculty of J. Ev. Purkyně University in Brno)
• 1983 CSc. (Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences)
• 1998 Docent (Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague)
• 2008 Professor (Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague)

• Faculty of Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno: 1981/2, 1982/3: Formal Logic
• High School of Economy, Prague: 1982/3, 1983/4: Formal Logic
• Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague: 1990/1: Philosophy of Language 1993/4: Philosophy of Language 1993-4: Intention and Meaning 1994-5: Language and Mind 1996-7: Meaning
• Université de Fribourg, Faculté des Lettres 1992: Intentionale Semantik und Sprechakttheorie
• Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University, Prague: 1996-2005: Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
• Faculty of Humanistic Studies of Charles University, Prague since 1998 Analytical Philosophy of Language

Visiting lectures at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Philosophy), University of London (King's College, Birkbeck College - Aristotelian Society), Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Université de Neuchatel (Faculté des Lettres), University of Bristol (Department of Philosophy), University of Kent (Darwin College), University of Helsinki (Department of Philosophy), University of Stockholm (Department of Philosophy), University of Jyväskylä (Department of Philosophy), Université de Genéve (Faculté des Lettres), University of Uppsala (Department of Philosophy).

• Object, Identity, Identification (Praha 1990)
• Sense and Reference: 100 years later (Karlovy Vary 1992)
• Meaning (Karlovy Vary 1993)
• Reference (Karlovy Vary 1994)
• Questions for Quine (Karlovy Vary 1995)
• Interpreting Davison (Karlovy Vary 1996)
• Swimming in XYZ - Philosophy of Hilary Putnam (Karlovy Vary 1998)
• The Notion of Interpretation in Philosophy and Literary Theory (Praha 2000)
• Externalism-Internalism Dispute and the Theory of Interpretation (Praha 2002 - with T. Marvan)
• Sentence Meaning-Utterance Meaning / Text-Work (Praha 2003)
• The Constraints of Interpretation (Praha 2004)
• The Levels of Interpretation (Praha 2005)
• Descriptions (Praha 2005 - with J. Hvorecký)
• Interpreting Text - Interpreting Author (Praha 2006 - with K. Císař)
• The Grounds of Sense. Philosophy of P. F. Strawson (Praha 2009 - with J. Hvorecký)
• Fictionality-Possibility-Reality (Praha 2010)

/b/ Organization of visits and lectures of leading analytic philosophers in Prague: W. V. O. Quine, P. F. Strawson, D. Davidson, H. Putnam, S. Schiffer, J. McDowell and many others; coordination of series of lectures and seminars of prominent analytic philosophers for the students of Charles University in Prague and of Masaryk University in Brno; coordination of student exchanges (connected with student conferences) between University of Kent and Charles University, etc.

• 1990-1993 secretary of the Union of Czech Philosophers
• 1993-1996 member of the steering committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy
• in 1990's member of the editorial board of The European Review of Philosophy
• since 1993 member of the editorial board of Organon F
• since 2003 member of the editorial board of Revue francophone d'esthétique
• since 2008 member of the steering committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy