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Annually, the Department organizes Interdisciplinary Seminars in the Villa Lanna, with the aim to stimulate debate on the basic concepts and methodological principles that go across various research areas; the participants include philosophers, logicians, linguists and natural scientists from various institutions in the Czech Republic as well as in Slovakia. The proceedings are brought to print by Filosofia Publishers Prague.

Seminar topics:

  • Philosophical and methodological issues of the generation, self-determination, and reproduction of biological individuals, with a focus on the cell as a representative of biological objects
    Prague, November 17-18, 1990
  • The symbol in human perception, thought and expressive activity
    Prague, November 1991
  • Intuition in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 3-5, 1992
  • Model and analogy in science and art
    Prague, November 2-3, 1993
  • Realism in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 8-11, 1994
  • Paradox in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 7-8, 1995
  • Chaos, science and philosophy
    Prague, November 5-7, 1996
  • Convention in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 4-5, 1997
  • Functionalism in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 3-4, 1998
  • Truth in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 9-10, 1999
  • The century and the millenium in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 7-8, 2000
  • Vagueness in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 7, 2001
  • Memes in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 5, 2002
  • Play, science and philosophy
    Prague, November 4-5, 2003
  • Rationality in science
    Prague, November 2004
  • Interpretation in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 1-2, 2005
  • Illustrative visibility in science and philosophy
    Prague, November 2006
  • Ethics in science and the science of ethics
    Prague, November 13-14, 2007
  • Evolution and science
    Prague, November 18-19, 2008
  • Evolution and Knowledge
    Prague, November 2-3, 2010

Apart from these regular interdisciplinary seminars, the Department has also organized the following colloquia:

  • Philosophy and poetry (May 6, 1999, Villa Lanna) A colloque devoted to an analysis of selected poetic texts with the participation of their authors as well as literary theorists.
  • Text and work: the Menard case (January 31, 2002, The Philosophical Institute) a discussion about the theoretical implications of J.L. Borges' short story Pierre Menard, the Author of the Quixote
  • 100 years of the special relativity, or: philosophical issues of space and time June 6-7, 2005, The Philosophical Institute, Prague