1. Karlovy Vary Symposia on Analytic Philosophy
  2. Prague Interpretation Colloquia
  3. Other international conferences
  4. International workshops
  5. Slovak-Czech symposia

Karlovy Vary Symposia on Analytic Philosophy

(under the aegis of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy)

The aim of the Karlovy Vary symposia was to mediate the debate among various trends of current Analytic Philosophy and to introduce leading representatives of this tradition to the Czech philosophical public. The program of the symposia included lectures for the general public; some symposia were followed by presentations of some key analytic philosophers in Prague. Proceedings from the symposia were published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, CSLI Stanford, and Filosofia Publishers Prague.

Topics of the Karlovy Vary Symposia:

  • 1992, Bristol Hotel
    Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later
  • 1993, Termal Hotel and Bristol Hotel
    Meaning
  • 1994, Pupp Grand Hotel
    Reference
  • 1995, Pupp Grand Hotel
    Questions from Quine
  • 1996, Pupp Grand Hotel
    Interpreting Davidson
  • 1998, Pupp Grand Hotel
    Swimming in XYZ (Philosophy of Hilary Putnam)

Prague Interpretation Colloquia

The goal of these annual international colloquia, organized by the Department since 2000, is to establish a platform for regular interdisciplinary discussions on some key problems of the theory of interpretation. The participants have included philosophers, aestheticians and literary theorists from Sweden, Great Britain,, Norway, Denmark, Italy, France, Germany, USA,, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Topics of the Interpretation Colloquia:

Other international conferences

International workshops

  • 1990, Prague, Villa Lanna
    Object, Identity, Identification
    (a workshop for philosophers from Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, connected with The European Review of Philosophy)
  • 1999, Prague, The Philosophical Institute
    Getting the PAGINation Right
    (a workshop on the work of the Swedish philosopher Peter Pagin, with participants from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden and Germany)
  • 2003, Prague, The Philosophical Institute
    Language and Value
    (a colloque with participants from the Czech Republic and Finland)
  • 2012, Prague, The Philosophical Institute
    I. Ernst Mach Workshop/Werkstatt Ernst Mach - Prof. Barry Loewer
  • 2013, Prague, The Philosophical Institute
    II. Ernst Mach Workshop/Werkstatt Ernst Mach - Prof. Uriah Kriegel
  • 2014, Prague, The Philosophical Institute
    III. Ernst Mach Workshop/Werkstatt Ernst Mach - Prof. Alex Rosenberg

Slovak-Czech symposia

In cooperation with the Department of Logic of the Philosophical Institute and with the Slovak Philosophical Institute in Bratislava, the Department co-founded in 1997 a tradition of regular Slovak-Czech symposia on analytic philosophy. Our department was charged with the organizing work in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014.

Lectures

Since its foundation, the Department has arranged a number of lectures of prominent current representatives of analytic philosophy. The speakers included: Willard van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, Peter F. Strawson, Jerrold J. Katz, Brian Loar, Keith Lehrer, Ralph Walker, Thomas Baldwin, Kathleen Wilkes, Pascal Engel, Kevin Mulligan, John Biro, Kent Bach, Anthony Grayling, Martin Davies, Andrew Woodfield, Anthony Savile, Peter Pagin, Claude Vandeloise, Jerrold Levinson, Gregory Currie and many others.