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Institute of Philosophy
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Ernst Mach Workshop /
Werkstatt Ernst Mach

The first Ernst March Workshop, to be held on June 25-26, 2012, will host

Prof. Barry Loewer

(Rutgers University)

Beginning in Spring 2012, the Department of Analytic Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy in Prague will host annual workshops on the current work in analytic philosophy - philosophy of science, mind and language, metaphysics as well as value theory. Each workshop will center on the work of a distinguished keynote speaker who will give a lecture and respond to presentations by a limited number of workshop participants. On occasion, the workshop may have the format of a symposium on a recently published book by the keynote speaker.

Department for Analytic Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1
emw(at)flu.cas.cz

Prague Organizing Committee:
Vladimir Havlik, Tomas Hribek, Juraj Hvorecky, Ladislav Kvasz, Zuzana Parusnikova, Jaroslav Peregrin

International Advisory Board:
Tim Crane (Cambridge), Konrad Talmont-Kaminsky (Lublin), Friedrich Stadler (Vienna), Marián Zouhar (Bratislava), Zsofia Zvolenszky (Budapest), Hong Yu Wong (Tübingen)

Ernst Mach

The workshop bears the name of an important local - Ernst Mach (1838-1916), a native of Brno and a longtime professor of physics at Charles-Ferdinand University (now Charles University) in Prague. In addition to his groundbreaking work in physics, Mach was one of the founders of philosophy of science. Since the early 1900s, in Austria, the United Kingdom and elsewhere philosophers respecting science and logic continued the legacy of Professor Mach. Alas, especially in the latter half of the last century, the tradition of rigorous philosophy flourished overseas rather than in the place of its origin. By paying homage to Professor Mach, we wish to rejuvenate this tradition here as well.