Research Team for the Study of Late Scholasticism
The team focuses on the research into early modern scholasticism, roughly 1500 AD to 1700 AD. The work is partly historical in nature, partly systematic and comparative: bridges are made from scholasticism to issues in current analytic philosophy (logic, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ethics, etc.) in the spirit of Anglo-American analytic approach to scholasticism. The work is mainly undertaken under the auspices of the Joint Research Group for the Study of Post-Medieval Scholasticism through which the department (and the latter sub-team) cooperates with the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice on a formal basis (since 2008).
External web-page of the Joint Research Group
peterdvorak99[at]gmail.com
Researcher in late scholastic philosophy and logic in relation to the contemporary analytic philosophy, especially metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. Focuses on topics such as logic of relations, predication, religious language, proofs of divine existence, future contingents, modalities, etc. Since 2010 head of department. In 2011-2014 editor-in-chief of Filosofický časopis. Teaches logic and philosophy at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacky University, Olomouc (part-time).
ebedu[at]centrum.cz
After receiving the Ph.D. degree at the Palacký University Olomouc in 2010 he worked as a researcher at the University of South Bohemia (2010–2011), lecturer of sociology at the Palacký University Olomouc (2011). Currently, he works as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic (since 2011) and a researcher in the Research Centre for the Theory and History of Science within the Department of Philosophy of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (since 2012). His research focuses on late-medieval and post-medieval scholastic logic.
doc. Mgr. Daniel Heider, Ph.D.
Daniel.Heider[at]seznam.cz
The focus of his research lies in the area of medieval and early modern scholasticism in the overlap with classical early modern philosophy and contemporary analytical metaphysics. He is the author of two monographs, the editor of two special issues of philosophical journals and he has written more than thirty studies devoted to the philosophy of Francisco Suárez including the number of other so-called Second scholastics (John Poinsot, Bartholomew Mastrius, John Punch, Peter Hurtado de Mendoza, John Senftleben and others) and some authors of classical early modern philosophy (Descartes, Leibniz) as well.
davidsvoboda[at]sovice.net
My scholarly interests include history of medieval and early modern academical philosophy, I am interested in metaphysical problems such as the ontology of relations and numbers, universals, Divine foreknowledge and human freedom. I study especially the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his followers. Since 2002 I am a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague and since 2003 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Catholic Theological Faculty, Charles University in Prague.
Former members:
doc. Ing. Tomáš Machula, Dr.
