Lukáš Lička
Mgr. Lukáš Lička, Ph.D.
licka[at]flu.cas.cz
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, 2016
Mgr., Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, 2013
Employment and Specialisation
He is focusing on history of medieval Latin philosophy and science (13 th to 15th century), especially on theory of sensory perception and optics and connected issues in philosophy of mind (attention, intentionality, active perception, consciousness, body/mind relation) as presented by some Franciscan thinkers (e.g. Peter Olivi or Peter Auriol); newly, he also deals with Prague university philosophy around 1400.
In the Department he works as a post-doctoral researcher (since 2018); he also works as a researcher at University of Ostrava (since 2017).
Publications (selection)
Edited works
D. Heider, L. Lička, M. Otisk (eds.), Perception in Scholastics and Their Interlocutors, Praha: Filosofia, 2017. (= Filosofický časopis 2017/2)
Articles
“What is in the Mirror? The Metaphysics of Mirror Images in Albert the Great and Peter Auriol”, in Senses and the History of Philosophy, edited by B. Glenney and J. F. Silva, London: Routledge, 2019 (forthcoming).
“Attention, Perceptual Content, and Mirrors: Two Medieval Models of Active Perception in Peter Olivi and Peter Auriol”, in Perception in Scholastics and Their Interlocutors, eds. D. Heider, L. Lička, M. Otisk, (eds.), Praha: Filosofia, 2017, 101–119.
“Perception and Objective Being: Peter Auriol on Perceptual Acts and their Objects”, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2016): 49–76.
Presentations (selection)
“A Buridanian Question on the Nature of the Intellect in the 1409 Prague Quodlibet.” Workshop Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Doctrines, Methods and Sources in the Prague Quodlibeta around 1409 (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano). Milano, December 2018.
“From Optics to Practical Geometry: On Perspectiva Ascribed to Thomas Bradwardine in Vat. lat. 3102.” Conference From Quadrivium to Natural Sciences: New Impulses in the Traditional Framework (University of Ostrava). Ostrava (CZ), November 2018.
“Two Anonymous Commentaries on Peckham’s Perspectiva communis, Written by the Hand of Reimbotus de Castro.” Conference Books of Knowledge and Their Reception: Circulation of Widespread Texts in Late Medieval Europe (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences). Prague, October 2018.
“What is in the Mirror? The Metaphysics of Mirror Images in Albert the Great, Peter Auriol and the Prague Quodlibet by Prokop of Kladbury (1417).” Invited lecture (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano). Milano, October 2017.
“Non sicut mus de foramine: Some 13th Century Approaches Towards the Extramissionist Explanation of Vision.” International conference Theories of Sense-Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries (Humboldt Universität). Berlin, April 2017.
“Optics at the Prague Faculty of Arts in the Middle Ages: The Case of John of Borotin”, International conference Studying the Arts in Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge at the Arts Faculty of Prague University in the Middle Ages – 2nd Annual Meeting of Societas Artistarum (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences). Prague, December 2016.
“ Attention, Perceptual Content, and Mirrors: Two Medieval Models of Active Perception in Peter Olivi and Peter Auriol ”, International conference Issues of Perception between Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (University of Ostrava). Ostrava (CZ), October 2016.
“ Peter Auriol and his Predecessors on the Identity of Species with Cognitive Act ”, International workshop Peter Auriol and his Vicinity (Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven). Leuven, June 2016.
“Unity and Diversity in Medieval Psychology”, International conference Unity and diversity of medieval (Central) Europe Social order and its cohesive and disruptive forces (Palacký University). Olomouc (CZ), April 2016.
“Peter Auriol on Categories, Relations, and Cognition”, Workshop on the History of Scholastic Logic (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy). Prague (CZ), May 2015.
Membership
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (member since 2018).
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (since 2015)
For more details see the Czech personal page .
