• Research interests

game theory, dynamic logic, the logic of counterfactuals, modal logic, fuzzy logic, foundations of probability

• Education

Master's Degree in Theory of Systems and Game theory, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics;
CSc (an equivalent of PhD) in Logic, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Present position - Researcher, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ASCR

• Grant projects

Actual grant projects

• Foundations of Logic in the Light of New Results of Philosophy and Science. GAČR (2013-2016, GA13-21076S)
  team member
• Logika: systémový rámec rozvoje oboru v ČR a koncepce logických propedeutik pro mezioborová studia
  MŠMT (4/2013-6/2015, OPVK - 2.2 Vysokoškolské vzdělávání, CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0216)
  project coordinator at the Institute of Philosophy
• A Multivalued Approach to Optima and Equilibria in Economics. GAČR (2012-2014, GAP402/12/1309)
  team member
• Game - theoretical approach to many - valued logics. MŠMT (2013-2014, 7AMB13AT014)
  principal investigator at the Institute of Computer Science ASCR

Finished grant projects 

• Formal and Historical Approaches to Epistemology. GAČR (2010-2012, GAP401/10/1504)
  team member
• Logical models of reasoning with vague information. GAČR (2008-2011, GEICC/08/E018),  ESF, EUROCORES Scheme, LogICCC Programme.
  co-investigator
• Dynamic Formal Systems. Joint project with Institute of Computer Science and Institute of Mathematics (2007-2010, GAAV: IAA900090703)
  principal investigator
• Logical analysis - theories and applications. A comprehensive research project complemented with organizational and publication programmes. (2007-2009, GAČR: GA401/07/0904)
  team member
• Logical foundations of semantics and knowledge representation. Doctoral project (2003-2007, GA ČR:. 401/03/H047)
  team member
• LOGICA 2004-2006: a comprehensive project combining research, organisation and publication programmes in logic, (2004-2006, GAČR: GA401/04/0117)
  team member

Selected publications

Majer, O., Peliš, M.: Interpretace znalosti v substrukturálních rámcích [Knowledge Interpretation in Substructural Frames], Organon F 20 (Supplementary Issue 1), 2013, pp. 79-98

Peliš, M., Majer, O.: Logic of Questions and Public Announcements, in: Logic, Language, and Computation (Eighth International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 6618), Bezhanishvili, N., Löbner, S., Schwabe, K., Spada, L. (eds),  Springer, 2011, pp. 145-157

Majer, O.: Comments on Many-Valued Semantics for Vague Counterfactuals by Marco Cerami and Pere Pardo, in: Understanding vagueness, Cintula, P., Fermüller, C.; Godo, L., Hájek, P. (eds), College Publications, London, 2011, pp. 363-366

Majer, O.: Comments on Vagueness, Tolerance and Non-Transitive Entailment by Robert van Rooij, in: Understanding vagueness, Cintula, P., Fermüller, C.; Godo, L., Hájek, P. (eds), College Publications, London, 2011, pp. 223-227

Běhounek, L., Majer, O.: A Semantics for Counterfactuals Based on Formal Fuzzy Logic, in: The Logica Yearbook 2010, Peliš, M., Punčochář, V. (eds), College Publications, London,  2011, pp. 25-41

Bílková, M., Majer, O., Peliš, M., Restall, G.: Relevant Agents, in: Advances in Modal Logic 2010, Beklemishev, L., Goranko, V., Shehtman, V. (eds), College Publications, London, 2010, pp. 22-38

Majer, O., Peliš, M.: Relevant Epistemic Logic, in: Logic and Interactive Rationality (Yearbook 2009), Grossi, D., Kurzen, L., Velázquez-Quesada, F.R. (eds), ILLC, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 56-68

Childers, T., Majer, O.: Kondicionály [Conditionals], in: Logika a přirozený jazyk, Svoboda, V. et al., Filosofia, Praha, 2010, pp. 153-191

Peliš, M., Majer, O.: Logic of Questions from the Viewpoint of Dynamic Epistemic Logic, in: The Logica Yearbook 2009, Peliš, M. (ed.), College Publications, London, 2010, pp. 157-172

Cintula, P., Majer, O.: Towards Evaluation Games For Fuzzy Logics, in: Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy, Majer, O., Pietarinen, A., Tulenheimo, T. (eds), Springer, 2009, pp. 117-138

Majer, O., Pietarinen, A., Tulenheimo, T.: Introduction, in: Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy, Majer, O., Pietarinen, A., Tulenheimo, T. (eds), Springer, 2009, pp. ix-xxiii

Majer, O., Peliš, M.: Epistemic logics for relevant agents, in: The Logica Yearbook 2008, Peliš, M. (ed.), College Publications, London, 2009, pp. 123-135

van Ditmarsch, H., Hill, B., Majer, O.: Logic of change, change of logic, in: Synthese 171(2), 2009, pp. 227-355

Majer, O.: Logické hry a pravdivostní hodnoty [Logical games and truth values], in: Hra, věda a filosofie, Nosek, J. (ed.), Filosofia, Praha, 2006, pp. 131-141

Majer, O.: Hry a význam logických spojek [Games and the meaning of logical connectives], in: Jazyk - logika - věda, Sousedík, P. (ed.), Filosofia, Praha, 2005, pp. 223-232

Majer, O.: Probability and possible worlds, in: Possibility and Reality - Metaphysics and Logic, Rott, H., Horák, V. (eds), Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt-London, 2003, pp. 139-148

Majer, O.: Teoria zdarzen sekvencyjnych, in: Filozofia Nauki X, 37(1), 2002,  pp. 83-108

Majer, O.: Logika a pravděpodobnost, Miscellanea Logica III, Bendová, K., Švejdar, V. (eds),  Karolinum, Praha, 2002, pp. 71-80

Majer, O.: Global probability for possible worlds, in: The Logica Yearbook 2001, Childers, T., Majer, O. (eds), Filosofia, Praha, 2002, pp. 195-205

Majer, O., Childers T.: Má dnes smysl mluvit o logickém pojetí pravděpodobnosti? [Does it make sense to speak about the logical approach to probability today?], in: Úvahy o pravdivosti, Nosek, J. (ed), Filosofia, Praha 2001, pp. 179-192

Majer, O.: Subjektivní pravděpodobnost a realistické možné světy [Subjective probability and realistic possible worlds], in: Filosofický časopis 3/49, 2001, pp. 495-505

Majer, O.: Counterfactual probability redistributed, in: Reports on Philosophy 20/2000, Jagellonian University Press, pp. 37-49

Editing work

Childers, T., Majer, O. (eds): Interpreting Probability, special issue of Journal of Logic, Language and Information 21(2), 2012, 95 pages

Majer, O., Pietarinen, A., Tulenheimo, T. (eds): Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy, Springer, 2009, 374 pages

van Ditmarsch, H., Hill, B., Majer, O. (eds): Knowledge, Rationality & Action. Logic of Change, Change of Logic, special issue of Synthese 171(2 (November)), 2009, 129 pages

Majer, O., Childers, T., (eds): The Logica Yearbook 2002, Filosofia, Praha, 2003, 272 pages

Majer, O., Childers, T., (eds): The Logica Yearbook 2001, Filosofia, Praha, 2002, 268 pages

Majer, O. (ed.): Topics in Conceptual Analysis and Modeling, Filosofia, Praha, 2000, 408 pages

Translations

Childers, T.: Co je pravděpodobnost? (Philosophy and Probability), Aleph, Bratislava, 2011, 228 pages

Organizing activities

ManyVal 2013: Games, Decisions and Rationality, Prague 2013

Prague Workshop on Non-Classical Epistemic Logics, Prague 2013

Non–Classical Epistemic Logics, workshop. Prague 2012

Prague Workshop on Epistemic Logics, Prague 2011

Prague Workshop on Logics of Questions, Prague 2011

Epistemic Aspects of Many-valued Logic, Prague International Colloquium, Prague 2010, co-chair of the organising committee

Foundations of Uncertainty: Probability and Its Rivals, Prague International Colloquium, Prague 2009 - co-chair of the organising committee

Logic of Change, Change of Logic, Prague International Colloquium, Prague 2008 - co-chair of the organising committee

Uncertainty: Reasoning about probability and vagueness, Prague International Colloquium, Prague 2006 - co-chair of the organising committee

Logic, Games and Philosophy: Foundational Perspectives, Prague International Colloquium, Prague 2004 - co-chair of the organising committee

Prague International Colloquium on Formal Epistemology, Prague International Colloquium, Prague, vila Lanna, 2002 - chair of the organising committee

Is Meaning Dynamic? Prague International Colloquium, Prague, vila Lanna, 2001 - co-chair of the organising committe

Contributions at international conferences (selection)

Strategic Games over Lukasiewicz Logic (with T. Kroupa) , TbiLLC 2013: Tenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (Gudauri, Georgia), September 2013

Erotetic Logics in Private Communication Protocol (with P. Švarný and M. Peliš), Logica 2013 (Hejnice), June 2013

A Semantics for Counterfactuals Based on Formal Fuzzy Logic, UniLog 2013 (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), April 2013

Two Kinds of Game Semantics for Fuzzy Logics, Games, Game Theory and Game Semantics: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives (Riga, Latvia), May 2012

Nash Equilibria in a Class of Zero-Sum Games Represented by McNaughton Functions, Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2012 (Kanazawa, Japan), September 2012

Substructural epistemic logics, Non-classical Modal and Predicate Logics (Guangzhou, China), December 2011

Relevant Agents, 14th Congress of Logic, Metodology and Philosophy of Science (Nancy, France), June 2011

Evaluation Games in Fuzzy Logic, Proof and Dialogue (Tübingen, Germany), February 2011

Lukasiewicz Logic as a Negotiation Game, Dialogues, Inference, and Proof - Logical and Empirical Perspectives (Vienna, Austria), November 2010

A representationalist account of fuzzy attitudes (with T. Childers), Prague International Colloquium: Epistemic Aspects of Many-valued Logics (Prague), September 2010

Non-safe Structures in Fuzzy Logics and Game Semantics and Semantics of counterfactuals in higher-order fuzzy logic (with L. Běhounek), LATD 2010 (Prague), September 2010

A Semantics for Counterfactuals Based on Formal Fuzzy Logic (with L. Běhounek), Logica 2010 (Hejnice), July 2010

Questions as Public Announcements, Eighth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (Bakuriani, Georgia), September 2009

Representing Subjective Probabilities (with T. Childers), Prague International Colloquium: Foundations of Uncertainty: Probability and Its Rivals (Prague), September 2009

Logic of Questions from the Viewpoint of Dynamic Epistemic Logic (with M. Peliš), Logica 2009 (Hejnice), June 2009

Epistemic Logics for Relevant Agents (with M. Peliš), Logica 2008 (Hejnice), June 2008

Epistemic Logics in Relevant Framework (with M. Peliš), Logic Colloquium 2008 (Bern, Switzerland), July 2008

Relevant Framework for Knowledge Representation (with M. Peliš), ECAP 6: Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (Krakow, Poland), August 2008

Fuzzy Logic and Betting Games, Foundations of the Formal Sciences VI: Reasoning about Probabilities and Probabilistic Reasoning (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), June 2007

Probabilistic Representation of Fuzzy Logics, Logic Colloquium 2007 (Wroclav, Poland), July 2007

Probabilistic Extension of IF Logic, Progic07: The Third Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (Kent, GB), September 2007

Game-theoretic Interpretation of Lukasiewicz Logic (with P. Cintula), Logica 2006 (Hejnice), June 2006

Evaluation games for fuzzy logics, Logic Colloquium 2006 (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), July-August 2006

Probabilistic Extension of Fuzzy Logic, Towards Mathematical Philosophy (Toruň, Poland), August 2006

Evaluation Games for Fuzzy Logics, 1st International Congress on Universal Logic (Montreux, Switzerland), April 2005

Betting on Fuzzy Logic, Prague International Colloquium on Dutch Book Arguments (Prague), August 2005

Department of Philosophy, Technical University of Liberec