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
doc. Petr Dvořák, Ph.D. - head of the department
petr.dvorak[at]flu.cas.cz
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).
hanke[at]flu.cas.cz
After receiving his Ph.D. at the Palacký University Olomouc in 2010, he worked as a researcher at the University of South Bohemia (2010–2011) and a 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 the 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.
kutarnova[at]flu.cas.cz
Since 2021, Kateřina Kutarňová has been a post-doctoral researcher in the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought of the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the relation between philosophy, religion and mysticism in the 17th century. She focuses on the second-scholastic Carmelite authors developing the thought of Teresa of Avila in the perspective of the teaching of Thomas Aquinas. The crucial point of her research is the question of mystical knowledge.
davidsvoboda[at]flu.cas.cz
My scholarly interests include the history of medieval and early modern academic 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 have been a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague and since 2003 Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic Theological Faculty, Charles University in Prague.
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