Department of Analytic Philosophy

Characteristics

The Department of Analytic Philosophy focuses on the logical, epistemological, semantical, and metaphysical analysis of fiction on one side, on hyperintesionality and the logic of responsibility, on the other. Therefore, the department’s research includes both theoretical research in analytic philosophy as well as its practical applicability. We offer the following Ph.D. topics: Problem of Grasping of Hyperintensional Language Phenomena; Formal Analysis of Impossible Objects; Formal Analysis of Fictional Discourse; and Transparent Intensional Logic: Theoretical Development and Application.

Head of the Department

Mgr. Miloš Kosterec, PhD. milos.kosterec@savba.sk

Researchers

JUDr. Zoltán Gyurász, PhD. zoltan.gyurasz@savba.sk
Matteo Pascucci, PhD. filomapa@savba.sk
Mirco Sambrotta, PhD. filomisa@savba.sk
Mgr. Martin Vacek, PhD. martin.vacek@savba.sk
PhDr. Daniela Vacek, PhD. daniela.vacek@savba.sk
Mgr. Zuzana Zelinová, PhD. zuzana.zelinova@savba.sk

PhD Students

MA Dimitrios Galanis dimitrios.galanis@savba.sk

PhD study topics for the academic year 2024/2025

Tutor: Mgr. Miloš Kosterec, PhD.

Moral responsibility – logical analysis of application

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
Debates around moral responsibility belong among the most widespread and relevant in philosophy. The aim is to present novel arguments within the dichotomies in existing debates about moral responsibility and/or to present arguments for new ways of focusing on relevant problems. The use of analytic methods should lead to a model of arguments within a formal system.

Transparent logics

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
In the field of hyperintensional context analysis, several transparent logics have emerged. The goal is a constructive comparison of existing solutions and a systematically grounded selection of one of these systems to address the relevant issues in the analysis of hyperintensional contexts.

Tutor: Matteo Pascucci, PhD.

Modal logics and contextual reasoning

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
In the thesis the student will focus on the philosophical and mathematical investigations into non-classical logics that can be used to analyze the syntactic and semantic behavior of modal notions in specific contexts, such as deontic reasoning, temporal reasoning, epistemic reasoning and doxastic reasoning.

Normative reasoning and applications

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
This research topic concerns the analysis of fundamental notions involved in everyday problems of normative reasoning, including ethical rules, moral values, deterministic vs. non-deterministic systems and theories of action. Moreover, it concerns the development of logical and computational tools for assisted reasoning in the normative domain, based on a formal representation of those notions.

Tutor: PhDr. Daniela Vacek, PhD.

The problem(s) of control in the context of intelligent technologies

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time/external * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
The control over intelligent technologies is a complex phenomenon that leads to several difficult questions, challenges, and problems: are we destined to lose the control over intelligent technologies? Who should have control, and which form of control they should have? Which form of control is morally acceptable? The thesis will provide answers to these questions.

Intelligent technologies and responsibility gaps

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time/external * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
According to some researchers, intelligent technologies lead to gaps in responsibility that cannot be bridged; according to others, they lead to gaps in responsibility, but these gaps can be bridged; according to others still, they do not lead to gaps in responsibility at all. This thesis will analyze the problem of responsibility gaps and argue for one of these views.

Tutor: Mgr. Martin Vacek, PhD.

Impossible worlds

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
This PhD project investigates impossibility, specifically the relationship between the nature question — what impossibility is? — and the extent question — what impossibility there is? Impossible worlds have proven to be a useful apparatus in this regard. Following in the footsteps of their possible ancestors, impossible worlds provide a scope of applications that address the aforementioned questions. The project delves into these applications.

Worldly and Non-Worldly Hyperintensionality

Study program: 2.1.2. systematic philosophy * Study form: full time * Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation:
Many philosophical problems are framed in terms of hyperintensional distinctions. Although these distinctions were initially introduced in a representational manner, various accounts treating hyperintensionality as a non-representational phenomenon have been developed. This PhD project builds on these accounts and will propose a novel worldly account of hyperintensionality.

Filozofia - current issue

Charlesworth, S. Customary Morality and the Concept of Environmental Citizenship
Abstract: Whatever the nature of the contemporary climate crisis, its status has become an aspect of global politics. Whether the nature of this necessity is natural or political is the...
Boteva-Richter, B. Migration and Environment or about the Human as Climatic Being: Tetsurō Watsuji’s Dialectical Concept and How It Can Be Applied to the Issue of Migration
Abstract: The interaction between migration and the environment is essential, but it is not usually the focus of philosophical reflection. In this article, the author explores the nexus of...
Mendes, J.Ribeiro The Environmental Toll of Digital Technologies
Abstract: his study delves into the complex connection between digital technologies and environmental sustainability in the face of the worsening climate crisis. It presents two different...
Önkal, G. Reconsidering the Paradigm Shift from Environmental Philosophy to Global Environmentalisms
Abstract: The Earth has arrived at such a point that the speed of human change has had effects that are now irreversible. This picture tells us that the crises in nature are not the crises of...
Cottingham, J. The Human Being as ‘Compound’: Aquinas versus Descartes on Human Nature
Abstract: The intuitively right answer to the question ‘What am I?’ is not ‘an incorporeal spirit’, but ‘a human being’. Aquinas reflects this common-sense view when he says that ‘the human is...
Vydrová, J. Approaches to historicity in phenomenology: the Czechoslovak experience
Abstract: In the paper I examine selected local phenomena related to the history of phenomenology in Central-Eastern Europe and especially in the former Czechoslovakia during the communist...
Šedo, M. The complicated relationship between the philosophy of Claude Romano and Martin Heidegger
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Rojas, F. Ineffable Tongues: An Analysis of the Notion of Ineffability in Pentecostal Glossolalia
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Bravo, N. Human First and then Christian: Grundtvig’s Anthropology as a Pluralist Alternative
Abstract: In this article, I would like to suggest that the anthropological proposal of Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, the famous nineteenth-century Danish author, offers a model that...
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Junco, E. Poetic Reason: Identity in the Midst of Mysticism and Philosophy
Abstract: The irrationalist and vitalist options in the philosophy of the early twentieth century find in María Zambrano a liminal proposal. The author proposes a double movement: archaizing...
Esparza, G.Adolfo Urz The Perception of the Divine: Myth, Art, and Religion in Ernst Cassirer
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Vašek, M. Christian Humanism and Christianity-Inspired Atheistic Humanism
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Institute of Philosophy, Prague
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