CV
Publications
Monographs
- Modality, Logical Probability, and the Trinity: In Defence of a Weak Scepticism. Heusenstamm: Editiones scholasticae, 2014. 320 pp.
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Reviewed by Ludwig Jaskolla in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2015). LINK
Reviewed in Czech by Miroslav Hanke in the Philosophical Journal (Filosofický časopis) 62 (2014): 920-923. PDF
- Kapitoly z epistemologie a noetiky (Selected Issues in Epistemology, in Czech). Prague: Krystal OP, 2015. 280 pp. Main co-author Lukáš Novák.
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- The Moral Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019). Main co-author Martin Cajthaml.
Selected articles
“Kosmologický argument a potřeba 'nevědeckého' vysvětlení” (“Cosmological Argument and the Need for 'Unscientific' Explanation”, in Czech), AUPO Philosophica 7 (2007): 115-129. PDF
“Noetický problém diskursivity” (“The Epistemological Problem of Discursivity”, in Czech), Distance 12/4 (2008): 45-56. LINK
(with Daniel D. Novotný) “Současná křesťanská filozofie v USA a Velké Británii” (“Contemporary Christian Philosophy in the US and UK”, in Czech), Salve (2/2009): 53-71. PDF
“Plantinga a princip slábnoucí pravděpodobnosti” (“Plantinga and the Principle of Dwindling Probabilities”, in Czech), Studia Neoaristotelica 6 (2009): 50-77. PDF
(with Pavla Vohánková) “On Nihilism Driven by the Magnitude of the Universe”, Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities 1 (2011): 60-73. PDF
“Filosofická teologie žije” (“Natural Theology Is Alive”, in Czech), Studia theologica 15 (2013): 65-88. PDF
“Why Peter van Inwagen Does Not Help in Showing the Logical Possibility of the Trinity”, Studia Neoaristotelica 10 (2013): 196-214. PDF
“Swinburne's A Priori Case from Perfect Love for the Trinity: A Reconstruction and the Obstacle of All-Perfection”, Pantheon 8 (2013): 58-78. PDF
“Mysterianism about Consciousness and the Trinity”, Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, Theologica Olomucensia 14 (2013): 69-90. PDF
“Are Standard Lawlike Propositions Metaphysically Necessary? Hildebrand vs. Groarke”, Studia Neoaristotelica 11 (2014): 89-133. PDF + PDF and preview of replies by Louis Groarke
“Necessary Laws? Seifert vs. Oderberg”, Studia Neoaristotelica 12 (2015): 5-56. PDF
“Nebýt či být? O zmatcích, které přináší asymetrický argument” (“Better Never to Have Been? The Confusions of the Asymmetry Argument”), Studia theologica 17/3 (2015): 50-74. PDF
“The Nature and Uniqueness of Material Value-Ethics Clarified”, Ethical Perspectives 24 (2017): 225-258. PDF
“Material Value-Ethics: Evaluating the Thought of Josef Seifert and John F. Crosby”, International Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2018): 275-293. Preview
“Dismantling the Asymmetry Argument”, Journal of Value Inquiry 53 (2019): 75-90. Preview PDF
“Love or Contemplation? Hildebrandian and Aristotelian Ways to High Happiness", Studia Neoaristotelica 16 (2019): 5-47. Preview
"Minimal Beneficence through the Lens of Material Value-Ethics", Ethical Perspectives 29 (2022): 263-295. PDF
Work in progress
Paper (in English) on von Hildebrandian philosophy of happiness and love.
Paper (in English) on effective altruism and applied material value ethics.
Paper (in English) on Husserl against the strict necessity of natural laws.
Paper (in Czech) on the philosophy of logical probability.
Education
(2004) Master degree in Philosophy and Sociology. Palacký University Olomouc. Master Thesis: Descartes a diskursivita (in Czech, Descartes and Discursivity). Supervisor Petr Glombíček. DOC
(2012) Ph.D. in Philosophy. Palacký University Olomouc. Dissertation Thesis: Modality, Logical Probability, and the Trinity: A Defence of Weak Skepticism. Supervisor Jan Štěpán. PDF
Research experience
(2011-2013) Researcher in the Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague
(2012-2013) Researcher in the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
(2013-2015) Post-doc in the Department of Philosophy and Patrology, Faculty of Theology, Palacký University Olomouc. Mentor Martin Cajthaml.
(2015-2017) Researcher in the project The Phenomenological Ethics of Dietrich von Hildebrand, funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)
(2018-2021) Researcher in the project Value and Teleology: Toward a More Fruitful Intellectual Encounter between Material Value-Ethics and Traditional Ethics, funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR).
Teaching experience
(2006-2009) Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy) and (2013 - present) Department of Philosophy and Patrology (Faculty of Theology) at Palacký University Olomouc. Courses: Analytic Theism and Atheism, Swinburne’s Theism, H. G. Frankfurt on Bullshit and Truth, Introduction to Ontology and Philosophical Anthropology, Natural Theology, History of Philosophy after Augustine, Ethics for Social Pedagogues, Current Problems in Ethics.
(2014 - present) Caritas College Olomouc. Courses: Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Ethics of Social Work, Introduction to Sociology, Information Processing.
(2018 - present) Caritas College Olomouc. Guarantor for Social Work.
(2012-2013, 2015-2018) Department of Philosophy at University of Ostrava (Czech Republic). Courses: Postmodernism, Philosophical Anthropology, Selected Issues in Contemporary Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Applied Ethics.
Selected presentations
(October 17, 2009) “Praktická hrozba mylné epistemologie?” (“Practical Threat of False Epistemology?”, in Czech). Interdisciplinary conference on Church and Society. Rousínov u Brna, Czech Republic.
(June 27, 2011) “Trinity and Probability”. (with Daniel D. Novotný) International conference Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century. Cracow, Poland.
(May 4, 2012) “Mysterianismus ve filosofii mysli a trinitární teologii” (“Mysterianism in the Philosophy of Mind and Trinitarian Theology”, in Czech). Analytic Theology Workshop. Prague, Czech Republic.
(November 15, 2012) “On Swinburne on the Trinity”. Analytic Theology Workshop, led by Richard Swinburne. Prague, Czech Republic.
(September 19, 2013) “How (Not) to Argue for the Logical Possibility of Three Persons in One Divine Substance: van Inwagen and Swinburne”. Analytical Theology: Faith, Knowledge, and the Trinity. Prague, Czech Republic.
(January 22, 2014) “The Material Value Ethics of Dietrich von Hildebrand and Max Scheler”. The 1st Conference of POST-UP II. Olomouc, Czech Republic.
(May 12, 2014) “Value Hierarchies in Scheler and von Hildebrand”. The 1st meething of the Eastern European Ethics Network (Values Ethical and Political). Olomouc, Czech Republic.
(October 31, 2014) “Nebýt či být: Benatar vs. Hildebrand” (“Not to Be or to Be: Benatar vs. Hildebrand”, in Czech). Public lecture at Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology. Olomouc, Czech Republic.
(February 19, 2015) “The Moral and Modal Epistemology within the Material Value Ethics of Dietrich von Hildebrand”. The 2nd Conference of POST-UP II. Olomouc, Czech Republic.
(May 12, 2015) “Praktická materiální etika hodnot: absolutní chudoba, vegetariánství, potraty” (“Practical Material Value Ethics: Absolute Poverty, Vegetarianism, Abortion”, in Czech).Public lecture at Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology. Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Grant Projects
(2009) Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Religion. Internal grant of Palacký University Olomouc. Project Nr. 91210004.
(2011-2013) Chances of Realist Epistemology in the Face of Modern Critique. Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). Project Nr. P401/11/0906. Leader Lukáš Novák.
(2013-2015) The Material Value Ethics of Max Scheler and Dietrich von Hildebrand. The European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic. Part of project Nr. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0041 (POST-UP II). Mentor Martin Cajthaml.
(2015-2017) The Phenomenological Ethics of Dietrich von Hildebrand. Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). Project Nr. 15-10061S. Leader Martin Cajthaml.
(2018-2020) Value and Teleology. Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). Project Nr. 18-068565. Leader Martin Cajthaml.