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"SIF" stands for "Středoevropský Institut Filosofie" ("The Central-European Institute of Philosophy"). The Institute promotes philosophy and transdisciplinary research. It achieves its goals through a specific curriculum and research, emphasizing the transdisciplinary and intercultural aspects and international cooperation. Furthermore,it hosts workshops and conferences,participates in several publishing activities and promotes the exchange of students and professors.

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  • Differential Anthropology: World-antecedence, Coexistence and Nature in Eugen Fink and Jan Patočka

    A bilateral German-Czech research grant project “Differential Anthropology: World-antecedence, Coexistence and Nature in Eugen Fink and Jan Patočka” supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Czech Science Foundation (project no. 24-13817L). Supervised by Professor Alexander Schnell at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and Professor Hans Rainer Sepp at the Charles University, Faculty of Humanties. October 2024 – September 2027 Abstract In ...

  • Autour du concept de l’institution

    L’oeuvre de Maurice Merleau-Ponty en débat Prague, le 5 février 2024, de 10 au 17 houres dans Akademické konferenční centrum, Husova 4a, Praha 1 détails ici

  • Die Grenze denken. Anschlüsse an Kitaro Nishida und Eugen Fink

    Kolloquium am 07. und 08. Dezember 2023 Středoevropský institut pro filosofii (SIF) | Mitteleuropäisches Institut für Philosophie Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta humanitních studií a Filosofický ústav Akademie věd České republiky Ort: Akademisches Konferenz-Zentrum der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, Husová 4, Prag 1 das Programm herunterladen

  • Hedwig Conrad-Martius. Max Scheler. Surrealismus

    Workshop am 13. und 14. Oktober 2023 Středoevropský institut pro filosofii (SIF) | Central-European Institute for Philosophy Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta humanitních studií Pátkova 2137/5, 182 00 Praha 8 – Libeň Das Programm herunterladen

  • Faces of Nature in Contemporary Phenomenology

    CHALLENGES OF ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE October 5-6, 2023 Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1/1, Praha Download the program Download the poster

  • New books on philosophy of Jan Patočka

    Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Central-European Institute of Philosophy invite to a presentation of new books on the philosophy of Jan Patočka: James Dodd, The New School for Social Research, New York: The Heresies of Jan Patočka. Phenomenology, History, and Politics, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, ...

  • Fink und die Französische Phänomenologie. Meontik – Philosophie – Kosmologie

    Internationales Forschungskolloquium 29.–30. September 2023 Villa Lanna, Prag Plakat Programm

  • Jan Patočka Memorial Medal for Hans Rainer Sepp

    On May 5th, 2022 Hans Rainer Sepp received the Jan Patočka Memorial Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences for his long-term contribution to the development of research in the field of philosophy. The Jan Patočka Memorial Medal is awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences to both Czech and foreign scholars who have significantly contributed ...

  • Faces of nature: phenomenology and ecology

    Workshop Organized by the research project “Face of Nature in Contemporary French Phenomenology” (GAP 21-22224S) at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy See the program

  • Neuere Forschungen zu Fink

    Internationales Forschungskolloquium 12.–13. November 2021 Villa Lanna, Prag Tagungsprogramm

  • Das erste Kolloquium zur Oikologie

    Unter dem Titel “Haushaltungen. Erprobungen des oikologischen Denkens” fand am 30. September und am 1. Oktober 2021 im neuen Gebäude der Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften in Prag-Libeň das erste Kolloquium zur Oikologie statt, das künftig regelmäßig veranstaltet wird. Online zugeschaltet waren Teilnehmende aus Russland, Südamerika und Afrika. Tagungsprogramm

  • The “Face of Nature” in Contemporary French Phenomenology

    Grant project “The “Face of Nature” in Contemporary French Phenomenology. The Challenges of a New Meta-Ethics and Ecology” (GAP 21-22224S). July 2021 – June 2024 Husserl’s diagnose of the crisis of man becomes eminently actual once we understand it as the crisis both of man and of nature. For modern science has achieved such a success ...

  • Research Project: Eugen Fink and French Phenomenology

    From 2021 to 2023, the SIF is conducting a three-year research project on Eugen Fink and French phenomenology in cooperation with the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, which is bilaterally funded by the DFG and GAČR. Cathrin Nielsen, Alessio Rotundo and Alexander Schnell are participating at Bergische Universität Wuppertal and Lutz Niemann, Karel Novotny and Hans Rainer ...

  • Leib und Literatur

    Leib und Literatur – philosophische Perspektiven eine Konferenz in Kiel 15.-16.6.2019 Programm der Tagung

  • Husserl-Lecture Award for H. R. Sepp

    The German Society for phenomenological Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung) awarded prof. Hans Rainer Sepp by inviting him to deliver the Husserl-Lecture at the Husserl working days (Husserl-Arbeitstage) in Cologne, October 18th, 2018. Details (in German)