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What is SIF?

"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.

Research

  • 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 the context of a renewed interest in philosophical-anthropological issues, the problem whether a super-ordinated ...
  • 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
  • Fink und die Französische Phänomenologie. Meontik – Philosophie – Kosmologie
    Internationales Forschungskolloquium 29.–30. September 2023 Villa Lanna, Prag Plakat Programm
  • Approches étique de la nature et la phénoménologie française
    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 Program
  • 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 by pulling things out of the world and by transforming them into manipulated objects. ...
  • 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 Sepp at SIF. The project examines the influence that Eugen Fink’s thought has had on ...
  • Leib und Literatur
    Leib und Literatur – philosophische Perspektiven eine Konferenz in Kiel 15.-16.6.2019 Programm der Tagung
  • The World and the Real
    An International Conference organized by the Central European Institute of Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University Prague and the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Venue: Prague 1, Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a Dates: June 12-14, 2018. Download Program
  • Philosophie und Literatur
    Internationale Gemeinschaftstagung des Instituts für Deutsche und Französische Philosophie Faculty of Humanities, Charles University und des Philosophischen Seminars der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 15. und 16. Juni 2018 Charles University Prag Programme herunterladen
  • Journée d’études « Recherches lévinasiennes »
    15 juin 2016 Faculté des sciences humaines de l’Université Charles de Prague U Kříže 8, Prague 5 salle 1036 Programme