Selected Publications Books (incl. edited) (2014) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics. New York, NY: Routledge. [Co-edited with Lukáš Novák]. (2013) Ens rationis from Suárez to Caramuel: A Study in Scholasticism of the Baroque Era. New York, NY: Fordham University Press. (2012) Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic. Heusenstamm (Germany): Ontos Verlag. [Co-edited with Lukáš Novák, Prokop Sousedík and David Svoboda]. Book Chapters (2014) Transcendentales y categorías en la Metafísica de Suárez [with Jorge J. E. Gracia]. In: Right and Nature in the First and Second Scholasticism (Réncontres de philosophie médiévale 16), eds. Roberto Hofmeister Pich and A. Santiago Culleton, 449-458. Brepols: Turnhout. (2014) The Historical Non-Significance of Suárez s Theory of Beings of Reason: A Lesson From Hurtado. In Suárez's Metaphysics in its Systematic and Historical Context, ed Lukáš Novák, 183-207. Berlin: De Gruyter. (2013) Twenty Years after Suárez: Francisco de Araújo on the Nature, Existence, and Causes of Entia rationis. In Hircocervi & Other Metaphysical Wonders: Essays in Honor of John P. Doyle, ed. Victor M. Salas, 241 268. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. (2012) Teorie obecnin Sebastiana Izquierdo (1601-1681) In Problematika univerzálií v první a druhé scholastice, eds. Daniel Heider, David Svoboda, Lukáš Novák. České Budějovice: University of South Bohemia [in Czech]. (2012) Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics. In Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, eds. Lukáš Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík, David Svoboda, 27 47. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. (2012) Fundamentals in Suárez s Metaphysics: Transcendentals and Categories, [with Jorge Gracia] in: Schwartz, Daniel ed. Interpreting Suárez: A Collection of Critical Essays. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. (2009) Rubio and Suárez: A Comparative Study on the Nature of Entia Rationis, in Čemusová, Petra, ed. Proceedings of the International Conference Bohemia Jesuitica, Praha: Karolinum. 1
(2008) Ens rationis in Caramuel in Dvořák, Petr, and Jacob Schmutz, eds. Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz: The Last Scholastic Polymath, Praha: Filosofia 2008, pp. 71-84. (2006) Hume s Metaphysics: Aristotle vs. Gracia, in: Delfino, Robert, ed. What are We to Understand Gracia to Mean? New York, NY: Rodopi. Articles in Philosophical Journals (incl. Review Articles) (2011) Problémy s Tomášovou materiální teorií individuace, Aithér (Praha) 3 (6): 143 167 [in Czech]. (2011) Suarezova teorie pomyslných jsoucen a její recepce", Filozofia (Bratislava) 66 (1): 35 48 [in Czech]. (2011) Metafyzika mezi Aristotelem a Analytikou: Zpráva s otazníkem, Aithér (Praha) 3 (5): 303 329 [in Czech]. (2009) In Defense of Baroque Scholasticism, Studia Neoaristotelica 2 (VI), Praha: 209 233. (2008) Forty-Two Years after Suárez: Mastri and Belluto s Development of the Classical Theory of Entia Rationis, Quaestio: The Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics 8. (2007) Searle on the Unity of the World, Axiomathes. Journal of Ontology and Cognitive Science 1 (17): 41 51. (2007) How to Save Naturalism from Plantinga? Organon F, vol. XIV(2007), No. 1, Bratislava: 32 48. (2006) Prolegomena to a Study of Beings of Reason in Post-Suarezian Scholasticism, 1600 1650, Studia Neoaristotelica 2 (3), Praha: 117 141. (2005) Proper Names in Reference: Beyond Searle and Kripke, Organon F 3, XII, Bratislava: 241 259. (2005) Review of Martin Cajthaml s Analyse und Kritik des Relativismus, 2003. In: Studia Neoaristotelica 2, II, Praha: 254-259 [in Czech]. (2003) Review of Jorge Gracia s Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics, 1988. In: Organon F 4, X, Bratislava: 466-473 [in Czech]. (2000) Review of Tereza Saxlová s and Stanislav Sousedík s Rodrigo de Arriaga: Philosoph und Theologe, 1998. In: Acta Comeniana 14, XXXVIII, Praha: 239-243 [in German]. 2
Articles in Other Journals (2013) SNAP/SPAN in Basic Formal Ontology: An Aristotelian Suggestion. ProInflow 19.04.2013. http://pro.inflow.cz/snapspan-basic-formal-ontology-aristoteliansuggestion>. (2009) Současná křesťanská filosofie v USA a Velké Británii: Dojmy a postřehy [coauthored with Vlastimil Vohánka], Salve (Praha) 19 (2): 53 71 [in Czech]. (2007) What is Terrorism? in: Linden, Edward V., ed. Focus on Terrorism 8, ch. 2, pp. 23-32. (ISBN: 1-60021-315-4). (2005) An Ontology for Carcinoma Classification for Clinical Bioinformatics, [with Anand Kumar, Y. Lina Yip, Barry Smith, Dirk Marwede] Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2005), Stud Health Technol Inform; 116:635-40. (2004) Biomedical Informatics and Granularity, [with Anand Kumar and Barry Smith] Comparative and Functional Genomics 5: 501-508. Reports and Other Publications (2011) Co měl Laozi v úmyslu říci? Chanova hermeneutická výzva. Fragmenta Ioannea Collecta Supplementa 2011/3: 47-64. (2010) Byl Laozi taoistou? Kirklandova výzva. Fragmenta Ioannea Collecta Supplementa 2010/3: 231 242 [in Czech]. (2010) Projekt Příroda, krajina a lidé pospolu zahajuje. [Co-authored with Rostislav Fellner, Barbora Machovcová, Robert Bargel, and Olga Mokrejšová]. Fragmenta Ioannea Collecta Supplementa 2010/3: 195 202 [in Czech]. (2010) Příroda jako kulturní problém: Poznámka k RVP. Fragmenta Ioannea Collecta Supplementa 2010/3: 13 20 [in Czech]. (2009) Člověk a jeho hodnoty: Prolegomenon k ekologické výchově. Fragmenta Ioannea Collecta: 11 17 [in Czech]. (2009) Report of the Rabbi Maharal Conference, Prague. Studia Neoaristotelica 2 (VI), Praha: 302 307. (2009) Report of the conference Suárez s Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematical Context, Prague. Filosofický časopis 3 (LVII): 469 474 [in Czech]. (2008) Zpráva z Konference Schizma filozofie 20. století. Překonávání metafyziky? Reflexe 35: 137-142 [in Czech]. 3
(2006) Report of the Caramuel Conference, Prague. Studia Neoaristotelica 2 (3), Praha: 191-195. Awards, Honors, Fellowships Post-doctoral Fellowship in "Analytical Scholasticism", University of South Bohemia, 2012-2015 (Rozvoj postdoktorandských pozic na JU, CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0049) Thomas M. Perry Price for Outstanding Dissertation, University of Buffalo, 2010. Fellowship of John Hus Foundation, Masaryk University Brno, 2008 2009. College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, SUNY at Buffalo, 2007 2008. Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science [IFOMIS] Research Fellowship, Universität Leipzig (2004, one semester), Universität Saarland (2004 2005, two semesters). Dean's Scholarship, SUNY at Buffalo (2001 2006, eight semesters); Research and Teaching Assistantships, SUNY at Buffalo (2001 2006, eight semesters); Hourani Scholarship, SUNY at Buffalo (2001 2006, eight semesters); Fürst Franz Josef Stipendium, IAP Liechtenstein (1999 2000, three semesters); Research Grants The Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia (GA JU) Tradice, proměny tradice, setkání tradic, 112/2013/H, main applicant: Jaroslav Vokoun. Czech Science Foundation (Grantová agentura ČR), Spory o irrealitu v poststředověké filosofii, P401/11/P020. The Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, January 2008 December 2010 (Project no. IAA 908280801: Metafyzika v současné analytické filosofii a její souvislosti s metafyzikou novodobého aristotelismu, main applicant: Prokop Sousedík. Mark Diamond Research Fund, SUNY at Buffalo, 2006 2007 (Project: Baroque Libraries of the Czech Republic). Education Grants Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, March 2010 August 2011 (Project CZ.1.07/1.1.00/08.0028 OP Vzdělání pro konkurenceschopnost: "Příroda, krajina a lidé v rámci vzdělávání pro udržitelný rozvoj", main applicant: Dr. Rostislav Fellner 4
Czech-German Fund of the Future, September 2011 September 2012 (Project: 8 11 2096 Češi, Němci a Židé - setkávání na Vintířově stezce, main applicant: Mgr. Václav Diviš. Teaching and Other Professional Experience University of South Bohemia (in Czech): Úvod do filosofického myšlení (ZS 2006/07), Filosofie náboženství (LS 2006/07), Četba antické filosofie (ZS 2011/12), Platónovo pojetí dialektiky (LS 2011/12), Platón a platonismus (LS 2011/12), Aristotelés (LS 2011/12), Antická filosofie jako životní cesta (ZS 2012/13), Antická filosofie (ZS 2012/13), Filosofie a společnost (ZS 2012/13), Filosofie a věda (ZS 2012/13), Aristotelés (LS 2012/13), Aristotelský filosofický systém (LS 2012/13), Jsoucno a nejsoucno v antické filosofii (ZS 2013/14), Seminář z antické filosofie (ZS 2013/14), Filosofie a společnost (ZS 2013/14), Filosofie a věda (ZS 2013/14), Zrod dialektiky v antické filosofii (LS 2013/14) University of Buffalo: PHI 101 Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2002), PHI 107 Ethics (Spring 2004), PHI 108 Knowledge and Reality (Spring 2003), PHI 115 Critical Thinking (Fall 2003), PHI 215 Introduction to Deductive Logic (Fall 2005), PHI 337 Social and Medical Values in Medicine (Spring 2006). Trappist Monastery Nový Dvůr (accredited by Athaeneum in Rome) (in Czech): Readings in Aquinas (Summer/Fall 2007 and Spring 2008). Oslo and Akershus University College: History of Philosophy (as a part of the summerschool Philosophy in Pre-school organized by Beate Børresen and Bo Malmhester) (July 2012) St. John s College in Sv. Jan p. Skalou (Beroun): various introductory classes in philosophy and ethics with the focus on P4C (from 2007 to 2011) Besides working as a university teacher I was employed as a part-time guide in the museum Mountain Synagogue Hartmanice (from 2007 to 2012), which involved among other things organizing various cultural and educational activities. I wrote several referee reports for ACPQ, Filosofický časopis (Praha), Studia Neoaristotelica (before becoming the editor, of course), and Studia Theologica (Olomouc). I know fairly well Czech, English, German and 5
Latin and I have some rudimentary knowledge of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Russian, and Chinese. 6