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dr. Willem A. deVries - 4/2023 - 6/2023 - Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Dr. Willem Anton deVries is an emeritus Professor at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (USA). He was a visiting assistant professor at Harvard University, Tufts University and Amherst College. He works also as a referree for many prestigious journals focused on Philosophy.

Dr. deVries is the author of dozens of reviewed articles and reviews. "Hegel's Theory of Mental Activity", "Reality, Knowledge, and the Good Life: An Historical Introduction to Philosophy", "Knowledge, Mind, and the Given: A Reading of Sellars’ “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”", "Wilfrid Sellars" or "Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars" are the books he has on his account.

You can find an interview with dr. deVries here.

 

prof. Paul John Shore - 2/2022 - 6/2022 - Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archival Studies

North American historian of Eastern European, church and early modern cultural history. Prof. Paul John Shore (1956–2023) was the author of several monographs and dozens of studies, he was one of the few experts in the US who devoted himself to these areas of research. He studied M.A. at Yale University and a PhD at Stanford University. He taught history and pedagogy at several universities not only in the US or Canada, but also in Budapest, Wien or Prague. Prof. Shore's most important activity was related to the activity of the Jesuits in Eastern Europe before 1814. In recent years, was interested in the relationship of the Jesuits to Islamic teachings and the Koran. 

In the West, these works earned him recognition and a reputation as a connoisseur, which was reflected in his collaboration with renowned publishing houses publishing books on religious history and the history of education in the early modern period. He often wrote his texts for collective monographs published by the Brill publishing house. In addition, he did a review work, contributed to various newspapers, preached in Anglican churches and also published poetry in the 1990s. He also organized several exhibitions.

Listen to the UHKaFFé podcast with prof. Shore here or interview within #2 Academy Talk with Professor Paul Shore. 

 

Mgr. Katarína Komenská, Ph.D. - 01/2019-06/2019 - Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Dr Komenská completed her doctoral studies of Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy and Ethics at the Philosophical Faculty, University of Prešov in 2013. At present she works as an assistant professor at the Institute.

Her research interest lies in issues related to bioethics (humanitarian ethics, medical ethics, ethics of the relationship to animals) and their solution through the optics of consequentialist ethical theories. In relation to this, she started to focus on moral motivation (as part of the process of the ethical decision-making and management). In her opinion, this requires searching for a synthesis between the psychological and ethical understanding of the phenomenon, which may, in the future, strengthen the opportunities for the development of the professional (and ethical) competences of the medical staff.

Her publications include her monograph Ethics of Relationship to Animals (seen through the ethics of social consequences) and co-authorship on collective monographs A. Ahmad & J. Smith (eds.): Humanitarian Action and Ethics (2018); V. Gluchman (ed.): Ethics of Social Consequences. Philosophical.

In the past she has completed several research and study stays abroad: University of Bolton, UK; Berlin - Buch, Germany; Centre of Applied Ethics, University of Linkoping, Sweden, St. George's University of London, UK; but also many other domestic and foreign journeys connected with scientific research activities and their presentation in scientific forums all over Europe.

 

 

Prof. Dr. Béla Tomka - 09/2018-02/2019 - Institute of History

Prof. Dr. Tomka is a professor at the Department of History of the University of Szeged.

His main area of research is the social and economic history of the 20^th century, with particular emphasis on the international comparison. At the University of Hradec Králové, he will continue in the project analysing the quality of life in Central and Eastern Europe from 1918 into the new millennium.

Within the social and economic history of the 20^th century of Hungary and Europe, his research focused on population changes, family patterns and the welfare state. His recent works concentrate on the comparative history of the economic growth, consumption and quality of life in Central and Eastern Europe.

He has been co-author of Aetas, the Quarterly Journal of History and Related Disciplines, and at the same time a member of other editorial boards of academic periodicals (Esély, Journal of Social Policy, Hungarian Historical Review) since 1992. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Social History of István Hajnal Company. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Social History (ISHA, Amsterdam) and he has been an editor of that association since 2011. He is also an external founding member of the Ph.D. programme of Social and Economic History at Eötvös University (ELTE, Budapest).

He has been invited several times by research institutes and universities in Europe and North America as a researcher and visiting professor, including in Amsterdam, Mannheim, Berlin, Oxford, Edinburgh, Portland (OR) and Jena.

He is the author of 14 books and editor of several other volumes, as well as of a number of scientific articles. His major awards include the Bolyai Award for Outstanding Scientific Contributions (2010) of the Bolyai Foundation in Budapest, the Academy Award (for outstanding scientific achievements) acquired by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2010, and the Outstanding Academic Title 2013, Award by Choice, by the American Library Association (for social history of the twentieth-century Europe, London and New York: Routledge, 2013).

 

Dr. Mark Winden Risjord - 11/2018 - 05/2019 - Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Mark W. Risjord is a professor at Emory University where he teaches at the Institute for Liberal Arts and at the School of Nursing. In 1990 he received a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been cooperating with the Department of Philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty since 2012. He has published 40 essays and three books: Lumberjacks and Witchcraft: Rationality and Interpretative Change in Social Sciences, Nursing Knowledge: Science, Practice and Philosophy and Philosophy of Social Sciences, Contemporary Introduction. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Philosophy of Social Sciences and Philosophy of Nursing. Professor Risjord was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Hradec Králové in the academic year 2011-12.

Professor Risjord's research is part of the “Inferentialism and Collective Intentionality” project, which is funded by the Czech Science Foundation and the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Ladislav Koren and Hans Bernhard Schmid Co-PIs. He works on a book project and develops a minimalist approach to the joint action that is in line with the requirements of inferentiality. Professor Risjord is also working on an inferentialist interpretation of the explanation along with the co-authors Kare Khalifa and Jared Milson.