Mgr. Jan Makovský, Ph.D.

After studying philosophy and French philology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Palacký University in Olomouc, he received his doctorate under the supervision of Petr Vopěnka and Michel Fichant at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of ZČU in Pilsen and at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He was a Fulbright scholar at Loyola University in Baltimore.

His research interests include the philosophy of the infinite, especially in Descartes, Pascal and Leibniz, the question of the infinitesimal and the geometrization of nature, and the impact of mechanistic thinking on the contemporary situation of man in nature.

Selected bibliography:

Makovský, Jan (2023): Markýz de l'Hospital a Analýza nekonečně malých,

Praha, Filosofia, p. 480 (in print).

Zellini, Paolo; trans.: , ; Makovský, Jan (2023): Stručné dějiny nekonečna

Praha, Academia, p. 280, (in prep.).

Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm; trans.: , ; Makovský, Jan ; Škára, M. (2020): Discours de métaphysique. Metafyzická rozprava,

Praha, OIKOYMENH, p. 120.

Makovský, Jan (2020): The Renaissance of Numbers: on Continuity, Nature of Complex Numbers and the Symbolic Turn

In: Aither 23/2020 (International issue no. 7):58-85 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2020.005

Makovský, Jan (2019): Cusanus and Leibniz: Symbolic Explorations of Infinity as a Ladder to God

In: Simon J.G. Burton, Joshua Hollmann, Eric M. Parker (eds.), Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform, Leiden - Boston, Brill, p. 450-484

Makovský, Jan (2019): Entre la nature et l’analyse: essai sur l’histoire de la loi de continuité au XVIIIe siècle,

in: Makovský, Jan (ed.); Leibniz et leibnizianismes, Hors-série, Filosofický časopis, Praha, Filosofia, p. 105–127.

Makovský, Jan (2019): G. W. Leibniz, Pacidius Philalethi. Pacidius Philalethovi

Transl. J. Makovský, Oikoymenh: Praha 2019.

Makovský, Jan ; (ed.), (2019): Leibniz et leibnizianismes, Hors-série,

Filosofický časopis, Praha, Filosofia, p. 220.

Makovský, Jan (2019): Pacidius v labyrintu kontinua,

In: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Pacidius Philalethi. Pacidius Philaléthovi, Praha, OIKOYMENH, p. 131—330.

Makovský, Jan (2018): K otázce dialogu v Leibnizově myšlení,

In: Filozofia, 7 (2018), p. 540–554.

Makovský, Jan (2018): Pascalova předmluva k pojednání o prázdnu,

In: Reflexe 55 (2018), p. 107–125.

Makovský, Jan (2014): The New Geometry of Francesco Patrizi

In: Nejeschleba T., Blum P. R. (eds.), Francesco Patrizi the Philosopher of the Renaissance, Olomouc, p. 295-313.

Makovský, Jan (2013): Leibniz: mystika rozumu II

In: Studia Comeniana et historica 43, č. 89-90