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Haluzík, Radan (2024): „Dům z jablek: Diskurzy v podhoubí jednoho superorganismu: Jablko-plantážo-dům“
In: Fulínová, Eliška a Kvíčalová, Anna (eds. a kol.) Antropocennosti: průvodce světem antropocénu. Praha: Academia 2024. s. 140-153. ISBN: 978-80-200-3484-7
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13. 6. 2025 - Invitation to an online webinar with participants from CTS:
Environmental Law and Politics between Skepticism and ActivismDate: 24. 6. 2025, 2 pm – 4 pm CET (1 pm – 3 pm GMT) Online: organized by Centre for Theoretical Study (Charles University / Czech Academy of Sciences) and the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) [School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University].
Environmental law is a field that communicates more with non-legal experts compared to other fields of law. Moreover, it also communicates with experts from the natural sciences, whose approach to truth, facticity, and normativity differs from the approaches in politics and law. Natural sciences are typical for their vigilant approach and careful confirmation of hypotheses. Law and politics, however, are social subsystems in which there is a need to decide; and decisions sometimes cannot wait for the vigilance of the natural sciences. In the case of environmental issues, there are also pressing questions around climate change that provide a space for various political narratives. Thus, environmental law and politics are situated between the millstones of skepticism and activism. However, such an in-between location of law and politics can inform both skepticism and activism that they have substantial limits.
What are the problems which lawmakers face while listening to both sceptic and activist discourses? What are the limits of skepticism and activism considering both the character of environmental law and environmental reality? Is there a simple equation of science with skepticism and politics with activism, or is there something like scientific activism and political skepticism? These questions will be posed during an interdisciplinary roundtable in cooperation with academic centers from Charles University and Cardiff University.
Confirmed discussants: Jan Géryk, Zdeněk Konopásek, Ben Pontin, David Storch, Irena Šímová, Anna Tószögyová.
Link to the event: Microsoft Teams Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 310 602 959 811 3 Passcode: XF9s9eK3
Environmental Law and Politics between Skepticism and ActivismDate: 24. 6. 2025, 2 pm – 4 pm CET (1 pm – 3 pm GMT) Online: organized by Centre for Theoretical Study (Charles University / Czech Academy of Sciences) and the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) [School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University].
Environmental law is a field that communicates more with non-legal experts compared to other fields of law. Moreover, it also communicates with experts from the natural sciences, whose approach to truth, facticity, and normativity differs from the approaches in politics and law. Natural sciences are typical for their vigilant approach and careful confirmation of hypotheses. Law and politics, however, are social subsystems in which there is a need to decide; and decisions sometimes cannot wait for the vigilance of the natural sciences. In the case of environmental issues, there are also pressing questions around climate change that provide a space for various political narratives. Thus, environmental law and politics are situated between the millstones of skepticism and activism. However, such an in-between location of law and politics can inform both skepticism and activism that they have substantial limits.
What are the problems which lawmakers face while listening to both sceptic and activist discourses? What are the limits of skepticism and activism considering both the character of environmental law and environmental reality? Is there a simple equation of science with skepticism and politics with activism, or is there something like scientific activism and political skepticism? These questions will be posed during an interdisciplinary roundtable in cooperation with academic centers from Charles University and Cardiff University.
Confirmed discussants: Jan Géryk, Zdeněk Konopásek, Ben Pontin, David Storch, Irena Šímová, Anna Tószögyová.
Link to the event: Microsoft Teams Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 310 602 959 811 3 Passcode: XF9s9eK3
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V nakladatelství Filosofia vychází další kolektivní monografie založená na mezioborové rozpravě v seminářích CTS Spor o pravdu (Jan Frei, Kateřina Trlifajová et al).Dvanáct kapitol vzešlých z této diskuse chce ukázat, jak se pravda skrytě „děje“ tam, kde se matematik, fyzik, archeolog, ekonom, biolog, filosof, historik umění či tvůrce uměleckého díla zabývá obvyklými předměty své činnosti, aniž přitom o pravdě samé výslovně přemýšlí. Další informace o knize zde. (created 13. 12. 2016)
V nakladatelství Academia vychází výpravná monografie Afrika zevnitř, na které se podíleli Petr Pokorný a David Storch z CTS.
Píše se v ní o vysychání Sahary, která ještě docela nedávno, před sedmi tisíciletími, nebyla pouští, ale obydlenou savanou s mnoha jezery a spoustou zvířat. V průběhu vysychání se z původních lovců a sběračů postupně stávali pastevci, občas zemědělci a místy dokonce vznikaly vyspělé civilizace. Mnohé civilizace později zanikly a také dnes se situace dramaticky proměňuje. ... Více informací o knize zde. (created 1. 11. 2016)
CTS pořádá v rámci Týdne vědy a techniky 2016 přednášku Člověk versus příroda. Přednáška se bude konat 3. listopadu 2016 od 10 hod. a bude prezentovat výsledky výzkumu, který má ambice oddělit vliv zemědělství na ekosystémy od vlivu přirozených změn v přírodě. Více informací zde
(created 26. 9. 2016)
Finally in English, the first book explicitly dedicated to the groundbreaking topic of the life-world -
The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem.
(created 31. 8. 2016)
Rector of Charles University in Prague announces an opening at the Center for Theoretical Study for the position:
Postdoctoral researcher interested in one of the disciplines developed at the CTS, and open for transdisciplinary interactions and the dialogue between natural sciences and humanities/social sciences. The position is for 2 years.
Requirements: Completed Ph.D. study, preferably within 3 years after the awarded Ph.D. (or equivalent title), fluent English, demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities.
Required documents: A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics, professional CV, list of publications, copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmaton of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission.
Expected starting date is 1st November 2016.
Applications for the position may be delivered to the address: Centrum pro teoretická studia, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, or via e-mail office@cts.cuni.cz until 30th September 2016. For detailed information call +420 222 220 671, or send the email. (created 1. 6. 2016)
Postdoctoral researcher interested in one of the disciplines developed at the CTS, and open for transdisciplinary interactions and the dialogue between natural sciences and humanities/social sciences. The position is for 2 years.
Requirements: Completed Ph.D. study, preferably within 3 years after the awarded Ph.D. (or equivalent title), fluent English, demonstrated experience in sciences or humanities.
Required documents: A letter of intent together with a proposal of suggested research activities, specifying the links to CTS research topics, professional CV, list of publications, copy of the Ph.D. diploma or the confirmaton of the defence of Ph.D. dissertation or its submission.
Expected starting date is 1st November 2016.
Applications for the position may be delivered to the address: Centrum pro teoretická studia, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, or via e-mail office@cts.cuni.cz until 30th September 2016. For detailed information call +420 222 220 671, or send the email. (created 1. 6. 2016)
Can people change the ecological rules that appear general across space? More about this article
here
(created 30. 5. 2016)
The conference "Philosophie, Geschichte, Politik. Europa und die Sorge für die Seele" takes place in CTS on 31st March - 1st April 2016. Program and more information available here.
(created 22. 3. 2016)
V úterý 23. února 2016 od 14 hod. v Akademickém konferenčním centru, Husova 1, Praha 1 se bude konat prezentace knih o Janu Patočkovi. Více informací zde.
(created 22. 2. 2016)
Ve dnech 17.-19. června 2016 se na hradě Pirkštejn bude konat 18. pracovní konference BIOGRAFU, časopisu nejen pro biografickou a reflexivní sociologii. Registrace otevřena, více informacích na stránkách konference
(created 17. 2. 2016)
On the decline of biodiversity due to area loss by Petr Keil, David Storch (CTS) & Walter Jetz (Yale) in Nature Communications! The authors show that extinction estimates based on endemics–area and backward species–area relationships are complementary, and the crucial difference comprises the geometry of area loss. Download here
(created 25. 11. 2015)