Crisis of rationality and modern thought












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            * Crisis of rationality and modern thought
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            Today, like always since the birth of our civilization, the crisis of rationality is annou

            in equal measure. There is, however, something specific about the contemporary shape of th
            discussion: in the footsteps of Enlightenment, it is believed that rationality shall play 
            not only, for instance, in rational choice theory, but also in ethics and political theory

            sets the questions of our project: What are the contemporary forms of both rationality and
            of its crisis? How, beyond the discourse of humanities, does art reflect this situation, a
            role of religion today? What are the implications of these questions for a renewed, perhap

            rationalistic, foundations of ethics?
            To address these issues, the research team, associated with the Institute of Philosophy an

            Studies, has three thematic sub-groups: (1) Rationality Crisis and Contemporary Philosophy
            Science, (2) Religion and Rationality, (3) Genealogy of Rationality and Its Crises. This s
            for a smooth continuity with several research projects, including the multi-disciplinary p

            Q14 Rationality Crisis and Modern Thought.




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            * Key collaborators

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            • (1) Miroslav Petříček [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1079518816624904/?la
            • Jakub Čapek [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1870690897942593/?lang=en"]

            • Ondřej Švec [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1577356783772516/?lang=en"]
            • Vojtěch Kolman [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1807325318101501/?lang=en"]
            • (2) Radek Chlup [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1252662730614687/?lang=en"

            • (3) Pavel Kouba [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1298830530248168/?lang=en"
            • Jindřich Karásek [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1095335017666652/?lang=en
            • Štěpán Špinka [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1519807054830637/?lang=en"]

            • James Hill [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1308875984171669/?lang=en"]
            • Jan Palkoska [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1387816862729965/?lang=en"]
            • Jakub Jirsa [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1661779405889735/?lang=en"]





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            * Selected outputs
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            • Chlup, R., Proclus: an introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
            • Kolman, V., Zahlen, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
            • Palkoska, J., The a priori in the thought of Descartes: cognition, method and science. N

              Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.