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What is SIF?

"SIF" stands for "Středoevropský Institut Filosofie" ("The Central-European Institute of Philosophy"). The Institute promotes philosophy and transdisciplinary research. It achieves its goals through a specific curriculum and research, emphasizing the transdisciplinary and intercultural aspects and international cooperation. Furthermore,it hosts workshops and conferences,participates in several publishing activities and promotes the exchange of students and professors.

AUC Interpretationes: Eugen Fink and French Phenomenology

Published on November 27th, 2025

The latest issue of AUC Interpretationes, “Eugen Fink and French Phenomenology: Meontics – Philosophy – Cosmology,” has been published as an output of the grant “Eugen Fink and the French Phenomenology.” It is available here.

Weltdenken and New Ontologies

Published on September 16th, 2025

Workshop

22.–23. September 2025 Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften, Karls-Universität Pátkova 2137/5, 182 00 Prag 8 Raum YT242

Plakat mit Programm

Differential Anthropology: World-antecedence, Coexistence and Nature in Eugen Fink and Jan Patočka

Published on October 11th, 2024

A bilateral German-Czech research grant project “Differential Anthropology: World-antecedence, Coexistence and Nature in Eugen Fink and Jan Patočka” supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Czech Science Foundation (project no. 24-13817L). Supervised by Professor Alexander Schnell at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and Professor Hans Rainer Sepp at the Charles University, Faculty of Humanties.

October 2024 – September […]

Autour du concept de l'institution

Published on February 4th, 2024

L’oeuvre de Maurice Merleau-Ponty en débat

Prague, le 5 février 2024, de 10 au 17 houres dans Akademické konferenční centrum, Husova 4a, Praha 1

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Die Grenze denken

Published on December 1st, 2023

Kolloquium am 07. und 08. Dezember 2023

Středoevropský institut pro filosofii (SIF) | Mitteleuropäisches Institut für Philosophie Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta humanitních studií a Filosofický ústav Akademie věd České republiky

Ort: Akademisches Konferenz-Zentrum der Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik, Husová 4, Prag 1

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Hedwig Conrad-Martius. Max Scheler. Surrealismus

Published on October 12th, 2023

Workshop am 13. und 14. Oktober 2023

Středoevropský institut pro filosofii (SIF) | Central-European Institute for Philosophy Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta humanitních studií Pátkova 2137/5, 182 00 Praha 8 – Libeň

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Faces of Nature in Contemporary Phenomenology

Published on September 25th, 2023

CHALLENGES OF ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

October 5-6, 2023 Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1/1, Praha

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New books on philosophy of Jan Patočka

Published on September 23rd, 2023

Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Central-European Institute of Philosophy

invite to a presentation of new books on the philosophy of Jan Patočka:

James Dodd, The New School for Social Research, New York: The Heresies of Jan Patočka. Phenomenology, History, and Politics, Evanston, […]

Fink und die Französische Phänomenologie

Published on September 23rd, 2023

Internationales Forschungskolloquium 29.–30. September 2023 Villa Lanna, Prag

Plakat

Programm

Jan Patočka Memorial Medal for Hans Rainer Sepp

Published on May 6th, 2022

On May 5th, 2022 Hans Rainer Sepp received the Jan Patočka Memorial Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences for his long-term contribution to the development of research in the field of philosophy.

The Jan Patočka Memorial Medal is awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences to both Czech and foreign scholars who have significantly […]

 
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