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Centre for Ethics offers a vibrant and stimulating research environment in which a broad range of ethical topics are discussed. The Centre’s weekly seminars, various reading groups, the Centre Library, as well as the Conferences, Workshops and Intensive Seminars that the Centre organizes, make the Centre a productive place for short- or long-term research and study visits.

We welcome senior researchers, post-docs and PhD-students to spend time here as a visiting researcher and partake in the Centre’s activities and discussions.

Translations

Part of the Centre’s mission is to promote key works in analytical ethics and make them accessible to the Czech readership. We hope to provide translations with which students of all levels can easily work and which will reach an intelligent non-academic readership as well.

We are working on four volumes of translated articles and two monographs: 

 

Publications

For publications of the whole Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies see here.

Conferences & Workshops

Upcoming events:

  • workshop "Conflict beyond resolution: meta-ethical, normative, and applied perspectives" organized for the CoRe project, by Ondřej Beran, Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Niklas Forsberg, 27-28 August 2026. Invited speakers: 

    Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin), Megan Laverty (Columbia University), Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota).

For conferences and workshops of the whole Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies see here.

Library

Overview

Our library, primarily focused on Anglophone ethics, is an integral part of the Centre for Ethics. With 9000 different registered items, it is situated on the first floor in building G at the University of Pardubice campus. 

Partners

Strategic partnerships

The project Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value has two strategic partners. The strategic partnerships offer platform especially for exchange of visiting scholars and for students' mobility. Coorganising conferences is also envisaged, as well as collaboration on project activities. 

King's College London

University.of Melbourne

 

Other partner and friend institutions

Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value

Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value

Principal investigator: Mgr. Kamila Pacovská, Ph.D. / Doc. Ondřej Beran, Ph.D
Period: 01/12/2016 - 31/10/2022
Grant no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000425 (Operational Programme Research, Development and Education, call "Support of Excellent Research Teams")

 

Activities

Centre for Ethics offers a vibrant and stimulating research environment in which a broad range of ethical topics are discussed. Some of the regular activities at the Centre include:

 

Research Seminar

PhD Study Curriculum

Information for applicants (admission requirements, how to apply, etc.) is here.

 

PhD programme: Philosophy (new accreditation valid from ac. y. 2024/2025; older accreditation valid 2020/2021-2023/2024)