Prof. PhDr. Ondrej Mészáros, CSc.
Ondrej Mészáros was born in 1949. After graduating from high school in 1967, he studied philosophy and Hungarian at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava from 1968 to 1973. He joined the Institute of Philosophy (then the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology) in 1983. Initially, he focused on social philosophy with a special emphasis on issues of social time. After 1993, he returned to his original research focus: the history of philosophy in former Upper Hungary and the contacts between Slovak and Hungarian philosophy. Throughout his time at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, he was assigned to the Department of the History of Philosophical and Political Thought and as…
Prof. PhDr. František Novosád, CSc.
František Novosád is a prominent figure in Slovak philosophy, and his work has shaped the philosophical discourse in Slovakia for several decades. Prof. Novosád has made his most significant contributions in the fields of social and political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, and the history of philosophy. Novosád has been a member of the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 1987, and from 1990 to 2020 he served as the head of the Department of Social Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology. He also worked as editor-in-chief of the journal Filozofia (1990–2006). In his work, Novosád engages in dialogue with the philosophical traditions of 19th and 20th century—especially with German Idealism, positivism, neo-Kantianism, the philosophy of life, phenomenology, and Marxism. Among the key thinkers he dealt with in his writings are M. Weber, E. Cassirer, M. Heidegger, G.W.F. Hegel, K. Marx, L. Wittgenstein, and C. Schmitt.
Prof. PhDr. Tibor Pichler, CSc.
Tibor Pichler was born in Bratislava on March 3, 1949. After graduating from high school (1967), he studied history and philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava (until 1972). After completing his university studies, he joined the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1972), where he underwent scientific training. He obtained his PhD in philosophy in 1980. Between 1990 and 1995, he led scientific projects focused on research into Slovak philosophical and political thought. He habilitated in 2000 and was inaugurated in 2003 in the field of history of philosophy.
From 1994 to 2019, he held the position of director of the Institute of Philosophy…
Prof. PhDr. Jozef Viceník, CSc.
Jozef Viceník is a renowned and respected methodologist and philosopher of science. J. Viceník was born on December 11, 1941, in Trnava. He worked at the Department of Logic at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava; he was appointed university professor in the field in 2000. He also served as vice-dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, headed the Department of Logic and Methodology of Science (1984–1988), and directed the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (since 1990, the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences). He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences until 2013. J. Viceník led several successful projects and…