Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2002-1
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Klemensova 19,
813 64 Bratislava 1
Tel.: +421 2 529 61 527
Fax: +421 2 529 21 215
E-mail: filosekr@klemens.savba.sk
Internet: http://klemens.savba.sk/fiusav/
Management: Pichler, Tibor Dr. (director)
filotrpr@klemens.savba.skYear
of foundation: 1946
Staff: in general 25 staff (of them 20 researchers)
Organization: The institute has a Scientific Council. The head is
Prof. Dr. Jozef Viceník.
History: Founded in 1946 within the Slovak Academy of Sciences and
Arts, continuing within the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1953, 1975-1990
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, re-established in 1990. In the 90es new
research programmes in social and political philosophy; logic and analytical
philosophy;
Departments:
* Logic and Methodology of Science. Head: PhDr. Jan Dubnička, CSc.
* Social and Political Philosophy. Head: Prof. PhDr. Frabti[sinvcircumflex]ek
Novosad, CSc.
* History of Slovak Thought. Doc. PhDr. Tibor Pichler, CSc.
Research fields: Logic and methodology of science social and political
philosophy phenomenology history of thought (philosophical and political) in
Slovakia.
Research projects:
* Culture as Dimension of Social Order. (Duration:
1999-2001, Head: Franti[sinvcircumflex]ek Novosad.
The project focuses on the analysis of integrative force of norms and value
systems in society and their relation to the pragmatic and utilitarian moments
of social life. The emphasis will be given on the interpretative capacity
present in the classical philosophy, particularly in work of I. Kant and G. W.
F. Hegel.
* The Development of Logic and Methodology of Sciences in Slovakia after
1918. (Duration: 2000-2002, Head: Pavel Cmorej.
The core of this research project is to review the development of logic and
methodology of sciences after 1918 in Slovakia with emphasis upon the factual
and critical expositions of problems which were the objects of logical and
methodological analyses.
* Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Scientific Knowledge.
(Duration: 2000-2002, Head: Jan Dubnička)
The project focuses on the research of ontological, epistemological and
methodological foundations of contemporary structures of scientific knowledge,
their new conceptual apparatuses and principles.
* Jan Patočka, His Predecessors and Heirs. (Duration:
2000-2002; Head: Jozef Sivak) Research focused on phenomenology in
Czechoslovakia in its Czech and German linguistic versions.
* Currents of Thought and Traditions in 19th and 20th
Century Slovakia. (Duration: 2001-2003; Head: Tibor Pichler)
The project aims at contributing to the knowledge of the character of social
and political ideas in Slovakia, to the knowledge of style, forms and
constitutive elements of the ideological thought in 19th and 20th
centuries.
Publications:
Journals published by the Institute:
* Filozofia (Editor-in-Chief Franti[sinvcircumflex]ek Novosad) covers
a wide range of areas: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, history of philosophy,
social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind; published 10 times a year;
abstracts and contents in English; articles in Slovak, Czech and English;
founded in 1946, many times renamed.
* Organon F (Editor-in-Chief Pavel Cmorej) is a journal for analytic
philosophy, ontology, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of
natural and social sciences; quarterly, abstracts and contents in English,
articles in Slovak, Czech and English; founded 1994.
Place of publication: Bratislava
Publication dates: twice a year since 2000
Published and edited by: Research Center of Slovak Foreign Policy
Association
Panenska 33,
811 03 Bratislava
Tel.: +421 2 5443 3151
Fax: +421 2 5443 3161
E-mail: lukac@sfpa.sk
Internet: http://www.sfpa.sk/index.php?jazyk=en
Editor- in-chief: Lukac, Pavol
Subject area: Security, European integration, foreign policy and
international relations.
Headings: There is no fixed headings.
The journal appears in English. It is the first Slovak journal in the field
of international relations.
Contents of 2001/2 (fall) as an example:
"NATO Enlargement - Who is Next?"
Articles:
* Havel, V.: Europe's New Democracies: Leadership and Responsibility
* Nicolini, M.: An Ally "De Facto": Slovakia on Its Road to NATO
Membership
* Bonnen, P.: The Common European Security and Defence Policy and the US
Defence and Security Dilemma
* Prochazka, R.: From Aquamont to Berlaymont: On the Integration-Friendly
Features of the Slovak Constitution
* Gyarfasova, O.; Krivy, V.: The Relationship of the Slovak Public to NATO -
Value and Attitude Contexts -
* Korba, M.: Civil-Military Relations in Slovakia from the Perspective of
NATO Integration
* Valasek, T.: Europe's Missile Defence Options
* Abraham, S.: 1998 Elections: End of Illiberal Democracy in Slovakia
Topics of back issues:
2001, 1 (spring): Visegrad and Central Europe
2000, 2 (fall): Slovakia and regional security
2000, 1: Slovakia's image abroad
Publications of the Institute for Public Affairs in English:
Va[sinvcircumflex]ečka. , M. (ed.), 2001: Civil Society and Governance in
Slovakia. An expert analysis mapping developments of the Slovak civil
society after 1989.
Bútorova, Z.; Gyarfa[sinvcircumflex]ova, O., 2001: Gender Issue in
Slovakia.
Online-publications
Gyarfa[sinvcircumflex]ova, O., 2001: Breaking the Legacy of the Past -
Establishing Independent Public Opinion Polls in Slovakia.
Papers of the Institute for Public Affairs
http://www.ivo.sk/showivot.asp?Source=Publicistika&Id=248()
Krivy; V.; Gyarfasova, O., 2001: The Relationship of the Slovak Public to
the North Atlantic Alliance - Value and Attitude Contexts
Papers of the Institute for Public Affairs
http://www.ivo.sk/subory/krivy-yarfasova_sfpa_fall2001.pdf()
Book-publications of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (research center)
2001 as full texts at: http://www.sfpa.sk/index.php?jazyk=en()
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