Petr Urban

Petr Urban

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Petr Urban is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Head of the Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Charles University in Prague. He was a principal investigator and coordinator of several national and international research projects in the area of continental philosophy, political theory of care and administrative ethics, including a recently completed project “Measures for Developing an Ethical Culture in Czech Civil Service”. He is author of three books in Czech and co-editor of three international edited volumes, including Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge, 2022), and Unchaining Solidarity: On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). He held Paul Celan Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2013), Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship at the Graduate Center CUNY (2013/14) and National Scholarship of the Slovak Republic at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2017). During his stay at Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard (from April through June 2022), his research will focus on a book project Social Cohesion Contested (Rowman & Littlefield) which he is working on together with Dan Swain.

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