Lukáš Novák

Mgr. Lukáš Novák, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D. in philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 2008

M.A. in philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague 2003

Current employment

Since 2021 Member of Research Team for Translations and Editions of Medieval Philosophical and Theological Texts (TRANSED) of the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought, focused on translating and commenting on the work of John Duns Scotus (especially his metaphysics and epistemology)

Since 2003 Lecturer and senior lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (medieval philosophy, logic, epistemology, metaphysics)

Past employment

2019 senior lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia (theory of argumentation)

2008–2017 senior lecturer, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague (medieval philosophy)

2008 senior lecturer, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Life Sciences, Prague (anthropology)

Further scholarly activities

Since 2004 editor and editorial board member of Studia Neoaristotelica: A Journal of Analytical Scholasticism

Grants and projects (selection)

2021–2023 GA ČR 21-35651S “Being and Natural Theology in Scotism” (recipient)

2018–2020 GA ČR 18-05838S “The Metaphysics of Relations in Second Scholasticism” (second recipient)

2014–2018 GA ČR 14-37038G “Between Renaissance and Baroque: Philosophy and Knowledge in the Czech Lands within the Wider European Context” (research team member)

2012–2017 Member of the University Centre for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Tradition (UNCE), Charles University, Prague

2011–2013 GA ČR P401-11-0906 “Chances of Realist Epistemology in the Face of Modern Critique” (recipient)

2008–2010 GA AV ČR IAA 908280801 “Metaphysics in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy and its Connexions with the Metaphysics of Modern Aristotelianism “ (research team member)

International conferences (co-organizer)

Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578–1641): System, Sources, Influence (České Budějovice, November 25–27, 2016)

Metaphysics – Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (Prague, June 30 – July 3, 2010)

Suárez’s Metaphysics: Disputationes Metaphysicae in Their Historical and Systematic Context (Prague, October 1–3, 2008)

Publications (selection)

Books authored

Lukáš Novák – Vlastimil Vohánka, Kapitoly z epistemologie a noetiky (Praha: Krystal OP, 2015).

Lukáš Novák, Scire Deum esse: Scotův důkaz Boží existence jako vrcholný výkon metafyziky jakožto aristotelské vědy (Praha: Kalich 2011).

Lukáš Novák – Petr Dvořák, Úvod do logiky aristotelské tradice (1 ^st ed. České Budějovice: TF JU, 2007; 2^nd ed. Praha: Krystal OP, 2011)

Books edited

D. Heider – Jan Samohýl – Lukáš Novák (eds.),Pluralita tradic od antiky po novověk, Studia Neoaristotelica, Suppplementum II (České Budějovice: TF JU, 2015).

L. Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in Its Historical and Systematic Context (De Gruyter, 2014).

Daniel D. Novotný – L. Novák (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (New York: Routledge, 2014).

L. Novák – D. D. Novotný – P. Sousedík – D. Svoboda (eds.), Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2012).

Papers

“Suárez's Notion of Analogy: Scotus's Essential Order in Disguise?” ACPQ 95/2 (2021): 195–234.

“Confusion or Precision? Disentangling the Semantics of a Pair of Scholastic Terms”, Studia Neoaristotelica 17/2 (2020): 151–200.

“How Pure a Potency? Prime Matter in Post-Medieval Thomism”, ACPQ 93/2 (2019): 271–308.

“More Aristotelian than Aristotle. Duns Scotus on Cognizing Singulars”, Filosofický časopis 65/Special Issue 2 (2017): 79–100.

“How (Not) to Be an Aristotelian With Respect to Contemporary Physics”, Studia Neoaristotelica 14/1 (2017): 85–109.

“Od Humovy teze k etickému dogmatismu”, Filosofický časopis 65/5 (2017): 773–782.

“Doctrina de connotatis v barokně-scholastické diskusi”, Studia Neoaristotelica 13/6 (Series Bohemoslovaca 1/4) (2016): 105–128.

“Iracionalita racionálního kompatibilismu: Kritika studie Davida Peroutky”. Studia Neoaristotelica 13/7 (Series Bohemoslovaca 1/5) (2016): 131–172

“Tomáš Akvinský instrumentalistou v matematice?” Studia Neoaristotelica 13/4 (Series Bohemoslovaca 1/2) (2016): 41–66.

“Hylomorphism Between Thomism and Scotism”, Filosofický časopis, Special Issue, ed. P. Dvořák and T. Machula (2016): 61–77.

“Anima forma corporis: problém interpretace”, Studia theologica 17/1 (2015): 70–94.

“Scotova ‚recepce' iluminacionismu: Případová studie scholastického přístupu k autoritám”, Studia Neoaristotelica, Supplementum II: Pluralita tradic od antiky po novověk (2015): 147–174.

“Can We Speak about That Which Is Not? Actualism and Possibilism in Analytic Philsophy and Scholasticism”, in Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics, vol. 12 of Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, ed. G. Klima and A. Hall (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), 155–188.

(with Daniel D. Novotný) “Why Metaphysics? A Rather Ambitious Introduction”, in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, ed. Daniel D. Novotný and Lukáš Novák (Routledge, 2014), 1–16.

“Divine Ideas, Instants of Nature, and the Spectre of 'verum esse secundum quid': A Criticism of M. Renemann's Interpretation of Scotus”, Studia Neoaristotelica 9/2 (2012): 185–203.

“An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars”, in Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, ed. L. Novák, D. D. Novotný, P. Sousedík, D. Svoboda, 113–122 (Frankfurt-Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag, 2012).

“The Theory of Relations in Rodrigo de Arriaga SJ”, in Bohemia Jesuitica 1556–2006, ed. Petronila Cemus (Praha: Karolinum, 2010), vol. 1: 525–534.

“Conceptual Atomism, 'Aporia Generis' and a Way Out for Leibniz and the Aristotelians, Studia Neoaristotelica 6/1 (2009): 15–49.

“The (Non-)Reception of Scotus's Proof of God's Existence by the Baroque Scotists”, Quaestio 8, a cura di Pasquale Porro e Jacob Schmutz (2008): 323–344.

“Scoti de conceptu entis doctrina a Mastrio retractata et contra Poncium propugnata”, in “Rem in seipsa cernere.” Saggi sul pensiero filosofico di Bartolomeo Mastri (1602–1773), Subsidia mediaevalia Pataviana 7, ed. M. Forlivesi (Padova, Il Poligrafo, 2006), 237–259.

“Sémantika vlastních jmen a identitní teorie predikace”, Studia Neoaristotelica 1/1–2 (2004): 10–32.

Editions

(+ M. Severa): “Joannes Versor: Quaestiones super De ente et essentia sancti Thomae de Aquino ordinis fratrum praedicatorum”, Studia Neoaristotelica 5/2 (2008): 209–254.

(+ N. Cuhrová): “Franciscus de Mayronis: Quodlibeti quaestiones VI. et VII. (De entibus rationis)”, Studia Neoaristotelica 3/2 (2006): 198–239.

(+ R. Mašek, M. Lánský, S. Sousedík): “Franciscus de Mayronis: Tractatus De esse essentiae et existentiae”, Studia Neoaristotelica 2/2 (2005): 277–322.