Prague Interpretation Colloquia
The objective of the international colloquia, which the Department has held since 2000, is to create a platform for regular interdisciplinary discussions on key problems of interpretation theory. Philosophers, aestheticians and literary theorists from Sweden, the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Italy, France, Germany, the USA and the Czech Republic took part in the colloquia to date.
- 2019: Thinking and Speaking about Fictional Worlds
- 2018: Fiction and Pretense
- 2017: The Power of Analysis and the Impossibility of Understanding: Lessons from Kafka
- 2016: Chaos and Form: Echoes of Beckett in Literature, Theatre and the Arts
- 2015: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts
- 2013: PRETENCE AND WORLD-MAKING ON JOHN SEARLE’S ACCOUNT OF FICTIONAL DISCOURSE (Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the CAS)
- 2011: Fictionality-Possibility-Reality / II (Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the CAS)
- 2010: Fictionality-Possibility-Reality (Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the CAS)
- 2009: The Grounds of Sense (Prague, Vila Lanna) (Philosophy of P. F. Strawson)
- 2008: Interpreting Architecture (Prague, Vila Lanna)
- 2006: Interpreting Text - Interpreting Author (Prague, Vila Lanna) (commemorating the centenary of Samuel Beckett)
- 2005: The Levels of Interpretation (Prague, Vila Lanna)
- 2004: The Constraints of Interpretation (Prague, Vila Lanna)
- 2003: Sentence Meaning - Utterance Meaning / Text - Work (Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the CAS and Vila Lanna)
- 2002: Externalism-Internalism Dispute and the Theory of Interpretation (Prague, Institute of Philosophy of the CAS) (in cooperation with the working group for the study of modern rationality)
- 2000: The Notion of Interpretation in Philosophy and Literary Theory (Prague, Vila Lanna)
Resulting collective publications
- Hvorecký, J. and Koťátko, P. (eds.): The Grounds of Sense (Philosophy of P. F. Strawson). Organon F, Vol. XVI, 2009, No. 4.
- Koťátko, P., Pokorný, M., Sabatés, M. (eds.): Fictionality-Possibility-Reality. Bratislava: Aleph 2010;
- Currie, G., Koťátko, P., Pokorný, M. (eds.): Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics. London: College Publications 2012.
- Koblížek, T., Koťátko, P., Pokorný, M. (eds.): Text and Work: The Menard Case. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia 2013
- Koblížek, T. and Koťátko, P. (eds.): Chaos and Form: Echoes of Beckett in Literature and the Arts. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia 2017.
- Koblížek, T. (ed.): The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts. London – Oxford – New York: Bloomsbury 2017.
- Koblížek, T. and Koťátko, P. (eds.): The Power of Analysis and the Impossibility of Understanding: Lessons from Kafka (submitted to The Edinburgh University Press)
