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Professional appointments

• 2020– Department of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Assistant Professor (0.25 FTE)
• 2004–16 Department of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, Adjunct Lecturer
• 2003–4 Department of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Assistant Professor (½-time)
• 1998– Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, senior researcher (2014–16 vice-director for research; 2020– Head of the Department of analytic philosophy

Education

• 2014 Habilition in Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno
• 2003 PhD., Philosophy, Charles University
• 1998 M. A., Philosophy, Charles University

Area of specialization

• Empirically informed philosophy of mind and consciousness

Areas of competence

• Philosophy of language and mind
• Early modern philosophy, esp. Descartes and Hume

Committee work at the Czech Academy of Sciences

• Guarant of the international scientific cooperation within the project Enhancing professional development at the Institute of Philosophy, supported from Science, Research, and Education operational programme (EU structural grants), Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (October 2020-December 2022)
• Member of the Council for International Relations of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2017-2021)
• Member of the Coordination Committee of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2017-2021)
• Member of various Search Committees at the Institute of Philosophy (since 2014)

Services to the profession

Editorial board and committee membership

• Editorial board member, Frontiers in Psychololgy (since 2021)
• Editorial board member, Filosofie dnes (since 2009)
• Scientific Council of the Faculty of Arts, University of Hradec Králové (2016–2019)

Journal refereeing (selection)

• Psychological Review, Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, Minds and Machines, Frontiers in Psychology, Theory and Psychology, Cognitive Neurodynamics, International Journal of Philosophical Studies

Refereeing for grant agencies

• Jan Hus educational foundation, Grant agency of Charles University; VEGA (Slovak Republic); Inter-Excellence/COST (Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic)

Doctoral studies

• I have/had doctoral students at Charles University in Prague, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Masaryk University in Brno and at the University of Ostrava (6 students so far). I am a member of the Board for doctoral studies at the Department of philosophy at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (since 2015), and was a member of the Board for doctoral studies at the Department of philosophy and religious studies at Charles university in Prague (2010–15).

Mentoring

• 2016 Participated in Open Science mentoring programme of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Professional membership

• Member of the Council of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST; 2020-2023)
• Member of the Committee for the international relations of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA; since 2020)
• Representing Department of analytic philosophy (IP CAS) in the Philosophy of Language and Mind Network (PLM; since 2017)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the East European Network for the Philosophy of Science (since 2022)

Related professional skills

• Languages: Czech (native), English (fluent), Latin (advanced), French (basic), German (basic)

Grants, Prizes and Awards

        2025–2027
        Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Research Grant Monism and the problem of subjectivity

2020–2023
Czech Science Agency, Research Grant Dual models of phenomenal consciousness

2017–2022 
Mobility project with the Polish academy of sciences (prof. Marcin Milkowski), topic: Naturalistic Approaches to Consiousness and Content

2016
Short-term research stay at University of Gent and University of Antwerp (September 10 – September 24)

2016
Short-term research stay at Freie Universität Berlin (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung; July 4–15)

2015
Study visit, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh (July)

2014–16
Member of the research project Freedom and responsibility and their consequences for society, program Effective public policies (Strategy AV 21, Czech Academy of Sciences)

2013–15
Member of the EU funded project Research center for theory and history of science, Department of philosophy, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen (topic: theory of consciousness)

2009
Fellowship of the Jan Hus educational foundation

2005–6
Humboldt Research Fellowship, Humboldt University, Berlin (November to April)

2005
Otto Wichterle Award

2005
Curriculum Resource Center Grant, Central European University, Budapest (March 6–10)

2004
British Academy Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London (January)

2002–4
Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Research Grant Subjectivity. New Approaches to a Classical Concept

2002
CIMO Fellowship, University of Helsinki (August to October)

2001
Research Stipend, University of Constance (July)

Organized conferences

Organized conferences, workshops and lecture series 

• 2024 Ernst Mach Workshop XII, member of the LOC
• 2024 The seventh PLM Network conference, Chair of the LOC
• 2023 30th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, co-chair of the Local Organizing Committee
• 2023 Member of the Program Committee of the ninth EPSA Conference, Belgrade
• 2022 Conscious and Unconscious Mind: Commonalities and Differences, Prague, member of the organizing committee
• 2021 Member of the Program Committee of the third EENPS Conference, Belgrade
• 2021 Mental states, conscious and unconscious, workshop, Prague, member of the organizing committee
• 2021 Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp and Conference 2021 (Prague), member of the Local Organizing Committee
• 2020 Series of lectures at the Department of analytic philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sceinces, main organiser (6 lectures so far)
• 2019 The XVI. International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST), head of the Local Organizing Committee, member of the Program Committee
• 2016 Ernst Mach workshop, member of the Local Organizing Committee
• 2013 Workshop on the philosophical work of Bertrand Russell, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, member of the organizing committee
• 2011 Workshop on the philosophical work of Nelson Goodman, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, member of the organizing committee
• 2008 Workshop on the philosophical work of Donald Davidson, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, member of the organizing committee
• 2007 Workshop on the philosophical work of W. V. O. Quine, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, member of the organizing committee

Publications

Monographs

• D. Černý, A. Doležal, T. Doležal, P. Dvořák, T. Marvan, V. Mikeš, Svoboda vůle a otázka morální a trestní odpovědnosti [Freedom of the will and the question of moral and criminal responsibility]. Praha: Academia, 2016.
• T. Marvan, M. Polák, Vědomí a jeho teorie [Consciousness and its theory]. Červený kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2015, 160 pp.
• T. Marvan, Realismus a relativismus [Realism and relativism]. Prague: Academia, 2014, 147 pp.
• T. Marvan, Otázka významu. Cesty analytické filosofie jazyka [The question of meaning. Paths of analytical philosophy of language]. Prague: Togga, 2010, 202 pp. 

Edited books

• J. Hvorecký, T. Marvan, M. Polák, Conscious and Unconscious Mentality. Examining their Commonalities and Differences. London/New York: Routledge, 2024
• T. Marvan, H. Andersen, H. Chang, B. Löwe, I. Pezlar (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress, Bridging Across Academic Cultures. Rickmansworth: College Publications, 2022