Miloš Kosterec is the project's principal investigator. He is
based at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, public
research institution, Slovakia. He has published in leading philosophical
journals, such as Erkenntnis, Synthese, Journal of Philosophical Logic, and Analysis.
He received several national awards for his work. In the project, he will
explore the use of divine names in modal contexts as well as their applications
in arguments concerning such contexts. He also investigates the semantic
theories of empty or fictional names within the framework of Transparent
Intensional Logic (TIL). He studies the formal properties of the system as well
as its applications within a wide range of philosophical problems (the problem
of logics for hyperintensional contexts, the problems of
co-hyperintensionality, (intensional) essentialism, the problem of varying
domains of universe, and so forth). He also focuses on the type assignment to
the putative names of gods and the correct model of their hyperintensional
counterparts within the framework of TIL. The investigation also consists in
checking the strengths of TIL with respect to various metaphysical
assumptions concerning the denotata (if any) of such terms.
Mirco Sambrotta, the project's Deputy Principal
Investigator, is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, public research
institution, Slovakia. His research interests revolve primarily around language and
metaontology, with a particular emphasis on non-representationalist and non-descriptivist (especially
inferentialist) approaches to modal claims—an alignment that closely mirrors the project';s
objectives. Sambrotta's academic journey includes earning his Ph.D. with honours and
international accreditation in 2019 from the Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada,
Spain. The findings of his dissertation have been disseminated through various publications in
esteemed peer-reviewed journals and reputable publishing houses. Beyond his dissertation,
Sambrotta actively engages in scholarly activities, such as editing volumes and curating special
issues. He presently holds a Štefan Schwarz Fellowship and was awarded a scholarship by the
OeAD - Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalization in 2022, facilitating
his role in teaching positions at the University of Vienna (winter semester 2023).
Daniela Vacek (née Glavaničová) a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, public research institution, and at Faculty of Arts, Comenius
University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She focuses on Transparent
intensional logic (TIL), analytic aesthetics, responsibility, deontic
logic and (ethics and law of) artificial intelligence. In 2018, she was a
visiting postgraduate student at the University of York, UK. She
defended her dissertation in 2020. In 2021, she received an award for
young researchers from Slovak Academy of Sciences. She was visiting the
University College London/University of Oxford based ERC project Roots of Responsibility during the second term of 2021/2022. She has published papers in leading journals such as Analysis, Erkenntnis, British Journal of Aesthetics, Science and Engineering Ethics, Logic and Logical Philosophy, Estetika, Ethics and Information Technology,
among others. In the project, she focuses on the semantics of divine names.
Martin Vacek
Martin Vacek is a researcher at the
Institute of Philosophy (Slovak Academy of Sciences). His main research
interests are metaphysics, especially modality and impossible worlds. In the
project, he investigates the philosophical implications of hyperintensional
views on God, namely its logic, existence, and reference.
Matteo Pascucci
Matteo Pascucci is a
researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
v.v.i. He supports the development of the project with his work in the area of
modal logic.
Marie Duží
Marie Duží is a project member and a full
professor of computer science at the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech
Republic. She is one of the leading figures in TIL. She graduated in
mathematics and worked in various software companies in then Czechoslovakia.
After the revolution, she became an assistant professor at the Charles
University of Prague. In 2010, she published (with Bjørn Jespersen and Pavel
Materna) the book Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic; Foundations and
Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic, Berlin: Springer. In
this book, the development of TIL theoretical foundations and their practical
applications have been presented. Marie Duží has dealt with many applications
of TIL in natural-language
processing: propositional and notional attitudes, property
modifiers, tenses and truth conditions, topic-focus articulation,
presupposition, among others. She also applied TIL in the analysis and design
of question-answering systems over large corpora of natural language texts and
in multi-agent systems. Another area under her scrutiny was the analysis of St.
Anselm's ontological arguments, particularly that of Proslogion III, which was
first analysed by Pavel Tichý in his 1979 paper. She published more than a
hundred papers indexed in WoS and Scopus and three books mostly on TIL, gave
invited talks all over the world and participated in many significant
conferences.
C. Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum
C. Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum is a project member
based at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, public
research institution, Slovakia, and at the University of Vienna. Her
research interests relevant to the project are in the philosophy of
logic & language, as well as metaphysics; outside the project, she is
also interested in the philosophy of language & mind, and she has
published in all three areas. She was educated at the Universities of Vienna
and Oxford, has taught at Vienna since 2008 and held a research position
previously at the SAS in
2019. Before her membership in the current
project, she was a Hertha-Firnberg fellow (JRF) at Vienna from 2020
- 2023, a member at the Pavel Tichý project at SAV, and from January to
June 2023 an academic visitor at Oxford University.
Manuel García-Carpintero
Manuel García-Carpintero was born in Daimiel
(Ciudad Real, Spain) in 1957. He got his "Licenciatura" ( ≈ BA) at
the University of Barcelona (1979) and his PhD also at the University of
Barcelona (1988), where he has taught since 1984, after teaching at secondary
schools between 1979 and 1984. He visited the CSLI, Stanford University, for
one academic year (1990-91), and for three-month periods the philosophy
departments at MIT (1992), NYU (1997), Oxford (1998) and Lisbon (2011, 2012).
He was a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities
(Edinburgh, 2001), and he has been appointed Visiting Professor at the
University of Lisbon (2013-2016, 2016-2020, 2021-24), where he is a member of
LanCog, CFUL. His main interests are in philosophical logic, the philosophy of
language, the philosophy of mind and related epistemological and metaphysical
issues. He was awarded a "Distinció de Recerca" for senior
researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2008
(2009-2013), 2013 (2014-2018) and 2018 (2019-24) the prize "ICREA Acadèmia" for
excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. He is
completing a book on the nature of assertion under contract with OUP,
entitled Tell Me What You Know, and another on fiction for CUP.
Irakli Chedia is a researcher at the
Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, public research
institution, Slovakia. He is also an associate professor and lecturer at the Georgian
American University (GAU) in Tbilisi, Georgia. His main research interests are
phenomenology, Artificial Intelligence and ultramodern technologies, idea of
God, and Transparent Intensional Logic. He has conducted and taken part in
organizing numerous lectures and workshops on various topics in Slovakia and
abroad. Right now, he is focused on the research of various ideologies that
have tried to replace the notion of God and religion.
Marián Zouhar
Marián Zouhar is a
project member based at the Comenius University, Slovakia.
