Email: david.rozen@upce.cz
Office hours: after prior arrangement on Tuesdays (16 – 18)
Research interests
- Environmental philosophy, ethics and aesthetics
- Philosophy of language
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Wittgenstein
Professional experience
- since 1/2025 internal teacher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice
- 1/2023 – 12/2024 senator AS UPCE, member of the committee for study and creative activity
- 09/2022 – 12/2024 external teacher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice
- 01/2022 – 12/2024 researcher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice
- 6/2024 organization of the International Environmental Philosophy Summer School (https://enviro-phil- school.eu/)
- 01/2024 – 05/2024 Expert committee of Schweizer Jugend Forscht in environmental philosophy.
- 01/2021 – 05/2022 professional editor of the Czech translation of Wittgenstein‘s Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. [O filosofii psychologie. Červený Kostelec: Mervart, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7465-573-9.]
Education
- 2020 – [2025] Ph.D. in environmental philosophy, Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice
- 2017 – 2020 Mgr. in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
- 2013 – 2017 Bc. in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Research Stays
- 7/2024 – 8/2024 Philosophy Department, Åbo Akademi (research stay funded by Erasmus)
- 9/2023 – 1/2024 Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute, Université de Fribourg (research stay funded by Université de Fribourg)
- 7/2023 – 8/2023 Central Library in Rethymno, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης (research stay funded by Erasmus)
- 2/2022 – 5/2022 Doktoratskolleg Klimawandel, Universität Graz (research stay funded by Aktion)
- 4/2021 – 5/2021 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek & Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck (research stay funded by Centre for Ethics)
- 3/2019 – 7/2019 Universität Leipzig (Erasmus)
- 9/2015 – 1/2016 University College Dublin (Erasmus)
Publications
- Příroda a postoje k ní: filosofická reflexe současné klimatické krize [Nature and attitudes towards it: a philosophical reflection of the current climate crisis] (ed.). Filosofia (to appear 2025).
- “Clarifying Climate Emotions via their Foci” (together with Petr Vaškovic & Gabriela Vičanová), in: The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Grief, Hope, and Beyond, Routledge (2024).
- The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Grief, Hope, and Beyond, (ed. together with Ondřej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg & Antony Fredriksson) Routledge (2024).
- “Attitudes Toward Nature as a Key for Understanding the Current Lack of Adequate Environmental Behavior: Overstepping the Dialectic of Extractivism and Romanticism.” Ethics, Policy & Environment (2024): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2024.2398980.
- “Česká filosofie, Wittgenstein a umělá inteligence” (together with Jakub Mácha), in: Reflexe 64 (2023): 133-148. https://doi.org/10.14712/25337637.2023.29
Invited Lectures
- Postoje k přírodě a jejich vliv na naše environmentální jednání. [Attitudes towards nature and their influence on our environmental behavior] Palacký University Olomouc. Jednota filozofická. 18.12. 2024
- Beyond Extractivism and Romanticism: What Attitudes Toward Nature Can Help Us Address the Climate Crisis? The University of Tokyo, Graduate Programme in Sustainability Science. 29.11. 2024. https://sustainability-mylo.tokyo/en/news/11321.html
Presentations
- Moral Conflicts in Distance: Reflections on Longdistancism and Longtermism in the Context of Climate Crisis (together with Vojtěch Svěrák). Thinking Conflict and Resilience in Society, University of Pardubice, 16.-18.9. 2024.
- Moral Conflicts in Distance: Reflections on Longdistancism and Longtermism in the Context of Climate Crisis (together with Vojtěch Svěrák). Thinking Conflict and Resilience in Society, University of Pardubice, 16.-18.9. 2024.
- Role distance v etické imaginaci: Reflexe longdistancismu a longtermismu v kontextu klimatické krize (together with Vojtěch Svěrák). Perspectives of Thinking, Czech Academy of Sciences, 12.-14.9. 2024.
- White’s Historical roots of our ecological crisis. Environmental Philosophy Summer School, University of Pardubice & CETE-P, 2.-8.6. 2024.
- Attitudes towards Nature and Environmental Behaviour : The Dialectic of Extractivism and Romanticism, and beyond. 2nd Swiss Animal-Environmental Ethics Network Meeting, University of Fribourg, 9.11.2023.
- Promethean Fear as the Founding Emotion of Global Environmentalism? Environmental Grief, Hope, and Beyond, University of Pardubice, 28.-30.8. 2023.
- The moral impossibility of destroying the conditions for human well-being (together with Alex Putzer). Possibilities, impossibilities, and conflict in ethics, University of Pardubice, 1.-2.6. 2023.
- Současná klimatická krize v kontextu etiky a estetiky [Current Climate Crisis in the Context of Ethics and Aesthetics]. Kavárna Universitas, University of Pardubice, 28.2.2023
- Attitudes towards Nature and Environmental Behaviour: The Dialectic of Extractivism and Romanticism, and beyond. Thinking the Nonhuman and the Climate Crisis, Institute of Philosophy at Czech Academy of Sciences, 17.2.2023
- Klimatická krize a související etické problémy [Climate Crisis and the Related Ethical Problems]. Univerzity za klima, University of Pardubice, 16.11.2022
- This Civilisation is Finished: What should we do about it? From Post-Communism to Post-Capitalism, University of Niš, 15.-16.9. 2022
- The Role of Distance in What Matters Morally. What Really Matters?, University of Pardubice, 23.-25.8.2022
- Attitudes toward Nature as the key to understanding Environmental Behavior. Sicily Summer School in Environmental Humanities. University of Palermo, 21.-24.5. 2022
Grants
- 9/2023 – 1/2024 Grant for visiting researchers from the University of Fribourg
- 01/2022 – 12/2024 Part of the research team "ECEGADMAT – Varieties of Feeling Bad about Climate and Other Things" (financed by the Czech Science Foundation; project number: 22-15446S).
- 04/2022 – 12/2022 Vnitřní grant Katedry filosofie a Religionistiky FF UPA pro rok 2022. The necessity of attitude analysis for understanding the climate crisis, and its methodological bases.
- 2/2022 – 5/2022 Semesterstipendien sowie Stipendien für kurzfristige Aufenthalte der Aktion Österreich-Tschechien für tschechische Antragsteller (project number: MPC-2021-01518)