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Curriculum vitae

doc. Mgr. Richard Sťahel, PhD.

He studied philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia). Between 1998 and 2004, he worked as a reporter and editor for several all-state newspapers and journals. He defended his dissertation thesis in philosophy at the Comenius University in 2006. In the years 2006 – 2019, he worked at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia), where he in 2017 habilitated in philosophy. In the years 2010 – 2019, he was head of the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia). He is also the co-founder of the international scientific journal Philosophica Critica, for which he served as editor-in-chief from 2015 to 2019. Since 2019, he has been a director of the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, where he holds the positions of director of the institute and head of the Department of Environmental Philosophy. He specializes in environmental and political philosophy, as well as the philosophy of human rights. He examines the causes of the global industrial civilization crisis and the philosophical, social, and political consequences of climate change, as well as the mass extinction of plant and animal species. He pays special attention to the philosophical aspects of the Anthropocene, ecological civilization, and environmental democracy concepts. In 2024, he was awarded the Prize of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for the results of scientific research work published in 2023.