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Ota Pavlíček

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Ota Pavlíček is a senior researcher at the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

He specialises in the history of knowledge production at Late Medieval and Early Modern European universities, being particularly interested in Central European Faculties of Liberal Arts and links to their counterparts in Western Europe. Systematically, his research interests include philosophical (metaphysics, logic, astrology) and theological (mostly philosophical theology) discussions, the Reformation’s philosophical background, and intellectual practice. He is also interested in various types of debates, including the Arts quodlibets. He also researches the area of Digital Humanities in relation to textual corpora of Late Medieval and Early Modern scholarly texts.

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