Martin Paleček joined the ranks of associate professors of the Philosophical Faculty
Martin Paleček from the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové was appointed an associate professor in 2019.
Associate Professor Paleček completed his Master’s studies in the field of History and Philosophy at the University of Hradec Králové and his PhD degree at Charles University in Prague. In December 2018 he published his habilitation thesis “Entrapped Anthropologists” at Masaryk University in Brno and was appointed an associate professor in the Spring of 2019.
Martin Paleček studied abroad at universities in Frankfurt (Germany), Oslo (Norway), Cambridge (England) and New York (USA). He spent the academic year 2013/2014 as the holder of the Fulbright – Masaryk scholarship at Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
In his copious research, Associate Professor Paleček focuses largely on the philosophy of social sciences and on cultural anthropology in particular.
He is a member of several eminent academic organisations, such as the Royal Anthropological Institute, the British Wittgenstein Society and the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Philosophy of Social Sciences (a journal).
Martin Paleček also currently represents the academic staff of the Philosophical Faculty in the Academic Senate of the University of Hradec Králové.