Eva Dědečková
is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. As part of her research activities, she focuses mainly on the cosmological philosophy of E. Fink and F. Nietzsche in the context of current anthropological, educational, and socio-political, as well as environmental issues. Thanks to grant support at the Charles University (GA UK) in years 2017–2019, she completed two short-term stays for research at the University Archive in Freiburg, Germany. The result of the research is the Slovak monograph Kozmologická filozofia výchovy Eugena Finka (The Cosmological Philosophy of Education by Eugen Fink), which was published in 2018. She regularly reviews new philosophical works for the cultural monthly journal Knižná revue (Book’s revue) and currently serves as executive editor of the academic journal Filozofia.
Petra Gümplová
holds a PhD in Sociology from The New School for Social Research in the USA. In 2021, she obtained habilitation in Political Science at the University of Erfurt. She currently leads a research project on Global Commons and the Future of Planetary Ecosystems at the University of Jena. Her scholarly expertise lies in the fields of international political theory, global justice, international law, and natural resource governance.
Richard Sťahel and Eva Dědečková
is a professor who works at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, as a stand-alone scientist. He specializes in the history of German philosophy from the 18th to the 20th centuries, social and political philosophy, environmental political philosophy, and translation (translated 22 books in the fields of philosophy, theology, and religious studies). Horyna has completed several long-term stays at universities in Germany and has numerous domestic and international book publications.
João Ribeiro Mendes
is currently the Assistant Professor of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal), Integrated Full Researcher of CEGOT - Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (Group 1: Nature and environmental dynamics) at the University of Coimbra, and President of the Institute for Anthropocene Studies (INfAST). He develops his research work mainly in the fields of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology and Anthropocene Studies. He is author of a book on Ian Hackingʼs Experimental
Anna Mravcová
is an assistant professor at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. She focuses her scientific work mostly on sustainable development, environmental sustainability, global and environmental citizenship. She participates in international projects like Central European Network for Sustainable and Innovative Economy, or Teaching Sustainability in Higher Education in the field of Economics and Management. She is the co-author of monographs Globálne občianstvo v terciárnom vzdelávaní [Global citizenship in tertiary education] (2017), Výchova a udržateľný rozvoj [Education and sustainable development] (2020); and articles, for example, Environmentálne občianstvo v kontexte súčasného vývoja a bezprostredného ohrozenia [Environmental citizenship in the context of current development and imminent threat] (2020), Environmental awareness and environmental citizenship dimension (2019), and others.
Leslie Sklair
is emeritus professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work has been translated into more than ten languages. His most recent books are The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2017); The Anthropocene in Global Media: Neutralizing the Risk (editor, Routledge, 2021) and Second Thoughts on Capitalism and the State (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022). He is currently working on a book with three colleagues, provisionally entitled The Anthropocene Working Group: A case study in the Globalization of Science to be published by Springer in 2023. Sklair is the President of the Global Studies Association (UK). In 2016, the Czech Academy awarded him the František Palacký Medal for his contribution to Historical Sciences.
Richard Sťahel
is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of 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 and the philosophy of human rights. He focuses on examining the causes of the global industrial civilization crisis and the philosophical, social, and political consequences of climate