Prof. Mgr. Marián Zouhar, PhD.

Teaching

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Research

Semantics and pragmatics of natural language: context and meaning, reference, quantification, anaphora. Philosophy of fiction. Theory of argumentation. History of analytic philosophy: G. Frege, B. Russell, L. Wittgenstein.

Publications

• 8 books
• over a hundred papers
• 1 textbook
• Full list of publications

Selected Publications in English

• Zouhar, M. (2020): Absolutism about Taste and Faultless Disagreement. Acta Analytica (Springer) 35 (2): 273-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-019-00409-w
• Zouhar, M. (2019): On the Insufficiency of Taste Expressivism. Filozofia nauki 27 (3): 5-27. https://doi.org/10.14394/filnau.2019.0015
• Zouhar, M. (2019): An Argument for the Obstinate Rigidity of Proper Names. Grazer philosophische Studien (Brill) 96 (4): 497-517. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-000067
• Zouhar, M. (2019): On the Systematic Inadequacy of Fictionalism about Fictional Characters. Philosophia (Springer) 47 (3): 925-942. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-018-9997-2
• Zouhar, M. (2018): Conversations about Taste, Contextualism, and Non-Doxastic Attitudes. Philosophical Papers (Routledge) 47 (30): 429-460. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2018.1450159
• Zouhar, M. (2018): Predicates of Personal Taste in Communication: A Case of Disagreement. Jazykovedný časopis 69 (1): 25-38. https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2018-0010

Research Projects

• 2023 – 2025: VEGA, Idealization and Abstraction in Normative and Empirical Disciplines, research team member
• 2022 – 2026: APVV, Semantics of Conditionals, research team member

Education

• 2006: habilitation, “Forms of Reference”, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
• 2000: dissertation thesis defence, “Reference and Proper Names”, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
• 1996 – 2000: post-gradual student in philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
• 1991 – 1996: master of philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

Personal Information

• Born April 18 1973 in Trenčín
• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2455-8722
• ResearcherID: D-9724-2016