Dr. phil. Mgr. Robert Roreitner

• Email: robert.roreitner@ff.cuni.cz
• Phone: (+420) 221619269

Address

Department of Arts and Religious Studies
Místnost č. 221

Office Hours

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Area

• ancient philosophy and literature
• philosophy of mind

Curriculum vitae

• since 2017 Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (CUNI), senior lecturer
• 2025 Research fellow at the Human Abilities Center for Advanced Studies, HU and FU Berlin
• 2020-2022 Alexander von Humboldt post-doc, LMU München (Gastgeber: Peter Adamson)
• 2014-2018 doctoral studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (dissertation defended in 2019)
• 2012-2014 M.A. in classics, CUNI (Jan Palach Award for the best M.A. thesis)
• 2011-2012 Fulbright student researcher, Columbia University, New York (supervisor: Lydia Goehr)
• 2008-2012 M.A. in philosophy, CUNI
• 2005-2008 B.A. in philosophy, CUNI

Selected publications

books

2025 Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2024 Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought (with K. Corcilius and A. Falcon), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

studies

2025 “Thought ‘from without’: The Role of the Agent Intelect in Alexander’s De Intellectu”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 46, 177-266.

2025 “Nous thurathen. Between Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 33(1), 26-47.

2024 “Naturalizing Nous? Theophrastus on Nous, Nature, and Motion“ (with A. Falcon), Phronesis 69(2), 468-499.

2024 “Human Ontogeny in Aristotle and Theophrastus”, Apeiron 57(3), 427-477.

2023 “Aristotle’s ‘greatest difficulty’: Universality of thought in Metaphysics M 10 and Θ 9”, Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 41(2), 321-368.

2023 “The perceptive soul’s impassivity in late ancient reception of Aristotle’s De Anima”, Ancient Philosophy 43(1), 219-249.

2021 “The Nοῦς-Body Relationship in Aristotle’s De Anima”, in P. Gregoric aj. L. Fink (ed.), Encounters with Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mind, London: Routledge, 247-278.

2021 “Themistius against Porphyry (?) on ‘Why We Don’t Remember’”, Classical Quarterly 71(1), 379-385.

2021 “Themistius on Concept Formation”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103(2), 670-703.

2020 “Blood, πνεῦμα, or something more solid? Aristotle on the material structure of perceptual apparatus”, in: H. Bartoš and C. G. King (eds.), Heat, pneuma and soul in ancient philosophy and medicine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 288-309.

Teaching