Second Scholasticism — Analytical Metaphysics — Christian Apologetics

David Svoboda is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Law, Charles University, Prague. In his work, he focuses on metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. He is the author of Metafyzické myslení Tomáse Akvinského [The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas] (2012), Metafyzika vztahu [The Metaphysics of Relations] (2017) and co-author of Je matematika veda? [Is Mathematics a Science?] (2018) and Change and Realtions (2023). Prokop Sousedík is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Law, Charles University, Prague. He works in the fields of logic, epistemology and ontology. He is the author of Logika pro studenty humanitních oboru [Logic for the Humanities Students] and co-author of Je matematika veda? [Is Mathematics a Science?] (2018) and Change and Realtions (2023). Lukás Novák is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, Ceské Budejovice, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem, and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. In his research he focuses on metaphysics, epistemology, and medieval and early modern scholasticism (especially Duns Scotus and early modern Scotism). In addition to three (co-)authored monographs in Czech, he wrote Relations as Accidental Forms (2023) and (co-)edited, among others, Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (2012), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (2014), Suárez's Metaphysics in Its Historical and Systematic Context (2014), and Dispelling the Fog: Critical Essays on Amoris Lætitia (2022). He is editor of Studia Neoaristotelica: A Journal of Analytical Scholasticism.