CV of Aviezer Tucker

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February2, 2024
Dr. Aviezer Tucker
avitucker@yahoo.com
Professional Positions:
2023- Director, Center for Philosophy of Historiography, the Department of Philosophy, the University of
Ostrava;
2014- Associate, Davis Center, Harvard University; Harvard Prague Study Abroad Program, visiting
professor at the Anglo-American College, Prague. Premium mentor, Indigo Education (global remote
tutoring service).
2011- 2014 Assistant Director, the Energy Institute, the University of Texas, Austin, taught at the LBJ
Graduate School of Public Policyand in European Studies.
2012-Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, the Universityof Cologne, Germany.
2012, 2019-visiting fellow, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany.
2008-2011: Taught philosophy and political science at Charles University and CEVRO College in Prague.
IMESS (European Union) Fellow, the Universityof Tartu (Estonia).
2005- 2008 Lecturer, philosophy, Queens’ University, Belfast.
2003-2005ResearchAssociate,Social andPolitical TheoryandPhilosophyprogram,ResearchSchoolofthe
Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Fall 2004 Short term fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC.
1999-2003:ResearchAssociate,Editor&AdjunctProfessor,NewYorkUniversity(PoliticalScienceandthe
Law School).
2001-2002, visiting professor, Friends World Global Studies Program, Long Island University
2000-2001, visiting professor, Philosophy, TrinityCollege (Hartford CT)
Summers: Taught Logic and Philosophyof Science at John Hopkins University.
1998-1999: Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Political Science, Columbia University.
1994-1998: AssistantProfessor, politicalscienceandEuropeanstudies,PalackyUniversity,Olomouc,Czech
Republic.
1992-1994, Research Fellow, philosophy, The Prague Central European University.
1988-1992: Lecturer and Teaching assistant, philosophy, The Universityof Maryland, College Park.
Education
Postdoctorate, Political Science, Columbia University1999.

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PhD. Philosophy, The Universityof Maryland, College Park, 1992.
BA, History, Tel Aviv University(Magna cum laude) 1988.
Prize
2001 American Political Science Association Foundations of Political TheoryFirst Book Prize Honorable
Mention for The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence: From Patocka to Havel, (Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh UniversityPress, 2000)
Publications
Monographs
Historiographic Reasoning, (Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress “Elements” series, 2024 forthcoming)
Democracyagainst Liberalism (Cambridge: PolityPress, 2020).
The Legacies of Totalitarianism: A Theoretical Framework, (New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2015)
Partial translation to Polish: “Sprawiedliwość wybiórcza. Odpłata po totalitaryzmie” in Warsaw:
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Spółka, 2018, 229-281.
Plato for Everyone, (Amherst NY: Prometheus Press, 2013)
Korean translation (Seoul: Bulkwang, 2014)
Complex Chinese Translation (Taipei: Business Week, 2018)
OurKnowledgeofthePast:APhilosophyofHistoriography(NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2004).
Chinese Translation: (Beijing: Normal Universityof Beijing Press, 2008).
Polish translation of chapter II: “Historiografia—Ewolucvyjna Nauka O Transmisji Informacji,” Historyka,
Vol. 39, (2009), 67-87.
The Philosophyand Politics of Czech Dissidence: From Patocka to Havel, (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University
Press, 2000).
Czech Translation: Fenomenologie a Politika: Od J. Patocky k V. Havlovi, trans. Klara Cabalkova,
(Olomouc: Votobia, 1997).
Edited Anthologies
HandbooktothePhilosophyofBigHistoryco-editedwithDavidČernín(London:Bloomsbury,forthcoming
2024/5)
Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States, co-edited with Gian Piero de Bellis, (New York:
Routledge, 2016)
A Companion to the Philosophyof Historyand Historiography (Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Chinese translation: Shanghai Commercial Press, 2023.
Articles

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“Historiographic Populist Emotivism,” in Berber Bevernage, Eline Mestdagh, Walderez Ramalho
and Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt eds., Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the
Twenty-First Century, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 forthcoming).
“Critical Reliability: A Bayesian Program for Intelligence analysis,” Journal of Intelligence &
Analysis, Vol 26 No. 1 (2023), 76-96.
“From Unreliable Sources: Bayesian Critique and Normative Modeling of HUMINT Inferences,”
Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, (2023).
“Historicism Now: Historiographic Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology Out of Bounds,”
The Journal of Philosophy of History, 16 (2022), 92-121.
Forbidding Fruit: Apple TV+ Does Asimov: Asimov’s Foundation stories are a thought
experiment in the social sciences, American Purpose, October 8, 2021.
The Philosophy of Historiography, in Berber Bevernage ed., Bloomsbury History: Theory and
Method digital resource, (London; Bloomsbury, 2020).
Origins and Genealogies, in Anthony Jensen & Carlotte Santini eds., Nietzsche on Memory and
History: the Re-Encountered Shadow, (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020), 57-75.
Historical Evitability: The Return of the Philosophy of History, in Philosophy of History: Twenty-
First-Century Perspectives. Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen ed., (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 143-161.
The Inferences of Common Causes Reduced to Common Origins, Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science Part A, volume 81, June 2020, 105-115.
The Generation of Probable Facts from Testimonies in Jurisprudence and Historiography,
Storia della Storiografia, 76/2, 2019, 47-62 & reprinted in A Dialogue Between Law and History:
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Facts and Evidence Baosheng Zhang,
Thomas Yunlong Man, Jing Lin eds. (Singapore: Springer, 2021), 81-98.
Universal Basic Income: Does It Work, The American Interest, June 13, 2019.
The Origins of Historiographic Causation, in Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography:
Causal and Teleological Approaches, Gunnar Schumann ed., (London: Routledge, 2019), 249-
268.
Wertung und historische Wahrheit in wissenschaftlicher Geschichtsschreibung, in Frank
Hentschel ed., Historische Musikwissenschaft, (Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 2019), 201-218.
“Why Legacies Matter: Reply to Readings of Legacies,” Central European Journal of International
& Security Studies, March 2019, Vol. 13 Issue 1, 233-240

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Polish translation: in Porównania 1 (24) 2019, 285-292.
Justice and the Distribution of Risks from Unconventional Energy Technologies, Ethical
Perspectives, Vol. 25 No. 3 (2018), 539-565.
The Etiology of Faked News, co-authored with Adam Garfinkle, The American Interest, Vol. 14
No. 1, (2018), 31-35.
The New-Old Fatalism, The American Interest, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2018), 25-35.
Memory: Irreducible, Basic, and Primary Source of Knowledge, Review of Philosophy and
Psychology, Volume 9 No. 1 (2018), 1-16.
Historiographic Counterfactuals and the Philosophy of Historiography: An Introduction, Journal
of the Philosophy of History, special issue Vol 10 (2016) No. 3, 333-348.
The Generation of Knowledge from Multiple Testimonies, Social Epistemology, Vol. 30 (2016),
251-272.
Historiographic Ancients and Moderns: The Difference between Thucydides and Ranke, in
Alexandra Lianeri ed., Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography, Trends in
Classics - Supplementary Volume, 32, (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016), 361-384.
“Introduction” and “The Best States: Panarchy as Anti-Utopia,” in Panarchy: Political Theories of
Non-Territorial States, Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis eds., (New York: Routledge, 2016), 1-17,
140-165.
Why We Need Totalitarianism, The American Interest, Vol. 10 No. 5, (May-June 2015), 24-32.
Epistemology as a Social Science: Applying the Neuman-Rubin Method to Explain Expert Beliefs,
in Carlo Martini & Marcel Boumans eds., Experts and Consensus in Social Science, (Dordrecht:
Springer, 2014), 155-170.
Historical Truth, in Vittorio Hosle ed., Forms of Truth and the Unity of Knowledge, (South Bend
IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2014), 232-259.
The New Energy Force Field, The American Interest, Vol. 9, No. 5, May-June 2014, 85-95.
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On the ‘Strudel and Apples’ Theory of Historiography: Reply to Chris Lorenz, Historein, 14-1
(2014), 88-92.
Polish translation: Ruch Filozoficzny 70 (3). 2013.
Biology and Natural History: What makes the difference? in Kaiser, M.I.; Scholz, O.; Plenge, D.;
Hüttemann, A. (Eds.)., Explanation in the Special Sciences: The Case of Biology and History,
(Dordrecht: Springer Synthese Library Vol. 367, 2014), 347-366.

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The New Power Map: World Politics after the Boom in Unconventional Energy, Foreign Affairs,
January 9 2013.
Sciences of Tokens and Types: The Difference between History and the Social Sciences, in Harold
Kincaid ed., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012), 274-297.
Bully-U: Higher Education and Central Planning, The Independent Review, Vol 17, No. 1, 2012,
99-119. Abridged Czech translation “Manažerské řízení univerzit vede k centrálnímu plánování a
šikaně,” Lidove noviny, March 17, 2018.
Scarce Justice: The Accuracy, Scope and Depth of Justice, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics,
Vol. 11, 2012, 76-96.
Historical Science, Over- and Under- determined: A Study of Darwin’s Inference of Origins, The
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vo. 62, 2011, 825-849.
Jamming the Critical Barrels: The Legacies of Totalitarian Thinking, Angelaki: Journal of the
Theoretical Humanities, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2010, 139-152.
Reprinted in Costica Bradatan ed., Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern
Europe, (London: Routledge, 2012), 157-170.
Where do we go from Here: A Jubilee Report on History and Theory History and Theory, theme
issue No. 49, December 2010, 64-84.
Restoration and Convergence: Russia and China since 1989, The Global 1989, George Lawson &
Chris Ambruster eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 157-178.
Czech History Wars, History Today, March 2009, 43-45.
(Co-authored with John Dryzek Robert Goodin & Bernard Reber), Promethean Elites Meet
Precautionary Publics: The Case of GM Foods, Science, Technology, & Human Values, 34, 3,
(2009), 263-288.
“Introduction,” “Causation” and “Origins: The Inference of Common Cause,” in Aviezer Tucker ed., A
CompaniontothePhilosophyofHistoryandHistoriography(MaldenMA:Wiley-Blackwell,2009),1-6,98-
108, 220-230.
Back from the Drift: Introduction to Special Issue on Philosophy of History, Philosophia: The Philosophy
Journal of Israel, 36, 4, (2008) 399-402.
(Co-authored with John Dryzek), Deliberative Innovation to Different Effect: Consensus
Conferences in Denmark, France, and the United States, Public Administration Review, 68, 5,
(2008), 864-876.

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Pre-emptive Democracy: Oligarchic Tendencies in Deliberative Democracy, Political Studies, 56-
1 (March 2008), 127-147.
Historiographic Revision and Revisionism: The Evidential Difference, in Michal Kopecek ed.,
Past in the Making: Recent History and Historical Revisionism, (Budapest: Central European
University Press, 2008), 1-16.
Spanish translation in Carlos Forcadell, Ignacio Peiro, Mercedes Yusta, El pasado en construccion:
Revisionismos historicos en la historiografia contemporanea Zaragoza: Institucion Fernando el
Catolico, 2015, 29-46.
The Political Theory of French Science Studies in Context, Perspectives on Science, Vol. 15, No.
2, (2007) 202-221.
The Inference of Common Cause Naturalized, in Jon Williamson & Federica Russo eds., Causality
and Probability in the Sciences, (London: College Press, 2007), 439-466
Temporal Provincialism: Anachronism, Retrospection and Evidence, Scientia Poetica, Vol. 10
(2006), 299-317.
Contingency, Necessity, Teleology and progress, Historically Speaking, Vol. VII No. 5 (2006),
30-31.
Reprinted in: Donald A. Yerxa ed., Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion:
Historians in Conversation (Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009), 124-128.
Paranoids May be Persecuted: Post-totalitarian retroactive justice, & Rough Justice: Rectification in post-
Authoritarianandpost-TotalitarianRegimes,inJonElstered., RetributionandRestitutionintheTransitionto
Democracy, (Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2006), 181-205, 276-.298.
Down but Not Under: Australian Higher Education, International Educator, 15-1 (2006), 18-21.
Miracles, Historical Testimonies, and Evidence, History and Theory, 44 (2005), 273-290.
Restoration and Revolution: Understanding Post-Totalitarianism, Policy Magazine, 21-4 (2005),
22-28.
The New Politics of Property Rights, Critical Review, 16 (2004), 377-402.
Holistic Explanations of Events, Philosophy, Vol. 79 (2004), 573-589.
The Epistemic Significance of Consensus, Inquiry, Vol. 46 (2003), 501-521.
Resistance and Reform: East European Higher Education, International Educator, 12-1 (2003), 32-
39.

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Kripke and Fixing the Reference of `God', International Studies in Philosophy, 34, 4, (2002), 155-
160.
Czech version: CO JE ŽIDOVSKÁ FILOSOFIE? Saul Kripke jako následovník Jehudy Haleviho,
Roš Chodeš, (November 2009), 10-15.
The Essence of Dissidence, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 22 No. 2 (2001) 59-78. co-authored with
Marian Kišš, Šárka Mokrá, Ondrej Štefek, Martina Vyrková and Vera Zátopková.
The Future of the Philosophy of Historiography, History and Theory, 40 (2001), 37-56.
Estonian translation in Tuna 2012.
From Republican Virtue to Technocratic Politics: Three episodes of Czech non-political politics, Political
ScienceQuarterly,115(Fall2000),421-445. Thearticleisco-authoredwithmystudentsKarelJakes,Marian
Kiss, Ivana Kupcova, Ivo Losman, David Ondracka, Jan Outly& Vera Styskalikova.
Introduction to Higher Education special issue & Reproducing Incompetence: The Constitution of Czech
Higher Education,, East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 9 No. 3 (2000).
Beyond the Territorial Fallacy: The Best States, Utopian Studies, 10 (1999), 128-145.
Paranoids maybe Persecuted: Post-totalitarian Retroactive Justice, Archives Européennes De Sociologie, 40
(1999), 56-100.
Abridged Czech Translation: I paranoici mohou byt pronasledovani (o spravedlnosti v posttotalitnich
spolecnostech), Kriticka Prilohoa, 17 (2000), 144-156.
TheGenealogyof IncommensurabilityinPsychoanalysis,inEricJ.Engstrom,Matthias MWeber,PaulHoff
eds., Power and Knowledge: Perspectives in the History of Psychiatry, Proceedings of the third Triennial
Conference of the European Association for the History of Psychiatry, (Berlin: VWB -Verlag für
Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1999), 197-207.
Sins of Our Fathers: A short History of Religious Child Sacrifice, Zeitschrift für Religions- und
Geistesgeschichte, 51 (1999), 30-47.
Czech Translation: O detske obeti, trans. Martin Konvicka, (Olomouc: Votobia, 1996).
Scientific Historiography Revisited: An essay in the metaphysics and epistemology of history, Dialogue:
Canadian Philosophical Review, 37 (1998), 235-270.
Unique events: The Underdetermination of Explanation, Erkenntnis, 48-1 (January1998), 59-80.
Phenomenology, Explication and Prescription in the Philosophical meta-disciplines, Grazer Philosophische
Studien, 54 (1998), 89-106.
The Collection and Dissemination of Social Science Information In the Czech Republic, (co-authored with
PetrMateju),inRachelWalker&MarciaFreedTayloreds.,InformationDisseminationandAccessinRussia
and Eastern Europe: Problems and Solutions East and West [NATO Science Series 4: Science and

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TechnologyPolicy--Vol. 26], (Amsterdam & Tokyo: IOS Press & Omsha, 1998), 158-163.
Politics of Conviction: TheRise and Fall of Czech Intellectual Politicians,in AndrasBozoki ed., Intellectuals
and Politics in Central Europe, (Budapest: Central European UniversityPress, 1998), 185-206.
The Czech Transition: Politics before Economics, The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, 22
(1997), 395-416. The article is co-authored with my students Jana Balharova, Ivo Losman, Jan Nemec, Jan
Nemecek, David Ondracka, Zdenek Polak, Roman Skyva, Martina Vyrkova & Marketa Zidkova.
Le Sacrifice et l'authenticité. L'éthique de la dissidence tchèque, Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, 129
(1997), 305-319.
Shipwrecked: Patocka's Philosophyof Czech History, Historyand Theory, Vol. 35 (1996), 196-216.
J.S. Mill's Philosophyof the historyof science, Explorations in Knowledge, Vol. XIII No. 2, (1996), 21-31.
Corruption and Greed: Western Academic Aid to Eastern Europe, Telos, 102 (1995), 149-158.
Privatization, Restitution, PropertyRights, and Justice, Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 9 (1995), 345-361.
Czech Translation: Majetkové restituce a spravedlnost na mezinárodní úrovni, Střední Evropa, 14
(1998), 95-105.
In Search of Home Journal of Applied PhilosophyVol. 11, No. 2, (1994), 177-183.
The new Jews, Telos, no. 98-99 (1994), 209-215.
Aquinas' Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Legitimization of Social Stratification, Archives For Philosophy of
Law and Social Philosophy(ARSP), Vol. 80 No. 4 (1994), 534-544.
A Theoryof Historiography as a Pre-Science, Studies in Historyand Philosophyof Science, Vol. 24 (1993),
633-667.
Plato and Vico: A Platonic Reinterpretation of Vico, Idealistic Studies, Vol. 23 (1993), 139-150.
Italian translation: Platone e Vico, Una reinterpretazione platonica di Vico, Bollettino del centro di studi
vichiani, Vol. XXIV-XXV (1994-1995), 97-115.
Normativni filosofie dejin, FilosofickyCasopis, Vol 41 (1993), 608-624.
Patocka Vs. Heidegger: The Humanistic Difference, Telos no. 92 (summer 1992), 85-98.
Sacrifice: From Isaac to Patocka, Telos no. 91 (Spring 1992), 117-124.
Vaclav Havel's Heideggerianism, Telos, no. 85 (Fall 1990), 63-78.
Czech Translation: Heideggeriánství Václava Havla, trans.. Boca Abrhámová, Prostor no. 17 (Sep.
1991), 27-38.

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Some Methodological Notes On The Explanations To The Invention Of Printing, HistoryAnd Technology,
Vol. 7 (1990), 73-89.
Book Reviews
Timmins, Adam. Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, The Review of Metaphysics.
Volume77 (Issue2).368- 370
Balaji Srinivasan, The Network State, American Purpose, 18 November 2022.
Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences, Journal of
the Philosophy of History 15-1 (2021), 125-131; shorter version: Times Literary Supplement, 6063
(14 June 2019), 31.
Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, (Doubleday,
2020), in Lawfare, August 27 2020.
Michael D. Gordin, Einstein in Bohemia. Princeton University Press 2020, in The American
Interest, Vol. 16, No. 1 (September 2020), 44-46. Czech Translation in Roš Chodeš 2020.
Cass R. Sunstein ed., Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America New York: Dey Street
2018. Aspen Review Central Europe, 2019/1, 97-105.
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die. New York: Crown, 2018 The American
Interest, April 23 2018 (online).
Rousso, Henry. The Latest Catastrophe: History, the Present, the Contemporary. Trans. Jane
Marie Todd. University of Chicago Press, 2016, The American Historical Review, Volume 123,
Issue 2, 1 April 2018, Pages 549–551.
Adam Sissman, John Le Carré: The Biography. New York: Harper, 2015, The American Interest,
Vol. 12 No. 3, (2017), 88-96.
Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. New York: Tim Duggan
Books, 2015, The American Interest, Vol. 11 No. 5, (2016), 76-88.
Costica Bradatan, Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers. London:
Bloomsbury, 2015, Aspen Review Central Europe, 2016 No 1, 127-130.
Richard C. Carrier, Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus.
Amherst NY: Prometheus Press, 2012. History and Theory, 55, (2016), 129-140.
Michael Zantovsky, Havel: A Life. New York: Grove Press, 2014. The American Interest, Vol 11
No. 3 (2016), 83-91.

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Jeremy Adelman, Worldly philosopher: the odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2013. Aspen Review Central Europe, 2015, No. 2, 94-97.
Michael Gubser, The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, ethics, and Social Renewal in Central
Europe. (Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 2014), Aspen Review Central Europe,
2015, No. 1, 99-103.
Thierry Bros (2012) After the US Shale Gas Revolution. Paris: Editions Technip.
Cecile Musialski, Werner Zittel and Stefan Lechtenbohmer (eds) (2013) Shale Gas in Europe: A
Multidisciplinary Analysis with a Focus on European Specificities. Deventer Netherlands: Claeys
& Casteels. Political Studies Reviews, 13-1, 2015, 123-124.
Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution. New
York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014, Aspen Review Central Europe, 2014, No. 4, 96-99.
Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century, New York: Penguin, 2013,
Aspen Review Central Europe, 2014, No. 3, 113-116.
Ivan Klima, My Crazy Century. New York: Grove, 2013. The American Interest, 2014, Vol. 10,
No. 2, 80-84. .
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century. By
Vladimir Tismaneanu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012 & Modernism and
Totalitarianism: Rethinking the Intellectual Sources of Nazism and Stalinism, 1945 to the Present.
By Richard Shorten. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Perspectives on Politics, 2013, 1177-
1178.
Marci Shore, A Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. (London:
William Heineman, 2013). Times Literary Supplement, May 17 2013, 22.
Nullus in verba: Recent Studies in the Epistemology of Testimony, Review Essay of: Jennifer
Lackey, Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008) & Sanford C. Goldberg, Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2010), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 43 (2012), 412-
419.
Prague’s Ironic Modernist, review of: John A. Hall, Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography,
(London: Verso Press, 2010). The Prague Post, 23 February 2011.
The Philosophy of Natural History and Historiography: Derek Turner, Making Prehistory:
Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007) and Rob Inkpen, Science, Philosophy and Physical Geography, (London: Routledge, 2005).
Journal of the Philosophy of History, Vol. 3, No. 4, (2009), 385-394.

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Allan Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: Contemporary Guide to Practice (Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 2007), Isis, 100, 1, (2009) 209-211. .
Vaclav Havel, To the Castle and Back, (New York: Knopf, 2007), Times Literary Supplement,
No. 5467 (11 January 2008), 10.
Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999);
William H. Sewell, The Logics of History, (Chicago; Chicago University Press, 2005), Philosophy
of the Social Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2007), 210-228.
Elazar Weinryb, History: Myth or Reality (Tel Aviv: Open University Press, 2003), Journal of the
Philosophy of History, Vol. 1, No.1 (2007), 125-135.
Barbara Falk, The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe: Citizen Intellectuals and
Philosophers Kings, (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003), Telos 137 (2006), 182-
187,
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Out of the Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls
Research, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
(9.13. 2006).
Françoise Mayer, Les Tcheques et leur communisme: Mémoire et identités politiques (Paris:
EEDHE, 2004) Slavic Studies, Vol. 65, 3 (2006), 575-576. Czech translation: “Jsou-li vinni
všichni, není vinen nikdo” Babylon, 15.1.2007
Gil Eyal, The Origins of Postcommunist Elites: From Prague Spring to the Breakup of
Czechoslovakia, (University of Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), Telos, 136
(2006).
Peter Kosso, Knowing the Past: Philosophical Issues of History and Archeology (Amherst NY:
Humanities Press, 2001), Philosophy of the Social Sciences, (2004), 309-315.
Frontiers of the Enlightenment: Richard E. Quandt, The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe:
A Personal Perspective on Philanthropy and Technology Transfer, (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2002) & Andrew Lass & Richard E. Quandt eds., Library Automation in Transitional
Societies: Lessons from Eastern Europe, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), East
European Politics and Societies, 18 (2004), 158-176.
Steven Wall, Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998),
Ethics, 111 (2001), 651-653.
Historiographic Realism: Review of: Martin Bunzl, Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice, (New
York: Routledge, 1997) & C. Behan McCullagh, The Truth of History, (New York: Routledge, 1998),
Philosophyof the Social Sciences, 31 (2001), 254-266.

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HistoriographyDuringLatency: MikulášTeiched.,BohemiainHistory,(Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity
Press, 1998), The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Journal of the International Society for the
Studyof European Ideas, vol. 6 No. 3 (2001), 287-288.
David Stark & László Bruszt, Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central
Europe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 9 No.
1-2 (2000), 107-112.
John Le Carré, Single & Single, (New York: Scribner, 1999), East European Constitutional Review, Vol. 8
No. 4 (1999), 109-113.
Czech translation: Spinave kseftyVychodu a Zapadu, Lidove noviny, 18.11.99, 17.
Roger Smith, The Fontana History of the Human Sciences, (London: Fontana Press, 1997) The British
Journal for the Historyof Philosophy, 7 (1999), 365-367.
Harold Kincaid, Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social
Research, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 38
(1999), 435-438.
Historiographic Counterfactuals and Historical Contingency, review of: Niall Ferguson, Virtual History,
Historyand Theory, 38 (1999), 264-276.
Berel Lang, Heideggerovo Mlcení, (Praha: Prostor, 1998), Lidove noviny, Orientace 27.3.1999.
JanPatocka,AnIntroductiontoHusserl's PhenomenologyandHeretical Essays inthePhilosophyofHistory,
(Peru IL: Open Court, 1996), Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 October 1998, 30.
Beyond economistic absolutism: Postcommunist transition from sociological perspectives: Jiri Vecernik:
Markets and People: The Czech Reform Experience in a Comparative Perspective, (Avebury, Aldershot
1996). Jon Elster, Claus offe, Ulrich K. Preuss, Frank Boenker, Ulrike Goetting & Friedbert W. Rueb:
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea, (Cambridge UniversityPress,
Cambridge 1998). Journal of Social, Economic and Political Studies, vol 23 (Fall 1998), 349-352.
Czech translation: Lidove noviny, 15 August 1998, 28.
Oskar Krejci, History of Elections in Bohemia and Moravia, (Boulder CO: East European Monographs
CDXXXIII), Europe-Asia Studies, 50/5 (July1998), 915-918.
Czech translation: Mezinárodní politika, 11 no. 9 (1997), 28-29.
Intellectual Responsibility: The Specter of Benda and the Phantom of Bakunin: Review of: Jacques Derrida,
The Gift of Death,trans. DavidWills,(Chicago: Chicago UniversityPress, 1995). Jacques Derrida, Specters
ofMarx:thestateofthedebt,theworkofmourning,andthenewinternational,trans.PeggyKamuf,(London:
Routledge, 1994). Telos 110 (1998), 181-191.
Czech Translation: Nicht schuldig: odpovědnost a postmodernismus, Kriticka Přiloha, 12 (1998), 97-
108.

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Contemporary Philosophy of Historiography, Review Essay of: Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner eds., A
New Philosophy of History, (London: Reaktion Books, 1995); Murray G. Murphey, Philosophical
Foundations of Historical Knowledge, (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1994); Jonathan
Gorman,UnderstandingHistory:AnIntroductiontoAnalyticalPhilosophyofHistory(Philosophica;no.42),
(Ottawa:UniversityofOttawaPress,1992);WilliamH.Dray,HistoryasRe-Enactment:R.G.Collingwood's
Idea of History, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995); Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard
Zinman eds., History and the Idea of Progress, (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1995). Philosophy of
the Social Sciences, Vol. 27 (1997), 102-129.
From the Dialectics of the Concrete to Charter 77: Karel Kosík, The Crisis of Modernity: Essays and
Observations from the 1968 Era, ed. James H. Satterwhite, (Lanham Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 1995), xi + 239 pp Petr Rezek, Filosofie a politika kýče, (Praha: Oikoymenh, 1991); Henri
Declève ed., Profils de Jan Patocka, (Bruxelles: Publications des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 1992),
Telos 107 (1996), 187-195.
ReflectionsonaFairyGodfather,reviewof: GeorgeSoros withByronWienandKrisztinaKoenen,Soroson
Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, (New York: John Wiley& Sons, 1995), Telos 106 (1996), 195-202.
Science Fiction as a Bridge to Philosophy: Stephen R. L. Clark, How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and
Philosophy, (London & New York: Routledge, 1995), Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 23 (1996), 534-536.
Czech translation: Scriptum no. 21 (1996), 140-142.
Charles L. Glenn, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, (Washington DC: CATO Institute, 1995), in
Transition, Vol. 2 No. 12 (14 June 1996), 46-47.
The Illness of Psychoanalysis, Review essay of: D. P. Spence, The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis,
(Harvard UniversityPress, 1994), Studies in Historyand Philosophyof Science, 26 (1995), 657-665.
CzechPhilosophyand Culture at theCross Roads,a review of: Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz,(ed.), Good-bye
Samizdat:TwentyYearsofCzechoslovakUndergroundWriting,(EvansonIllinois:NorthwesternUniversity
Press, 1992) & Miloslav Bednar & Michal Vejrazka (eds.), Traditions and Present Problems of Czech
PoliticalCulture:CzechPhilosophicalStudiesI,(BucharestRomania&WashingtonDC:PIDEIAPublishers
& The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1994) Telos, 101 (1994), 83-91.
IdentityCrisis, review of: Martin Matuštik, Postnational Identity: Critical Theoryand Existential Philosophy
in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel, (New York: Guilford Press, 1993) Telos no. 98-99 (1994), 287-293.
Gordon H. Skilling & Paul Wilson eds., Civic Freedom in Central Europe: Voices from Czechoslovakia,
(London: MacMillan, 1991), Theoryand Society, Vol. 23, no. 4 (1994), 593-601.
Waiting for Meciar, review of: Tim D. Whipple ed., After the Velvet Revolution: Vaclav Havel and the
leaders of Czechoslovakia speak out, Telos no. 94 (Winter 1992-1993), 167-182.
Jan Patočka, Essais Hérétiques sur la philosophie de l'histoire, Historyand Theory, Vol 31 (1992), 355-363.

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The Long Havel Summer,Review of: VaclavHavel,Summer Meditations, Telos no. 91(Spring1992),179-
184.
Encyclopedic Entries
“Charter 77,” “Czechoslovakia,” “DienstbierJiri,” “Havel Vaclav,” “Human Rights,” and “Le Carre, John,”
in Encyclopedia of the Cold War, (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2007).
“Czech Republic,” “Justice,” “Libertarianism,” and “Mises Ludwig von.” in Rodney Carlisle ed.,
Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right, (Thoudand Oaks CA: Sage, 2005)
“Consciousness,” "Objectivity," in Maryanne Cline Horowitz ed., The New Dictionary of the History of
Ideas, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005)
"Berlin, Sir Isaiah," [350 words] "Causation," [1000 words] "Colligation," [200] "Counterfactuals," [300]
"Determinism," [500] "Dray, William," [250] "Fact," [500] "Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich," [800]
"Heidegger, Martin," [300] "Herder, Johann Gottfried," [200] "Historicism," [1000] "Materialism," [200]
"Mink, Louis," [150] "Patocka, Jan," [150] "Philosophyof history, analytic," [1500] "Philosophyof History,
substantive," [1500] "Scientific history," [500] and "Spengler, Oswald," [350] in D. R. Woolf ed., A Global
Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, (New York: Garland, 1998).
150 short reviews of works in the philosophyof historyas part of a section on Theory and Practice edited by
Richard T. Vann in Guide to Historical Literature, (Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 1995).
Op-eds, feuilletons, and miscellaneous articles in newspapers and magazines
Putin Has Lost His Totalitarian Grip After Ukraine The UnPopulist, 13 July.
The Populist Right Freely Deploys Philosophies It Deplores on the Left, The UnPopulist, February
14 2023.
Putin's Reign, Like Russia’s Final Czar's, May End Following his Ukrainian Misadventure, The
UnPopulist, October 13 2022.
Putin’s Achilles Heel Is Buried Beneath the Boot of His Totalitarianism, The UnPopulist, April
26 2022.
Along with Ukraine, Putin is Destroying Putinism, The UnPopulist, March 4 2022.
Czech translation: Konec putinismu se přiblížil, Forum 24, May 5 2022.
Why Populists cannot control Pandemics, Polity Press blog, July 24 2020.
Otevřený dopis Jiřímu Drahošovi k situaci v Ústavu pro studium totalitních režimů/ Open Letter
to Senator Drahoš about the Situation in the Institute for Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Bubínek
Revolveru 5. 8. 2019.

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Scape-ghosting: Polish Legal Therapy to History, Aspen Review Central Europe, 2018 No. 3, 74-
81.
Fifty Shades of Czech Populism, The American Interest, October 23, 2017.
Panarchy: The State 2.0, Unsere Zeit, August 17 2017.
Condemned to Populism, The American Interest, August 29, 2016.
Moscow to Bologna: The (Re-)Sovietization of European Higher Education Aspen Review Central
Europe, 2015 No. 3, 19-24.
Looking Back At The Legacies Of Dissidents 25 Years After The Fall Of Communism Forbes
Opinion, November 7, 2014.
Rusia y su política con respecto a Oriente Medio y China, Vanguagdia Dossier, (Ejemplar
dedicado a: La geopolítica de la energía), No. 53, 2014, 40-45.
Why Europe does not have a Shale Revolution? Aspen Review Central Europe, 2014 No. 2, 80-
82.
Pipeline Wars or Pipe Dreams, Fuelfix, The Houston Post, June 21 2013.
Proč Gazprom šíří mýty o těžbě břidlicového plynu, Česka pozice, August 10, 2012.
Добивът на шистов газ е наука, а не легенда, 24 часа, August 3, 2012.
Odszukajcie gaz, a ceny spadną, Rzeczpospolita, July 30 2012.
The New Cold War Over Shale Gas, The Washington Times, July 16, 2012.
Translated to Spanish & Korean.
In Havel’s Footsteps?, Prague Post, April 6, 2011.
It’s a Small World, Prague Post, August 4, 2010, 6.
Americkým tátou v Česku, Lidové noviny, June 5, 2010, Relax I-II.
Worst Foot Forward, Prague Post, March 10, 2010, 6.
Crackpots and Despots, Prague Post, January 6, 2010, 6.
Jak se komunisté nestali Kapitalisty, Lidové noviny, 7. 11. 2009, 21-22.

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Bringing Up Baby, Prague Post, 4.11.2009, 6.
Special Delivery, Prague Post, 29.7.2009, 4.
The Urban Safari, Prague Post, 25.3.2009, 4.
Hezky česky, Respekt, 23.3.2009, 59.
Czech History: The Coming Catharsis, Transitions Online, 20.2.09.
Books not Buildings, Prague Post, 18.2.2009, 4.
Race to the Botton, Prague Post, 7.1.2009, 4.
Manažeři proti škole, Respekt, 15.12.2008, 62.
The Metamorphosis Continues, Prague Post, 19.11.2008, 5.
Informing as a state of mind, Prague Post, 22.10.2008, 5.
Jíst Košer v Praze: Košer styl a košer podstata v pražských restauracích – část II, Roš Chodeš,
October 2008, 10-11.
Jíst Košer v Praze: Košer styl a košer podstata v pražských restauracích – část I, Roš Chodeš,
September 2008, 12-13.
That would be telling, Times Higher Education, 21.8.2008.
Is Capitalism Corrupt, Budapest Sun 22 August 2002,.
Tunelování po americku, Lidové noviny, 31.7.2002, 11.
Vzpomínky Gershoma Scholema, Kritická příloha Revolver Revue, Č. 24 (2002), 148-153.
Nenávist silnější než sebeláska, Lidové noviny, 22.9.2001, 10.
Po pádu komunismu vítězí komunisté, Lidové noviny. 25.11.1999, 10.
Špinavé kšefty Východu a Západu, Lidové noviny, 17.11.1999, 17.
Pivo s Dienstbierem (ale bez guláše), Lidové noviny, 13.11.1999, 10.
Europe’s New Jews, Christian Science Monitor, 5 November 1999,
Od Heideggerova mlčení k mlčení o Heideggerovi, Lidové noviny, 27.3.1999, 20.

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O co půjde v listopadových volbách, Lidové noviny, 26.8.1998, 10.
Za hranicemi ekonomistického absolutismu, Lidové noviny, 15.8.1998, 28.
Evropská cesta univerzit, Respekt, 7.7.1998, 3.
Zrada elit : Proč česká reforma ztratila cestu , Respekt, 1.6.1998, 2.
Sokratés a Patočka nebyli Američané, Kritická příloha Revolver Revue. Č. 11 (1998), 172-174.
Účel a smysl filosofického vzdělávání, Kritická příloha Revolver Revue. Č. 10 (1998), 106-113.
Reprodukce neschopnosti, Lidové noviny, 10.1.1998, Orientace, 1.
Výnosná symbióza univerzitních aparátčíků, Lidové noviny, 8.11.1997, Orientace, 1.
České vysoké školy - pevnost neschopných? Lidové noviny, 18.101.1997, Orientace, 1.
Krize Ceskych Vysokych Skol, Kriticka Priloha, 8, August 1997, 193-204.
Hebron: Válka o hroby, Týden. 25.11.1996,. 38-42.
Europeans Search for the True Meaning of Home, Prague Post, 6. 11. 1992.
Moral Foundation Needed for Unity, Prague Post, 25. 8. 1992
Should Star of David Become the 51st
Star on American Flag?, Houston Post, 21.10.1991, 15.
The Case for a U.S.-Israel Federation, Jerusalem Post, 21. 3. 1991, 4.
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