EDUCATION

PhD, Philosophy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2003.

MPhil, Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2002.

MA, Political Philosophy, University of York, York, England, 2001.

Mgr, Philosophy and History, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1996.

DEGREE THESES

PhD – Tradition, Encyclopaedia, and University. Alasdair MacIntyre on the Importance of Tradition in the Pursuit of Truth, his Critique of Liberalism, and Future of the University as an Institution, Supervisor: Ladislav Hohoš (Comenius University, Slovakia)

MA – MacIntyre´s Advocacy of the Aristotelian/Thomist Tradition as Superior to the Liberal Tradition, Supervisor: Matt Matravers (University of York, England)

Magister Thesis – Aquinas and Rawls on Justice: A Critical Comparison, Supervisor: Ladislav Hohoš (Comenius University, Slovakia)

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION

Moral and Political Philosophy, Alasdair MacIntyre

RESEARCH STAYS

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Michaelmas Term 2008, academic visitor.

Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews, Scotland, April 9 – May 7, 2008, visiting fellow.

Nanovic Institute for the European Studies, Notre Dame University, IN, USA, January 7 – May 30, 2006, visiting fellow.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Ethics and Politics. Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre´s Moral and Political Perfectionism. Grant Project No. 443.20090489/21885, Porticula, Germany, October 1, 2009 – January 30, 2011, principal researcher.

On What There Is: Varieties of Realism and Their Influence on Science-Religion Dialog. Metanexus Global Network Initiative, Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, 28 Garrett Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, U.S. Grant No. 1348, July 1, 2009 – May 31, 2014, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, principal researcher: Pavol Labuda, PhD, co-researcher.

RESEARCH PROJECTS (* international)

* Ethics and Politics. Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre´s Moral and Political Perfectionism. Grant Project No. 443.20090489/21885, Porticula, Germany, October 1, 2009 – January 30, 2011, principal researcher.

* On What There Is: Varieties of Realism and Their Influence on Science-Religion Dialog. Metanexus Global Network Initiative, Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, 28 Garrett Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, U.S. Grant No. 1348, July 1, 2009 – May 31, 2014, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, principal researcher: Pavol Labuda, PhD, co-researcher.

* The 20th Century English Language Ethics. Research project, the Nanovic Institute for the European Studies, Notre Dame University, IN, USA, January 7 - May 30, 2006, invited visiting fellow.

* Science-Religion Dialog and Critical Thinking. Catholic University in Ruzomberok, LSI Grant Award. Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2004 – 2007, principal researcher: Prof. Peter Volek, PhD co-researcher.

* Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Grant project for communication of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Chairperson: Ass. Prof. Marian Palenčár, Ph.D. Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2002-2005, co-grantee

Contemporary Theories of Justice.  Jan Hus Educational Foundation Grant, Slovakia, 1998-9, individual researcher.

PRESENTATIONS (*invited, **at international conferences)

** The Primacy of Practice over Theory. Problems of MacIntyre´s Radical Contextualism. Going Back to the Roots: Plain Persons asking Questions about the Human Good and the Nature of Things, University College Dublin, Ireland, March 9, 2009.

** Conservative and Radical – Alasdair MacIntyre’s Political Theory of Thomistic Aristotelianism. Theory, Practice, and Tradition: Human Rationality in pursuit of the Good Life (July 30 – August 3, 2008). Saint Meinrad School of Theology, St. Meinrad, IN, USA.

The EU Treaty of Lisbon, Western Materialism, and the Modern Nation State. Lessons to learn from Matthew Fforde and Alasdair MacIntyre, at the LUMSA University of Rome Faculty of Law, Rome, Italy, 15 May 2008.

** The Potentiality Argument and Human Embryos. A Conceptual Analysis (with Pavol Labuda). Prenatal Human Development. Analysis and Critique. November 8-9, 2007, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Slovakia.

** MacIntyre´s Search for a Defensible Aristotelian Ethics and the Role of Metaphysics. Alasdair MacIntyre´s Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance and Utopia, London Metropolitan University, England, June 29 – July 1, 2007.

Slovakia, Materialism and Desocialisation, the presentation of the book M. Kuna, ed. (2006) Slovensko, materializmus a desocializácia [Slovakia, Materialism and Desocialisation], Ružomberok, LUMSA University of Rome Faculty of Law, Rome, Italy, April 20, 2007.

The Question of Abortion and Mental Experiments: the Case of the Unconscious Violinist (J.J. Thomson), Bioethics Colloquium, St. Francis Xaver Theological Institute Banská Bystrica-Badin, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia, September 2-3, 2005.

** MacIntyre and Liberalism of Neutrality. Inclusions and Exclusions in the New Europe, Society for Applied European Thought, GB, held in Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, July 3-8, 2003.

Slovakia, the European Constitution, and Christian Values. LUMSA University of Rome Faculty of Law, Rome, Italy, 8. March 2005.

The Catholic University in Central Europe: the Case of Slovakia. LUMSA University of Rome Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Rome, Italy, 9. March 2005.

MacIntyre on Tradition and the Problem of Moral Relativism. LUMSA University of Rome Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Rome, Italy, 9. March 2005.

Boh, kresťanské hodnoty a Ústava Európy [God, Christian Values, and the European Constitution], Christian Idea of Europe, Ladislav Hanus Research Institute of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University in Ružomberok, 11. March 2004.

*** God/Christian Values and the European Constitution. Should the Latter Refer to the Former and Why? Evangelische Hochschulgemeinde International Seminar: Growing EU: Hopes and Fears of Members and Candidates, organized by the World Students Christian Federation Central European Subregion, Linz, Austria, 5. February 2004.

** Moral Scepticism and Liberalism of Neutrality. Search for Human Identity, at Matej Bel University Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, October 2003.

** Niekoľko poznámok k MacIntyrovej vízii postliberálnej university. [Notes on MacIntyre’s Vision of Postliberal University.] Man, Thought, and Society,  Matej Bel University Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, October 2002.

** MacIntyre on Tradition, Rationality, and Relativism. Meanings of Community. Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, July 6-11, 2003.

Is Liberalism a Tradition? If So, What Is Wrong with this Tradition? Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar with Gary Gutting, Notre Dame University, IN, USA, June 2000.

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ATTENDANCE

Two Types of Political Reasoning. Inaugural Public Lecture by Alasdair MacIntyre as Senior Research Fellow in Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics. London Metropolitan University. 7. June 2010.

Catholic Universities in Western Europe: Positions, Challenges. International Workshop at Institute Catholique de Paris. France, 29.5.-1.6. 2010.

Alasdair MacIntyre at 80. What happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the 20^th Century?, an international conference with public lecture by Alasdair MacIntyre: On Having Survived the Moral Philosophy of the 20^th Century, University College Dublin, Ireland, March 6-8, 2009.

The Political Theory of John Rawls  (a series of lectures by Russell Hittinger and Michael Pakaluk), Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, Neuwaldegg Institute, Vienna, Austria, May 17-20, 2007.

Cambridge Metaethics Conference, King’s College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, November 18, 2006.

Workshop for a fine tuning of the programmes and curriculum of the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University Leuven, Faculty of Theology, Belgium, September 23-25, 2006.

Position and Challenge of the Central-Eastern European Catholic Universities, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest (venue: Estergom) Hungary, September 30 - October 1, 2005.

Four Great Philosophers of Law (a series of lectures by Russell Hittinger), Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, Neuwaldegg Institute, Vienna, Austria, May 8-11, 2005.

Opportunities and Challenges in Catholic Higher Education: American and Eastern Europe, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies´s symposium, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, April 5-7, 2005.

Socrates/ErasmusTeaching Mobility Grant for LUMSA University of Rome, Italy, March 7-16, 2005, lecturer.

The Rule of Law and Free Society (a series of lectures by Russell Hittinger), Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, Neuwaldegg Institute, Vienna, Austria, November 24-28, 2004.

Human Dignity and the Failure of Communism, Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, Neuwaldegg Institute, Vienna, Austria, November 5-7, 2004.

The Neuwaldegg Seminar (summer school in philosophy) Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, Neuwaldegg Institute, Vienna, Austria, August 15-22, 2004.

Università e Chiesa in Europa [University and the Church in Europe], international conference, Pontificia Università Lateranense, Rome, Italy, July 17-20, 2003.

Curriculum Resource Center, Central European University, Hungary, April 2001.

Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar Scholar, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, June 2000.

Democracy and Diversity, Summer Seminar Scholar (New School for Social Research, New York), Cracow, Poland, July 1998.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Kuna, M. : Etika a politika v perspektíve Alasdaira MacIntyra. [Ethics and Politics in the Perspective of Alasdair MacIntyre.] Ružomberok: KU v Ružomberku – Filozofická fakulta, 2010, (251s.) ISBN 978-80-8084-553-7.

Kuna, M. ed.: Slovensko, materializmus a desocializácia. [Slovakia, Materialism and Desocialisation], (Ružomberok: Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku – Filozofická fakulta, 2006). ISBN 80-8084-111-X.

PAPERS

Kuna, M.: Aspekty koncepcie človeka Alasdaira MacIntyra. [Aspects of Alasdair MacIntyre´s Concept of Human Being] In: P. Němec, et al.: Koncepce člověka v dějinách a současnosti filosofie. Brno: CDK 2010, (forthcoming).

Kuna, M.: Koncepcia politiky ako praxe a jej kritický a reformný potenciál. In: J. Hrkút, ed.: Filozofické reflexie. Ružomberok: KU v Ružomberku, Filozofická fakulta, 2010, ISBN 978-80-8084-557-3. s. 7-23.

Kuna, M.: MacIntyrova (nekomunitaristická) kritika liberalizmu. [MacIntyre´s (non-Communitarian) Critique of Liberalism] In: J. Šúst, ed.: Liberalizmus neutrality I. Vybrané politické aspekty, Ružomberok: KU v Ružomberku, Filozofická fakulta, 2010, ISBN 978-80- 8084-552-0, s. 84-107.

Kuna, M.: Etické a sociálne problémy v pozadí liberalizmu (neutrality). [Ethical and Social Problems in the Background of Liberalism (of Neutrality)] In: J. Baňas, ed.: Liberalizmus neutrality II. Vybrané etické aspekty. Ružomberok: KU v Ružomberku – Filozofická fakulta, 2010, ISBN 978-80-8084-551-3, s. 70-95.

Kuna, M.: Politika podľa MacIntyra. [Politics accorning to MacIntyre] In: Impulz, roč. 6, č. 1, 2010, ISSN 1336-6955, s. 72-87.

Kuna, M.: Význam praxe pre teóriu. Rekonštrukcia argumentu Alasdaira MacIntyra. [The Significance of Practice for Theory: A Reconstruction of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Argument], Filozofia, Vol. 64, 2009, No. 9, s. 827-838, ISSN 0046-385X.

Kuna, M.: MacIntyre´s Search for a Defensible Aristotelian Ethics and the Role of Metaphysics, Analyse und Kritik. Zeitschrift für Sozialtheorie,Vol. 30, 2008, No. 1, ISSN 0171-5860, pp. 103-119.

Kuna, M.: Hume on the Limits of Reason in the Realm of the Practical: Some Aristotelian Observations, Organon F, Vol. 14, 2007, No. 3, ISSN 1335-0668, pp. 303-319.

Kuna, M.: Matthew Fforde a výzva desocializácie pre Slovensko. [Matthew Fforde and the Challenge of Desocialisation for Slovakia], in M. Kuna, ed., Slovensko, materializmus a desocializácia (Ružomberok: Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku – Filozofická fakulta, 2006), ISBN 80-8084-111-X. s. xxi-lii.

Kuna, M.: MacIntyre on Tradition, Rationality, and Relativism. Res Publica. Journal for Social and Legal Philosophy, volume 11, number 3 (September 2005), s. 251-272. ISSN 1356-4765 (paper), ISSN 1572-8692 (online).

Kuna, M.: Does Rawls Have an Adequate Account of Justification? I. Blecha, ed.: Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica VI-2005, pp. 343-353. ISBN 80-244-1260-8, ISSN 1212-1207.

Kuna, M.: Boh, kresťanské hodnoty a Ústava Európy. [God, Christian Values, and the EU Constitution], In: I. Vaško, M. Kekeliaková (eds.) Deň vedcov II, Kresťanská idea Európy, Ružomberok : FF KU Ružomberok, 2005, 5-90, s. 37-43. ISBN 80-8084-046-6.

Kuna, M.: God, Christian Values and the European Constitution: Should the Latter Refer to the Former and Why? In: Blocksome, R., Szabolcs, N., Šajda, P., eds.: Medi(t)ations, (Re)conciliations, Conflict Resolution and European Integration. Budapest : BGÖI & WSCF-CESR, 2004, s. 103-110. ISBN 963-217-868-8.

Kuna, M.: The Knowledge Argument and the Refutation of Physicalism. Organon F, Vol. 11, 2004, No. 2, ISSN 1335-0668, pp. 128-142.

Kuna, M.: Niekoľko poznámok k MacIntyrovej vízii postliberálnej univerzity. [Notes on MacIntyre’s Vision of Postliberal University]. In: Palenčár, M. (ed.): Človek, spoločnosť, myslenie. Banská Bystrica : Fakulta humanitných vied Univerzity Mateja Bela, 2002, s. 234-244. ISBN 80-8055-692-X.

Kuna, M.: Je Rawlsov liberalizmus verejného rozumu nenapraviteľne sektársky? [Is Rawls´s Public Reason Liberalism Irredeemably Sectarian], Filozofia, roč. 56, 2001, č. 6, s. 91-102. ISSN 0046-385X.

Kuna, M.: Politický liberalizmus Johna Rawlsa. [John Rawls´s Political Liberalism], Filozofia, roč. 54, 1999, č. 2, s. 414-422. ISSN 0046-385X.

BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER ARTICLES

Kuna, M.: Review of Alasdair MacIntyre´s Engagement with Marxism. Selected Writings 1953-1974. Paul Blackledge, Neil Davidson, eds., Brill, Leiden – Boston 2008 (425, lvi), Studia Neoaristotelica, (forthcoming).

Kuna, M.: Prirodzené právo a súčasná anglosaská filozofia práva”. [Natural Law and Contemporary English-Language Philosophy] Tribunál, roč. 3, 2004, č. 2, s. 1. ISSN 1336-1600.

Kuna, M.: Rigorózne doktoráty sú anomáliou. Kto je a kto nie je doktorom filozofie na Slovensku? [So Called “Rigorous Doctorate” Is an Anomaly. Who Is and Who Is not a Doctor of Philosophy in Slovakia?] In: Domino fórum, Vol. 12, 2003, No. 24, p. 13. ISSN 1335-4426.

Kuna, M.: Potrebuje Európa Boha? Zmienka o Bohu v preambule európskej ústavy. [Does Europe Need God? Reference to God in the Preamble of the European Constitution] In: Domino fórum, Vol. 12, 2003, No. 40, p. 19. ISSN 1135-4426.

Kuna, M.: MacIntyre and Liberalism of Neutrality. Abstract at the pre-conference booklet of ‘Inclusions and Exclusions in the New Europe’ conference of the Society for Applied European Thought, Newport, Wales, GB, held in Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, July 3-8, 2003.

CONFERENCE REPORTS/ABSTRACTS

Kuna, M.: Správa z dvoch macintyrovských konferencií. What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. Alasdair MacIntyre at 80; Plain Persons asking Questions about the Human Good and the Nature of Things, In: Filosofický časopis, 57, 2, 2009, s. 305-307, ISSN 0015-1831.

Kuna, M. – Labuda, P.: Argument potencionality a ľudské embryo : konceptuálna analýza. Bioetika – Scripta bioethica, 7, 3-4, 2007, s. 48. ISSN 1213-2977.

Kuna, M.: MacIntyrovská konferencia. In: Filozofia, 63, 6, 2008, s. 551 – 552. ISSN 0046-385X.

Kuna, M.: Správa z medzinárodnej macintyrovskej konferencie. Theory, Practice, and Tradition. Human Rationality in the Pursuit of the Good Life. Studia Neoaristotelica, 5, 2, 2008, s. 207-208, ISSN 1214-8407.

TRANSLATIONS

Fforde, Matthew: “Západný materializmus a vyvážanie desocializácie”. [the translation of the text Fforde, Matthew: Western Materialism and the Exportation of Desocialisation] In: Kuna, Marian, Slovensko, materializmus a desocializácia. (Ružomberok: Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku – Filozofická fakulta, 2006), s. 1-19. ISBN 80-8084-111-X.

Peter Volek: „Philosophical and Theological Analysis of the Language of Prayer“. Studia Neoaristotelica, 6, 1, 2009, s. 91-97, ISSN 1214-8407.

ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (* international)

*  MacIntyre’s Analysis and Critique of Liberalism (of Neutrality). Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, September 25 – November 25, 2008; Doctus II. (Faculty International Research Exchange Program), grant No. 2008, December 4, 2007, academic visitor.

Theory, Practice, and Tradition: Human Rationality in pursuit of the Good Life (July 30 – August 3, 2008). Saint Meinrad School of Theology, St. Meinrad, IN, USA, Faculty Research Grant Scheme, grant No. 16/2007 covering expenses of my participation at international conference, October 22, 2007, conference speaker.

*  MacIntyre’s on Incommensurability and Rational Superiority amongst Moral Traditions. Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews, Scotland, April 9 - May 7, 2008; (joint grant) Doctus I. (Faculty International Research Exchange Program), grant No. 2007, November 27, 2006 and Faculty Research Grant Scheme, grant No. 15/2007 for a short-term research stay, October 22, 2007, visiting fellow.

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance and Utopia, London Metropolitan University, England, June 29 – July 1, 2007, a grant covering expenses of my participation at international conference, two faculty grants: No. 15/2006 – December 18, 2006; No. 3/2007 – April 23, 2007, conference speaker.

Slovakia, Materialism, and Desocialisation. Essay Western Materialism and the Exportation of Desocialisation by Matthew Fforde with Comments, Catholic University in Ružomberok Faculty of Philosophy publication grant No. 6/2005, April 19, 2005, Ružomberok, book editor.

Generation and Pre-natal evolution of Human Being (Problems of Assisted Fertilization, Abortions, and Embryo Experimentation from Moral, Political, and Medical Perspectives). VEGA (Slovak Republic Governmental Research Grant) No. 1/2504/05. January 2005- December 2007, co-researcher.

Medal for the Contribution to the Establishment of the Catholic University in Ružomberok Founded in the Year of Great Jubilee 2000, June 28, 2005.

* Civic Education Project Fellow (the Local Faculty Fellow Program), Slovakia, 2002-2003, fellow.

* Central European University Fellow (the Full Fellowship for Philosophy PhD Program), Hungary 9/2001-6/2002, doctoral student.

* Civic Education Project Fellow, the Eastern Scholar Program, Slovakia, 2000-2001, fellow.

* Open Society Institute/Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholar, University of York, England, 1999-2000, MA Political Philosophy programme, master student.

*  Erasmus Institute Scholar, summer school with Gary Gutting, Notre Dame University, IN, USA, June 2000.

MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEES/BOARDS

Member (of the Executive Committee) of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, July 2007-

Member of the Board of Research of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University in Ružomberok, since November 2002-December 2007; January 2008-

Elected Member, Academic Senate of the Catholic University in Ružomberok Faculty of Arts and Letters, February 2008-

Vice-Dean, the Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University in Ružomberok, November 2002-January 2008.

Elected Member, Academic Senate of the Catholic University in Ružomberok, October 2000-November 2002.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Humanities Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University in Ružomberok, May 2002-