PhD Student

julita.skotarska@gmail.com

Julita Skotarska is a PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She obtained a master’s degree in philosophy from the Jagiellonian University, as well as a master’s degree in applied translation from the University of East Anglia. Between finishing her MA and beginning her PhD, she worked in translation industry, both as a freelancer and for a leading international corporation.

The provisional title of her PhD project is “Thinking the nonhuman from utilitarianism to posthumanism” and it focuses on the ethical status of nonhuman nature (notably animals under threat of extinction and glaciers) in the context of the climate crisis. In her work, she wants to compare some of the promises and challenges of utilitarian and posthuman thinking, navigating their place within academic philosophy and normative ethics more specifically. She has conducted elements of this research in cooperation with international scholars during study visits to the University of Iceland and the University of Oregon. In her scholarly practice she often uses poetry and art as a means to reframe intellectual debates. Her project is supervised by Petr Urban from CETE-P.

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Julita Skotarska is a PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She obtained a master’s degree in philosophy from the Jagiellonian University, as well as a master’s degree in applied translation from the University of East Anglia. Between finishing her MA and beginning her PhD, she worked in translation industry, both as a freelancer and for a leading international corporation.

The provisional title of her PhD project is “Thinking the nonhuman from utilitarianism to posthumanism” and it focuses on the ethical status of nonhuman nature (notably animals under threat of extinction and glaciers) in the context of the climate crisis. In her work, she wants to compare some of the promises and challenges of utilitarian and posthuman thinking, navigating their place within academic philosophy and normative ethics more specifically. She has conducted elements of this research in cooperation with international scholars during study visits to the University of Iceland and the University of Oregon. In her scholarly practice she often uses poetry and art as a means to reframe intellectual debates. Her project is supervised by Petr Urban from CETE-P.