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Petr Urban is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he serves as Deputy Head of Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics and Vice Chair of the Board of the Institute of Philosophy. At CETE-P he is Project Coordinator and Leader of Work Package 1. 

His research focuses on political theory, applied ethics and phenomenology. His work has appeared in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Ethics and Social Welfare, Environmental Philosophy, Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology, Philosophies, Humana Mente or Filozofia. He is author or co-author of four monographs including Social Cohesion Contested (with Dan Swain, Rowman and Littlefield, 2024) and co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Unchaining Solidarity: On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge, 2022). He held Paul Celan Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2013), Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship at the Graduate Center CUNY (2013/14), National Scholarship of the Slovak Republic at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2017), and Visiting Fellowship at Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2022).

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Petr Urban is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he serves as Deputy Head of Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics and Vice Chair of the Board of the Institute of Philosophy. At CETE-P he is Project Coordinator and Leader of Work Package 1. 

His research focuses on political theory, applied ethics and phenomenology. His work has appeared in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Ethics and Social Welfare, Environmental Philosophy, Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology, Philosophies, Humana Mente or Filozofia. He is author or co-author of four monographs including Social Cohesion Contested (with Dan Swain, Rowman and Littlefield, 2024) and co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Unchaining Solidarity: On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge, 2022). He held Paul Celan Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2013), Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship at the Graduate Center CUNY (2013/14), National Scholarship of the Slovak Republic at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2017), and Visiting Fellowship at Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2022).