PhD Student

vojtech.sverak@gmail.com

Vojtěch Svěrák is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, Department of Governance, and at Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Double Degree).

His PhD project focuses on Collective Responsibility and Climate Change. It conceptualizes the climate crisis as a case of structural injustice and explores its normative dimensions, particularly the responsibility of groups. It examines, first, the moral responsibility and blameworthiness of organized groups – states and corporations, and second, the political responsibility of unorganized social groups, especially considering the intersections of responsibility with privilege and disadvantage. The project aims to develop comprehensive models of responsibility that offer an ethically grounded political response to structural climate injustice. It brings climate ethics and political theory into dialogue, primarily through a critical development of Iris Marion Young’s work on structural injustice and her social connection model of responsibility.

His research is supervised by Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen) and Iwona Janicka (CETE-P), with A. J. Zwitter (University of Groningen), and Petr Urban (CETE-P) serving as promoters. 

Svěrák holds both an MA and BA from Charles University (UFAR). In his undergraduate theses, he focused on Derek Parfit (Climate Change and the Non-Identity Problem in Derek Parfit’s Work) and Bernard Williams (Bernard Williams: Removal of Slave Morality). Beyond academia, he has worked as a journalist specializing in environmental and climate change topics and occasionally writes popular articles.

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Vojtěch Svěrák is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, Department of Governance, and at Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Double Degree).

His PhD project focuses on Collective Responsibility and Climate Change. It conceptualizes the climate crisis as a case of structural injustice and explores its normative dimensions, particularly the responsibility of groups. It examines, first, the moral responsibility and blameworthiness of organized groups – states and corporations, and second, the political responsibility of unorganized social groups, especially considering the intersections of responsibility with privilege and disadvantage. The project aims to develop comprehensive models of responsibility that offer an ethically grounded political response to structural climate injustice. It brings climate ethics and political theory into dialogue, primarily through a critical development of Iris Marion Young’s work on structural injustice and her social connection model of responsibility.

His research is supervised by Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen) and Iwona Janicka (CETE-P), with A. J. Zwitter (University of Groningen), and Petr Urban (CETE-P) serving as promoters. 

Svěrák holds both an MA and BA from Charles University (UFAR). In his undergraduate theses, he focused on Derek Parfit (Climate Change and the Non-Identity Problem in Derek Parfit’s Work) and Bernard Williams (Bernard Williams: Removal of Slave Morality). Beyond academia, he has worked as a journalist specializing in environmental and climate change topics and occasionally writes popular articles.