Kateřina Gajdošová 

OBLASTI ZÁJMU

• starověká čínská a řecká filozofie
• klasická čínština
• vykopané rukopisy
• metafyzika
• ontologie
• procesní filozofie
• filozofie vědy

VZDĚLÁNÍ

• 09/2015 – 12/2023      PhD. at Charles University, Department of Sinology, thesis: Between Dao 道 and Fa 法: Intertextual Analysis of the Warring States Period Cosmological Texts (defended 08/12/2023)
• 10-11/2016                 Research stay at Academia Sinica, Taipei, R.O.C. Taiwan, Institute of History and Philology and the Czech Academy of Science
• 08/2011 – 02/2012     National Taiwan University, Taipei, R.O.C., Ministry of Education Huayu Scholarship
• 09/2009 – 06/2013      Sinology Bachelor’s degree, Charles University, Institute of East Asia Studies, thesis: Han Feizi’s Strategy in Interpreting the Laozi
• 09/2001 – 02/2002      Erasmus at Université Lille 3, Lille, France, Philosophy Department
• 09/1998 – 06/2004      Master’s degree - Philosophy and French Philology, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Institute of Romance Studies, thesis: Thinking Through the Void: Reason in the Thought of Blaise Pascal

AKADEMICKÁ PRAXE

• 01/2026 –                    post-doctoral researcher, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Science
• 02/2026 –                    lecturer at Universität Bern, Institut für Philosophie, Switzerland
• 12/2023 – 12/2025      post-doctoral researcher, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre, Charles University
• 09/2019 –                    lecturer in Chinese philosophy at Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Arts, Department of Sinology
• 03/2021 – 11/2022      Sinopsis project – think-tank on contemporary China – editor
• 10/2014 – 12/2023      Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at Charles University, Prague – research assistant
• 11/2004 – 09/2015      Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Prague – translator and interpreter
• 10/2002 – today         academic translator (philosophy, humanities)

PUBLIKACE

Journal articles:

Gajdosova, Katerina. Being One with Dao: The Emergent Notion of Freedom in Early Chinese Cosmological Texts. Journal of Daoist Studies, vol. 16, 2/2023, pp. 1-18, doi: 10.1353/dao.2023.0000

Gajdosova, Katerina. Naming and Cosmology: The Role of Names in the Onto-Generative Process. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 48, no. 4, 2021, pp. 383–91, doi: 10.1163/15406253-12340037

Gajdosova, Katerina. Turn towards Philosophy in the Earliest Cosmologies: Comparative Study of the Selected Warring States Period Excavated Manuscripts and Pre-Socratic Fragments, in: Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica 2017/4, Prague: Karolinum, pp. 51-61, doi: 10.14712/24646830.2017.40

Gajdošová, Kateřina, and Václav Valtr. Hranice pojmu v staročínském myšlení.  Filosofický časopis (Philosophy Journal, Czech Academy of Science), vol. 68, no. 2020/5, 2020, pp. 775–88.

Book chapters:

(under review) Gajdosova Katerina, “Situational Agency and World-Making in Early Chinese Process Thought”, in: Weaving Together: Comparative Approaches to Process Philosophy, Jea Sophia Oh and Robert Smid eds., Bloomsbury Publishing (to be published April 2028)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Nejvyšší Jedno dává vznik vodě.” (The Great One Generates Water), Čínský, japonský a korejský taoismus (Chinese, Japanese and Korean Daoism), eds. Oldřich Král and Jan Beran, Argo, Prague, 2019, pp. 39–50.

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Nově objevené texty Trvání a Věci povstávají do tvaru.” (Newly Discovered Texts: Constancy and Things Flow into Form), Čínský, japonský a korejský Taoismus (Chinese, Japanese and Korean Daoism), eds. Oldřich Král and Jan Beran, Argo, Prague, 2019, pp. 40–48.

Gajdosova, Katerina, and Vaclav Valtr. “Kosmologie a sebekultivace ve čtyřech kapitolách ‘Technik nitra’ sbírky Mistr Guan.” (Cosmology and self-cultivation in four Xinshu chapters of the Guanzi), Čínský, japonský a korejský taoismus (Chinese, Japanese and Korean Daoism), eds. Oldřich Král and Jan Beran, Argo, Prague, 2019, pp. 231–52.

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Počátky filosofie v nejstarších čínských a řeckých kosmologiích“ (Beginnings of Philosophy in Early Chinese and Greek Cosmologies), Proměny a setkání. Studie z dálněvýchodní kultury (Transformations and Encounters: Studies in East Asian Culture), eds. Marcela Suchomelová, Olga Lomová, Michaela Pejčochová, Faculty of Arts Press, Prague, 2017, pp. 26-41.

Recent conference papers:

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Situational Agency and World-Making in Early Chinese Process Thought”, APA Eastern Division 2026 (Baltimore, USA, 01/2026)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Redefining the Agent in the Light of Early Chinese Excavated Texts”, 5th Biennial European Association for Chinese Philosophy Conference 2025: “Selfhood and Exteriority” (06/2025, University of Iceland, Reykjavík)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Logic in Action: Later Mohist logic in the light of cosmological texts, and its ethical implications for the 21st century”, 24th International Society for Chinese Philosophy Conference 2025: "Addressing Global Crises and Reimagining Solutions through Chinese Philosophy" (06/2025, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Rules that Be: Relevance of Early Chinese Texts for Contemporary Ethical Discourse”, 25^th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) (08/2024, Tallinn University, Estonia)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Processual view of the self in early Chinese excavated texts”, within the panel “Processual Thought in Chinese Philosophy” (together with Xiang Shuchen, Jessica Xu, Jacob Bender), XXV. World Congress of Philosophy (08/2024, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Giving birth to the One: Chinese cosmological texts through Whiteheadian lenses”, 55^th Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP): “One and Many”, (11/2023, University of San Francisco, USA)

Gajdosova, Katerina,, “Thing as an event: using Whitehead’s tools to disassemble early Chinese cosmological texts”, 4^th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP) (06/2023, Macerata, Italy)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Being human or a human being? Philosophical foundations for human individuality in early Chinese and Greek cosmologies”, Conference “Humanism, transhumanism, and post-humanism” (05/2023, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Some Pitfalls of Comparative Philosophy Illustrated on Ji Kang's Discourse on Music”. 24^th Biennial EACS Conference (8/2022, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Gajdosova, Katerina, “Being one with the Dao – notion of freedom in the Chinese Huang-Lao texts”. Conference: “Beyond Free Will: Variety in Understanding of Choice, Luck, and Necessity” (6/2022, Vilnius University, Lithuania)

(Czech translations from French and English: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Bergson, Francis Yates, Karl Halbwachs, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck)