e-mail: lukas.svihura@unipo.sk

web: www.filozofiavpraxi.sk

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4085-445X

Scientific and pedagogical profile

Position:

University teacher in the position of university associate professor

Office number: 445 (4th floor)

Languages:

English (B2)

Higher education:

2015 - 2019 Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov in Prešov
Third-level higher education (PhD.) in the field of systematic philosophy (with honours)
Dissertation thesis: Súčasné podoby estetizácie étosu v kultúre a filozofii

2013 - 2015 Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov in Prešov
Second-level higher education (Mgr.) in the field of philosophy (with honours)

2010 - 2013 Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov in Prešov
First-level higher education (Bc.) in the field of philosophy (with honours)

Employment:

2024 → Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov in Prešov
university associate professor

2019 - 2024 Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov in Prešov
assistant professor

Research areas:

philosophy of human being and philosophical anthropology; philosophy of values; philosophy of the art of living; contemporary pragmatism; postmodern society; the phenomenon of aestheticization in contemporary culture and philosophy; somaesthetics

Courses taught:

At the bachelor's level of study:

Philosophical Anthropology
Contemporary Philosophy 3
Oriental Philosophy
Chapters from the History of Philosophy for Psychologists
Basic Philosophical Conceptions of the 20th Century
Philosophy as a Way of Life
The Nature, Problems and Challenges of Contemporary Society
Text Seminar in Ancient Ethics (seminars)

At the master's level of study:

Axiology
Philosophical Counselling
Philosophical Ethics
Pragmatism as a Philosophy for Life
Philosophy of Ayn Rand
The Aesthetic Imperative of the Present
Aesthetics of Art (seminars)
Contemporary Philosophy

For supplementary pedagogical studies:

Philosophical and Historical Aspects of Education

Most significant publications:

Monographs and edited volumes:

V1 Švihura, L. A. - Zákutná, S. (eds.), 2023. Ars vivendi a filozofická prax. Bratislava: Slovenské filozofické združenie pri SAV. ISBN 978-80-69070-00-4.

V1 Švihura, L. A. (ed.), 2022. Filozofické cesty z neistoty - podoby zodpovednosti. Bratislava: Slovenské filozofické združenie pri SAV. ISBN 978-80-973092-9-9.

AAB Švihura, L., 2019. Umenie života a liberálna kultúra. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta PU. ISBN 978-80-555-2322-4.

Current Contents and indexed publications:

V3 Švihura, L. A., 2024. Philosophy of values and ethics in Ayn Rand’s axiological objectivism. In: Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe), Vol. 14, No. 1 - 2, pp. 28 - 40.

V3 Švihura, L. A., 2024. Affective goals in teaching philosophy in higher secondary education: reality, criticism, perspectives. In: Ruch Filozoficzny, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 89 - 105.

Švihura, L. A. (ed.), 2023. Filozofia: Umenie života v kontexte filozofickej praxe, Vol. 78, No. 6.

V3 Švihura, L. A., 2023. Estetika existencie v pragmatizme Richarda Shustermana. In: Filozofia, Vol. 78, No. 6, pp. 444 - 461.

V3 Švihura, L. A., 2023. When life is art and philosophy: The case of Richard Shusterman. In: ESPES, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159 - 168.

O3 Švihura, L. A., 2022. Audire aude! Alúzia na Kantovu Odpoveď na otázku: Čo je osvietenstvo?. In: Studia Philosophica Kantiana: filozofický časopis pre kriticko-rekonštrukčné uvažovanie, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 56 - 60.

ADN Švihura, L., 2021. Postmoderná morálka a Kantova etika. In: Studia Philosophica Kantiana: filozofický časopis pre kriticko-rekonštrukčné uvažovanie, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 21 - 41.

ADD Švihura, L., 2019. Musíš sa stať umeleckým dielom. In: Filozofia, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 223 - 237.

ADN Švihura, L., 2018. K tradícii kantovského filozofovania v Prešove: Etika Andreja Vandráka. In: Studia Philosophica Kantiana: filozofický časopis pre kriticko-rekonštrukčné uvažovanie, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 36 - 63.

The library record of publication activity is available at this address (until 2021) and at this address (from 2022).

Research projects:

2026 → VEGA 1/0768/26 Dialogue of Cultures and Religions in the EU Territory from the Aspect of Axiological Pluralism and Pluralism of Interpretations (Starting Points, Opportunities, and Limits - Philosophical, Theological, and Political Science Reflections). Project years: 2026 - 2028. Principal investigator: Rudolf Dupkala

2026 → KEGA 043PU-4/2026 Models of Philosophy as a Way of Life

2026 → VEGA 1/0416/26 Kant’s Practical Philosophy in Contemporary Perspective

2022 - 2024 VEGA 1/0725/22 Kantova praktická filozofia - potenciál a perspektívy

2021 - 2023 VEGA 1/0537/21 Umenie života v kontexte filozofickej praxe (deputy principal investigator from 2023)

2018 - 2021 VEGA 1/0280/18 Kant a filozofia dejín

2020 - 2021 GaPU 3/2020 The Dawn and Dusk of Duty: Kant and Postmodern Ethics (principal investigator)

2017 - 2019 GaPU 8/2017 Musíš sa stať umeleckým dielom (principal investigator)

2017 - 2019 VEGA 1/0880/17 Filozofia dejín v osvietenstve: Dejiny ako fundamentálny moment sebainterpretácie človeka v kontexte filozofie 18. storočia

2015 - 2017 VEGA 1/0481/15 Projekty estetizácie existencie v súčasnej filozofii a kultúre

Memberships:

Memberships in professional associations:

2025 → Global Online Yoga Association, international (member, Certified Yoga Teacher)

2025 → Deep Philosophy Group, international (member)

2024 → Slovak Bioethics Committee of the Slovak Commission for UNESCO (member)

2023 → Yoga Alliance, USA (member, Registered Yoga Teacher)

2022 → Society for Applied Philosophy, UK (member)

2019 → Slovak Society for Aesthetics, Slovak Republic (member)

2018 → Slovak Philosophical Association at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic (member, board member in 2021 - 2026)

Committee memberships:

2024 → Member of the Slovak Bioethics Committee of the Slovak Commission for UNESCO.

2024 - 2026 Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Slovak Philosophical Association at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

2021 - 2026 Member of the Executive Committee of the Slovak Philosophical Association at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

2023 Chair of the Organizing Committee of the international scientific conference Ars Vivendi a filozofická prax.

2022 Member of the Organizing Committee of the international scientific conference of the Slovak Philosophical Association at the Slovak Academy of Sciences Etické teórie - neetická prax.

2021 Member of the Organizing Committee of the international scientific conference of the Slovak Philosophical Association at the Slovak Academy of Sciences Filozofické cesty z neistoty - podoby zodpovednosti.

2018 Member of the Organizing Committee of the international scientific conference of the Slovak Philosophical Association at the Slovak Academy of Sciences Intuícia a imaginácia vo filozofii a vede.

Editorial memberships:

Executive editor of the scientific journal Studia Philosophica Kantiana: Filozofický časopis pre kriticko-rekonštrukčné uvažovanie, indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index of Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science).

Awards:

2022 Rector’s Award of the University of Prešov in Prešov for the best departmental website of the Institute of Philosophy.

2020 Rector’s Award of the University of Prešov in Prešov for the scholarly output of employees under 40.

2015 Rector’s Award of the University of Prešov in Prešov for excellent study results.

2013 Rector’s Award of the University of Prešov in Prešov for excellent study results.

Other activities:

• Filozofia v praxi, president and professional guarantor.
• Internationally certified yoga teacher, registered with Yoga Alliance (USA) as a Registered Yoga Teacher, with the Global Online Yoga Association as a Certified Yoga Teacher, and in the Register of Natural Persons in Sport of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Slovak Republic as a yoga instructor.