František Gahér

František Gahér is a Professor at the Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences within the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University. His research focuses on logical semantics, natural language analysis, history of logic, and applications of logic in law.

Key research areas include:

• Logical semantics and translation theory
• Stoic logic and intensional contexts
• Counterfactual and counterpossible conditionals
• Propositional and conceptual attitudes
• Pragmatic meaning of expressions

His work connects formal logic with philosophy and linguistics, particularly in syntactic-semantic modeling and semantic anomalies like presupposition failure. He has contributed extensively to academic projects such as the APVV project on Semantics of Conditionals and VEGA-funded research on semantic models.

Education and career highlights:

• PhD in Philosophy (1981), Comenius University
• Habilitation (2000), Comenius University
• Professor (2015), Comenius University
• Head of Department (since 1998)
• Principal investigator for 7 major research projects