Daniel D. Novotny received his PhD from State University of New York at Buffalo and is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Bohemia. He works primarily in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and applied philosophy.

Dr. Novotný’s research concerned so far mainly Aristotelian and scholastic traditions but recently he has also been working in the area of philosophy of technology and applied ethics (e.g. in ethics of autonomous vehicles).

He authored or co-authored several papers and one book Ens rationis: From Suárez to Caramuel (Fordham University Press 2013), co-edited two books in analytical metaphysics, Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (Ontos, 2012), Neoaristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (Routledge, 2016), and co-translated Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: Questions on Angels (Krystal 2017). He also serves as the editor-in-chief of Studia Neoaristotelica: A Journal of Analytical Scholasticim (since 2010), as a Vice-Dean for International Relations (since 2017), and an HR Award consultant (since 2018).