Nenad Miščević, professor of philosophy on the College of Maribor in Slovenia and probably the most influential Croatian philosophers, has died.
[Nenad Miščević, photo by Alastair Norcross, 2016]
Professor Miščević had broad pursuits, and wrote on topics in philosophy of language, philosophy of thoughts, epistemology, philosophical methodology, ethics, and political philosophy. He’s the creator of Thought Experiments (2022), Nationalism and Beyond (2001), Rationality and Cognition (2002), amongst different works. A quantity of the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, “Many Faces of a Philosopher” (2014) took Miščević’s concepts as its subject material, and a festschrift for him, Thought Experiments between Nature and Society was revealed in 2017. You’ll be able to be taught extra about his philosophical writings here. Along with his tutorial work, he was additionally a columnist for a number of publications and a public mental.
Miščević performed a central position in creating analytic philosophy in southeast Europe and cultivating and sustaining a community of analytic philosophers within the area. He was a longstanding member of the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy and one of many founders of the Rijeka Philosophical Circle. He helped within the creation of the philosophy departments on the College of Rijeka and the College of Maribor.
From the late Seventies to the early Nineteen Nineties, Miščević taught on the College of Zadar. After that, he joined the College of Humanities and Social Sciences on the College of Maribor. He additionally has taught on the College of Rijeka, the College of Klagenfurt, the College of Graz, and elsewhere, and for 20 years was affiliated in a number of respects with Central European College. He earned his PhD from the College of Ljubljana.
A memorial notice on the location of the Croatian Society for Analytic philosophy remarks that
It can’t be emphasised sufficiently that with out Nenad’s organizational, skilled, and scholarly work, the Rijeka philosophical-analytic “circle” and the Division of Philosophy would probably not exist. Talking of the work of this casual however extremely lively group of philosophers who operated in Rijeka within the Nineteen Eighties… Boran Berčić (Rijeka) states: “The central determine within the group was undoubtedly Nenad Miščević. He possessed immense mental, social, and organizational power. He was the principle driving power of the group, actually the spiritus movens.”
He died on Saturday, Might eleventh.
(Because of Boran Berčić and Marko Jurjako for letting me know of Nenad’s loss of life.)
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