Jan Defrančeski

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NGRE Research Associate, University of Zagreb

Jan Defrančeski (mag. ling. et mag. educ. phil.) completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in philosophy and linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Linguistics, and received two Awards for Excellence and the “Franjo Marković” award. He is the editor-in-chief of the student journal Čemu and the junior managing editor of two philosophical journals: Filozofska istraživanja and Synthesis philosophica. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

 

Jan is one of the winning scholars of the project "New Generation Research Exchange" in collaboration with the Universities of Warsaw and Zagreb.

Research Interests

  • Aesthetics
  • Bioethics
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Philosophy of language
  • Cognitive linguistics

Affiliations

  • University Centre for Integrative Bioethics, University of Zagreb
  • Croatian Philosophical Society
  • Croatian Bioethics Society
  • New Generation Research Exchange

 

 

Publications

  • “Environmental Aesthetics and Land Art”, Pannoniana 6 (2022) 1 (currently in print)
  • “On Schopenhauer’s Distinction Between Ingeniousness and Madness”, in: Luka Janeš (ed.), Integrative Bioethics and Aporias of Psyche, Pergamena – Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies in Zagreb – Scientific Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics, Zagreb 2021, pp. 335–342.
  • “Arthur Schopenhauer – Genius or Talent?”, Čemu 27 (2020), pp. 80–87.