Ethics and Social Challenges

Activities

Presentations

Jolić, Tvrtko, „Od instinkta do dostojanstva: Vjekoslav Rotkvić o temelju moralnog napretka” (conference: „Godišnja konferencija Instituta za filozofiju: Hrvatska filozofija, proslava pedeset godina časopisa Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine“, Zagreb, Croatia, 4-5 December 2025)

Biturajac, Mia, „Andrija Štampar kroz prizmu suvremene filozofije medicine” (conference: „Godišnja konferencija Instituta za filozofiju: Hrvatska filozofija, proslava pedeset godina časopisa Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine“, Zagreb, Croatia, 4-5 December 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor and Kadić, Nino, „Can a videogame be part of Croatian philosophical heritage? The example of The Talos Principle series” (conference: „Godišnja konferencija Instituta za filozofiju: Hrvatska filozofija, proslava pedeset godina časopisa Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine“, Zagreb, Croatia, 4-5 December 2025)

Grgić, Filip, „Praktična istina: dva pristupa“ (conference: „Izazovi filozofije: 10. godišnja konferencija Udruge za promicanje filozofije“, Zagreb, Croatia, 14 November 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, „Živjeti bez mapa: “sablasno djelovanje na daljinu” kao metafora za “prosperitetni silazak”“ (conference: „Izazovi filozofije: 10. godišnja konferencija Udruge za promicanje filozofije“, Zagreb, Croatia, 14 November 2025)

Kadić, Nino, „Russellian Physicalism, Mereology, and Inscrutables“ (conference: „XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (XI SEFA)“,  Seville, Spain,1-3 October 2025)

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, „Responsibility Without Blame: Philosophers and the Decline of Trust in Science“ (conference: „Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2025“, Zagreb, Croatia, 24-26 September 2025)

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, „Bridging the Science-Public Communication Gap: Why Philosophy of Science Matters“ (conference: „EPSA2025: The 10th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association“, Groningen, Netherlands, 27-30 August 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor and Moles, Andres, „Liberal Neutrality and the Effects of Democratic Design“ (conference: „The Philosophy of Neutrality: 2025 Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Society“, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 27-29 August 2025)  

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, „Pitaj filozofa: društveno angažirana filozofija“ (conference: „Državni stručni skup za nastavnike filozofije, etike i logike: „Interdisciplinarni pristupi u odgoju i obrazovanju: teorija, praksa i vrijednosti”, Rijeka, Croatia, 27 June 2025)

Biturajac, Mia „The Work of Andrija Štampar Through the Lens of Philosophy of Medicine“ (conference: „The Interface Problem in the Philosophy of Law and Psychiatry“, Rijeka, Croatia, 26 June 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, „Mapping legal constraints for degrowth transformation and changing mindsets in municipalities“ (conference: „18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference“, Oslo, Norway, 24-27 June 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, „“Čemu to?“ – filozofiranje drvene klupe Augusta Cesarca“ (conference: „Znanstveni skup Nove teme u hrvatskoj filozofiji od 1874. do 1945. godine“, Zagreb, Croatia, 5-6 June 2025)

Grgić, Filip, „Truth and Action“ (conference: „Nenad v naših mislih“, Maribor, Slovenia, 27-28 May 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor and Savić, Lovro, „The Rights of Psychopaths“ (conference: „OZSW – Annual Conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy“, Delft, Netherlands, 19-20 May 2025)

Grgić, Filip, „Practical Truth“ (conference: „The Legacy of Nenad’s Philosophical Thought“, Rijeka, Croatia, 10-11 April 2025)

Biturajac, Mia, „Nenad Miščević on Thought Experiments“ (conference: „The Legacy of Nenad’s Philosophical Thought“, Rijeka, Croatia, 10-11 April 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor, „The Distance Principle, Nationalism, and Miščević’s Hated Neighbor Truism“ (conference: „The Legacy of Nenad’s Philosophical Thought“, Rijeka, Croatia, 10-11 April 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor and Kadić, Nino, „Conscious AI and Moral Caution“, (conference: „Thinking the Future: 11th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy“, Graz, Austria, 25-28 February 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor and Moles, Andres, „Liberal Neutrality and the Effects of Democratic Design“ (conference: „Attention, Politics and Democracy“, Oslo, Norway, 20-21 February 2025)

Bracanović, Tomislav, „Therapeutic robots as placebo friends“ (conference: „International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Neurodivergent Groups – Ethical Challenges“, Rijeka, Croatia, 7 February 2025)

Domazet, Mladen and Lubbock, Rowan, „Movement without a Movement“ (conference: „After Development Lecutres 2024“, Bergen, Norway, 16-20 December 2024)

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, „The Role of Philosophers in Rebuilding Trust in Science“ (conference: „Public Philosophy: Perspectives and Challenges“, Zagreb, Croatia, 5-6 December 2024)

Ivanković, Viktor, „Moral philosophizing and moral progress: Embracing the weak entanglement view“ (conference: „Public Philosophy: Perspectives and Challenges“, Zagreb, Croatia, 5-6 December 2024)

Grgić, Lovro, „Revolucija, barbarstvo i moralni napredak“ (conference: „Kant 300“, Belgrade, Serbia, 5-6 December 2024)

Domazet, Mladen, „Degrowth Doughnut – visualising and communicating a just sustainability“ (conference:„Erasmus+ GEM partnership“, 3 December 2024)

Grgić, Filip, „Odgovornost i vrijeme“ (conference: „Pojam vremena“, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, Hrvatska, 29 November 2024)

Grgić, Lovro, „A European Army – a Necessity on the Road to Perpetual Peace?, (conference: „European Union as a realization of Kant’s idea of perpetual peace?“, Zadar, Croatia, 20-22 November 2024)

Domazet, Mladen, „Degrowth Discourses on the European Semiperiphery“ (conference: „Development Beyond Growth – Global and Local Perspectives on Just Transitions“, Bonn, Germany, 6-7 November 2024)

Bracanović, Tomislav, „Vojni roboti i teorija pravednog rata“ (conference: „Nasljeđe u filozofiji: kontinuitet i promjene“, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia, 25 October 2024)

Ivanković, Viktor and Kudlek, Karolina, „Nudges, Norms and Moral Progress“ (conference: „ESDiT / 4TU.Ethics Conference “Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology”“, Enschede, Netherlands, 2-4 October 2024)

Ivanković, Viktor and Kudlek, Karolina, „Nudges, Norms and Moral Progress“ (conference: „OZSW Annual Conference 2024“, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 30-31 August 2024)

Jolić, Tvrtko, „Agents of moral progress: Individual and collective perspectives“ (conference: „XXV World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy across Boundaries“, Rome, Italy, 1-8 August 2024)

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, „The Role of Philosophers in Rebuilding Trust in Science“ (conference: „25th CSAP annual conference: Contemporary Philosophical Issues“, Rijeka, Croatia, 18-19 July 2024)

Grgić, Filip, „Ignorance, Excuse, and Regret“ (conference: „25th CSAP annual conference: Contemporary Philosophical Issues“, Rijeka, Croatia, 18-19 July 2024)

Domazet, Mladen, „Klimatske promjene i ekonomija krafne“ (conference: „Zelena škola Vlašić“, 3-5 July 2024)

Ivanković, Viktor, „Reconceiving Transparency and Watchfulness for AI-Nudging“ (conference: „14th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy“, Braga, Portugal, 26-28 June 2024)

Jolić, Tvrtko, „Moral and Political Progress: Individual vs. Collective Perspective“ (conference: „22nd Annual International Conference on Politics & International Studies“, Athens, Greece, 17-20 June 2024)

Ivanković, Viktor and Kudlek, Karolina, „Nudges, Norms and Moral Progress“  (conference: „Change: International Conference“, Belgrade, Serbia, 12-15 June 2024)

Ivanković, Viktor, „The Inevitability Argument for Choice Architecture and the Evidence-Based View“ (conference: „Summer School ‘Equality and Citizenship’ 2024“, Rijeka, Croatia, 3-7 June 2024)

Grgić, Lovro, „Kant on Barbarism – the Limits of Political Legitimacy“ (conference: „Doctoral workshop with prof. David Estlund“, Rijeka, Croatia, 23 May 2024)

Domazet, Mladen, „Eco-justice: theories of global ecological justice and climate challenges in Eastern Europe“ (conference: „Erasmus+ Ecojustice partnership“, Hungary, 9-10 May 2024)

Grgić, Filip, „Weakness of Will and Negligence“ (conference: „Emotions and Motivation – Drivers of Behavior“, 7 March 2024)

Ivanković, Viktor, „What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?“ (conference: „Nudge: Behavioral Objectives and Technological Means“, 12 February 2024)

Public events

Crnko, Tarmara, “Challenging the argument from self-determination: exclusion, liberalism, and democracy” (project workshop: Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, 7 February 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor, „Nudges, Norms and Moral Progress“ (public lecture: Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, 6 November 2024)

Biturajac, Mia, „The Meta-debate on Mental Disorders and Compassionsm“ (project workshop: Institute of philosophy, 12 September 2024)

Grgić, Filip, „Kada je neznanje izgovor?“ (project workshop: Institute of philosophy, 23 May 2024)

Vrdoljak, Tvrtko, „Do Theories of Social Change Have to be Sociocentric? A New Naturalist Proposal“ (online project workshop: Institute of philosophy, 25 April 2024)

Organization

Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2025, Zagreb, Croatia.

Participation in events and roundtables

Domazet, Mladen, presentation: “Zavist”, as part of the roundtable discussion “Turbina: Turbo-tribina”, Močvara (13 December 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, presentation: „Politička ekologija: danas i ovdje“, as part of the School of political ecology, Belgrade, Serbia (5 October 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, presentation: „Odrast kao infrapolitika na poluperiferiji“, as part of a roundtable discussion of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (30 September 2025)

Biturajac, Mia, roundtable discussion: „Medicina iz perspektive Andrije Štampara i Ivana Illicha: zdravlje, društvo i etika“, KIC, Zagreb, Croatia (18 June 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor, presentation: „A Target in Motion: Extending the Ethical AI Landscape“; Kadić, Nino, presentation: „Moral Status in Synthetic and Emulated AI“, as part of a roundtable discussion on the book of Tomislav Bracanović Etika umjetne inteligencije, and as part of the conference „The 3rd International Conference on the Relation between Artificial Intelligence, Social Sciences, and Humanities“, Zagreb, Croatia (3 June 2025)

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, presentation: „Znanost na aparatima? Filozofi dolaze u pomoć!“, as part of a popular conference „Pint of Science Festival“, Rijeka, Croatia (19 May 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor and Kadić, Nino, workshop: „Disinformation at work – Understanding and recognizing fake news“, as part of the conference „Deception, Lies, and Disinformation“, organized by the Croatian Fulbrighters, Zagreb, Croatia (24 January 2025)

Media appearances

Domazet, Mladen, interview: „A gdje su kitovi?“ (Radio Student) (17 November 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, interview: „Mladen Domazet: Rat je najružniji oblik ekonomije rasta“ (Novosti) (24 October 2025)

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, blog post: „How Can Philosophers Rebuild Trust in Science?“ (Blog of the APA) (13 October 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, blog post: „Struggle for Justice, Freedom and Beauty as Denial of Despair“ (Kronika: filozofski magazin) (16 September 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, blog post: „Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery“ (degrowthUK) (19 June 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, participation in „I. Gregov: „Između Sunje i Oxforda““ (Hrvatska radiotelevizija, „Dokumentarne radio drame“) (28 May 2025)

Crnko, Tamara and Balorda, Vito, blog post: „Pitaj filozofa: Kako vratiti povjerenje u znanost?“ (Kronika: filozofski magazin) (12 May 2025)

Ivanković, Viktor, blog post: „Što stvarno, stvarno želimo: Zašto su istinske preferencije važne za teoriju poticanja“ (Institut za filozofiju: osvrti) (14 April 2025)

Engelen, Bart and Ivanković, Viktor, blog post: „What I Really, Really Want: Why True Preferences Matter for Nudging“ (Justice Everywhere: A Blog About Philosophy in Public Affairs) (13 March 2025)

Domazet, Mladen, post: „Ethics of Sustainability and Global Environmental Justice“, as part of the #edufocus series, webpage: „Network of Education Policy Centers” (28 February 2025)

Scholarly visits

Biturajac, Mia, summer school: “A Journey into Chinese Thought and Modern Civilization”, Beijing Normal University (BNU), Beijing, China, 10-24 July 2025

Domazet, Mladen, Ecological Economics Research Center, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, 20-23 November 2025

Domazet, Mladen, Ecological Economics Research Center, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, 15-17 October 2024.