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Neven Sesardić

Croatian philosopher

Neven Sesardić (born 30 July 1949) is a Croatian philosopher known for his writings on heritability and race who worked most of his career as a professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Contents

  • 1 Life and career
    • 1.1 Publishing under a pseudonym
  • 2 Publications
    • 2.1 Books
    • 2.2 Articles
    • 2.3 Book reviews
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Life and career

He grew up in communist Yugoslavia. From 1977–83 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Zagreb, and, from then, until 1989 he was *istant professor at the same university. In the 1980s he was listed as an "internal enemy" of the Yugoslav regime.

From 1989 to 1991 he was fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Giessen. From 1991 to 1992 he worked as a Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld. The following two years (1992–94) he spent as an *ociate professor of philosophy at the University of Zagreb. The following academic year, 1994–1995, he worked as a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame, while the following year (1995–96) he became an NSF Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Following that, in 1996 he became professor of philosophy at the Miyazaki International College, *an, where he worked until 1999 when he was appointed research fellow at King's College London. From 2000 until 2006, he worked as an *ociate professor of philosophy at the Lingnan University, Hong Kong. From 2006 to 2015, he worked as a professor of philosophy at the Lingnan University. In 2015, he retired from Lingnan University.

He is a member of the American Philosophical *ociation (APA), the Croatian Philosophical *ociation, and the Philosophy of Science *ociation.

Publishing under a pseudonym

In 2008, Sesardić published a paper "Guilt by Statistical *ociation: Revisiting the Prosecutor's Fallacy and the Interrogator's Fallacy" in The Journal of Philosophy under the pseudonym "Carmen de Macedo". He revealed his authorship in 2011, writing that he submitted the article under a pseudonym because the journal did not have a practice of double-blind peer review. The journal had changed its policy in 2010. After philosopher M. V. Dougherty wrote to the Journal, they published a corrigendum in 2017 acknowledging that de Macedo's name was a pseudonym, and that Sesardić was the actual author.

Publications

Books

  • Fizikalizam ("Physicalism"), Belgrade: IIC (Istraživačko-izdavački centar SSO Srbije), 1984
  • Marxian Utopia? (with Domenico Settembrini), London: CRCE, 1985. ISBN:0-948027-01-0
  • Iz *itičke perspektive ("From an *ytical perspective"), Zagreb: Sociološko društvo Hrvatske, 1991.
  • Making Sense of Heritability, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN:0-521-82818-X
  • Iz desne perspektive ("From the right perspective"), Zagreb: Večernji list, 2012. ISBN:978-953-280-166-8
  • When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics, New York: Encounter Books, 2016. ISBN:1594038791

Articles

  • Sesardić, Neven (1992). "Science and Politics: Dangerous Liaisons". Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 23 (1): 129–151. doi:10.1007/BF01801799. ISSN:0925-4560. JSTOR:25170923. S2CID:145276017.
  • “Clock Paradox Lost in Space”, Philosophia Naturalis 30 (1993), pp.:72–83.
  • Sesardic, Neven (1993). "Egalitarianism and Natural Lottery". Public Affairs Quarterly. 7 (1): 57–69. ISSN:0887-0373. JSTOR:40435833.
  • Sesardic, Neven (September 1993). "Heritability and Causality". Philosophy of Science. 60 (3): 396–418. doi:10.1086/289743. S2CID:143764667.
  • Sesardic, Neven (October 1995). "Recent Work on Human Altruism and Evolution". Ethics. 106 (1): 128–157. doi:10.1086/293782. S2CID:170494021.
  • “Reductionism and Supervenience”, in P. Weingart et al. (eds.), Human by Nature: Between Biology and Social Sciences. Mahwah, N. J.: Erlbaum, 1997. ISBN:9781138972070
  • Sesardic, Neven (July 1998). "From Biological Inhibitions to Cultural Prohibitions, or How Not to Refute Edward Westermarck". Biology & Philosophy. 13 (3): 413–426. doi:10.1023/A:1006545130874. S2CID:54637697.
  • Sesardic, Neven (1 September 1999). "Altruism". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 50 (3): 457–466. doi:10.1093/bjps/50.3.457.
  • Sesardic, Neven (December 2000). "Philosophy of Science That Ignores Science: Race, IQ and Heritability" (PDF). Philosophy of Science. 67 (4): 580–602. doi:10.1086/392856. S2CID:144939581.
  • Sesardic, Neven (December 2003). "Evolution of Human Jealousy A Just-So Story or a Just-So Criticism?". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 33 (4): 427–443. doi:10.1177/0048393103257964. S2CID:143736557.
  • Sesardic, Neven (December 2003). "Heritability and Indirect Causation". Philosophy of Science. 70 (5): 1002–1014. doi:10.1086/377384. S2CID:123441427.
  • “From Genes to Incest Taboos: The Crucial Step”, in W. H. Durham & A. P. Wolf (eds.), Incest, Inbreeding, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, 109-120. ISBN:9780804751414
  • Sesardic, Neven (2007). "Gay Marriage: The Victory of Political Correctness and Bad Arguments". Prolegomena. 6 (1): 5–28.
  • Sesardic, Neven (1 June 2007). "Sudden Infant Death or Murder? A Royal Confusion About Probabilities". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 58 (2): 299–329. doi:10.1093/bjps/axm015.
  • Gattaca, in P. Livingston & C. Plantinga (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Cinema, London: Routledge, 2008. ISBN:9780415493949
  • Does Science Undermine Faith? (2008, unpublished)
  • de Macedo, Carmen (2008). "Guilt by Statistical *ociation: Revisiting the Prosecutor's Fallacy and the Interrogator's Fallacy". The Journal of Philosophy. 105 (6): 320–332. doi:10.5840/jphil2008105640. ISSN:0022-362X. JSTOR:20620105.
  • Sesardic, Neven (March 2010). "Race: a social destruction of a biological concept" (PDF). Biology & Philosophy. 25 (2): 143–162. doi:10.1007/s10539-009-9193-7. S2CID:3013094.
  • Sesardic, Neven (June 2010). "Nature, nurture, and politics". Biology & Philosophy. 25 (3): 433–436. doi:10.1007/s10539-009-9159-9. S2CID:84073680.
  • Sesardic, Neven (24 December 2011). "The ICTY Verdict and Its Illogicalities". Iz Desne Perspektive. Zagreb: Veernji list.
  • Sesardić, Neven (31 January 2011). "Where in the World Is Carmen de Macedo?". Inside Higher Education.
  • Sesardic, N. (1 June 2011). "Commentary: An explosion without a bang" (PDF). International Journal of Epidemiology. 40 (3): 592–596. doi:10.1093/ije/dyq145. PMID:21807644.
  • Sesardic, Neven (September 2013). "Confusions about race: A new installment". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 44 (3): 287–293. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.03.005. PMID:23583351.
  • Sesardic, Neven; De Clercq, Rafael (December 2014). "Women in Philosophy: Problems with the Discrimination Hypothesis" (PDF). Academic Questions. 27 (4): 461–473. doi:10.1007/s12129-014-9464-x. S2CID:53636581.
  • Sesardic, Neven (August 2015). "Crossing the 'explanatory divide': a bridge to nowhere?". International Journal of Epidemiology. 44 (4): 1124–1127. doi:10.1093/ije/dyv055. PMID:25855724.
  • False promises, South China Morning Post (May 30, 2015)
  • Sesardić, Neven (10 March 2017). "From Bad Logic to Bad Philosophy: the Case of Alain Badiou". Rightly Considered. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017.
  • Study Philosophy to Improve Thinking — A Case of False Advertising?, Quillette (July 1, 2017)
  • Sesardić, Neven (December 2018). "Is Racial Profiling a Legitimate Strategy in the Fight against Violent Crime?". Philosophia. 46 (4): 981–999. doi:10.1007/s11406-018-9945-1. S2CID:149245618.
  • Sesardić, Neven (September 2018). "Avoid Certain Frustration-Or Maybe Not?: Avoid Certain Frustration". Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. 7 (3): 218–222. doi:10.1002/tht3.390. S2CID:125133582.
  • Sesardić, Neven (November 2020). "Kant Can't Get No . . . Contradiction". Philosophia. 48 (5): 1961–1978. doi:10.1007/s11406-020-00191-9. S2CID:216525169.
  • The Curious Case of the Double Dissident, in T. A. Hillman & T. Borland (eds.), Dissident Philosophers: Voices Against the Political Current of the Academy, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, 229-246. ISBN:9781538159057

Book reviews

  • Book review of P. Danielson (ed.), Modeling Rationality, Morality and Evolution, Ethics 113 (2003), pp.:402–405.
  • Book review of N. Zack, Philosophy of Science and Race, Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), pp.:447–449.
  • Book review of D. J. Bartholomew, Measuring Intelligence: Facts and Fallacies, Intelligence 33 (2005), pp.:325–327.

References

    External links

    • Lingnan University website
    • Personal website

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