Core Research Team
Professor Snježana Prijić-Samaržija (CV, Google scholar, Croatian scientific bibliography)
Principal Investigator. In her research on social epistemology emphasis is placed on the investigating the epistemic values of individual and collective epistemic actors (formal and informal groups, institutions, etc.). In this project she contributes to the investigation of the issues on whether and how deviant sexual behaviours (adultery, cohabitation, prostitution, paedophilia, rape, etc.) can be considered as a deviation from the normal or morally permissible. As mentor and co-mentor she conducts research with collaborators to the project: Inka Miškulin, Andrea Mešanović, and Ana Smokrović.
Professor Elvio Baccarini (CV, Google scholar, Croatian scientific bibliography)
He investigates the question of the public justification of norms of social morality. His areas of research are public reason as a method for the public justification of the norms of public morality (a norm of social morality is justified when all the eligible individuals have a justification for that norm) and epistemic deliberative democracy. He is involved in the organisation of project conferences and seminars and as mentor of Ernie Gigante Dešković.
Assistant Professor Luca Malatesti (CV, Google scholar, Croatian scientific bibliography)
He investigates the epistemological status of the notions of antisocial personality and psychopathy and the moral responsibility of psychopathy, with particular focus onto the issue of the nature and extent of their impairment of their moral capacities.
Collaborators to the project
Inca Miškulin, psychotherapist and doctoral student (Philosophy) at the University of Rijeka
She investigates the role of epistemic values in the psychotherapeutic communicative act. She is interested in the possible forms of epistemic injustice (hermeneutic and testimonial injustice) that might be experienced by the patient and that are due by stereotyping and prejudices, for example, as in the case of trust deficit.
Ernie Gigante Dešković, doctoral student (Philosophy) at the University of Rijeka
He investigates democratic decision-making, with special emphasis on the procedures that guarantee avoiding the so-called sovereign evils, such as violations of fundamental human rights and discrimination, within the theoretical tradition started by Stuart Hampshire, a recently developed by Derek Edyvane.
Ana Smokrović, doctoral student (Philosophy) at the University of Rijeka
She investigates the issue of the impact of structural power (institutions, systems) on individuals and the potential injustices that some understanding of the norms and values can have on the individual (via the constitution of the subject, self-understanding, self-esteem, etc.).
Andrea Mešanović, doctoral student (Philosophy) at the University of Rijeka
She investigates the issue of deviations from rational reasoning and behaviour, which are caused by systematic and predictable irrationality in human behaviour. She collaborates to the research by investigating the (institutional and extra-intuitional) judgments of deviance, from norms of rational behaviour and reasoning, which are caused by prejudices and stereotypes.
Collaborators from abroad
Prof. Miranda Fricker (University of Sheffield) (Homepage)
Prof. John McMillan (University of Otago, New Zealand) (Homepage)