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Neven Sesardić (born 30 July 1949) is a Croatian philosopher known for his writings on
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who worked most of his career as a professor at
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in
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Life and career

He grew up in
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. From 1977 to 1983 he worked as a lecturer at the
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, and, from then, until 1989 he was assistant 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
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at the
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. From 1991 to 1992 he worked as a Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the
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. The following two years (1992–94) he spent as an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Zagreb. The following academic year, 1994–1995, he worked as a visiting professor at the
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, while the following year (1995–96) he became an
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Research Fellow at the
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. Following that, in 1996 he became professor of philosophy at the
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, Japan, where he worked until 1999 when he was appointed research fellow at
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. From 2000 until 2006, he worked as an associate professor of philosophy at the
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, 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
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(APA), the Croatian Philosophical Association, and the
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Publishing under a pseudonym

In 2008, Sesardić published a paper "Guilt by Statistical Association: Revisiting the Prosecutor's Fallacy and the Interrogator's Fallacy" in ''
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'' 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
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. The journal had changed its policy in 2010. After philosopher M. V. Dougherty wrote to the ''Journal'', they published a
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in 2017 acknowledging that de Macedo's name was a pseudonym, and that Sesardić was the actual author.


Books

* Fizikalizam ("Physicalism"), Belgrade: IIC (Istraživačko-izdavački centar SSO Srbije), 1984 * Marxian Utopia? (with Domenico Settembrini), London: CRCE, 1985. * Iz analitičke perspektive ("From an analytical perspective"), Zagreb: Sociološko društvo Hrvatske, 1991. * Making Sense of Heritability, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. * Iz desne perspektive ("From the right perspective"), Zagreb: Večernji list, 2012. * When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics, New York: Encounter Books, 2016.


References


External links


Lingnan University website

Personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sesardic, Neven 1949 births Living people Analytic philosophers Philosophers of science People involved in race and intelligence controversies 20th-century Croatian philosophers 21st-century Croatian philosophers Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni