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Assistant Professor Matija Mato Škerbić, PhD is working at the Department of Philosophy and Culture at the Faculty of Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He is one of the pioneers of philosophy and ethics of sport, and the first to introduce the bioethics of sport in Croatia.
He is the first to receive PhD in philosophy of sport at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. In 2019 he defended his doctoral dissertation titled ‘William John Morgan’s Ethics of Sport’, under the supervision of Prof. Ante Čović, with the highest grade summa cum laude.
He is the author of the book ‘Philosophy of Sport. Emergence and development of the discipline’ (2021), the first of its kind in Croatia and region. He published more than 40 scientific papers, editorials, book and conference reviews. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Philosophical Research and Synthesis Philosophica.
He has lectured at more than 70 international conferences, including the World Congress of Philosophy in Beijing (China) and Rome (Italy), the World Congresses of Philosophy of Sport in Oslo (Norway, 2018), Kyoto (Japan, 2019), Penn State (2022, USA) and Split (Croatia, 2023), the European Congress of Philosophy of Sport in Paris (France, 2021) and Leuven (Belgium, 2023), and the British Society for the Philosophy of Sport in Oxford (Trinity College, 2019), Swansea (Wales, 2018 and 2022), and Aberdeen (Scotland, 2024).
He is the initiator, founder and head of the Research Committee for Bioethics and Sports (since 2017), and the international conference Ethics, Bioethics and Sport (since 2018), both first of its kind in Croatia and the region.
From 2021 he has been an associate at the ‘Sport Ethics Colloquium’ at Pennsylvania State University / Rock Ethics Institute (USA) under the leadership of Prof. Javier Francisco Lopez Frias.
He is the initiator and president of the Organizing Committee of the 50th World Congress of Philosophy of Sport held in Split, Croatia from 19 – 22nd September 2023 through collaboration between the University of Zagreb and the University of Split (Faculty of Kinesiology) and International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP).
He is a Chair for the Philosophy of Sport Section at the 25th World Congress of Philosophy ‘Philosophy Across Boundaries’ from 1st to 8th August 2024 in Rome, Italy.
He is an associate lecturer in philosophy and ethics of sport at the Faculty of Kinesiology (University of Zagreb, Croatia), Faculty of Kinesiology (University of Split, Croatia) and University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia).
He is the author of the 1st children's book about ancient philosophers titled ‘Philosophy – What the Heck is That?! 13 Stories about Ancient Philosophers’ (2019)
Books
Edited Books of Abstracts
Journal Articles
Conference Proceedings
Chapter in the Book
Book Reviews
Doctoral Disertation
Children’s Book in Philosophy
Professional interest:
general: ethics; bioethics; methodology of teaching philosophy and (bio)ethics; philosophy of education; Croatian philosophy and philosophy in Varaždin County
specific: philosophy and bio-ethics of sport - internal or intrinsic values of sport; definition and characterisation of sport; normative theories
Membership:
Croatian Philosophical Society - Secretary (2018 - 2020); member of International Affairs Committee
Croatian Bioethics Society
International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS) - a member of the Executive Committee
British Philosophy of Sport Association (BPSA)
European Association for the Philosophy of Sport (EAPS) - president
International Forum of Teachers (IFT) of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.
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