PristupačnostTomislav Janović
About employee
doc. dr. sc. Tomislav Janović
students of Philosophy: Wednesday 10 AM - 11 AM (room 117)
students of Communication Studies: Monday 1 PM - 2 PM (room 117)
Teaching
undergraduate
- Explaining Social Behavior (77724) - Lecturer in charge
- Explaining Social Behavior (200595) - Lecturer in charge
- Introduction to Journalism (86089) - Lecturer in charge
- Metaphysics (214830) - Lecturer in charge
- Semiotics in Mass Communication (86092) - Lecturer in charge
- Social Media in Public Relations (290349) - Lecturer in charge
- Wittgenstein: Philosophical Research [Philosophy of Language] (85405) - Lecturer in charge
graduate
- Mass Communication: Political Aspects (292774) - Lecturer in charge
- The Media: A Critical Approach (96364) - Lecturer in charge
Biography
Born in 1961 in Zagreb. Graduated Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. At the same institution he obtained his MA with a thesis in the Philosophy of Science (Evolution and Optimization: On Some Philosophical Aspects of Evolutionary Theory, 1994). He received his PhD from the University of Mainz in Germany with a dissertation in the Philosophy of Mind (Implicit Content of Consciousness in Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy, 2006). He worked at the Ministry of Science and Technology of Croatia (division of research projects/grants), at the Institute for Anthropology in Zagreb (as a research assistant), and at the University of Zadar (as a senior lecturer in Philosophy). Since 2009 he shares the position of an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and the Department for Communication Science, Center for Croatian Studies. He is the author or coauthor of several scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and books, and has read papers at many international conferences and symposia. He has also participated in several interdisciplinary research projects. His interests range from the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Science (especially the Philosophy of Social Sciences) to Ethics and Communication.
Scientific publications (CroRIS)
Upotrebna teorija značenja i generativna umjetna inteligencija: Mogu li Chatbotovi slijediti pravila?
Crisis Framework: The Portrayal of Climate Change on Croatian Web Portals
The End of the World and its Anxiety
Blundov Traktat o duši u srednjovjekovnom rukopisu iz Zadra
Martin of Zadar: A Detective-Philosophical Story
Book Launch: David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Zagreb, May 7, 2024.
A Treatise on the Good
Fictional Vs. Real-Life Cases: The Moral Problem of Killing Under Duress
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Role Playing - 45 Years Later
The Land Where East Meats West. English Travelogues 19th Century about landmark of the Šibenik and area
On Some Recent Estimates of the Prevalence of Intelligente Life in the Universe: Philosophical Estimates and Empirical Constraints
Mental illness and moral responsibility
Intentionality Ascriptions in Case of Individual and Group Behavior
Towards Dualism: Essays from Philosophy of Mind
Collective Interest and It's Protection from the Perspective of Small Communities
Martin of Zadar alias John Blund: An (un)known medieval text about the soul and its powers
Citing, Paraphrasing and Referring to Bibliographic Sources in Academic Texts
Non-functionality of Functionalism
Damir Mladić: Mind, Consciousness, and Qualia
Philosophy of Science
The Magic of Zadar: Report about the Symposium 'Current Gestalt Issues: Modelling Mental Processing'
Connection Principle, Searle, and Unconscious Intentionality
Brain, complex systems and human communities: a contemporary anthropological perspective
The Implicit Content of Consciousness in Phenomenology and Analytical Philosophy
Peter Singer's Ethics of Globalisation
What lies at the Basis of Plasticity of Social Behavior?
Interstellar Communication and Empathy
Jonathan Dancy: Introduction into Contemporary Epistemology
English Philosophy
Pragmatism
William James Between Naturalism and Humanism
Ehical View on Genetic Engineering of Human Reproductive Genome
"In genes we trust": aims and potentialities of gene technology
Ethical and Technical Aspects of Genetic Ingeneering
Actual State of Cognitive Sciences
Adaptationism or the Theory Optimization