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Neven Sesardić | |
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| Born | (1949-07-30)July 30, 1949 (age 76)[1] |
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| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
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| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Lingnan University |
| Main interests | Philosophy of science,philosophy of biology,philosophy of mind[1] |
| Notable ideas | Heritability |
Neven Sesardić (born 30 July 1949) is a Croatian philosopher known for his writings onheritability who worked most of his career as a professor atLingnan University inHong Kong.
He grew up incommunist Yugoslavia. From 1977 to 1983 he worked as a lecturer at theUniversity of Zagreb, 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.[2]
From 1989 to 1991 he was fellow of theAlexander von Humboldt Foundation at theUniversity of Giessen. From 1991 to 1992 he worked as a Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at theUniversity of Bielefeld. 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 theUniversity of Notre Dame,[1] while the following year (1995–96) he became anNSF Research Fellow at theUniversity of Minnesota. Following that, in 1996 he became professor of philosophy at theMiyazaki International College, Japan, where he worked until 1999 when he was appointed research fellow atKing's College London. From 2000 until 2006, he worked as an associate professor of philosophy at theLingnan University, Hong Kong.[1] 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 theAmerican Philosophical Association (APA), the Croatian Philosophical Association, and thePhilosophy of Science Association.
In 2008, Sesardić published a paper "Guilt by Statistical Association: Revisiting the Prosecutor's Fallacy and the Interrogator's Fallacy" inThe Journal of Philosophy under the pseudonym "Carmen de Macedo".[3] He revealed his authorship in 2011, writing that he submitted the article under a pseudonym because the journal did not have a practice ofdouble-blind peer review. The journal had changed its policy in 2010.[4] After philosopher M. V. Dougherty wrote to theJournal, they published acorrigendum in 2017 acknowledging that de Macedo's name was a pseudonym, and that Sesardić was the actual author.[5]
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