Matej Sušnik
Principal Investigator
Matej Sušnik (Ph.D., University of Zagreb) is a research associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. In this project he will examine various problems that concern the relation between harm and existence. His hypothesis is that the notion of harm cannot be coherently applied unless there exists a subject who suffers harm. He will also analyze the role of intentions in different moral contexts with the aim of denying their relevance to moral permissibility.
Marin Biondić
Marin Biondić’s (Ph.D., University of Rijeka) main field of philosophical investigations is metaphysics of death. He is an author of the book Death – Nature and Value of Prenatal and Postmortal Nonexistence. As a part of this project he will examine the relation between harm and experience. More specifically, he will evaluate different accounts of harm in discussions on the badness of death (intrinsic/extrinsic, experienced/nonexperienced, concrete/abstract, comparative/ noncomparative). He will also examine the implications these notions have for the problems of killing and death penalty. Finally, he will examine which rational attitude we should adopt toward death if we accept that death is indeed a harm.
Ana Grgić
Ana Grgić (Ph.D. student, University of Zagreb) is a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. She obtained her MA degrees in Communication Sciences (2013) and Philosophy (2017) at the University of Zagreb. Her research interests include ethics, philosophy of mind, and history of philosophy. She is currently working on her Ph.D. thesis about the narrative self. Within this project, she will be investigating the role of narrativity in understanding moral responsibility.
Viktor Ivanković
Viktor Ivanković (Ph.D., Central European University) is a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. His primary research interest is in the ethics of behavioral influence, but he also works and publishes on other topics in political philosophy and applied ethics. Within the HIRe project, Ivanković will investigate the normatively relevant aspects of harm in considerations of immunization coverage, as well as the impact of deliberate behavioral influences on individual and collective responsibility.
Tvrtko Jolić
Tvrtko Jolić (Ph.D., University of Zagreb) is a research associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. His primary research interests are political philosophy and ethics. Within this project he intends to examine the ways in which collectives form intentions and in which they may be held responsible for actions performed on the basis of those intentions. He will also examine different ways in which collectives can be structurally organized and determine the normative implications of collective action.
Marko Jurjako
Marko Jurjako (Ph.D., University of Rijeka) is an assistant professor in the Department of philosophy at the University of Rijeka. His research focuses on theoretical and practical rationality, empirical and conceptual underpinnings of moral psychology, especially in relation to mental and emotional disorders that might underlie psychopathology. In the project HIRE, he will investigate the role of the concepts of harm and intention in psychopathological research.
Karolina Kudlek
Karolina Kudlek (Ph.D. student, University of Twente) is a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. She obtained both BA (2008) and MA (2011) degrees in philosophy from the Center for Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. Her general research interests are ethics (especially applied ethics), philosophy and ethics of technology (especially ethics of human enhancement), and the intersection between neuroscience and moral philosophy. She is currently working on her Ph.D. thesis concerning ethical permissibility of new and emerging technologies such as biomedical moral enhancement. Within this project, she will be investigating the role of harm in the context of moral enhancement.