Neven Sesardić

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Neven Sesardić (born 30 July 1949) is a Croatian philosopher known for his writings on heritability and race who worked most of his career as a professor at Lingnan University.

Life and career[]

From 1977–83 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Zagreb, and, from then, until 1989 he was assistant professor at the same university. From 1989 to 1991 he was fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Giessen. From 1991 to 1992 he worked as a Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University 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 the University of Notre Dame,^[1] while the following year (1995–96) he became an NSF Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Following that, in 1996 he became professor of philosophy at the Miyazaki International College, Japan, where he worked until 1999 when he was appointed research fellow at King's College London. From 2000 until 2006, he worked as an associate professor of philosophy at the Lingnan 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 the American Philosophical Association (APA), the Croatian Philosophical Association, and the Philosophy of Science Association.

Work[]

Guilt by Statistical Association: Revisiting the Prosecutor's Fallacy and the Interrogator's Fallacy[]

In 2008, Sesardić published the paper "Guilt by Statistical Association: Revisiting the Prosecutor's Fallacy and the Interrogator's Fallacy" in the Journal of Philosophy under the pseudonym "Carmen de Macedo".^[2] He revealed that this was a pseudonym, and that he was the true author, in a 2011 Inside Higher Education article.^[3] After philosopher M. V. Dougherty wrote to the Journal, they published a corrigendum in 2017 acknowledging that de Macedo's name was a pseudonym, and that Sesardić was the actual author.^[4]

Publications[]

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Books[]

• When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics, New York: Encounter Books, 2016.
• Making Sense of Heritability, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. (ISBN 0-521-82818-X)
• Marxian Utopia? (with Domenico Settembrini), London: CRCE, 1985. (ISBN 0-948027-01-0)

Articles[]

• "Women in Philosophy: Problems with the Discrimination Hypothesis", Academic Questions 27 (4): 461–473.
• "Race: a social destruction of a biological concept", Biology and Philosophy
• “Sudden Infant Death or Murder? A Royal Confusion about Probabilities“, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2007 58(2):299-329
• “From Genes to Incest Taboos: The Crucial Step”, in W. H. Durham & A. P. Wolf (eds.), Incest, Inbreeding, and the Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, 109-120.
• "Heritability and Indirect Causation", Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), 1002-1014.
• “Evolution of Human Jealousy: A Just-So Story or a Just-So Criticism?", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 33 (2003), 427-443.
• “Philosophy of Science that Ignores Science: Race, IQ and Heritability”, Philosophy of Science 67 (2000), pp. 580–602.
• “Altruism”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1999), pp. 457–466.
• “From Biological Inhibitions to Cultural Prohibitions: How Not to Refute Edward Westermarck”, Biology and Philosophy 13, (1998), pp. 413–426.
• “Reductionism and Supervenience”, in P. Weingart et al. (eds.), Human by Nature: Between Biology and Social Sciences.
• Mahwah, N. J.: Erlbaum, 1997.
• “Recent Work on Human Altruism and Evolution”, Ethics 106 (1995), pp. 328–357.
• “Heritability and Causality”, Philosophy of Science 60 (1993), pp. 396–418.
• “Egalitarianism and Natural Lottery”, Public Affairs Quarterly 7 (1993), pp. 47–59.
• “Clock Paradox Lost in Space”, Philosophia Naturalis 30 (1993), pp. 72–83.

Book reviews[]

• Book review of D. J. Bartholomew, Measuring Intelligence: Facts and Fallacies, Intelligence 33 (2005), pp. 325–327.
• Book review of N. Zack, Philosophy of Science and Race, Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), pp. 447–449.
• Book review of P. Danielson (ed.), Modeling Rationality, Morality and Evolution, Ethics 113 (2003), pp. 402–405.

References[]

External links[]

• Neven Sesardic's home page