South Slavs, philosophy of

References and further reading

	Arsenijević, M. (1986) Prostor, vreme, Zenon (Space, time, Zeno), Beograd and Zagreb: Filozofsko Društvo Srbije & Liber. (A systematic examination of various attempts to solve Zeno’s paradoxes, arguing, at the end, that Zeno’s premises are not cotenable.)
	Arsenijević, M. (1989) ‘How many physically distinguished parts can a limited body contain’, Analysis 1 (49): 36–42. (An exercise in a metaphysical speculation over divisibility of bodies.)
	Arsenijević, M. (1993–4) ‘Mathematics, Infinity and the Physical World’, Dialektik 89–107. (A new approach to the ancient question of the relation of mathematics to reality.)
	Atanasijević, K. (1923) The Metaphysical and Geometrical Doctrine of Bruno as Given in His work ‘De Triplici Minimo’, trans. and intro. G.V. Tomashevich, St Louis, MO: Warren H. Green, 1972. (Attempt at a modern interpretation of Bruno’s work.)
	Atanasijević, K. (1929) Filosofski fragmenti (Philosophical fragments), Beograd: Geca Kon. (A humanist approach to various questions of normative ethics.)
	Babić, J. (1992) ‘Primenjena etika I’ (Applied ethics I), Theoria 34 (1): 97–105. (The debates on this topic, continued in the following issue.)
	Bazala, A. (1906) Povjest filozofije (A history of philosophy), Zagreb: Liber, 1989, 2nd edn. (A Kantian exposition of the history of philosophy with Kant’s philosophy presented as the highest achievement of Western Philosophy.)
	Boscovich (Bošković), R.J. (1763) Theoria philosophiae naturalis: A Theory of Natural Philosophy, trans. J.M. Child (1921), London: MIT Press, 1966. (Contains a useful introduction by the translator.)
	Campanella, T. (1602) La Città del Sole: Dialogo Poetico (The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue), trans. with notes by D.J. Donno, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, and London: University of California Press, 1981. (A scientifically ordered utopia presided over by metaphysicians and scientists.)
	Ćulum, J. (1967) Filozofske beleške (Philosophical notes), Beograd: Nolit. (Elegant essays in analytic philosophy, arguing for the untenability of Hegelian metaphysics and its Marxist derivatives.)
	Dilthey, W. (1914–90) Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Works), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 20 vols. (The standard complete works.)
	Dragišić, J. (Salviatis, Georgius Benignus de) (1499) De natura caelestium spirituum (On the nature of celestial spirits), Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri. (A Neoplatonist treatise of metaphysics. His 1520 work Artis dialecticae praecepta vetera ac nova (Principles old and new of the dialectic art) was a discourse on logic and rhetoric.)
	Đurić, M. (1985) Nietzsche und die Metaphysik (Nietzsche and metaphysics), Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. (Holds that Nietzsche’s philosophy points the way out of the crisis in contemporary Western metaphysics.)
	Đurić, M. and Žunjić, S. (1993) Die Serbische Philosophie Heute (Serb philosophy today), Munich: Slavica Verlag Dr Anton Kovač. (A collection of essays by eleven Serb philosophers, with a detailed historical introduction.)
	Foht, I. (1980) Savremena estetika muzike (Contemporary aesthetics of music), Beograd: Nolit. (A collection of essays on the main trends in contemporary aesthetics of music written from a phenomenological point of view.)
	Grahek, N. (1990) Materija, svest, saznanje (Matter, mind and knowledge), Beograd: Filozofsko društvo Srbije. (A systematic refutation of various contemporary materialists’ arguments, presenting an argument for the irreducibility of the mental.)
	Grahek, N. (1995) ‘The Sensory Dimension of Pain’, Philosophical Studies 79: 167–181. (An argument for the irreducibility of the sensory content of pain feelings.)
	Kangrga, M. (1966) Etika i sloboda (Ethics and freedom), Zagreb: Naprijed. (An influential Neo-Marxist approach to ethics.)
	Knežević, B. (1898) Principi istorije (The Principles of History), Beograd: B. Knežević, 2 vols. (A highly speculative attempt at the formulation of the most general laws of history.)
	Knežević, B. (1921) History, the Anatomy of Time; the Final Phase of Sunlight, trans. and intro. G.V. Tomashevich, New York: The Philosophical Library, 1980. (Translations from his Dva zakona first published in 1921.)
	Lazović, Ž. (1994) O prirodi epistemičkog opravdanja (On the nature of epistemic justification), Beograd: Filozofsko društvo Srbije. (A defence of a contextualist theory of epistemic justification.)
	Marković, F. (1881) ‘Filosofijske struke pisci hrvatskog roda s onkraj Velebita u stelječih XV. do XVIII’ (‘The philosophical writers of Croatian birth from the other side of Velebit from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century’) in Izvještaj Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (The Annual Report of the University of Zagreb), Zagreb: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, 1882 (reprinted in Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine (Contributions to the study of the Croatian philosophical heritage), 1 (1–2, 1975): 255–281. (Marković’s speech as Rector of the University of Zagreb in 1881, with a short history of philosophy of the Adriatic littoral.)
	Marković, M. and Cohen, R.S. (1975) Yugoslavia: The Rise and Fall of Socialist Humanism. A History of the Praxis Group, Nottingham: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. (A polemical account of the Praxis group, co-authored by one of its members.)
	Miščević, N. (1987) Od misli do jezika (From thought to language), Rijeka: Dometi. (An examination of contemporary analytic theories in the philosophy of language.)
	Miščević, N. (1996) ‘Computation, Content and Cause’, Philosophical Studies 2 (82): 241–263. (A discussion of intentionality and causation.)
	Njegoš, P.P. (1845) Luča Mikrokozma – The Ray of Microcosm, trans. A. Savić-Rebac, Beograd: Vajat, 1989. (This translation and foreword were originally published in Harvard Slavic Studies 3 (1957).)
	Novaković, S. (1984) Hipoteze i saznanje (Hypotheses and knowledge), Beograd: Nolit. (Scientific hypotheses, it argues, are not rejected or accepted on the basis of empirical evidence alone.)
	Pavković, A. (1988) Razlozi za sumnju (Reasons for doubt), Beograd: Istraživačko-izdavački centar SSO. (A reconstruction of arguments from illusion, from dreams and from the evil daemon.)
	Pavković, A. (1988) Contemporary Yugoslav Philosophy: The Analytic Approach, Dordrecht and New York: Kluwer. (Seventeen essays by Yugoslav analytic philosophers; includes a short historical introduction and a select bibliography.)
	Pavković, A. (1990) ‘Two Thaws in Yugoslav Philosophy’, in M. Pavlyshyn (ed.) Glasnost in Context, Oxford: Berg. (A short outline of post-1945 Yugoslav philosophy in its political context.)
	Petrić, F. (Patricius, Franciscus) (1593) Nova de universis philosophia (The new universal philosophy), Venice: NP. (A synthesis of Catholicism and Platonism. La citá felice, by the same author, described a utopia in the tradition of Campanella’s City of the Sun.)
	Petronijević, B. (1904) Prinzipien der Metaphysik (Principles of metaphysics), Heidelberg: C. Winter. (Holds that the universe consists of simple, discrete qualitative points and our immediate experience is the source of basic logical and metaphysical axioms.)
	Petrović, G. (1967) Marx in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Garden City, NY: Anchor Books. (An unorthodox interpretation of Marx by a prominent Praxis philosopher from Zagreb.)
	Petrović, G. and Marković, M. (1979) Praxis: Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences, Dordrecht: Reidel. (A selection of Neo-Marxist papers from the journal Praxis dealing with the philosophy of social sciences.)
	Potrč, M. (1992) ‘The Sensory Basis of Content in Veber’, Slovene Studies 13 (1): 71–90. (A systematic examination of Veber’s theory of representation.)
	Primorac, I. (1978) Kazna i prestup (Punishment and offence), Beograd: Mladost. (A defence of a deontological and retributivist theory of punishment.)
	Šarčević, A. (1986) De Homine: Mišljenje i moderni mit o čovjeku (On man: thought and the modern myth about man), Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša. (A critique of Western philosophy, science and technology and its failure to humanize society.)
	Sesardić, N. (1984) Fizikalizam (Physicalism), Beograd: Istraživačko-izdavački centar SSO. (The first defence of the mind-body identity thesis in Serbo-Croat.)
	Sesardić, N. (1993) ‘Heritability and Causality’, Philosophy of Science 3 (60): 396–418. (A discussion of recent theories of heritability and causality.)
	Stojanović, S. (1973) Between Ideals and Reality: A Critique of Socialism and its Future, New York: Oxford University Press. (A prominent Beograd Praxis philosopher presents his vision of socialism.)
	Sutlić, V. (1967) Bit i suvremenost (Essence and contemporaneity), Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša. (An early Heideggerian interpretation of Marxist concept of praxis.)
	Urbančič, I. (1993) ‘Philosophy with the Slovenes’, Nationalities Papers 21 (1): 127–137. (Thorough post-communist account of the Slovene philosophy.)
	Vlačić, M. (Flacius Illyricus, Matthias) (1567) Clavis Scripturae Sacrae (A Key to the Holy Scriptures), Basel: Per Iaonnem Oporinum et Eusebium Episcopium. (A systematic exegesis of the Bible based on a philosophy of language anticipating modern hermeneutics.)
	Vuk-Pavlović, P. (1926) ‘Spoznaja i spoznajna teorija’ (‘Knowledge and theory of knowledge’) in Duševnost i umjetnost, Zagreb: Liber, 1989. (A call for a meta-empirical or metaphysical investigation of the relation of cognition and its objects.)
	Weber (Veber) F. (1921) Sistem filozofije (A system of philosophy) Ljubljana: K&B. (A system of philosophy based on a complex theory of mental presentation of objects.)
	Weber (Veber) F. (1987) ‘Empfindungsgrundlagen der Gegenstandstheorie’ (The experiental grounds of the theory of objects), Conceptus 21: 75–87. (A lecture on the Meinongian theory of objects presented in Graz in 1954.)
	Whyte, L.L. (1961) Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J., F.R.S., 1711–1787, London: Allen & Unwin. (Very good essays on his philosophical and scientific contributions; comprehensive bibliography.)
	Žižek, S. (1991) Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, London: MIT Press. (A humorous and Lacanian examination of various manifestations of popular culture, including film.)