Dimitri Khakhishvili is a PhD candidate at Ilia State University and an Assistant Researcher at the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Philosophy. He holds an M.A. in Medieval Studies and won the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation Doctoral Scholarship competition. His research focuses on the problem of the relationship between mind and world in the Middle Ages, with particular emphasis on the philosophy of Peter Abelard. Supported by Erasmus+ research grants, he has conduc

Igor Živković is a Research Assistant at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, where he earned both his BA (2024) and MA (2025) degrees in philosophy. After receiving the Best Student Award from the Philosophical Faculty, University of Novi Sad in both 2024 and 2025, he started his PhD studies in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His research interests include many different disciplines, ranging from aesthetics, philosophy of technology

The Humane Philosophy Society has the great pleasure to announce the 2026 summer conference on the theme of Religious Mysticism, Mystical Experience, and Analytic Philosophy. The conference will take place in Sveti Kriz, Croatia 27.08.26–29.08.26 and will be followed by a two day closed workshop. The conference is organized by The Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, Poland; The Faculty of

Barbara Babič is a Master's student of Philosophy and History at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, where she previously completed her Bachelor's degree. She plans to continue her academic journey through doctoral studies in philosophy. Her interests include philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Her current research focuses on the use of large language models as tools for investigating human cognition.

Ema Luna Lalić is a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka, within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She earned both her BA (2020) and MA (2022) degrees in Philosophy and English Language and Literature from the same institution. Her undergraduate and master's theses focused on pragmatics in the philosophy of language, particularly implicatures and speech acts. Her doctoral research examines the humanistic value of philosop

Andrija Jurić is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. His research focuses on philosophical egology and the concept of the 'I', ego or self within philosophy, drawing on the ideas of Descartes, Kant, Fichte and Husserl, as well as analytic philosophy, ego-psychology and Eastern thought. His other interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of subjectivity, phenomenology, transcendental philosophy and existentialism.

Nino Adamia holds an M.Phil. from Ilia State University and an LL.B. from the Free University of Tbilisi. She has professional experience in the field of law. Her research is situated within the Wittgensteinian tradition, with a particular interest in the concepts of language-games and forms of life and their implications for meaning, mutual understanding across different perspectives, and the limits of rational evaluation. Her work focuses on Wittgensteinian approaches to pe

We are delighted to announce that the 2026 Matraszek Scholars, Ema Luna Lalić and Andrija Jurić have arrived at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, where they will be pursuing graduate research as part of the New Generation Research Exchange. Ema is a PhD student at the University of Rijeka, working on humanistic philosophy, engaging thinkers including Richard Rorty and Bernard Williams. Andrija, a PhD student at the University of Novi Sad, is investigating egology and th

On 11 March, Professor Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers) will deliver a talk entitled "Divine Bootstrapping: Do Abstract Objects Lead to Atheism?" at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. Date: 11 March 2026 Time: 3pm-4:45pm Venue: the Aula, Blackfriars Hall, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LY This event is free and open to the public. Abstract: Realism about a certain kind of “abstract object”, namely, universals or properties, has been thought to pose a problem for theism. To be a realist

We are delighted to announce this year’s Marek Matraszek Scholars who are currently pursuing their research projects at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford as part of the HPS's New Generation Research Exchange. Daniel Milewski is exploring the connections and differences between Wittegenstein’s and Heidegger’s philosophical views. He is working with Stephen Mulhall at New College, who is a leading authority on both thinkers. Karol Milczarek is developing a predicative acco