Principal Research Fellow

aleksandar.fatic@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Aleksandar Fatić is Research Professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1996, and has taught, in various capacities ranging from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Charles University in Prague, Anglo-American Colleege in Prague, and other institutions until his return to Serbia. Upon return he had a lengthy employment stint at the Institute for International Politics and Economics, where he performed all institute functions, ranging from researcher to the Institute’ s Director, Head of the Research Board, and member of the Governing Board. Over the past years he has held numerous guest lectures and visiting positions, at institutions including University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College), King’s College in London, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of Helsinki, EBS University in Wiesbaden, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and numerous other universities. He specializes in integrative philosophy with an emphasis on philosophy of psychology and psychiatry, philosophical practice and political philosophy. He has been a Certified Counselor and Fellow of the American Philosopher Practitioners’ Association (APPA)  since 2011. His personal website is http://aleksandarfatic.net.

2023

• ‘Narcissism as a moral incompetence’. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 30, 2, 159–167. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/899946
• Why narcissists are morally responsible‘. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 30, 2: 177–180. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/899949

2022

• ’Forfeiting the paradigm of victimhood’. With Behzad Hadzic. Philosophy and Society 33,4: 1022–1036. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2204022F
• ‘The family as a category of collective political rights’ („Porodica kao kategorija kolektivnih političkih prava“ — in Serbian). Serbian Political Thought (Srpska politička misao) 77, 3: 93–117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22182/spm.7732022.5
• ’Narcissism as a moral evil’. Revue Roumaine de Philosophie 66, 2: 371–381. http://www.institutuldefilosofie.ro/e107_files/downloads/Revue%20roumaine%20de%20philosophie/Tome%2066,%20Nr.%202%EF%BB%BF,%202022/ALEKSANDAR%20FATIC,%20Narcissism%20as%20a%20Moral%20Evil.pdf
• ’Life plans and life goals in philosophical practice’ (in Serbian: „Životni planovi i životni ciljevi u filozofskoj praksi“), coauthored with Ivana Peričin. Theoria 65, 1: 151–165. https://doi.org/10.2298/THEO2201151F

2021.

• ‘In defence of integrative violence: How can philosophical practice augment organic social control?’. Synthesis Philosophica, vol. 36, no. 1: 109‒124.
• ‘The modal world of integrative philosophical counseling II’. Synthesis Philosophica, vol. 36, no. 1: 3‒12.
• ‘The language game of Europe: Politics, identity and the divided subject’. IRCEP (Interdisciplinary Research in Counseling, Ethics and Philosophy). 1,1: 9‒20.
• ‘The epistemic value of politeness as a virtue’. In Chaocun Xie (ed.), The Philosophy of (Im)Politeness: Advances in (Im)Politeness Studies. Springer: 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81592-9_7
• ‘An Ethics-Based ‘Identity-Proof’ of God’s Existence: An ontology for philotherapy’. Philosophy and Society 32, 3: 428–438. DOISerbia – An ethics-based ‘identity-proof’ of god’s existence. An ontology for philotherapy – Fatić, Aleksandar (nb.rs)

• ‘Value identities: Personality as an ecology of values’. (Ценность идентичностей:личность как экология ценностей). СОЦИУМ И ВЛАСТЬ. 2, 2021: 18‒35.
• ‘Moralna normativnost i duševno zdravlje: lakanovsko razumevanje neuroze i psihoze u svetlu integrativne terapije’ (with Aleksandra Bulatović). In Borislav Mikulić, Mislav Žitko and Srđan Damnjanović (eds). Psihoanaliza i njezine sudbine. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy.