Knežević Aleksandra
Aleksandra Knežević is a doctoral student in anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and her master’s degree in philosophy from Central European University in Budapest and Vienna. In her doctoral research “An Anthropological Analysis of Evolutionary Social Science Methods”, using the methods of the ethnography of science, Aleksandra examines how evolutionary psychologists understand the problem of integration between evolutionary and anthropological explanations of social phenomena, with a particular focus on the explanation of gender differences.
At the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, she is a member of the Gender Research Laboratory (GenLab) and the Laboratory for Social Critique (CriticLab), and a secretary of the scientific journal Kritika: časopis za filozofiju i teoriju društva.
Areas of Specialization: feminist philosophy of science, critical anthropology of science, philosophy of social science, philosophy of biology (especially questions regarding the relationship between science and values, science and feminism, nature and culture, and the role of critical and socially engaged science and philosophy in democratic societies)
Areas of Competence: social philosophy, philosophy of gender and race, social ontology (with a specific focus on the ontology of social change and social norms)
Latest publications
- Knežević, Aleksandra. 2023. „ Nature and Culture Revisited: What Do Neo-Darwinism and Developmental Systems Theory Have to Say?” Antropologija 23(1): 25–45. [in Serbian]