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). Her areas of specialization include critical science studies, feminist philosophy of science, and philosophy of social science (especially values in science discussions, science and feminism, nature versus culture, and the role of critical and socially engaged science and philosophy in democratic societies). Her areas of competence are social philosophy, philosophy of gender, and social ontology (with a specific focus on the ontology of social change and social norms). 

Latest publications

  • 2024 Knežević, A. The integrative potential of contemporary perspectives on the nature/culture conceptual relationship. Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 35(1), 103–123. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2401103K 
  • 2023 Knežević, A., Lončarević, K., & Zaharijević, A. Feminist critique of knowledge. In M. Ivković & Ž. Radinković (Eds.), The handbook of social critique (pp.231–261). Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju. [in Serbian] 
  • 2023 Prodanović, S., & Knežević, A. Critical aspects of pragmatism: From justification to irony. In M. Ivković & Ž. Radinković (Eds.), The handbook of social critique (str. 385–420). Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju. [in Serbian] 
  • 2023 Knežević, A. Nature and culture revisited: What do Neo-Darwinism and developmental systems theory have to say? Antropologija, 23(1), 25–45. https://antropologija.com/index.php/an/article/view/447 [in Serbian]