About Me
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I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
I serve as Co-Principal Investigator of the research area Veridical AI within TRUST–The Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI (2025–2030), under the direction of Arnoldo Frigessi. In addition, I am a Research Collaborator on the project Epistemic Challenges of Populism: The Impact of Language and Discourse on the Epistemic Foundations of Democracy (2025–2029), led by Ivan Cerovac at the University of Rijeka, Croatia.
I am also Co-Director (with Michael Glanzberg, Juija Perhat, Barry C. Smith, and Una Stojnic) of the annual Philosophy of Language and Linguistics conference at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia, established in 2005.
Furthermore, I serve as an Editorial Board Member and Annual Guest Editor for the special issue on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics at the Croatian Journal of Philosophy (2025–).
My research and teaching span topics at the intersection of the philosophy of language and philosophical methodology, engaging with related areas in the philosophy of mind, social philosophy, critical race and feminist theory, social psychology, metaphysics, and, most recently, reproductive ethics. I am particularly interested in conceptual engineering and ethics, as well as the ethical and political dimensions of language. This includes work on generics, pragmatic communication, terminological and verbal disputes, metalingustic negotiation, debunking in metaethics, pejoratives, direct reference, and singular thought. Recently, my focus has expanded to issues of political manipulation, discrimination, biases, and stereotypes, especially as they relate to generic judgments, dogwhistles, and (racial) figleaves in contexts of plausible deniability within both human and AI-generated communication. I am also increasingly interested in the ethical and conceptual challenges posed by emerging technologies, such as generative AI and artificial wombs.
I completed a Joint Ph.D. Program in philosophy at the University of Oslo and The St Andrews and Stirling Graduate Programme in Philosophy (SASP), where I was affiliated with Arché (Philosophical research centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, St Andrews) and ConceptLab (Research centre on Conceptual Engineering, Oslo). I was supervised by Herman Cappelen (primary, Oslo), Joanna Pollock (co-supervisor, Oslo), Patrick Greenough (primary, St Andrews), Kevin Scharp (secondary, St Andrews).
My dissertation titled: Assert This: “Philosophers Are Engineers” (A Study of Philosophical Engineering and Generic Judgments) contributes to recent debates on conceptual engineering and social group generics. The overarching research question of my dissertation is the following: Can the pernicious effects of generic statements such as “Blacks are violent,” “Women are submissive,” or “Muslims are terrorists” be ameliorated by applying the method of engineering in philosophy? I investigated the sources of the morally, socially and politically pernicious effects of social group generic statements (especially those that carry information about their ethnic or gender background) that can lead to widespread systematic patterns of violence, discrimination, (negative) stereotyping, hate speech, implicit biases, structural oppression, social injustice, etc. I developed a general methodological framework of engineering in philosophy I dub ‘philosophical engineering’, which I argued to be congenial with other, non-philosophical branches of engineering. I proposed implementation of a pragmatic species of philosophical engineering in order to ameliorate the pernicious speaker's attitudes about social group generics in everyday communication.
I received a double BA and a double MA degrees in Philosophy, and Croatian language and literature from the University of Rijeka (Croatia). I completed my second MA in Philosophy at the Central European University (Budapest). I have spent extended periods conducting research as a visiting fellow at several universities. In addition to my studies, I worked for numerous years as an editorial assistant for the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy. I served as a team member of the Culture of Critical Thinking, a Croatian student initiative that promotes critical thinking through short educational videos.
I am also a mom who, in her spare time, enjoys body-pump, padel, climbing, running, photographing, and writing poetry.