NGRE Fellow: Jan Defrančeski

Jan Defrančeski (mag. ling. et mag. educ. phil.) completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in philosophy and linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant at the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Linguistics, and received two Awards for Excellence and the “Franjo Marković” award. His paper “On the Second-Person Perspective in Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy” was awarded second prize in the “Oxford University 2023 Competition for Central and Eastern European Perspectives on Philosophy, Theology, and Science”. He is the junior managing editor of two philosophical journals: Filozofska Istraživanja and Synthesis Philosophica, and an external associate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he gives seminars on ethics and metaphysics. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.