Draft:Kristijan Krkač

Kristijan Krkač. (born 1970) is Croatian philosopher and author. He is professor at Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb (ZSEM, Croatia), and guest professor at Science Po Lille , France. For 20 years he was a guest associate professor at Department of Philosophy of Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences, University of Zagreb (FFRZ, 1996-2017).

Education
Krkač attended Faculty of Philosophy of The Society of Jesus in Zagreb of Croatian Studies (previously FFDI, now FFRZ) at the University of Zagreb where he received Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religious sciences in 1993 and Master of Arts in philosophy in 1996. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 2003 with the thesis in Wittgenstein’s philosophy “Doubt, Dogma, and Pragmatism” (supervisor Professor Ivan Macan).

Lectures and conferences
From 1996 to 2007 Krkač held the position of assistant at FFDI, from 2007 to 2013 as docent, and from 2013 to 2017 as assistant professor at department of Philosophy where he taught Analytic Philosophy, Epistemology, Epistemological Issues in Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Analytic and Continental Epistemology on undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels of study.

From 2003 to 2005 Krkač held the position of lecturer at ZSEM, from 2005 to 2007 the position of senior lecturer, from 2007 to 2012 the position of professor, and from 2012 to present the position of professor in permanent title. At ZSEM he lectures Philosophy of Economics, Introduction to Philosophy and Critical thinking, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability on undergraduate and MBA and DBA levels of study.

From 2010 to present Krkač is a guest lecturer at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille 2 where he lectures Introduction to Ethics and CSR on graduate level of study. He was a guest lecturer at various universities lecturing on Wittgenstein, Business Ethics, and issues in popular philosophy: Institute for Philosophy (Croatia), University of Rijeka, University of Zadar (Croatia), Sciences Po Lille (France), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), RISEBA University (Latvia). He regularly attends symposia and conferences on Wittgenstein and Business Ethics (mostly International Wittgenstein Symposium  and Social Responsibility Research Network ).

Philosophy
In philosophy Krkač advances few ideas. Namely pragmatism and morphology in interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy, especially concerning interpreting On Certainty (Krkač 2003, 2012).

In ontology Krkač advances the trope theory of concrete particulars and abstract universals under the influence of classics of the theory, but also of late E. J. Lowe (Krkač 2010). Michael Huemer in his book Paradox Lost - Logical Solutions to Ten Puzzles of Philosophy (2018) in the chapter Sorties lists W. D. Hart and Krkač as defenders of the theory that four entities are the minimum amount that can constitute a heap

Business ethics
In business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability Krkač advances stakeholder theory, elements of pragmatist ethics, and his main research is in the topic of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI), in principle and in and on the level of case-study topics such as lying (where he advances theory of habitual lying, see Krkač et. al. (2012) also D’Anselmi, P. Kristijan Krkač’s concept of lying by default, in D’Anselmi, P. (2011) Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility, Cut-Throat Competition).

Other topics
Besides interests in philosophy and business ethics Krkač also lectures, and publishes papers and books on popular topics, namely on the philosophy of football, the philosophy of sci-fi/horror films, and the philosophy of rock music. Lately, Krkač additionally researches and publishes papers and chapters in two topics, i.e. in Philosophy of multiple simultaneous natural and unnatural disasters, and in Philosophy of misuse of religion by politics in 21st century.

Besides that, in the period 2010-2020 Krkač published more than 1.000 newspaper columns on various web portals concerning topics concerning daily life phenomena, culture, education, and politics.

Personal life
Krkač is a supporter of GNK Dinamo Zagreb. He was involved in rowing during his youth and enjoys recreational swimming and walking. He also engages in weekly discussions with fellow philosopher friends.

Books as author
''A Custodian of Grammar. Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Morphology'', University Press of America, Lanham, 2012.

Conversations on Ethics and Business. A Guide to Thinking about Workplace Ethics (with Richards, R., and Jalšenjak, B.), Cambridge: Ethics International Press, 2023.

Books and journals as editor and co-editor (a selection)
Applied Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, Contributions of the International Conference on Applied Ethics and AI, June 8, 2018, Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia (co-edited with B. Jalšenjak, Zagreb, ZSEM, 2018)

CSR and Global Governance, Papers of 9th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, (co-edited with G. Aras, D. Crowther), e-book, MATE, ZSEM, SRRNet, Zagreb, 2010

Social Responsibility Journal, A Special Issue: Ethics and Morality in Business Practice, Emerald, (guest co-edited with J. Debeljak), volume 4, number 1/2, 2008

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, (co-edited with Đ. Njavro), ZŠEM, MATE d.o.o., Zagreb, 2006

On Wittgenstein
“Wittgenstein’s turn from model to modeling”, (with J. Lukin) Disputatio philosophica: International Journal on Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2021, pp. 3-21.

“Wittgenstein’s four-stroke faces and the idea of visual philosophy”, Wittgenstein Studien, De Gruyter, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2020:31-52

“Steadily Cubic: A Squared Odyssey, Wittgenstein’s cube examples”, Disputatio philosophica: International journal on philosophy and religion, Vol. 21 No. 1, 2019, pp. 47-66

“Review of Christian Martin (ed.), Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic: Investigations after Wittgenstein (De Gruyter, 2018)”, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, An Electronic Journal, 2019, ISSN: 1538-1617, 03/06/2019, 03/06/2019, pp.1-6.

„Wittgenstein in Croatia, On the occasion of 75 years of Wittgenstein in Croatian philosophy (1941-2016)”, Disputatio Philosophical, 19, 1, 2017:101-116

“Modeling axis by rotation” (with J. Điri, J. Lukin) in Aesthetics today, Contemporary Approaches to the Aesthetics of Nature and of Art, Contributions of the 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium Majetschak S. Weiberg A. (eds.), Kirchberg am Wechsel, ALWS, 2016, pp. 57-60

“The Primacy of Function over Structure, Analogy Reading of Wittgenstein’s Meaning is Use Aphorism” (with N. Melville), in Synthesis Philosophica, No. 60, (2/2015), pp. 289-307

„Know-how I: Wittgenstein and practical certainty” (with J. Lukin, D. Mladić) in Moyal-Sharrock D., Munz V. A., Coliva A. (eds.) Mind, Language, and Action, Papers of 36th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, ALWS, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2013, pp. 222-224

“Rendezvous with fear – Wittgenstein, Alien and hope/fear blend” (with J. Lukin, D. Mladić), in Weiss M. G. and Greif H. (eds.) Ethics – Society – Politics“, Papers of 35th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, ALWS, 2012, pp. 166-168

“Quid pro quo Clarice, L. Wittgenstein’s multiaspectual notion of clarity”, Synthesis Philosophica, 2012, Croatia, No. 52 (2/2011), pp. 357-374

„Wittgenstein's Dubbit III: Caught in Kirchberg am Aspekt-Wechsel“, Wittgenstein Studien, De Gruyter, 1/2010:121-151

“Philosophical Morphology” (with J. Lukin), Disputatio Philosophica, 2009, pp. 3-23

“Wittgenstein the Morphologist I”, (with J. Lukin), Synthesis Philosophica, 46, (2/2008) pp. 427–438

„Forms of life as forms of culture“ (with J. Lukin), H. Hrachovec, A. Pichler, J. Wang (eds.) Philosophy and Information Society, Proceedings of 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium, ALWS, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2007, pp. 112-114

„Wittgenstein on Consciousness in Philosophical Investigations“ (with J. Lukin), G. Gasser, C. Kanzian, E. Runggaldier, (eds.) Culture: Conflict-Analysis-Dialogue, Proceedings of 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, ALWS, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2006, pp. 156-159

“Smells Like Pragmatism, Wittgenstein's Anti-sceptical Weapons”, Prolegomena, 3, 2003:41-61

On Business Ethics, CSR and Sustainability
“Stakeholder”, In: Idowu, S. O., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds.) (2023) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham

“Authority vs. Bureaucracy”, In: Idowu, S. O., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds.) (2023) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management, Springer, Cham, printed version, EE.

“Communication Climate and Culture”, In: Idowu, S. O., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds.) (2023) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management, Springer, Cham, printed version, EE.

“Sexual Harassment”, In: Idowu, S. O., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds.) (2023) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham, printed version, EE.

“Stakeholder Mapping”, In: Idowu, S. O., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds.) (2023) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham, printed version, EE.

“Ageism”, In: Idowu, S. O., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds.) (2023) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham, printed version, EE.

“Corporate Social Responsibility in Croatia (2013–2019)”, (with Jalšenjak, B. and Matišić, M.), in S. O. Idowu (ed.) “Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility”, Springer International, Switzerland, 2020, eBook ISBN 978-3-030-68386-3, Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-68385-6 BC.

“Corporate social irresponsibility: humans vs. artificial intelligence”, Social Responsibility Journal, Emerald, Vol. 15 No. 6, 2019, pp. 786-802

“Teaching business ethics in transitional cultures An example of practice at Zagreb School of Economics and Management”, (with B. Jalšenjak) in Stachowicz-Stanusch A., Amann W. (eds.) “Management Education for Corporate Social Performance”, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2018:33-51

„Corporate Social Responsibility in Croatia“ (with P. Eterović, B. Jalšenjak), in S. O. Idowu, R. Schmidpeter, M. S. Fifka (eds.) Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe, United in Sustainable Diversity, Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, 2015, pp. 231-243

„Culture, business, and global CSR“, Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, S. O. Idowu (ed. in chief), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 730-739

„Bribery and Corruption“, Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, S. O. Idowu (ed. in chief), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 215-222

“Acquiring CSR practices: From deception to authenticity”, (with J. Debeljak, I. Bušljeta Banks), in Social Responsibility Journal, 2011, Emerald, VOL. 7, NO. 1, pp. 5-22

“Me, myself & I, practical egoism, selfishness, self-interest and business ethics” (with J. Debeljak), Social Responsibility Journal, volume 4, number 1/2, 2008:217-228

“Time, Credit & Debt, An Essay in Philosophy of Economics” (with J. Kagin, A. Mušura) u: F. Stadler, M. Stölzner (eds.) 2005 Preproceedings of 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, ALWS, 2005, pp. 127-131

Other topics (a selection)
“Russian false religious accusations of Ukrainians”, Polish Political Science Review, Volume 11 (2023), Issue 2, December, (forthcoming).

“Im Anfang war die Tat, Philosophy of multiple simultaneous un/natural disasters V: Human action”, Međunarodne studije / International Studies, 2023, (forthcoming).

“Un/natural disasters IV: A philosophy of warning and alarming multiple simultaneous un/natural disasters, Technological Sustainability, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 337-352.

“Un/natural Disasters III: Aesthetics, Religion, and Ethics and of Multiple Simultaneous Un/natural Disasters” in: Crowther, D., Seifi, S. (2023) (eds.) Corporate Social Responsibility in Difficult Times, Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance, Springer, Singapore

“Un/natural disasters II: Epistemology and ontology of multiple simultaneous un/natural disasters”, Međunarodne studije / International Studies, 2022, Vol. XXII No. 1, pp. 13-39

“Un/natural Disasters: Philosophy of Multiple Simultaneous Un/natural Disasters”, Crowther, D. and Seifi, S. (Eds.) (2022) The Equal Pillars of Sustainability (Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 241-255

Books as author
Čuda džungle, Uvod u filozofiju Ludwiga Wittgensteina, (with J. Điri and M. Soldo), Zagreb, ZSEM, MATE d.o.o. 2021, Josip Lukin

Pleme spiljskog zvučnika, Filozofija rocka s osobnog slušišta, Stjepan Mihovil Blažević – Vlastita naklada, e-book, Udruga za promicanje filozofije Filozofija.org, Zagreb, 2021, Davor Brusović

Krava na Mjesecu, Filozofija znanstveno-fantastičnih / horor filmova, Udruga za promicanje filozofije Filozofija.org, e-book, Zagreb, 2013

Filozofija nogometa, Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2012

''Hrvatska filozofija i skolastička epistemologija 20. stoljeća, Odabrana predavanja 1998.-2008.'', Udruga za promicanje filozofije Filozofija.org, e-book, Zagreb, 2011

Ilegalne supstancije i neprirodne vrste: ontologija tropa, Udruga za promicanje filozofije Filozofija.org, e-book Zagreb, 2010

Početak demokracije, ZŠEM, MATE d.o.o., Zagreb, 2008

Rutina, moral i pragmatizam, vlastita naklada, Zagreb, 2006

Wittgensteinov pragmatizam, vlastita naklada, Zagreb, 2003

Filozofija, pragmatizam i religija, vlastita naklada, Zagreb, 2002

Books as editor and co-editor
Poslovna etika, korporacijska društvena odgovornost i održivost, (edited with B. Jalšenjak), 2nd edition, ZSEM, MATE, 2016

Uvod u filozofiju i kritičko mišljenje, (ed. with B. Jalšenjak), 2nd edition, ZSEM, MATE, 2015

Društveno odgovorno poslovanje, (with B. Jalšenjak) MATE d.o.o., Zagreb, 2012

Uvod u filozofiju, (ed.), 1st edition, ZSEM, MATE d.o.o., Zagreb, 2009

Uvod u poslovnu etiku i korporacijsku društvenu odgovornost (ed.), 1st edition ZSEM, MATE, Zagreb, 2007

Papers (a selection)
„Kako čitati djelo L. Wittgensteina O izvjesnosti“ (with J. Điri), Obnovljeni život, 2014, vol 69, No. 3, pp. 355-368

„Filozofija Ivana Macana“, Obnovljeni život, 2014, vol. 96, No. 2, 141-284, pp. 147-164

„Poslovna etika banaka“, (with H. Volarević, H. Jerković), Obnovljeni život, 2013, Vol. 68, No. 1:105-120

„Načela poslovne etike u računovodstvu, reviziji, financijama i bankarstvu“, (with H. Volarević, M. Josipović), in Obnovljeni život, 2011, FTI, VOL. 66, NO. 2:187-99

„Odjeća i tijelo. Ontologija u djelu TLP Ludwiga Wittgensteina“, Status Questionis, II, no. 3, 2008:97-117

„Posljedice Wittgensteinova pragmatizma za političku filozofiju i filozofiju prava“, M. Škorić, N. Somun (eds.) Ne misli, gledaj!, M. Škorić, Zagreb, 2003:303-335

„Heraklit: slika rijeke“, Filozofska istraživanja, 60, 1996:259-266