Academy Members

Mikecin Igor, F.C.A.

Academic titles:

• Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• professor Doctor of Science

Membership in Academy:

• full member – Department of Social Sciences (5/16/2024 – …)

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Curriculum Vitae

Igor Mikecin was born on October 11, 1968 in Zagreb. He finished elementary school and classical high school in Zagreb. He studied philosophy, german studies and classical philology at the universities of Zagreb, Zürich and Split. In 1994, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb with a degree in philosophy and german studies.

From 1994 to 1998, he was employed as an assistant at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar, University of Split (now the Department of Philosophy of the University of Zadar), where he held seminar classes in Ontology and Greek Philosophy.

From 1995 to 1997, he attended postgraduate studies in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. He obtained the academic degree of Magister of Sciences, field of philosophy, in 1999 by defending the magister’s thesis entitled Leibniz. Substantiality and time.

From 1999 to 2004, he was employed as a researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb.

At the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb in 2003, he obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Science in the area of humanities, field of philosophy, by defending the doctoral thesis entitled Religion, community and freedom in early Hegel and Hölderlin.

At the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Osijek, he became senior assistant in 2004 and assistant professor in 2006 in the field of history of philosophy.

Since 2008/09 he was employed at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, first as an assistant professor, then from 2013 as an associate professor, and from 2019 as a full professor.

At the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, he holds courses at the History of Philosophy Section. He also teaches at the post-graduate doctoral studies in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.

He underwent scientific training at the University of Tübingen (Germany) within the framework of his doctoral studies in philosophy as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and then as a visiting researcher at the University of Tübingen and Sapienza University in Rome.

He participated in scientific research projects at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar, the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek and the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as in several international projects at German universities.

In addition to numerous domestic scientific and professional conferences, he gave mostly invited presentations in German and at many international scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad, mostly in Germany (Tübingen, Meßkirch, Wuppertal, Miltenberg).

He gave guest lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen, at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Prague, at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Đakovo at the University of Osijek, at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Osijek and at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Split.

He independently organized or participated in the organization as president or member of the program and organizational committees of several international and domestic scientific meetings and conferences in Croatia and abroad.

He is one of the presenters and lecturers at the scientific conference Klassische deutsche Philosophie at the Interuniversity Center in Dubrovnik (IUC), which is organized in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich.

He has been engaged in extensive international university cooperation within the framework of the Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS) as one of the founders of the Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity network, which is based at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and which includes 25 university institutions from 14 countries.

He achieved the international affirmation by becoming a member of the Association for phenomenological philosophy in Tübingen (Tübinger Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Philosophie), which operates at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Tübingen (Philosophisches Seminar der Universität Tübingen), within which he is a permanent collaborator on three scientific projects: 1. Philosophische Seminare (Heiligkreuztal, Germany), 2. Europäische Philosophie, griechische Mythologie und ihr Mysterienwesen (Samothraka, Greece) and 3. Internationales Miltenberger Kolloquium (Miltenberg, Germany).

He was a participant in three highly respected scientific meetings dedicated to the work of Martin Heidegger, which were held under the title Internationale Tübinger Kolloquien zum Werk Heideggers from 2019 to 2023 in Tübingen, organized by the Tübingen Association for Phenomenological Philosophy and the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Tübingen.

He is an associate of the Eugen Fink Center in Wuppertal (Eugen-Fink-Zentrum Wuppertal), the main world center for research into Fink’s philosophy, which is part of the Institute for Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology Wuppertal (Institut für Transzendentalphilosophie und Phänomenologie Wuppertal).

His international reputation in the field of hermeneutically and phenomenologically oriented philosophy was also confirmed by his election as a research associate and member of the council at the Research Center for Phenomenology and Hermeneutics at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Forschungsstelle für Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik Koblenz-Landau), which operates at the Institute of philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Institut für Philosophie der Universität Koblenz-Landau), and is engaged in researching the basic concepts and history of phenomenology and hermeneutics, as well as the application of phenomenological and hermeneutic methods in various branches of philosophy.

He is also a member of the scientific council of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Cluster Tübingen – Cluj (Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Cluster Tübingen – Cluj), in which scientific-research cooperation between the Center for Interdisciplinarity and Intercultural Studies of the University of Tübingen and the Center for Applied Philosophy of the University of Cluj (Romania) is realized with universities in Bologna, Messina, Vienna and Zagreb.

He held various academic positions, among others he was the head of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek (2007/08), head of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb (2014/15 and 2015/16) and the deputy head of the post-graduate doctoral studies in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. Since 2010/11 he is the chair of the History of Philosophy Section at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.

He is one of the founders of philosophy studies and the author of the philosophy study program at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Osijek since its establishment 2004/05.

As a professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb in the period from 2008/09 he introduced and conducted a whole series of new elective courses in History of Philosophy at undergraduate and graduate studies in philosophy. He innovated the teaching plan and program of the History of Philosophy, thereby proposing and introducing new and innovative contents in the study of philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb with the approval of the competent professional body of the higher education institution.

He is a member of the Croatian Philosophical Society and the Philosophy Department of Matrix Croatica (Matica hrvatska), of which he was the head from 2018 to 2022.

As a member and head of the Philosophy Department of Matrix Croatica (Matica hrvatska), he organized several scientific meetings, round tables, individual lectures in philosophy, as well as presentations of philosophical publications of Matrix Croatica. As one of the leaders of the Philosophy School of Matrix Croatica, he participated in the supplementary philosophy education of excellent students from all philosophy studies at Croatian universities. He contributed to the publication of Matrix Croatica collection of papers from scientific meetings in the field of philosophy organized by the Department of Philosophy of Matrix Croatica.

In cooperation with the Academy of Dramatic Arts of the University of Zagreb, he initiated and led philosophical seminars for philosophy students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and students of the Academy.

He is member of the editorial board of the most important philosophical journal in Croatia, the scientific journal of the Croatian Philosophical Society Filozofska istraživanja, for which, in addition to regular work in the editorial office and reviewing texts, he also prepared three thematic blocks.

He was a member of the publishing council of the library Filozofska istraživanja of the Croatian Philosophical Society, which is one of the leading philosophical libraries in Croatia in terms of scope and quality.

He is reviewer of scientific projects as member of the evaluation panel of the Croatian Science Foundation, for the humanities area, the field of philosophy.

He is a reviewer of articles for reputable domestic and foreign scientific journals and scientific books from reputable publishers.

He is the editor-in-chief of the philosophical library Philosophia in the publishing house Školska knjiga, which has in its program the publication of Croatian translations of classic philosophical works.

As an associate of the National Center for External Evaluation of Education of the Republic of Croatia (NCVVO), he participated in the preparation, design and review of the state graduation exam for the subject of philosophy in Croatian high schools.

Since 2024, he has been a member of the Scientific Field Committee for Philosophy, Theology and Religious Sciences of the National Council for Higher Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia.

Prof. Igor Mikecin is the author of original scientific works mainly in the history of philosophy, especially the history of Greek philosophy and the history of German classical philosophy, as well as in the field of ontology and philosophy of language.

He bases his philosophical interpretations and hermeneutic-philological analyzes on the coherent conception of the history of philosophy, which he presents in his scientific works. He made a significant scientific contribution in researching the history of Greek philosophy, especially the history of early Greek philosophy, by publishing two extensive monographs on Heraclitus and Parmenides with original and complete critical editions of Greek texts and philosophical and philological commentaries. Among other scientific works in the field of Greek philosophy, those in which he deals with the fundamental ontological concepts of Plato’s philosophy stand out.

Within the history of classical German philosophy, he primarily researches Hegel’s philosophy, especially Hegel’s logic and history of philosophy, and also Hölderlin’s reception of Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel in his poetological writings.

In his original scientific works in the field of philosophy of language, he investigates the philosophical foundations of Greek grammar and the history of philosophical terminology.

He is the author of several translations of philosophical works from ancient Greek (Heraclitus, Parmenides) and German (Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, etc.) into the Croatian language.