Josip Guć
Title: Assistant Professor
Wednesday 13.00-14.00 or by arrangement
Josip Guć is a lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He also heads the Centre for Integrative Bioethics at the same institution. His primary research areas are ethics, bioethics, and the philosophy of education. In 2022, he co-authored a book with Bruno Ćurko on the development of bioethical sensibility towards non-human animals in children (in Croatian: Odgoj za životinje: razvoj kritičke misli i bioetičkog senzibiliteta) and, in 2023, a book on various bioethical issues concerning non-human beings and the dichotomy of culture and nature in general (in Croatian: Poticaji za bioetičko promišljanje odnosa kulture i prirode u djelu Nikole Viskovića). He has also published a number of scientific articles, lectured at many national and international conferences, and is an active member of the editorial board of scientific journals: Jahr – European Journal of Bioethics, Filozofska istraživanja, and Synthesis philosophica. He currently serves as the secretary of the Methodical Review scientific journal. He is involved in many organizational teams for scientific conferences, particularly as co-president of the organizing committee for the annual Days of animal STudies conference. Notable in this sense was also his position as the chairman of the program committee of the international conference Non-Human Animals in Philosophy and Culture (Cres, Croatia, September 22–25, 2024).
Guć, J. (2025). Go (Even More) West, Young Man: Freirean Account of European Educational Values. In M. Beroš, B. Ćurko (eds.), EdUcators in the Classroom (pp. 1–20). Pula: Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
Guć, J. (2024). How Demands Shape Morality. Jahr, 15(1), 159–170.
Guć, J. (2023). Poticaji za bioetičko promišljanje odnosa kulture i prirode u djelu Nikole Viskovića [Incentives for the Bioethical Consideration of Relationship Between Culture and Nature in Nikola Visković’s Work]. Zagreb: Pergamena, Znanstveni centar izvrsnosti za integrativnu bioetiku.
Ćurko, B., & Guć, J. (2022). Odgoj za životinje: razvoj kritičkog mišljenja i bioetičkog senzibiliteta kod djece [Education for Animals: Development of Critical Thinking and Bioethical Sensibility in Children]. Zadar: Mala filozofija.
Guć, J. (2022). A Contribution to the Bioethicisation of Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education. Synthesis philosophica, 37(2), 307–326.
Guć, J. (2022). Sokratska autonomija i sofistička manipulacija u moralnom odgoju [Socratic Autonomy and Sofistic Manipulation in Moral Education]. Metodički ogledi, 29(2), 35–54.
Guć, J. (2022). Pandemija – utopija – bioetika [Panedmic – Utopia – Bioethics]. Jahr, 13(1), 143–161.
Guć, J. (2021). Relationship between Moral Responsibility for Zoonotic Pandemics Outbreaks and Industrial Animal Farms. Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 32(4), 695–713.
Guć, J. (2021). Antropomorfizam danas – sudbina Protagorina impulsa [Anthropomorphism Today – the Destiny of Protagoras’ Impulse]. Filozofska istraživanja, 41(2): 293–308.
Guć, J. (2020). Moralitet i legalitet u Kantovoj etici [Morality and Legality in Kant’s
Ethics]. Theoria (Belgrade), 63(2), 17–40.
10/2025–
Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education (NextGenerationEU)
04/2023–03/2025
Animal Ethics: Towards a Sustainable Transspecies Community (Ministry of Science, Education, and Youth, Republic of Croatia / Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Republic of Slovenia)
01/2021–12/2024
EuroBioMed: From diversity of traditions to a common Euro-Mediterranean bioethical platform – constructing a tool for dialogue and action (Croatian Science Foundation)
09/2018–09/2020
BEAGLE: Bioethical Education and Attitude Guidance for Living Environment (Erasmus+ / 2018-1-HR01-KA201-047484)
10/2017–11/2024
Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics (Ministry of Science and Education, Republic of Croatia)