Bojana Mladenovic

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Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of Philosophy

413-597-4581
Schapiro Hall Rm 103

Education

B.A. University of Belgrade
M.A. McGill University
Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, Philosophy

Courses

PHIL 209 / STS 209 SEM

Philosophy of Science (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 235 TUT

Morality and Partiality: Loyalty, Friendship, Patriotism (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 294 / COMP 294 TUT

Philosophy and Narrative Fiction (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 295 SEM

Philosophy of Film and Film Theory (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 301 SEM

Textual Meaning and Interpretation (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 310 TUT

Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 322 TUT

Hume's "Treatise of Human Nature" (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 350 TUT

Emotions (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 364 / STS 364 SEM

Mental Health and Illness: Philosophical Considerations (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 378 SEM

Pragmatist Currents in Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (not offered 2024/25)

PHIL 380 SEM

Relativism (not offered 2024/25)

Professional Affiliations

American Philosophical Association (APA)
Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
Austen-Riggs – Williams College Discussion Group

Professor Mladenović will not be teaching until Spring 2025.

Her regular courses are: Personal Identity; Philosophy of Science; Mental Health and Illness: Philosophical Considerations; Emotions; Relativism; Pragmatist Currents in Contemporary Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science; Morality and Partiality: Loyalty, Friendship, and Patriotism; Hume’s Treatise; Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy; Contemporary Aesthetics and the Philosophy of the Arts; Philosophy and Narrative Fiction; Philosophy of Literature; Philosophy of Film and Film Theory.

Travel Courses

Ancient Greek Philosophy in Greece;
History and Philosophy of Biology in the Galapagos Islands.

Research Interests

Philosophy of science, History of the philosophy of science, Philosophy of psychology & psychiatry, Emotions, Character and virtue tradition in ethics, Wittgenstein.

Books

The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science, edited by Bojana Mladenović. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London: 2022.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/M/B/au102122935
Kuhn’s Legacy: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism. Columbia University Press. New York: 2017.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/kuhns-legacy/9780231146685