Luka Boršić is a researcher based at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia. His research highlights the history of women philosophers, especially from Southeastern Europe. He has been a key figure in collaborations with the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University, particularly together with Ivana Skuhala Karasman as a guest editor of the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.

Volume 2 of the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists consists of a double issue. The first part continues the work started in the previous volume, exploring the contributions of women to the history of philosophy. It spans from Christine de Pizan in the late Middle Ages to Émilie du Châtelet and Sophie Germain during the French Enlightenment, with the texts arranged chronologically. These pieces highlight the ongoing impact of women philosophers on contemporary thought.

The second part is the journal’s first themed issue, dedicated to women philosophers from Southeastern Europe. This issue is the result of collaboration between the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn and the Research Center for Women in Philosophy in Zagreb. The focus is on gathering and sharing information about past and present women philosophers in Southeastern Europe, emphasizing the lack of scholarly research in this area. The issue includes contributions from Croatia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Turkey.

Boršić and Karasman have also contributed to the new Springer Teaching Women Philosophers about A Person as the Epitome of All Forces- Helene Druskowitz‘s Compatibilist Answer to the Free Will Dilemma:

 

Our text is divided into two parts. In the first part an overview of the life and career of the Austrian philosopher of Croatian origin, Helene Druskowitz will be given. She was born near Vienna in 1856. In 1878, she received her doctoral title from the University Zurich. She was the first woman from a Germanic country to receive a doctoral title in the regular way. After her return to Austria, she tried to make her career as a free-lance writer and public speaker. During this time, she made some influential acquaintances (F. Nietzsche, M. von Salis-Marschlins, M. von Ebner-Eschenbach, F. C. Meyer and others). However, due to her unorthodox lifestyle and mental problems she was put in various institutions and sanatoria in which she spent the rest of her life, from 1891 till 1918. In the second part of our text her book from 1887, Wie ist Verantwortung und Zurechnung ohne Annahme der Willensfreiheit möglich? will be analized. In this book Druskowitz defends a compatibilist position: she reconciles naturalist determinism with the defense of responsibility. Her argument is based on a combination of a revised position of Schopenhauer supplemented by a moral interpretation of evolutionism. Persons are self-conscious representatives of a particular combination of natural forces which makes humans both a part of the natural world (and thus determined) but, since they are a special part of nature, and aware of it, they bear moral responsibility.