Marko Kardum

undergraduate

• Academic Literacy (129992) - Lecturer in charge
• Introduction to Philosophy (214818) - Lecturer in charge
• Logic 1 (187819) - Lecturer in charge
• Rationalism and Empiricism (214832) - Lecturer in charge

He was born in 1983 in Zagreb, where he completed the XVI. Gymnasium. He completed a pre-Bologna master’s program in philosophy and Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and in 2018, at the same faculty, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled The Problem of the Social Construction of the Visual Field in A. C. Danto’s Theory. At the Faculty of Croatian Studies, he was first employed as an assistant in 2017, and since 2020 he has been working as an assistant professor.

So far, he has published around twenty scientific and professional papers and has participated in several international and domestic scientific conferences. He is a member of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC), the Croatian Philosophical Society (HFD), and the Croatian Logic Association (HLU). Since 2017, he has been a member of the editorial boards of the journals Filozofska istraživanja and Synthesis Philosophica, and since 2025 he has also been a member of the editorial board of the journal Kroatologija. He has repeatedly served as a reviewer for various journals and has reviewed two university textbooks in the field of project applications. He was a member of a research group funded by short-term financial support from the University of Zagreb entitled Philosophical Aspects of Logic, Language, and Cybernetics, in which he explored topics in logic, philosophy of language, natural language processing, and philosophical aspects of cybernetics. Since 2014, he has been a member of the National Commission for the Logic Competition and a test designer for the logic competition.

He is the course leader and instructor for Logic 1 in the undergraduate philosophy program. In the postgraduate doctoral program in philosophy, he leads the course Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science and teaches the course Logic. His primary scientific interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, cybernetics, and the philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence.

Books:

Kardum, Marko. Arthur C. Danto’s Theory of Art: Ontology of Works of Art Between Naturalistic and Constructivist Explanation. Zagreb: Croatian Philosophical Society, 2021.

Textbooks:

Ćurko, Bruno; Kardum, Marko; Novina, Marina; Perhat, Julija; Skanski, Sandro; Skelac, Ines. Philosophy. Textbook for 4th Grade of High School. Zagreb: Element, 2021.

Skelac, Ines; Kardum, Marko; Skansi, Sandro. Logic: Textbook for 3rd Grade of High School. Zagreb: Element, 2020.

Scientific Papers:

Kardum, Marko. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Mimêsis for Life // Humanitas consolatur / Krešić Nacevski, Lucija; Sarakinski, Vojislav (eds.). Skopje: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Skopje, 2025, pp. 33–54.

Kardum, Marko; Skansi, Sandro. The Role of Probability in Critical Thinking // Reader and Reading in the Digital Age. Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference Held on November 11, 2021 in Zagreb / Togonal, Marijana; Ćurković Nimac, Jasna (eds.). Zagreb: Croatian Catholic University, 2023, pp. 146–154.

Skansi, Sandro; Šekrst, Kristina; Kardum, Marko. Is Mathematics a Humanistic Science? // Filozofska istraživanja, 43 (2023), 2; 321–331. doi: 10.21464/fi43208

Kardum, Marko. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, the Vienna Circle, and Artificial Neural Networks as the First Computational Theory of Mind: Does Development of AI Owe Anything to Wittgenstein? // What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said. Proceedings of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Zagreb, Croatia, 2021 / Skelac, Ines; Belić, Ante (eds.). Münster: LIT Verlag, 2023, pp. 121–132.

Kardum, Marko. Frogs, Pigeons and the Synthetic A Priori Within Us All: Can McCulloch's Search for Universals Tell Us Anything Useful in Perception Debate within Philosophy of Art? // Emergence (Mahwah, N.J.), Collected Works, 2023, 4; 131, 512.

Bušljeta Kardum, Rona; Kardum, Marko. Developing Disruptive Teaching and Learning Processes // ICERI2021 Proceedings. Valencia: International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2021, pp. 691–696.

Skansi, Sandro; Kardum, Marko. A Prolegomenon on the Philosophical Foundations of Deep Learning as Theory of (Artificial) Intelligence // Disputatio philosophica: International Journal on Philosophy and Religion, 23 (2021), 1; 89–99. doi: 10.32701/dp.23.1.6

Skansi, Sandro; Šekrst, Kristina; Kardum, Marko. A Different Approach for Clique and Household Analysis in Synthetic Telecom Data Using Propositional Logic // 2020 43rd International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO). Opatija: Rijeka: Zagreb: IEEE Explore, 2020, pp. 1286–1289. doi: 10.23919/MIPRO48935.2020.9245421

Kardum, Marko. Film as Philosophy: The Wittgenstein Case // Filozofska istraživanja, 40 (2020), 4; 665–684. doi: 10.21464/fi40401

Kardum, Marko; Skelac, Ines. Notion of Private Language in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico–Philosophicus and Some Contemporary Linguistic Refutations // Disputatio philosophica: International Journal on Philosophy and Religion, 22 (2020), 1; 63–75. doi: 10.32701/dp.22.1.4

Kardum, Marko. Rudolf Carnap–The Grandfather of Artificial Neural Networks: The Influence of Carnap’s Philosophy on Walter Pitts // Guide to Deep Learning Basics. Cham: Springer, 2020, pp. 55–66. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-37591-1_6

Kardum, Marko; Skansi, Sandro. The Possibility of Applying Traditional and Modern Aesthetic Theories to Logical and Mathematical Proofs // Filozofska istraživanja, 39 (2019), 4; 741–760. doi: 10.21464/fi39401

Bušljeta, Rona; Kardum, Marko. “School for Life” – Theoretical Background and Analysis of Croatian Reform in School Education // European Journal of Social Science Education and Research, 6 (2019), 2; 39–47. doi: 10.26417/ejser.v6i2.p39-47

Kardum, Marko. Art as Self-Reflection: From Hegel’s End of History to Danto’s End of Art // Filozofska istraživanja, 34 (2014), 3; 427–443.

Kardum, Marko. The Limits of the Political and Ideological in Visual Culture // Ethnologica Dalmatica, 20 (2013), 1; 105–124.

Conference Presentations:

Kardum, Marko. Then and Back Again – From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: How They Used to Do It in the East and What Do We Do Today // 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics: Living Cybernetics Playing Language. Washington D.C., USA, 15–19 June 2024.

Kardum, Marko. Ideas of the Vienna Circle Between Philosophical Concepts and Historical Context // International Scientific Conference Intellectual History and Croatian Historiography: State and Perspectives. Zagreb, Croatia, 15 December 2022.

Kardum, Marko. Wittgenstein's Tractatus, the Vienna Circle and the First Computational Theory of Mind: Does Contemporary AI Owe Anything to Wittgenstein? // Abstract Book of The International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, p. 31. Zagreb, Croatia, 2–3 December 2021.

Skansi, Sandro; Kardum, Marko. Debunking Myths: The Perceived and Real Dangers of Developing and Deploying Artificial Intelligence Systems // The 2nd International Conference on the Relation Between Artificial Intelligence, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Zagreb, Croatia, 1 October 2021.

Kardum, Marko; Skansi, Sandro. How to Read with Understanding – The Role of Probability in Critical Thinking and Reading // Abstract Book of Reader and Reading in the Digital Age Symposium, pp. 90–92. Zagreb, Croatia, 11 November 2021.

Skansi, Sandro; Šekrst, Kristina; Kardum, Marko. A Different Approach for Clique and Household Analysis in Synthetic Telecom Data Using Propositional Logic // 2020 43rd International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO). Opatija, Croatia, 28 September – 2 October 2020.

Kardum, Marko. Disruptiveness in Teaching Logic // Abstract Book of the Annual Symposium of the Croatian Philosophical Society; Philosophy, Education, and School, p. 43. Annual Symposium of the Croatian Philosophical Society (2019) "Philosophy, Education, and School". Zagreb, Croatia, 12–14 December 2019.

Kardum, Marko. Fran Petrić and Petrarchism in Croatia // Abstract Book of the Symposium 28th Fran Petrić Days; Croatian Philosophy in Interaction and Context, p. 132. Cres, Croatia, 25–28 September 2019.

Kardum, Marko. Art and Mental Health // 2nd International Transdisciplinary Symposium Bioethics and Aporias of the Psyche / Janeš, Luka; Perušić, Luka; Knorr, Lidija (eds.). Zagreb: Croatian Bioethical Society, p. 68. Zagreb, Croatia, 22–24 November 2018.

Kardum, Marko. Representation of Corporeality in Visual Arts // Abstract Book of the Symposium Philosophy and Corporeality, p. 40. Zagreb, Croatia, 27–29 November 2014.

Kardum, Marko. Aesthetics and Poetics of Fran Petrić // Abstract Book of 5th Mediterranean Roots of Philosophy, p. 39. Split, Croatia, 24–26 March 2011.

Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb Award for a Highly Internationally Visible Paper 2023 for:

Kardum, Marko. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, the Vienna Circle, and Artificial Neural Networks as the First Computational Theory of Mind: Does Development of AI Owe Anything to Wittgenstein? // What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said. Proceedings of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Zagreb, Croatia, 2021 / Skelac, Ines; Belić, Ante (eds.). Münster: LIT Verlag, 2023. pp. 121–132

Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb Award for a Highly Internationally Visible Paper 2020 for:

Kardum, Marko. Rudolf Carnap – The Grandfather of Artificial Neural Networks: The Influence of Carnap’s Philosophy on Walter Pitts // Guide to Deep Learning Basics. Cham: Springer, 2020. pp. 55–66. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-37591-1_6

Member of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)

Member of the Croatian Philosophical Society (HFD)

Member of the Croatian Logic Association (HLU)

Member of the editorial board of the journal Filozofska istraživanja

Member of the editorial board of the journal Synthesis Philosophica

Member of the editorial board of the journal Kroatologija

Artificial Intelligence: A New Interlocutor of Croatian Society (AI-COM); Project Leader

Philosophical Aspects of Logic, Language, and Cybernetics; Project Member

2011 – Gornjogradska Gymnasium, Zagreb

2012 – I. Gymnasium, Zagreb

2014 – Tituš Brezovački Gymnasium, Zagreb

2017 – Teaching Assistant, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies

2020 – Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies