Prof. Marko Uršič, Ph. D.
Department of Philosophy,
Faculty of Arts, University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU
e-mail: marko.ursic@guest.arnes.si
and/or marko.ursic.fil@gmail.com
NEW: Reflections
of the Land of the Rising Sun. University of
Ljubljana Press, 2025.
Curriculum vitae: I was born
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on May 18, 1951. I graduated in 1975, philosophy and
psychology. From 1975 to 1991, I worked in several professions, among them as a
journalist and as a book editor. Master Degree in 1984 (Aristotle's Modal
Logic), PhD in 1990 (Implication and Deductive Necessity), all in
the University of Ljubljana by Professor Frane Jerman. Post-doc specialization
in Salzburg by Professor Paul Weingartner (logic of relevance) in 1991. From
1992 on I was a university teacher in the University of Ljubljana, from 2003 as
a full professor, I have been retired since 2018.
Work: My
profession is philosophy, love of wisdom. I am active in the following
disciplines of philosophy: logic, philosophy of nature, space and time,
cosmology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion. I have written also some
fiction books, philosophical prose.
Courses in the Faculty of
Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (archive, up to 2018):
Philosophy
of Nature
Contemporary
Philosophical Cosmology
Philosophy of Space and Time
Highlights in English:
Books in
Slovene (in chronological order, regressive; some fragments are translated and
available here):
1.
Reflections of the Land of
the Rising Sun. University of Ljubljana
Press, 2025.
2.
Transcendent Presences: Essays on Plotinusʼ Metaphysics of Light (Presezne prisotnosti: Eseji o Plotinovi metafiziki svetlobe). Cankarjeva zalozba, Ljubljana,
2021. A short
presentation for the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2023 (see pp. 59–62 of this
Catalogue); and here is a longer fragment: “Plotinus'
Interpretation of Phidias' Statue of Zeus”.
3.
Four Seasons (Stirje casi, i.e. “Four Times”), Vol. I–IV, a tetralogy of philosophical dialogues and monologues (all together more
than 2500 pages), Cankarjeva zalozba,
Ljubljana, 2002–2015.
Motto: Four seasons (“times”) are given
to man: past, present, future and eternal.
Vol. I: Spring
(2002).
Vol. II: Summer: On the Renaissance Beauty
(part 1, 2004), in
Croatian language: O
renesansnoj ljepoti
(tr. Ksenija Premur, Naklada Lara, Zagreb, 2016); and: The Sevens (part 2,
2006), in Croatian: Sedmerke (tr. K. Premur, 2018).
Vol. III (2010): Autumn: The Closely Distant
Sky, Man and Cosmos, a philosophical investigation of modern cosmology,
from big-bang to multiverses and beyond (700 pages). Parts of this book are
translated into English and included in the book Mind and Nature (see above); see also the lecture Universe
or Multiverse?
Vol. IV (2015): Winter: On Shadows (from metaphysics
and physics to virtual reality …).
4.
Gnostic Essays: philosophy, mythology and
comparative religiology, 1994. One of these essays,
“On Plato’s Cave”, is available here
in German.
5.
Pilgrimage
to Anima, a philosophical novel-diary, 1988.
6.
Matrices of Logos,
philosophical essays and studies, 1987.
7.
Cracks, a
novel, 1985.
8.
Enivetok, a philosophical essay, 1981.
A textbook: Elements of Logic (in Slovene, with Olga
Markic), for bachelors in philosophy, 1997 (sd. edition 2003).
Selected philosophical papers (and/or presentations):
1. “A Comparison of
Nishida’s basho from his Middle Period with Plato’s chóra and the One of
Plotinus”, Asian Studies, Vol. 11
No. 1 (2023): Special Issue: Transcultural (Post)Comparative Philosophy, Part
2: Philosophical Dialogues between East Asia and Europe: From Plotinus to
Heidegger and Beyond, pp. 71–90.
2. “Pico
della Mirandola on the Dignity of
Man and Some Contemporary Echoes of His Philosophy”, Clotho,
Vol. 2, No. 2 (2020), pp. 59–72.
3. “The Gaze of the
Soul and of the Angel in the Renaissance Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino”, Ars & Humanitas,
IX/1 (2015), pp. 58-73.
4. “Boscovich’s
distinction between the potential and the actual space …” (ppt-presentation
from Manchester Congress, 2013); published in Almagest 6.1 (2015).
5. “Multiverse or Universe,
after all?” (ppt from the Conference “Physics and Philosophy”, Split,
2013); published in Physics and
Philosophy, ed. F. Sokolic et al., Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, 2015.
6.
“Neither the Same
nor the Other”: Cultural influences on the “near-death experiences”, especially
in comparison of Western and Japanese (Buddhist) accounts (2012, Slovene
version published in: Poligrafi
58-60. Vol. 15, 2010).
7.
“Paradoxes
of Transfinite Cosmology” (this paper was presented in the XIV. Congress of
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Nancy, 2011, reviewed 2012). See presentation.
8.
“Starry sky as the greatest museum of
natural history”, in: Natural History, ed. David Kleinberg-Levin, Poligrafi 61-62, Vol. 16 (2011), pp. 215-229.
9.
"Who
Speaks in Montaigne's Essays?", Primerjalna književnost [Comparative Literature], Ljubljana, 2010 (a paper in the conference
"Essay and Singularity", Ljubljana, 2009).
10.
"Socrates' Logos, Daemon, Ethos", a
short essay, 2010.
11.
"Einstein on Religion and Science", Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 21, fasc. 2 (2006),
pp. 267-283; plenary lecture on the international symposium
"Theory of Relativity and Philosophy", in celebration of the 100th
anniversary of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Cres, Croatia,
September, 2005.
12.
“Naturadeus, a Metaphor of the Perfect Diamond”,
Acta Analytica 33, Vol. XIX: Analytic Philosophy in Slovenia (2004);
see also the author’s book Four Seasons.
Spring (above).
13.
"Surely the second coming is at hand", Diotima: A Philosophical review. 2002,
vol. 3, no. 2, pp. [31]-45.
14.
"Cogito ergo mundus talis est. On some metaphysical and epistemological
aspects of the Anthropic Cosmological Principle", Acta Analytica 28, Vol. XVII (2002), pp. 53-67.
15.
"A
remark on the 'unreality of time'", Acta Analytica 25, Vol. XV
(2000), pp.161-172.
16.
"Paraconsistency and
dialectics as coincidentia oppositorum in the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa",
Logique & Analyse,
Vol. XLI, No. 161-163, Brussel, 1998, pp. 203-217.
17.
"Some traces
of Theravãda Buddhism in the gnostic Nag Hammadi manuscripts", in: Sudesika:
Festschrift Bhikkhu Nanajivako (Čedomil Veljačić), ed. Đokić, Siniša. Zagreb: Antibarbarus,
1997, pp. 159-166.
18.
"Cogito and epoché from the
point of view of logics
free of existential
presuppositions", Handbook:
phenomenology and cognitive science, ed. V: Baumgartner, E. &al. Dettelbach: Röll, 1996, pp.
329-340.
19.
"The allegory of the
cave", Hermathena, No. 165 (Trinity
College, Dublin, 1999), pp. 85-107. Auch in der deutschen Ueberzetzung: "Das Hoehlengleichnis - Transzendenz in
Platonismus und Christentum" (Begegnungen,
Nova revija, Ljubljana, 1995).
20.
"Validity and
consistency in relevant logics", Acta analytica, No. 10 (1993), pp. 31-48.
See this page (the larger version) in Slovene.
