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Maja Malec is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where she has been employed since 2017. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from Central European University (Budapest) in 2010, with a dissertation on the essential/accidental distinction in contemporary metaphysics. Her academic career includes teaching at the same department as a contract employee before joining the faculty.
- Education: PhD (2010) from Central European University, BA/MA in Philosophy from University of Ljubljana.
- Research: Specializes in modality, essence, and thought experiments, examining their metaphysical, epistemic, and logical dimensions. Investigates historical evolution of modal concepts from antiquity to modern times and philosophical interpretations of nature, reality, and human agency.
Her publications focus on modal arguments in philosophy of mind, analysis of scientific thought experiments (e.g., Newton's bucket, Galileo's falling bodies), and critiques of contextualist essentialism. She teaches courses like Human and Cosmos in Renaissance, Philosophy of Nature, Symbolic Logic, and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.
