Hello, I'm Toma Gruica

Hello, my name is Toma Gruica. I am a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Graz and hold a master’s degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Split. I situate phenomenology in interdisciplinary contexts, focusing on the thought of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas. My expertise includes cognition, psychopathology, phenomenology of the Other, bioethics, applied ethics, and philosophy of Christianity. Outside academia, I am an artist and admirer of nature and animals.

Research

Book Chapters

Existential Groundings and Self-Organisation: Unravelling Psychopathological Helplessness in the Context of Positive Psychology through Heidegger and Autopoiesis, 2024
Popis lokaliteta na otoku Visu i njegovu arhipelagu, 2021
Reklamiranje i filozofija hiperrealnosti u Martina Heideggera i Jeana Baudrillarda, forthcoming
Pojavnost i tjelesnost: fenomenologija tijela Hanne Arendt u djelu Condito Humana, forthcoming

Journal Articles

Peer-reviewed International

The Ethical Significance of Brain-Computer Interfaces as Enablers of Communication, 2025
Nihil-Onto-teologia: Suvremena ontološka analiza teologije i filozofije Ivana Skota Eriugene, forthcoming
Phenomenology of Mental Health Evaluated through Thoughts of M. Merleau-Ponty and M. Heidegger, forthcoming

Peer-reviewed National

From Meaningful Instructions to Learned Illness: Philosophical Perspectives on Psychopathology and the Dynamics of Information, 2025
Contesting Ideas in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Korčula Summer School, the Kumrovec Political School, and Their Legacy (1964–2003.), 2025
Teritorijalni razvoj Poljica i njihov odnos sa Splitom, forthcoming
Salonitanski Ager, forthcoming

Editorial-reviewed National

Jezik filozofije i tjeskoba bivanja, 2024
"The King's Two Bodies Revisited": Katorowicz, politička teologija, povijest i granice nacionalne države, 2024
Državna ideologija i intelektualci u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji, 2024
Martin Heidegger: Egzistencijalna analiza tu-bitka, 2021
Socijalna filozofija Martina Luthera, forthcoming

Theses

Book Reviews

I Judge No One: The Political Life of Jesus, 2025
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, 2024
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy, 2023
Philosophy’s Violent Sacred: Heidegger and Nietzsche through Mimetic Theory, 2022
Katherine Withy, Heidegger on Being Affected, forthcoming
Mahon O'Brien, Heidegger on Ethics, forthcoming

Translations

Martin Heidegger, Siromaštvo, 2024
J. W. Goethe, Predgovor časopisu Propyläen, 2023

Conference Reports

Submitted and Under Review

Plato, Heidegger and the Metaphysical Foundations of Mathematics and Poetry, Differenz. International journal of Heideggerian studies and their contemporary drifts
Reframing the Concept of Difference: Heidegger’s Ontological Groundwork and Derrida’s Deconstructive Intervention, Studia Phaenomenologica
Biocultural Architecture of Intellectual Virtues: Tanesini’s Mindshaping, Intellectual Virtues, and Its Biocultural Limits, Studia Philosophica Estonica
Pain, Pleasure, and the Human Condition in Peirce and Levinas: A Comparative Inquiry into Phenomenology, Gnosticism, and Ethics, Arhe: Časopis Odsjeka za filozofiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Novom Sadu
Posthumous Gestation and the Desecration of Death: A Phenomenological Analysis of Whole-Body Donation, Jahr: European Journal for Bioethics
Privatni prostori stanovnika dalmatinskih komuna, Rostra
Submission: Exegetical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of Job, Kairos, Evangelical Journal of Theology
Assumptions, Proof, and Usefulness: How Gödel and Cantor Expose the Limits of Formal and Empirical Knowledge, Croatian Journal of Philosophy
Otoci Elektridi i rijeka Eridan: Analiza epa Apolonije Rođanin i prijevoda Radoslava Katičića, Kulturna baština
Religiosität und Fremdheit – Eine kroatische Perspektive in Österreich, Denken+Glauben

Writing & Thought

Coming soon...

Paintings

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Interests

Art & Miniatures

I love painting and making miniatures. I use traditional clay, FIMO clay and Miliput (Greenstuff) in my miniatures. I paint with oilpaints.

Trading Card & Board Games

I enjoy playing trading card games and traditional roleplaying and board games, such as Magic: The Gathering, Sorcery, The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, and Wingspan.