Kristina Šekrst

Research

 

Publications

Selected books, peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and other writing across cognitive science, artificial intelligence, logic, the philosophy of mind, and linguistics. You are also welcome to contact me for a final copy of any paper, before some publisher charges you the price of a nice lunch for a PDF I’d be so eager to share and bore you to death with it.

Books

  1. Šekrst, K. (2025). The Illusion Engine: The Quest for Machine Consciousness. Cham: Springer Nature. PhilPapers · DOI
  2. Skansi, S.; Šekrst, K. (2026, forthcoming). Introduction to Deep Learning: Neural Networks, Large Language Models and Agentic AI, 2nd ed. Cham: Springer Nature. PhilPapers
  3. Šekrst, K.; Uranić, I. (2014). Staroegipatski jezik: gramatika, pismo i lingvistički uvod [Ancient Egyptian Language: Grammar, Script, and Linguistic Introduction]. Zagreb: Školska knjiga.

Selected papers

Topics in Cognitive Science · 2026

Fungal Memory and Minimal Cognition

What mycelial networks remember, for how long, and whether any of it deserves the word “cognition” once the metaphors are cleared away.

DOI · PDF

Cambridge University Press · 2026

Astrobiology and the Transformation of Scientific Epistemology

How a science with a sample size of one changes what counts as evidence, discovery, and a justified claim about life elsewhere.

PhilPapers

Oxford Intersections · 2026

Clause Encounters of the Third Kind: Can LLMs Replace Language Teachers

Where large language models genuinely help second-language learners, where they quietly mislead them, and why the difference matters pedagogically.

PhilPapers

Journal of Consciousness Studies · 2025

Do Large Language Models Hallucinate Electric Fata Morganas?

An epistemological account of AI hallucination, treating confabulated outputs as a window into what these systems can and cannot be said to believe.

PhilPapers · DOI

Current work

  1. Šekrst, K. (2026) Who Put the I in AI? Provenance and the Admissibility of Machine Self-Report · PhilPapers
  2. Šekrst, K. & Karlić, V.(2026) How To Do Things With Prompts · PhilPapers

Peer-reviewed articles & chapters

  1. Šekrst, K. (2027, forthcoming) A Game of Prompts:
    On the Ontology of Synthetic Personality. In R. Krzanowski (ed.), Personality in AI· PDF
  2. Šekrst, K. (2027, forthcoming). If You Stab Me, Do I Not Halt? AI Ethics in Star Trek. In C. A. Meyer & D. Preston (eds.), Starfleet Log Entries: Influence and Interpretations of Star Trek. University Press of Mississippi.
  3. Šekrst, K.; Uranić, I. (2026, forthcoming). Wrath of the Words: Decoding Performativity and Magic in The Mummy Franchise. In M. Brittany & S. Woodard (eds.), Critical Essays on The Mummy Franchise. University Press of Mississippi. ResearchGate
  4. Šekrst, K. (2026). Unjustified untrue “beliefs”: AI hallucinations and justification logics. In K. Świętorzecka, F. Grgić & A. Brożek (eds.), Logic, Knowledge, and Tradition. Leiden: Brill. DOI · PhilPapers
  5. Šekrst, K. (2026) Fungal Memory and Minimal Cognition Topics in Cognitive Science, DOI · PDF
  6. Šekrst, K.; Kovačić, A. (2026). Clause Encounters of the Third Kind: Can LLMs Replace Language Teachers. In M. Dennis (ed.), Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. Oxford Academic. PhilPapers
  7. Šekrst, K. (2026). Astrobiology and the Transformation of Scientific Epistemology. In S. J. Dick (ed.), Astronomy and Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. PhilPapers
  8. Šekrst, K. (2025). Don’t judge a film by its thumbnail: the question of cybernetic intentionality. Mind and Society 24, 1047–1059. PhilPapers · DOI
  9. Šekrst, K. (2024). Chinese Chat Room: AI hallucinations, epistemology and cognition. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 69(82), 365–381. PhilPapers · DOI
  10. Šekrst, K. (2025). Do Large Language Models Hallucinate Electric Fata Morganas? Journal of Consciousness Studies 32(11–12), 96–120. PhilPapers · DOI · Ingenta
  11. Šekrst, K.; Karlić, V. (2024). Red onions are clearly purple: cognitive convenience in color naming. Communication and Culture Online 15(15). PhilPapers · DOI
  12. Šekrst, K. (2024). Narrativism and Performativity in Absurda and Darkened Room. In A. Winters (ed.), A Critical Companion to David Lynch, 59–70. Lexington Books. PhilPapers
  13. Karlić, V.; Šekrst, K. (2024). Doma doma je uvijek najljepše [Contrastive lexical repetition in Croatian]. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 50(1), 69–86.· DOI
  14. Šekrst, K. (2024). Astrobiology in Philosophy or Philosophy in Astrobiology. Cosmos and History 20(1), 405–415. PhilPapers · full text
  15. Šekrst, K.; Skansi, S. (2024). Newspeak and Cyberspeak: The Haunting Ghosts of the Russian Past. In C. Shei & J. Schnell (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering, 64–92. London: Routledge. PhilPapers
  16. Šekrst, K. (2023). The Status of Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions. Sic 3(13). PhilPapers · DOI
  17. Skansi, S.; Šekrst, K.; Kardum, M. (2023). Je li matematika humanistička znanost? [Is mathematics a humanistic science?]. Filozofska istraživanja 43(2), 321–331. PhilPapers
  18. Šekrst, K. (2023). Darmok and Jalad on the Internet: Metaphors in Natural Languages and NLP. In E. Strand & A. H. Sturgis (eds.), Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier, 89–118. Vernon Press. PhilPapers
  19. Šekrst, K.; Skansi, S. (2023). Machine Learning and Essentialism. Philosophical Problems in Science 73, 171–196. PhilPapers · DOI
  20. Petrović, A.; Šekrst, K.; Karlić, V. (2023). On the syntactic structure and pragmatic properties of rude negations in Croatian. In A. Mikić Čolić & M. Glušac (eds.), Standard and Non-Standard Idioms, 197–217. Zagreb: HDPL.. ResearchGate
  21. Šekrst, K. (2023). Twin Peaks and the psychology of the watching experience. In A. Cichoń & S. Wróbel (eds.), Images between Series and Stream, 117–131. Warsaw: Universitas. PhilPapers
  22. Šekrst, K. (2022/2024). Tony “Two-Toes”: The Pragmatics of Nicknames in Films. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 41(2), 244–259. PhilPapers · DOI
  23. Šekrst, K. (2022). Everybody lies: deception levels in various domains of life. Biosemiotics 15, 22. PhilPapers · DOI
  24. Šekrst, K. (2022). Having the foggiest idea: a gradual account on mental images. Journal of Neurophilosophy 1(2), 203–211. PhilPapers · DOI
  25. Skansi, S.; Šekrst, K. (2021). The Role of Process Ontology in Cybernetics. Synthesis Philosophica 36(2), 461–469. DOI
  26. Skansi, S.; Šekrst, K.; Kardum, M. (2020). Clique and Household Analysis in Synthetic Telecom Data Using Propositional Logic. MIPRO, 1286–1289. PhilPapers · DOI
  27. Šekrst, K. (2020). AI-Completeness: Using Deep Learning to Eliminate the Human Factor. In S. Skansi (ed.), Guide to Deep Learning Basics, 117–130. Cham: Springer. PhilPapers · DOI
  28. Šekrst, K. (2019). Much ado about nothing: cosmological anthropic limits of quantum fluctuations. In L. Boršić et al. (eds.), Physics and Philosophy II, 105–114. Zagreb/Split: Institute of Philosophy. PhilPapers
  29. Šekrst, K. (2015). The Studies of the Ancient Egyptian Language in Croatia and Serbia. In M. Tomorad (ed.), A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture Conducted in Southeast Europe, 157–161. Oxford: Archaeopress.
  30. Tomorad, M.; Čavka, M.; Uranić, I.; Šekrst, K. (2014). Current Egyptological Research in Croatia. Studies in Ancient Art and Civilisation 18, 283–305. DOI

Other publications

  1. Šekrst, K. (2023). Hot Spacetime. In J. Kemling & R. E. Auxier (eds.), Queen and Philosophy, 149–158. Chicago: Open Universe. PhilPapers
  2. Šekrst, K. (2022). Slippin’ Identity. In J. Heter & B. Coppenger (eds.), Better Call Saul and Philosophy, 101–109. Chicago: Carus Books. PhilPapers
  3. Šekrst, K. (2020). Lingvistički opis etrurskog jezika [Linguistic Description of the Etruscan Language]. In I. Uranić (ed.), Liber i mumija, 49–57. Zagreb: Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. ResearchGate
  4. Šekrst, K. (2020). Post Scriptum (chapters on world writing systems). Zagreb: Archaeological Museum in Zagreb.
  5. Šekrst, K. (2012). Poredbena tekstna rekonstrukcija [Comparative Textual Reconstruction]. In B. Petrović (ed.), Tekstom o tekstu, 13–23. Zagreb: FF Press.

Book reviews

  1. Šekrst, K. (2023). Review of I. Restović, Pojmovno-logička struktura Brouwerove filozofije. Prolegomena 21(2), 216–221.
  2. Šekrst, K. (2022). Review of D. Huckvale, Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film. Film-Philosophy 26(2), 280–283. PhilPeople · DOI
  3. Šekrst, K. (2017). Review of R. Jackendoff, A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning (Croatian transl.). Prolegomena 16(2), 199–202.
  4. Šekrst, K. (2016). Review of Yang, Deng & Lin (eds.), Structural Analysis of Non-Classical Logics. Prolegomena 15(2), 220–223.

Profiles

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