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Some philosophical aspects of Elza Kučera

The focus of this text is on two aspects of philosophy of Elza Kučera (1883 – 1972). Kučera received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Zurich in 1909, thus being the first Croatian woman born in Croatia to receive a PhD in philosophy. Her main interest was psychology and, later, library science, and, apart from her PhD theses, almost all her published works are within these disciplines. On the other hand, in some of her handwritten and unpublished works that are preserved in the archives of the National and University Library in Zagreb one can find a certain number of “purely” philosophical texts. To show her philosophical approach, we analyze two particular questions she dealt with. The first is the problem of causality which she discussed in her overview of of Thomas Brown’s epistemology in her dissertation under the title The Epistemology of Thomas Brown: a Historical Study (Die Erkenntnislehre von Thomas Brown: eine historische Studie, Zagreb, 1909). The second is the question of national philosophy, as she developed in in a short unpublished that from 1918 or 1919. Given that Elza Kučera hasn’t received due attention as the first women philosopher to this day, experimental psychologist, and woman librarian in our country, we also present her biography.

Elza Kučera, Thomas Brown, cognitive theory, national philosophy

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