Aleksandar Fatić is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, and Director of the Institute for Practical Humanities.
His research examines the logical foundations of AI ethics, applications of modal logic across therapeutic and legal contexts, and the philosophy of psychiatry. A central question runs through this work: what kinds of judgment require embodied human beings, and what can be delegated to formal systems? Recent work addresses the structural limits of AI in mental health contexts, arguing that failures of therapy chatbots reflect not engineering problems but fundamental mismatches between computational architectures and the nature of human mental life.
He is the founder of Modal Integrative Psychotherapy (MIP), a methodology that applies modal logic to clinical practice. MIP training is offered internationally through the Institute for Practical Humanities.
His books include Modal Integrative Psychotherapy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), Virtue as Identity: Emotions and the Moral Personality (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), The UN International Criminal Tribunals: Transition Without Justice? (Routledge, 2015, with Klaus Bachmann), and Punishment and Restorative Crime-Handling: A Social Theory of Trust (Ashgate, 1995). A new book, Philosophy of Life: Modal Logic, Psychotherapy and the Good Life, is forthcoming with Anthem Press.
He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University and has held positions at the University of South Australia, Charles University in Prague, and the University of Tasmania. He maintains an active clinical practice alongside his academic work.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5672-7183