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Our alumna Valentina Martinis awarded the 2025 Roland Atefie Prize

April 28, 2026
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Our alumna Valentina Martinis (PhD, 2023) received the 2025 Roland Atefie Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, for her dissertation Perceiving and Thinking: Inquiry into Two Types of Phenomenology. The 4000 euro Roland Atefie Award recognizes an outstanding doctoral thesis in the fields of philosophy, theology or Indology written at an Aust

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Our MA alumnus Dong-geun Kim successfully defends his PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh

April 14, 2026
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Our alumnus, Dong-geun Kim (MA 2020), recently graduated from the PhD program at the University of Edingburgh. He defended his dissertation entitled "From Beings to Being: Plato’s Dialectic of Being in the Sophist" on 3rd April 2026.

Congratulations, Dr. Kim!

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Successful defense of Hongkai Yin

March 2, 2026
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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the successful defense of the PhD Dissertation

by

Hongkai Yin

on

Metalogical Properties of Fluted Fragments

 

External examiner: Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester)

External examiner: Christian Fermüller (TU Wien)

Supervisor Hanoch Ben-Yami

Chair: Michael Griffin

 

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The CEU Department of Philosophy Mourns the Loss of Professor Emeritus David Weberman

February 16, 2026
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The Department is deeply saddened by the recent passing of our colleague, Professor Emeritus David Weberman.
David was a member of the CEU community for nearly two decades. He joined CEU first as a Fellow at the Humanities Center and, from 2007, as a faculty member of the Department of Philosophy. In the summer of 2025, he retired and was appointed Professor Emeritus.

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Successful defense of Yaren Duvarci

February 13, 2026
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Yaren Duvarci

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the successful defense of the PhD Dissertation

by

Yaren Duvarci

on

Free Will & Physicalism

 

External examiner: Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University)

Internal examiner: Ferenc Huoranszki

Supervisor: Katalin Farkas

Chair: Michael Griffin 

Congratulations, Dr. Duvarci!

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