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László Kőszeghy (PhD 2025) As a graduate of both the one-year MA and PhD programs in CEU’s Philosophy Department, I have experienced how doing philosophy, among much else, fosters one’s ability to become faster, more precise, honest and creative in relentlessly breaking concepts into their building blocks, separating them from words, and reassembling them in new ways: to push through confusion and complexity and build new concepts. It also develops the attention and patience required for such tasks and for listening to, and understanding the thought processes of, others. |
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Nevim Borçin (PhD 2023) I was born in Cizre, Turkey, and completed my BA and MA in Istanbul. In 2023, I received my PhD in Philosophy from Central European University, where I wrote my dissertation, The Theoretical Underpinnings of Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy, under the supervision of István Bodnár. After completing my PhD, I spent some time as a visiting researcher at the University of Notre Dame, followed by a postdoctoral position at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 2024–2025. |
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Jooseppi Räikkönen (MA 2023) I am currently an MRes/PhD Student in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. My work spans the fields of political ecology, political economy, political theory and intellectual history. I also contribute to debates on European economic and foreign policy in various fora. |
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Ludovica Medaglia (MA 2023) My name is Ludovica Medaglia and currently I am a PhD student in Philosophy at Princeton University. Before coming to Princeton, I have been a MA student in Classics at Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) and in Philosophy at CEU. |
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Michele Luchetti (PhD 2020) Michele Luchetti is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, where he is also a member of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Science. After obtaining his PhD in Philosophy at CEU in 2020, Michele held postdoctoral positions at the University of Geneva and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
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Edvard Aviles Meza (MA 2019) I'm a PhD candidate at Cornell University. Before coming to Cornell, I did my BA in Psychology and completed two masters, one in Neuroscience, and another one in philosophy at Central European University (CEU). |
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Pranav Ambardekar (MA 2018) I graduated from CEU in 2018, completing the two-year MA program in philosophy. I wrote my master’s thesis on Wittgenstein’s epistemology, under the supervision of Prof. Hanoch Ben-Yami. My time at CEU philosophy gave me an excellent grounding in analytic philosophy, and my work on Wittgensteinian epistemology spurred many intellectual projects during my PhD at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. |
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Olesya Bondarenko (MA 2017) Olesya Bondarenko is a philosopher of science, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. Olesya holds an MA in Philosophy with an Advanced Certificate in Science Studies from Central European University (2017) and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (2024). Her research interests include the integration of biological and social science perspectives on human behaviour and health, causal inference and explanation, and the role of epistemic and non-epistemic values in scientific inquiry. Read more |
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Anna Réz (PhD 2013) Anna Réz pursued her undergraduate studies at Eötvös Loránd University between 2003 and 2008, studying philosophy and aesthetics. She defended her doctoral thesis „Responsibility as Attributability: Control, Blame, Fairness” at CEU in 2013. |
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Akos Polgardi (MA 2011) I’m a graphic designer and typographer running my own studio since 2013. I was born in 1983, grew up in Balatonfüred, went to high school in Veszprém, have degrees from the University of Szeged and CEU (both philosophy). |
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Jakub Jirsa (PhD 2006) After graduating from CEU in 2006 I started working as lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious studies at Charles University, Faculty of Arts. |
