Philosophy

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

by Henrique Mendes Goncalves

on Enactivism and the cognitivist triad: Functional roles, representation, and computation 

Supervisor: Tim Crane 

External examiner: Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Internal examiner: Matt Dougherty 

Chair: Ferenc Huoranszki 

Congratulations, Dr. Goncalves!

Maria Kronfeldner (CEU & @knowledgecrisis) contributed to an inspiring discussion at the ERA Symposium organized by @ffg.forschungwirkt, joining the workshop “Strengthening Trust in Science: Ways to Enhance Public Participation.” A key theme was the need to shift how we talk about sciences:

Philosophy is...

What is philosophy, and what is its value? Prof. Hanoch Ben-Yami gave an interview at Vilnius University in September 2025. Watch the video here.

Prof. Tim Crane wrote an essay for The Ideas Letter on analytic philosophy and Christoph Schuringa's book: "The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. [...] As an academic philosopher myself, I often ask: why single philosophy out?"

Read Prof. Crane's article here.

Our alumnus Zhiwei Gu (PhD 2020) was awarded the position of “Young Associate Research Fellow”, equivalent to assistant professor, at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai. Congratulations, Zhiwei!

We are thrilled to announce that our alumna Nevim Borçin's (PhD 2023) project, Ethical Methodology in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, has been awarded the ESPRIT grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds).  Starting in 2025, she will hold this fellowship at the University of Vienna over the next three years in collaboration with Prof. George Karamanolis.

Our MA student, Vukoman Milenković, was interview by IPM Monthly about Leibniz, Liberation Theology, and Hiking. Read the full interview here!