Philosophy

There was a very large turnout on 22 September for the public panel event led by CEU philosophy professors, "Philosophy, the refugee crisis, and how to help in Hungary" -- indicating the keen interest across CEU in helping refugees and migrants, as well as in philosophical analysis of political debates about migration policy.

We are looking forward to meeting you all at the department, and we wish you interesting and enjoyable studies.
Pre-session week, introducing CEU and Hungary to new students, starts on Monday, September 7. Zero week, in which the department is introduced to the new students and the courses of this academic year are presented by the professors, starts on Monday, September 14. Teaching begins on Monday, September 21. For more information, please consult the 2015/2016 Schedules page.

The Philosophy Department of Central European University hosted the two-day international undergraduate conference “Ancient metaphysics and its modern appropriations”, on 27 and 28 August, organised by Gábor Betegh (Cambridge – CEU) and István Bodnár (ELTE – CEU). The eleven speakers of the conference came from universities in England, France, Iran, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Turkey and the US, and delivered talks on a wide range of topics, spanning from the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle, always opening the discussion to the contrasts and parallels with our contemporary debates.

We are very proud to announce that Zsolt Kapelner received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for this academic year.

The Outstanding Academic Achievement Award is given to graduating Master's students from each department who have achieved the highest GPA (grade point average) based on their coursework performance.

Congratulations Zsolt!

Next fall term the Department of Philosophy launches a peer-learning based weekly Philosophy Research and Publish Lab.

Matthew Baxendale, our doctoral student, has been appointed as editor-in-chief of PULSE, the CEU Graduate Journal of History, Sociology & Philosophy of Science. Matthew has acted as one of the editors of the recent, 3rd issue of PULSE, which also contains articles of two of our students, Melvin Freitas and Zsolt Kapelner.

See here for more information