Philosophy

The Department has established a prize in memory of its student Raza Khan, who died tragically in 2020. Read about the prize here.

The Department of Philosophy invites applications for an assistant professor position from 1 August 2021. Applicants should have a PhD in philosophy by the time they start the employment.

Area of specialization is open, area of competence should include one of the following: ethics, environmental philosophy, non-western philosophy, to enable the successful candidate to teach undergraduate courses in one of these fields.

The deadline for applications is 15 April 2021.

Application details are here.

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

Zhiwei Gu
on
Naive realism is not naïve

Members of the Defense Committee:

External Examiner: Keith Allen (University of York)
Supervisor: Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU)
Internal Examiner: Tim Crane
Chair: Michael Griffin (CEU)

The defense was held on 14 December online.

Congratulations, Dr. Gu!

The European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) elected Katalin Farkas as the new president and a new steering committee.

The new steering committee of ESAP is:

The Hungarian Classical Society awarded this year’s Jenő Ábel Memorial Plaquette for outstanding achievement in classical studies to our faculty member István Bodnár.

His acceptance speech given at this occasion:

It has never crossed my mind that I might receive an award like this. I have been quite rebellious, so it just seemed to be out of question that a society of classical scholarship would think of awarding me a major prize. Hence this decision is out of the ordinary in so many ways that I am truly humbled.

Mate Veres our graduate from 2016 got a fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. He will start the postdoc in Toronto in September while the CHS fellowship was postponed due to the COVID crisis. Congratulation Maté!

From the 2020/2021 Academic Year our PhD alumnus, Michele Luchetti  will start his postdoc position at the University of Geneva, Department of Philosophy, supported by the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. Congratulation, Michele!