Gábor Betegh
Curriculum Vitae
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal

  • Born: Budapest, Hungary, 20th June 1968
  • Nationality: Hungarian

Field of research

  • Ancient philosophy, ancient religions.

Current position

Previous positions

Education

Fellowships

Awards

Teaching experience

  • Doctoral courses on ancient philosophy at CEU: Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, Ancient ethics, Practical reasoning ancient and contemporary, Reading seminars (Plato: Alc. 1; Aristotle, Metaphysics Lambda, De Anima)
  • Undergraduate courses on ancient philosophy taught at Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Pécs: Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, Greek for philosophers, seminars on Plato: Timaeus, Aristotle: De caelo.
  • Tutor at the Invisible College (Láthatatlan Kollégium) and the Kerényi Károly College, Pécs
  • Course in the History of Philosophy specialization of the web-based Open University project of the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy

PhDs supervised

  • Jakub Jirsa: The Ethics of Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Dialogues (defended).
  • Tamás Böröczki: Plutarch’s Platonism (defended).
  • Ákos Brunner: Platonic Themes in the Formation of Stoic Philosophy
  • Attila Németh (co-supervisor): The Epicurean Clinamen
  • Iryna Pigovska (co-supervisor): John Duns Scotus: Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis

Organisational activities

  • Co-director (with István Bárány and István Bodnár) of the CEU Summer University ‘Philosophy and Science in the Greco-Roman World’. Participants: M. Burnyeat (Oxford), K. Ierodiakonou (Oxford/Athens), A. Laks (Lille), G.E.R. Lloyd (Cambridge), H. Mendell (California State Univ.), R. Netz (Stanford), D. Sedley (Cambridge), L. Zhmud (St. Petesburg).
  • Co-organiser (with László Bene) of the ‘Philosophy and Religions in the Hellenistic Age and the Late Antiquity’ co-operation programme (University of Debrecen-University of Pécs-Central European University-University of Cambridge — sponsored by the Hungarian Soros Foundation FEEP Project)
  • Co-organiser (with László Bene) of ‘The Late Plato and the Platonic Tradition’ Research Team sponsored by the National Fund for the Sciences and Research (OTKA)
  • Founding Member of the Southeast European Association for Ancient Philosophy
  • Member of the editorial commettee of the philosophical journal ‘passim
  • Member of the Hungarian Philosophical Society

Conferences, symposia (selective)

  • Symposium Aristotelicum: 'The Next Cause: Aristotle, Metaphysics A3-4'. University of Leuven, July 2008.
  • IV. Leventis Conference: 'The Identity of Presocratic Gods'. University of Edinburgh, October 2007.
  • Symposium Hellenisticum: 'Sextus on the Dogmatists' Conception of Body'. Delphi, August 2007.
  • Conference on the Timaeus: 'What Makes a Discourse Eikos'. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, September 2007.
  • III. Symposium Praesocraticum: 'Paul Tannery on the Presocratics'. München, September 2006.
  • Conference of the Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Philosophy: 'Tale, Theology, and Teleology in the Phaedo'. November 2006.
  • God and the Cosmos in Stoic Philosophy: 'Stoic Cosmology and the Derveni Papyrus'. Mexico City, July 2006.
  • II. Symposium Heracliteum: 'The Limits of the Soul'. Mexico City, June 2006.
  • Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: 'Tablet C'. Ohio State University, March 2006.
  • Jubilee Meeting of the Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy: 'Heraclitus on the Soul'.Oxford, September 2005.
  • Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Quintum: ‘Pythagoras and Heraclitus’. Samos and Ephesus, July 2005.
  • Symposium Aristotelicum, Nicomachean Ethics Book 7. Venice, July 2005.
  • ‘Orfeo y el orfismo. Nuevas perspectivas’. Palma de Mallorca, Febr. 2005.
  • II. Symposium Presocraticum, ‘The Construction of the Philosophical Discourse in the Presocratic Period’. Scola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Sept. 2004.
  • X Symposium Hellenisticum: ‘Between Greece and Rome: Hellenistic Philosophy and Roman Culture from 150 to 88 BC’, Rome, 2004.
  • ‘Philosophy, Science, and Exegesis in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic Commentary Tradition. In honour of Richard Sorabji’, King’s College, London, June 2002.
  • ‘Mysteries: a discussion across the disciplines’, Emory University, Atlanta, Apr. 2002.
  • ‘Fragments and Synthesis in Early Stoicism’, Utrecht, Dec. 2001.
  • IX Symposium Hellenisticum: Philosophy of Language, Hamburg, July 2001.
  • I. Symposium Presocraticum: ‘Qu’est-ce que la philosophie présocratique?’, Lille, Oct. 2000.
  • ‘Les Ancients Savants’, Strasburg Apr. 2000.
  • Franco-British Research Seminar on the Cratylus, Oxford, Apr. 1998.
  • Philosophical Papyri, Cambridge, Nov. 1997.
  • Le Timée dans la Pensée Européenne (Deuxième Colloque International sur la réception de Platon), Université de Lausanne, Oct. 1997.
  • Eudemus of Rhodes (Project Theophrastus - Rutgers University), ELTE, Budapest, June 1997. 

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