CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal

Employment

• 2006 August - Associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Central European University
• 2000 - 2006 Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, Central European University
• 1999 – 2000 Research Fellow in Philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Support Office (MTA Támogatott Kutatóhelyek Irodája)
• 1998 September - December: Honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool
• 1997 September - December: Honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool

Education:

• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, “Scientific Research Grant”, 1993 - 1997
PhD, June 1998
• Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1988 - 1993
MA in mathematics and philosophy 1993

Area of competence

Grants, visits:

• Visiting Fellow, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, 2007 April
• Visiting Scholar, Centre for Time at the University of Sydney, August -September 2004
• Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Studies, Junior Fellowship, 2001 March - July
• Academic Visitor, Sydney University, Australia, 1999 July - October
• Bolyai János Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1998 - 2001
• University of London, 'Eötvös' Hungarian State Grant, 1996 September - December
• University of Amsterdam, TEMPUS exchange program, 1992 January - July

Teaching experience:

• CEU Summer School on Consciousness
• Courses taught at CEU: Introduction to logic, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of science, Contemporary epistemology, Descartes, Being, Metaphysics, Ancient and Modern Scepticism, Ancient and Modern Philosophy of Mind
• Courses taught at ELTE (since 1994): Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of mind, Theories of meaning, Philosophical theories of relativism, Philosophy of language, Contemporary analytic philosophy, Self and Self-Knowledge, Being
• Seminars taught at University of Liverpool (1997 - 1998): Empiricists, Rationalists, Introduction to metaphysics
• Other: Formal Logic (Invisible College, Budapest); Philosophy of science; Metaphysics, Philosophy of mind (Rajk László Szakkollégium)

Service to the profession

• member of the editorial board, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 
• steering committee, Hungarian Philosophical Society, 2004-6 
• referee for Acta Linguistica Hungaria, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Critica, Dialectica, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Mind, Mind and Language, Oxford University Press 

Publications

In English

Books, collections

• The subject's point of view forthcoming, Oxford University Press
• (editor, with Judit Szalai) special issue of the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy on the emotions (2006/1)
• (author and editor, with Tim Crane) Metaphysics: a Guide and Anthology Oxford University Press, 2004

Articles, reviews

• "Phenomenal Intentionality without Compromise" forthcoming April 2008, in a special issue of The Monist, on “Intentionality and Phenomenal Consciousness”, edited by Uriah Kriegel and Terence Horgan 
• “Time, tense, truth”  Synthese, 160/2 (2008):  269-84, DOI 10.1007/s11229-006-9116-y 
• Semantic externalism and internalism" in Barry C. Smith and Ernest Lepore (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, OUP 2006:323-40 
• "Indiscriminability and the sameness of appearance" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, CVI (2006), 205-25
• "Is the whole world thinkable?" in: János Boros (ed.) Mind in World: Essays on John McDowell's Mind and World (with McDowell's replies). Pécs: Brambauer 2005:135-41
• "The unity of Descartes's thought", History of Philosophy Quarterly 22/1 (January 2005) 17-30
• "Review of The Threefold Cord by Hilary Putnam" Mind 112/448 (October 2003): 786-9
• "Does Twin Earth Rest on a Mistake?" Croatian Journal of Philosophy III/8 (2003): 155-69
• "What is Externalism?" Philosophical Studies 112/3 (February 2003): 187-208 

Other

Books

• (editor, with Ferenc Huoranszki) Modern metafizikai tanulmányok (Modern Studies in Metaphysics, Hungarian) Budapest, Eötvös University Press 2004
• (editor, with Imre Orthmayr), Bölcselet és Analízis. (Philosophy and Analysis, Hungarian) Budapest, Eötvös University Press 2003
• (author, with János Kelemen) Nyelvfilozófia (Philosophy of Language, Hungarian) Budapest, Áron Kiadó 2002

Articles, reviews

• “Ismeretség és leírás” (“Acquaintance and description”, Hungarian) in Világosság 2005/12: 53-60
• "O Sentido Determina a Referência" ("Sense determines reference", Portuguese) in The Explanation of Human Interpretation. Proceedings of the conference Mind and Action III Lisboa: Ediçoes Colibri: 389-97
• “»Sajátos és eredeti módon«. Frege az indexikus kifejezésekrõl” ("Frege on indexicals", Hungarian) in Katalin Neumer and János Laki (eds.) Minden filozófia „nyelvkritika” II. Analitikus filozófia és fenomenológia Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó 2004
• "Tartalom és jelölet" ("Content and reference", Hungarian) in Farkas-Orthmayr (szerk.) Bölcselet és Analízis. Budapest, Eötvös Kiadó 2003
• “A név nem kötelez” (“Names don’t bind”, Hungarian) Café Bábel, 42 (2001/4): 67-71
• "Tõzsér János könyvérõl" (Review of János Tõzsér's book, Hungarian) Magyar Filozófiai Szemle 45 /3 (2001): 431-38
• "Néhány megjegyzés az externalista elméletek értelmezésérõl" ("Some remarks on interpreting externalist theories", Hungarian) Magyar Filozófiai Szemle 45/1-2 (2001): 35-43
• "A tárgyak megnevezése: az ágostoni nyelvkép kritikája a Vizsgálódásokban" ("Words name objects: the criticism of the Augustinian picture of language in the Investigations" Hungarian) Világosság XLII/2-3 (2001): 39-46
• “Szkepticizmus és filozófiai gondolkodás” (“Skepticism and Philosophical Thinking”, Hungarian) Világosság XLI/4 (2000): 59-78
• "A szkepticizmus kihívása", könyvkritika (“The Challenge of Skepticism", book review, Hungarian) BUKSZ, 1998 winter
• "Egy nagyon globális szkepticizmus" ("A Very Global Skepticism", Hungarian) Magyar Filozófiai Szemle 1998
• "Lehetséges-e feminista ismeretelmélet?" ("Is Feminist Epistemology Possible?", Hungarian) Világosság 1997/1, 74-
• "Externalizmus és önismeret" ("Externalism and Self-Knowledge", Hungarian) in: Kukla Krisztián - Sutyák Tibor (szerk.) Kitolási szakasz (Fiatal filozófusok antológiája) Balassi Kiadó 1997: 238-48
• "A konceptuális sémák érdemeirõl és fogyatékosságairól" ("On the Merits and Shortcomings of Conceptual Schemes", Hungarian) Világosság 1995/6, 21-
• "Relativism and the Wittgensteinian Picture of Language" in: K.S. Johannessen - T. Nordenstam (eds.):Culture and Value. (Proceedings of the International Wittgenstein Symposium) Kirchberg am Wechsel 1995:15-19
• "De wereld interpreteren" ("To Interpret the World", Dutch) Krisis 1995 (Amsterdam)

Papers and conference presentations

Invited Papers

• "Descartes on Dreams" invited paper at the University of London Graduate Weekend, Cumberland Lodge 26 May 2007
• "Subjective Indistinguishability" Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, 30 April 2007
• "Discrimination and knowledge" University of Stockholm, 14 April 2007
• "Dreams and Hallucinations" Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, 13 February 2007
• "What makes two situations subjectively indistinguishable?" Rutgers University, 14 September 2006
• "Indiscriminability and the Phenomenal Sorites" University of St. Andrews, 09 February 2006
• "Indiscriminability and the sameness of apperance" The Aristotelian Society, London, 6 February 2006
• "Norms of reasoning and knowledge of meaning" Summer School in Analytic Philosophy, Florence, 18-25 June 2005
• "Time, Truth, Indexicals" RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra, 14 September 2004
• "Time, Truth, Indexicals" University of Sydney, 13 September 2004
• “On Content and Reference” Externalism, Phenomenology and Understanding, University of London Philosophy Programme, 25-26 May 2003
• "Our Cartesian Mind" University of Rijeka, Croatia 14 May 2003
• "Our Cartesian Mind" University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 4 November 2002
• "On Content and Reference" University of Sydney, Australia, 15 April 2002
• "On Content and Reference" RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra 9 April 2002
• "The Limits of Knowledge" Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary 7 May 2001
• "Does Twin Earth rest on a mistake?" University of Sheffiled, UK, 2 March 2001
• “Szkepticizmus és filozófiai gondolkodás” (“Skepticism and Philosophical Thinking”, Hungarian) Hungarian Philosophical Society, May 2000
• "The problem of free will" Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary, 31 January 2000
• "Reclaiming Aboutness" Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, October 1999
• "Reclaiming Aboutness" University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia September,1999
• "Natural Kinds" University of Southampton, UK, November 1998
• "Proper Names and Externalism" Department of Logic, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, 23 March, 1998
• "Natural Kinds" University of Liverpool November, 1997
• "Chinese Room with a view" ("Kínai szoba kilátással") University of Pécs, 1996

Conference presentations

• “Perceptual objects” Conference on Sensation and Perception, University of Oslo, 6-7 October 2006
• "The psychological reality of two-dimensional content" The Open Session of the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Asssociation, Southampton, 7-9 July 2006
• "Non-factualism and deflationary theories of truth" Conference on Paul Horwich's work, Pécs, Hungary, 15-17 May 2006
• “Indiscriminability and the Phenomenal Sorites” Conference in memory of Nikola Grahek, Belgrade, 1-3 April 2005
• "The unity of Descartes' thought" The Open Session of the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Asssociation, Belfast, 18-21 July 2003
• "Stopping short of the facts" Pécs Conference on the work of Hilary Putnam, Pécs, Hungary, 5-6 May 2003
• "The unity of Descartes' thought" IUC Conference on Mental Phenomena V, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2-8 September 2002
• "How does a thought act?" Rationality, Morality, and Action: Conference in Practical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Action, Budapest 21-22 September 2001
• "Sense Determines Reference" Mind and Action III, Lisbon, Portugal 24-27 May 2001
• “The resemblance theory of mental representation” IUC Conference on Mental Phenomena III, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2-6 September 2000
• “Descartes on Appearances: what Sellars Saw and Brandom Missed” Conference on Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit Pécs, Hungary, 1-2 June 2001
• “Reclaiming Aboutness” Intentionality, Norms and Experience: international symposium on the philosophy of mind Budapest, Hungary 21-22 April, 2000
• “What is Externalism?” Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, Australia June, 1999
• "Do We Know That We Know?" Conference on Michael Williams' Unnatural Doubts, Pécs, Hungary 1999 May
• "What is Externalism?" Symposium on Internalism and Externalism, Stockholm. April1999
• "Against Compatibilism" Dennett's Mind, Pécs Hungary1999 March 10-11
• "The Phenomenon of Self-Knowledge" IUC Conference on Mental Phenomena, Dubrovnik, Croatia1998 September
• "An Internalist Theory of Natural Kind Terms" Karlovy Vary Symposium on the Work of Hilary Putnam, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic September 1998
• "Is the Whole World Thinkable?" Conference on John McDowell's "Mind and World", Pécs, Hungary, May 1998
• "Essential Properties of Natural Kinds" IUC Conference on Modalities, Bled, Slovenia1997 June
• “Natural Kind Terms” LOGICA '97, Liblice, Czech Republic June 1997
• "Self-Knowledge and Externalism...Once Again" 2nd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Leeds, September 1996
• "Does Language Say Anything about Reality?" Images and Reality, Miskolc, Hungary June, 1996

Conference organised

• 1st Philosophy Graduate Conference at CEU
• (with Tim Crane) CEU Summer School on Consciousness 8-19 July, 2002
• (with Ferenc Huoranszki, CEU) Intentionality, Norms and Experience: international symposium on the philosophy of mind Budapest, 21-22 April 2000
• First Conference of the Central European Division of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Noszvaj, Hungary, 1998 August