Dr. István Albert Aranyosi
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy
Bilkent University.
Bilkent, Ankara 06800, Turkey
Office Phone: 90 312 290 1049
Curriculum Vitae (May, 2010)
Date and Place of Birth: 19 August, 1975, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania
Citizenship: Romanian
Ethnicity: Hungarian
Education
2005 February - PhD in Philosophy, Central European University. Committee: Howard Robinson, Barry Dainton, Ferenc Huoranszki.
2003, Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA.
2000 - 2004, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary - Ph.D. studies in Philosophy. Advisers: Howard Robinson, Ferenc Huoranszki, David Chalmers (external). Thesis title: Physicalism and Consciousness. A defence of commonsense functionalism.
Fields of special interest: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind.
Fields of competence: Epistemology, Game Theory, Philosophy of Language, Aristotle.
1999 - 2000, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary - M.A. in Political Science, awarded in June 2000.
Fields of interest: Decision Theory, Liberalism, Democratic Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory. Thesis title: The Myopically Rational Voter. Simple Learning Models for Resolving the Paradox of Voting.
1995 - 1999, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology, Psychology, and Pedagogy, Bucharest, Romania - B.A. in Social Work, awarded in June 1999.
Fields of interest: Formal Sociology, Psychology. Thesis title: A Theory of Social Capital.
Work experience
Assistant Professor (since September 2007), Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University.
2006 April - 2007 March, Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University.
2004 September - November, Temporary Lecturer, ELTE, Bibo Istvan Szakkollegium, Budapest.
2004 September - November, Teaching assistant and Tutor, Department of Philosophy, CEU.
2004 May - November, Researcher, CEU- Open Society Archives.
2003 November - 2004 February, Online Teaching Assistant, Philosophy section, BrainMass Inc.
1998 - 1999, Journalist at Transilvania Jurnal, daily newspaper.
1997 - 1999, Junior collaborator for Sfera Politicii, a Romanian political science journal.
Courses taught
Undergraduate (taught): Formal and Informal Logic (ELTE 2004). PHIL 401 Metaphysics (Bilkent, Fall 2007), PHIL 241 Social and Political Philosophy I (Bilkent, Fall 2007). PHIL 242 Social and Political Philosophy II, PHIL 306 Philosophy of Language (Bilkent, Spring 2008). PHIL 242 Social and Political Philosophy II (Bilkent, Summer 2008). PHIL 401 Metaphysics (Bilkent, Fall 2008), PHIL 241 Social and Political Philosophy I (Bilkent, Fall 2008)
Graduate (TA-d): Empiricism (CEU 2004).
Academic Publications
"A new argument for mind-brain identity", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (forthcoming)
"The solo numero paradox", American Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
"The nature of shadows, from Yale to Bilkent", Philosophy 85(2): 219-223 (2010)
"Silencing the argument from hallucination", in F. Macpherson and D. Platchias (eds.), Hallucination, MIT Press (forthcoming)
"Powers and the mind-body problem", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 18(1): 57-72 (2010)
"Hesperus is Phosphorus, indeed", Axiomathes 19(2): 223-4 (2009)
"The reappearing act", Acta Analytica 24(1): 1-10 (2009) [reply by Roy Sorensen: "Generalizing the Disappearing Act: A Reply to István Aranyosi" Acta Analytica, 24(1): 11-15 (2009)]
Review of Roy Sorensen, Seeing Dark Things. The Philosophy of Shadows (Oxford University Press, 2008), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86(3): 513-515 (2008)
Review of Torin Alter and Sven Walter (eds.), Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2007), Mind 117(467): 665-669 (2008)
"Excluding Exclusion: the natural(istic) dualist approach", Philosophical Explorations, 11(1): 67-78 (2008)
"Shadows of Constitution", The Monist, 90(3): 315-332 (2007)
"Aristotelian Nonsubstantial Particulars", Philosophical Writings 26: 3-15 (2004)
"Physical Constituents of Qualia", Philosophical Studies, 116: 103-131 (2003)
"(Con)fusing the Un(con)fusable', Analysis, 63(3): 215-219 (2003) [reply by David H. Sanford: "Reply to Mr. Aranyosi" Analysis, 63(4): 305-309 (2003)]
Review of Carl Gillett and Barry Loewer (eds.) Physicalism and Its Discontents, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, II(6): 363 – 370 (2002)
Semi-Academic Publications
"Clocks and Clouds. Descriptive Metaphors of Complexity Theory in International Relations Studies", Euro- Atlantic Forum, vol. 1., no.2, 1999, Bucharest, Romania (in Romanian).
1997 - 1999, articles on political theory and book reviews in Sfera Politicii (Romanian political science journal)
Papers or commentaries presented
"Physicalism: past and future", Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 6 November, 2009.
"An argument for species as sets of organisms", GAP.7, Bremen, Germany, 17 September, 2009.
"An argument for species as sets of organisms", SOPHA, Geneva, Switzerland, 3 September, 2009.
Comment on Katalin Balog, "In defense of the phenomenal concept strategy"Consciousness Online Conference, Feb. 20- March 4, 2009.
"Silencing the argument from hallucination", Hallucination on Crete: A philosophy and psychology conference, Rethymno, Crete, 12 September, 2008.
Comment on Keith Lehrer "Evidentialism and the parity paradox", Knowledge, Mind, and Mathematics conference, Bilkent, 2 June, 2008.
"Science, Philosophy, and the problem of subjective objectivity", UNESCO Philosophy Day, Bilkent, 16 Nov 2007.
"Schmoperties", Things and Thoughts symposium, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 27 October 2007.
"Schmoperties" Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University, 10 October 2007.
"A Posteriori Physicalism: a new interpretation", invited for a Symposium on phenomenal concepts at the conference Towards a Science of Consciousness, Budapest, July 23-26, 2007 (symposium organized by Katalin Balog and David Papineau).
"A Posteriori Physicalism: a new interpretation", invited by the Philsophy Department at Sydney University, March 21, 2007.
"Interpreting Divine Simplicity", invited by the Philosophy Department at the School of Humanities, Australian National University, 16 March, 2007.
"A Posteriori Physicalism: a new interpretation", to be presented at the Second Consciousness Workshop at ANU, Kioloa Beach Campus, 23 February, 2007.
"Dispositional Essentialism, Causation, and the Necsessity of Laws", Conference on Causation and Dispositions, Sydney University [December 1, 2006].
"Information Sets and Imperfect Recall", Philosophy, RSSS, ANU [August 15, 2006].
"Powers and the Mind-Body Problem", Consciousness Workshop at ANU Kioloa Beach Campus [August 11, 2006].
"Composition as Causation", Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, ANU [July 5, 2006].
"Toward a 'Qualefied' Functionalism", Philosophy, RSSS, Australian National University [June 1, 2006].
"Phenomenal Intentionality", Philosophy, Central European University, Hungary [March 22, 2006].
Faculty commentator of Robin Brown's "On difficulties facing the formulation of the doctrine of supervenience", Philosophy Graduate Conference, Central European University [March 18, 2006].
"Concluding Dualism", Ockham Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK [October 12, 2004].
"Concluding Dualism", Work in Progress Seminars, Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest [September 29, 2004].
"Why Property Dualism drives me Out of My Mind", Budapest Mind Society, Budapest, Hungary [September 22, 2004].
"Physicalism and Consciousness", Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, UK [April 26, 2004].
"The Doomsday Simulation Argument. Or why isn't the end nigh and you are not living in a simulation", Ways of World-Ending, Philosophy, Central European University [March 26, 2004].
"The Doomsday Simulation Argument. Or why isn't the end nigh and you are not living in a simulation", Philosophy of Science Colloquium, ELTE, Budapest [March 22, 2004].
"On the Conceivability of Zombies", Consciousness Discussion Forum, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson [March 12, 2003].
"Contingently Nonconcrete Zombies", Philosophy, University of Bucharest, [December 5, 2002].
"Physical Constitution for Qualia", Work in Progress Seminars, Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest [October 17, 2002].
Organizational activity
The Budapest Mind Society [2004 -, Co-founder, organiser]
Ways of World-Ending, Workshop on Existential Risks (human extinction and related hazards), Central European University, Budapest, 26-27 March, 2004. [organiser]
Awards and scholarships
2010 - TÜBITAK-ULAKBIM-UBYT, in April, for publications (worth 1200 EUR)
2009 - SOPHA ("Société de Philosophie Analytique") 4th Prize for best conference talk.
2008 - TÜBITAK-ULAKBIM-UBYT, in January and September , for publications (worth 2400 EUR)
2006, January-March - CEU, Visiting Fellowship (worth 2,250 USD)
2005 - CEU, Advanced Doctoral Studies Award (worth 1,300 USD)
2004 (taken up in 2006) - Centre for Consciousness, Visiting Fellowship (worth 20,000 AUD)
2004 - CEU Joint Faculty-Student Grant (2 times, worth 2400 USD)
2002 - CEU and University of Arizona DRSS grant for visiting (January-June, 2003) the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, Tucson (worth 6500 USD)
2000 - Open Society Foundation fellowship for Ph.D. studies in Philosophy at CEU.
1999 - Open Society Foundation fellowship for M.A. studies in Political Science at CEU.
Languages
Hungarian – native
Romanian – fluent
English - fluent.
Service
Referee for: Synthese, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Southern Journal of Philosophy.
References
Prof. Frank C. Jackson, Australian National University and Princeton University
Prof. Howard M. Robinson, Central European University
Prof. David J. Chalmers, Australian National University and New York University
Prof. Paul F. Snowdon, University College London
Prof. L. A. Paul, University of North Carolina
