István Aranyosi

Dr. István Albert Aranyosi 

 Assistant Professor, 
Department of Philosophy
Bilkent University.
Bilkent, Ankara 06800, Turkey
 Emails: istvanaranyosi (gmail), aranyosi (bilkent.edu.tr)

Curriculum Vitae (March 2022)

Date and Place of Birth: 19 August, 1975, Máramarosziget/Sighetu Marmatiei

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Mind, of Psychology, and of Neuroscience, Metaphysics

Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy, British Empiricism

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.


 1999 - 2000, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary - M.A. in Political Science, awarded in June 2000.
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.
Thesis title: A Theory of Social Capital.


Employment & Visiting Positions

October 2016 – March 2017, Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

March – August 2014, Visiting fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University.

September 2013 – March 2014, Visiting fellow, LOGOS research group, University of Barcelona.

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 István 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

Graduate:

(030040) Embodied and Enactive Cognition (Ruhr-University Bochum, Fall 2016)

PHIL 505 Embodied Cognition (Bilkent Fall 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

Undergraduate: Formal and Informal Logic (ELTE 2004). PHIL 401 Metaphysics (Bilkent, Fall 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) PHIL 241/243 Social and Political Philosophy I (Bilkent, Fall 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013). PHIL 242/244 Social and Political Philosophy II (Spring 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), PHIL 306 Philosophy of Language (Bilkent, Spring 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013). PHIL 242 Social and Political Philosophy II (Bilkent, Summer 2008), PHIL 204 Empiricists (2013). 

Academic Publications

              Books (authored)

The Peripheral Mind. Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System (Oxford University Press, 2013)

God, Mind, and Logical Space. A Revisionary Approach to Divinity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

          Articles and book reviews

"Frames and games: intensionality and equilibrium selection," Erkenntnis (forthcoming)

"Preteriception: memory as past-perception." Synthese, 198(11): 10765–10792. (2021)

"Mental Time Travel and Disjunctivism," Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(2):  367 – 384. (2020)

“Prediction, Embodiment, and Representation,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42: e216. (2019)

Review of S. Gallagher, Enactivist Interventions. Rethinking the Mind, Oxford University Press, 2017,  The Philosophical Review 128(1): 138 - 141 (2019)

“Body, Skill, and Look. Is bodybuilding a sport?” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences  17:401–410 (2018)

Review of S. Gozzano and C. Hill (eds.) New Perspectives on Type Identity: the Mental and the Physical, Cambridge University Press,  Mind 123 (490): 605–609. (2012)

Review of Z. Radman (ed.) The Hand, an Organ of the Mind. What the Manual Tells the Mental, MIT Press, 2013, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 22 September, 2013.

"Silencing the argument from hallucination," in Hallucination: Philosophy and Psychology, F. Macpherson and D. Platchias, eds., pp. 255-269 (MIT Press, 2013)  

"Should we fear quantum torment?", Ratio 25 (3): 249-259 (2012). 

"Quantifier versus poetry", The Pluralist 7(1): 94-103 (2012)

Review of Jody Azzouni, Talking About Nothing. Numbers, Hallucinations, and Fictions (Oxford University Press, 2010), Philosophy 87 (1): 145-150 (2012)

"A new argument for mind-brain identity", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62(3): 489-517 (2011)

"The solo numero paradox", American Philosophical Quarterly 48(4): 347-260 (2011)

"The nature of shadows, from Yale to Bilkent", Philosophy 85(2): 219-223 (2010)

"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)

Awards and Prizes

2013/2014 - visiting fellow at: Oxford University (April – August 2014),  LOGOS Research Group, University of Barcelona      (September 2013 – March 2014).

2012 - The American Philosophical Association, Article Prize, "Honorable Mention" for I. Aranyosi, "A new argument for mind-brain identity," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62 (3): 489 - 517 (2011)

2012 - TÜBITAK-ULAKBIM-UBYT (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), in June, for publications (worth 1200 EUR)

2011 -TÜBITAK-ULAKBIM-UBYT, in August, for publications (worth 1000 EUR)

2010 - TÜBITAK-ULAKBIM-UBYT, in July, for publications (worth 1200 EUR)

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 - Central European University(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, The Australian National University, 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.

 

 Papers or commentaries presented

"Explanatory-role functionalism," invited, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 22 March, 2014.

"Seeing shadows, or shadows of seeing" (current title: "Through a shadow, darkly"), invited, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey,  8 April, 2014.

Varieties of Explanation, invited lecture series, University of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, 11-15 November, 2013.

"Seeing shadows, or shadows of seeing" (current title: "Through a shadow, darkly"), invited, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, 6 November, 2013. 

"An argument for the embodied mind”, invited, London Institute of Philosophy, London, UK, 25 October, 2012.

"In defence of Dummett on backwards causation," invited, The Seas of Michael Dummett conference, Bilkent University, Ankara, 27 September, 2012.

"A mouthful of content: Preceptual ephemera in oral food processing," invited, Perceptual Ephemera conference, University of Geneva, Geneva, 24 September, 2012.

"An argument for the embodied mind," invited, London Institute of Philosophy, London, 25 October, 2012.

"God and Logical Space: Logical Pantheism”, invited, Things and Thoughts conference, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 19 November, 2011.

“Zombiology, Angelology, and Demonology”, invited, UNESCO World Philosophy Day, Bilkent University, Ankara, 17 November, 2011.

“The Peripheral Mind”, invited lecture/workshop presented at the National University of Singapore, 3 November, 2011, as the conclusion of the one-semester reading group on the book manuscript that the Philosophy Department had organized)

“God and Logical Space: Logical Pantheism”, invited,  National University of Singapore, 3 November, 2011

“God and Logical Space: Logical Pantheism”, British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University, UK, 15 September 2011.

"Logical egalitarianism, existential relativity, and ontic deflationsim", Mind Association/Aristotelian Society joint session, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 10 July, 2011.

Comment on Derek Ball, 'Cosmic Hermeneutics', Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, April 22, 2011.

"Should we fear quantum torment?", keynote address at the Third Annual In-house Philosophy Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 8 October, 2010.

"Should we fear quantum torment?", Boğazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 6 October, 2010.

"Derivational structuralism", Structure and Identity Conference, Bristol University, Bristol, UK, 26 July, 2010.

"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.