Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2006-2007), Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University
Curriculum Vitae
(February 7,
2007)
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.
2004 September -
November,
Temporary Lecturer, ELTE, Bibó
István Szakkollégium, 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.
Undergraduate
(taught): Formal and Informal Logic (ELTE).
Graduate
(TA-d): Empiricism (CEU).
"Powers and the Mind-Body Problem", The
Philosophical Quarterly, conditionally accepted.
"Shadows of Constitution", The Monist,
forthcoming in 2007.
"Excluding
Exclusion: the natural(istic) dualist approach", Philosophical
Explorations, forthcoming in
2007.
"Aristotelian
Nonsubstantial Particulars", Philosophical Writings 26, Summer
2004, pp. 3-15
"Physical
Constituents of Qualia", Philosophical Studies, 116, November
2003,
pp.103-131.
"(Con)fusing
the Un(con)fusable', Analysis,
63:3, July 2003, pp.215-219) [reply by David H.
Sanford: "Reply to Mr. Aranyosi" Analysis,
63:4, October 2003, pp.305-309]
Review of Carl Gillett and Barry Loewer (eds.) Physicalism and Its Discontents, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, Vol II, No. 6, 2002, pp. 363 - 370.
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)
Forthcoming talks
"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.
"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].
The
Budapest Mind Society [2004 -, Co-founder, organizer]
Ways
of World-Ending,
Workshop
on Existential Risks (human extinction and related hazards),
Central
European University, Budapest, 26-27 March, 2004. [organizer]
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.
Society
for Skeptical Studies (2004 -) - member.
European
Society for the Analytic Philosophy (2001-) - member.
Hungarian -
native
Romanian - fluent
English - fluent.
Referee
for: Synthese, Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Prof. Frank C. Jackson, Australian National
University, Frank.Jackson@anu.edu.au
Prof.
Howard M. Robinson, Central European University, robinson@ceu.hu
Prof.
David J. Chalmers, Australian National University,
chalmers@anu.edu.au
Prof. Paul F. Snowdon, University College London, p.snowdon@ucl.ac.uk
Dr.
L. A. Paul, University of Arizona & Australian National University,
lapaul@arizona.edu
More
references available upon request.
Work
address: # 2003, Philosophy Program, Research School of Social
Sciences,
Australian National University, 0200 ACT, Australia.
Phone:
+61 (0) 2 612 54755 (Office);
+61 (0) 424 125 976 (Cell)
E-mails:
istvanaranyosi@gmail.com;
istvan.aranyosi@anu.edu.au
Homepage:
http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~istvan