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LÁSZLÓ KAJTÁR Curriculum Vitae
Address: Central European University Email(1): [email protected] Department of Philosophy Email(2): [email protected] Nádor utca 9 Website: laszlokajtar.weebly.com 1051 Budapest, Hungary
EDUCATION
Exp. 2017 Philosophy Ph.D., Central European University (CEU) Supervisor: David Weberman Thesis: Philosophical Issues in the Study of Narrative (submitted October 2016)
2015 Visiting Postgraduate Research Student University of York, Department of Philosophy Supervisor: Greg Currie
2012 Philosophy MA, Central European University
AREAS
Specialization
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind & Language
Competence
Epistemology, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychology
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
Articles forthcoming “Fiction Cannot Be True.” Philosophical Studies. doi: 10.1007/s11098-016- 0793-1
2016 “What Mary Didn’t Read: On Literary Narratives and Knowledge.” Ratio 29 (3). doi: 10.1111/rati.12098
Reviews
2016 The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction by Jukka Mikkonen. Philosophy and Literature 40 (1).
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2015 The Opacity of Narrative by Peter Lamarque. British Journal of Aesthetics, 55 (3).
Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind by David Herman. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73 (3).
Semi-philosophical
2015 “Rooting for the Villain: Frank Underwood and the Lack of Imaginative Resistance.” In House of Cards and Philosophy (ed. J. E. Hackett), Wiley- Blackwell.
“Infinite Lighthouses, Infinite Stories: BioShock and the Aesthetics of Video Game Storytelling.” In BioShock and Philosophy (ed. L. Cuddy), Wiley- Blackwell.
2014 “My Dad, the Jihadist Murderer: Traumatized Brody and the Philosophy of Personal Identity.” In Homeland and Philosophy (ed. R. Arp), Open Court Publishing.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Write-up Grant by CEU
2015 Travel Grant by the American Society for Aesthetics
Doctoral Research Support Grant by CEU
Conference Participation Support by The Hungary Initiatives Foundation
Travel Grant by CEU
2014 Conference Participation Support by The Hungary Initiatives Foundation
Summer School Grant by CEU
Travel Grant by CEU
2013 Travel Grant by CEU
2012-5 The Full CEU Doctoral Fellowship
2011-2 The Full CEU Fellowship
AWARDS
2016 Award for Advanced Doctoral Students by CEU
2014 The Academic Achievement Award for First-Year Doctoral Students by CEU
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2012 The Outstanding Academic Achievement Award by CEU
The Academic Pro-Rector’s Excellence Award by CEU
2010 Outstanding Thesis Award by Eötvös Loránd University’s School of English and American Studies
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY (SELECTED)
Invited
2016 “The Communicative View of Narrative Identity.” Issues in Personal Identity, Charles University, Prague, CZ, November 2016.
“Narrative Worldmaking Beyond the Possible.” Literature and Media Innovation Twin Conference, Brussels, Belgium, March 2016.
Refereed
2016 “Fiction Cannot Be True.” Philosophy of Language (I): Semantics of Fictional Discourse, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SK, October 2016.
“Functions and Intentions in Interpreting Narrative Art.” . European Society for Aesthetics Conference, Barcelona, SP, June 2016 . British Society for Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference, University of Southampton, UK, April 2016.
“The Role of the Imagination for Narratives in Art.” The Nordic Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Uppsala University, SW, May 2016.
2015 “The Cognitive Value of Literary Narratives: A Phenomenological View.” . American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, US, November 2015. . Annual Graduate Conference in Phenomenology, University of Sussex, UK, June 2015.
“Arguments against Narrative Representationalism.” The 4th Conference of the European Narratology Network, University of Ghent, Belgium, April 2015.
“What Mary Didn’t Read: On Literary Narratives and Knowledge.” American Society of Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, US, April 2015.
“The Truth of Literary Narratives: A Philosophical Account.” International Conference on Narrative, Chicago, IL, US, March 2015.
2014 “Complex PTSD and Personal Identity: Psychological and Narrative Approaches.” European Society for Philosophy & Psychology 22nd Annual Meeting, University of Messina, IT, September 2014.
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2013 “Ricoeur and Narrative Identity: Application to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Contrast to Psychological Approaches to Personal Identity.” 2nd APGC, World Philosophies Conference, University of Hull, UK, June 2013.
Departmental
2016 “Fiction Cannot Be True.” 9th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, November 2016.
2014 “What Mary Didn’t Read: On Literary Narratives and Knowledge.” 7th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, October 2014.
2013 “'Memory Wars': Unconscious, Repression and the Philosophy of Personal Identity.” 6th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, October 2013.
2012 “Between Psychological and Narrative Approaches to Personal Identity through Time: The Case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” 5th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, October 2012.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016 Co-Instructor w. Márta Ujvári Corvinus University, “Introduction to Philosophy” (undergraduate)
2015-6 Teaching Assistant to David Weberman CEU, “Truth in Narratives: History and Fiction” (graduate)
2014-5 Sole Instructor Eötvös Loránd University, “The Philosophy of Fiction” (undergraduate)
Co-Instructor w. David Weberman CEU, “Contemporary Topics in Aesthetics” (graduate)
2013-4 Teaching Assistant to Márta Ujvári Corvinus University, “Introduction to Philosophy” (undergraduate)
SERVICE
Referred for: British Journal of Aesthetics, South African Journal of Philosophy
2014-6 Organizer: Departmental Colloquium Series, Department of Philosophy, CEU
2015 Organizer: Kant and Aesthetics Workshop, CEU, Department of Philosophy, March 2015
Organizer: Aesthetics Reading Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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2014 Organizer: 7th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, October 2014
Organizer: 5th International Graduate Conference of the Department of Philosophy of CEU ('What We Do: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aims and Methods of Philosophy'), April 2014.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Hungarian native English fluent German basic
AFFILIATIONS
2015- American Society for Aesthetics American Philosophical Association 2014- European Narratology Network The International Society for the Study of Narrative The European Society for Aesthetics The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
GRADUATE COURSEWORK AT CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (MA & PHD, GRADE & AUDIT)
Aesthetics (Instr.: D. Weberman) Ancient Philosophy (Instr.: G. Betegh) Being (Instr.: K. Farkas) Continental Philosophy (Instr.: D. Weberman) Current Trends in Phenomenology (Instr.: D. Weberman) Derrida (Instr.: E. Timar & D. Weberman) Hermeneutics (Instr.: D. Weberman) Logic (Instr.: M. Griffin) Kant (Instr.: M. Griffin) Metaphysics (Instr.: F. Huoranszki) Nietzsche (Instr.: D. Weberman) Philosophy and Literature (Instr.: D. Weberman) Philosophy of Action (Instr.: F: Huoranszki) Philosophy of Language (Instr.: Zs. Zvolenszky) Philosophy of Mind (Instr.: P. Goff & H. Robinson) Philosophy of Religion (Instr.: H. Robison) Philosophy of Time (Instr.: D. Weberman) Pragmatism (Instr.: D. Weberman) Problems in the Philosophy of Mind (Instr.: B. Loewer & H. Robinson) Topics in Philosophical Psychology (Instr.: H. Ben-Yami) Varieties of Skepticism (Instr.: K. Farkas) Wittgenstein (Instr.: H. Ben-Yami)
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Wittgenstein: Readings from the Philosophical Investigations (Instr.: H. Ben- Yami)
REFERENCES
Hanoch Ben-Yami – Professor, Head of Department Department of Philosophy Central European University [email protected]
Greg Currie – Professor, Head of Department Department of Philosophy University of York [email protected]
Stacie Friend - Lecturer Department of Philosophy Birkbeck, University of London [email protected]
Peter V. Lamarque - Professor Department of Philosophy University of York [email protected]
Derek Matravers – Professor Philosophy Department The Open University [email protected]
David Weberman – Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Central European University [email protected]