Curriculum Vitae

DAVID BITTER

Central European University Department of Philosophy Nádor utca 13, 2nd Floor, Room 209, 1051 Budapest, Hungary [email protected]

AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND INTEREST

Expertise philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology

Interest philosophy of music, philosophy of science, psychology of social issues

EDUCATION

2015 – Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) 2013 – 2014 PhD Candidate, Philosophy (first in class with distinction) 2010 – 2012 First-Year Paper: “Hypnotic Experiences: A Case for Cognitive Penetration?” Supervisor: Katalin Farkas

2014 Fall Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) Visiting Assistant in Research, Department of Philosophy Research Focus: cognitive penetration, hypnotic hallucination Host: Tamar Gendler | Lab: Perception & Cognition Lab

2012 – 2013 New York University (New York, NY, USA) Balzan Fellow, Department of Philosophy (GPA: 4.00) Research Focus: philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind Host: Thomas Nagel | Supervisor: Ned Block

2008 – 2010 Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) MA, Philosophy (first in class with distinction) Thesis: “The Dissociation of Consciousness” Supervisor: Howard Robinson

2002 – 2006 Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) 1998 – 2001 BA/MA, Psychology (summa cum laude) Thesis: “The Perception of Moods Conveyed by Music” (in Hungarian) Supervisor: Éva Bányai

2001 – 2002 Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden (Stockholm) One-Year Academic Jewish Studies Program (non-degree) Final Project: “Commitment without Content: Hungarian-Jewish Identity Patterns” Scholar-in-Residence: David Zisenwine

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015 Conference Travel Grant Support for presentation at international conference in Bochum, Germany Central European University

2014 Doctoral Research Support Grant Support for research conducted at Yale University Central European University 1

2014 Conference Travel Grant Support for presentations at international conferences in Vancouver, Canada; Lisbon, Portugal; and Noto, Italy Central European University

2013 Award for Advanced Doctoral Students University award for outstanding student research Central European University

2013 Conference Travel Grant Support for presentation at international conference in Granada, Spain Central European University

2013 Conference Travel Grant Support for presentation at international conference in Riga, Latvia Central European University

2012 – 2013 Balzan Fellowship Tuition, stipend, health insurance, and service fees for one academic year New York University

2013 – 2014 Full CEU Doctoral Fellowship 2010 – 2012 Tuition, stipend, and health insurance for 36 months Central European University

2010 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (MA) University award for graduating student with highest GPA in department Central European University

2008 – 2010 Full CEU Fellowship (MA) Tuition, stipend, and health insurance for 4 semesters Central European University

2002 – 2004 Educational Achievement Stipend 1998 – 2001 Monthly rewards for outstanding grade point average Eötvös Loránd University

2001 – 2002 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship Tuition and stipend for one academic year Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

2015 Fall Teaching Assistant in Philosophy Teaching, consulting, marking mid-term written exams, and conducting end-term oral exams in an introductory-level undergraduate course Corvinus University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy

2013 – 2015 CTL Program for Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education 24-session training including a foundational course, two short seminars on teaching strategies, and a course on the development of an electronic teaching portfolio Central European University, Center for Teaching and Learning

1998 – 2001 Private English Teacher Preparation of Hungarian high school students for state language exams (type C) Ad-hoc engagements with 1-3 students per group

PUBLICATIONS in preparation Cognitive Impenetrability and Hypnotic Hallucination under review Is the Mind Really Nonmodular? Mind & Language

2014 Is Low-Level Visual Experience Cognitively Penetrable?: A Critical Analysis of Some of the Purported Best Evidence Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/1944-3676.1082

2009 Sketches of an Archipelago (non-academic) In R. E. Gruber (Ed.), “To Begin Again: Jewish Life in Central and Eastern Europe since the Fall of Communism in 1989,” Vienna, Austria: Centropa, pp. 115-126

2005 Jewish Identity Patterns and Assimilation Trends among Young Adult Jews in Hungary Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research and Strengthening Jewish Vitality, Bar Ilan University, http://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-hun8

PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

Refereed

2016, August Degrees (Not Kinds) of Cognitive Penetrability of Perception (declined) 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology University of St. Andrews, Scotland

2016, June Cognitive Penetration and Perceptual Misjudgment: A False Dilemma (declined) 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology University of Texas at Austin

2015, July Hypnotic Hallucination: A Best Case for Cognitive Penetration? 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology University of Tartu, Estonia

2015, March Hypnotic Hallucination: A Best Case for Cognitive Penetration? (poster) Interdisciplinary Conference on Predictive Coding and Cognitive Penetration Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

2014, September Is Classical Fodorian Modularism Really False? 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology University of Messina, Noto, Italy

2014, July Cognitivism and Emotivism in Philosophy of Music Inaugural Conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions University of Lisbon, Portugal

2014, June Anti-Modularist Arguments Against Fodorian Modularism: Quantitative Fallacies and Confusions (poster) 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2013, July Distortions in the Perceived Lightness of Faces: A Defense of Cognitive Impenetrability 21st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology University of Granada, Spain

2013, June Distortions in the Perceived Lightness of Faces: A Defense of Cognitive Impenetrability (paper swap) 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

2013, May Distortions in the Perceived Lightness of Faces: A Reply to Macpherson 9th International Symposium on Cognition, Logic and Communication: Perception and Concepts University of Latvia, Riga

2012, March Perceptual Learning and Cognitive Penetration of Perceptual Experience (with Katalin Farkas) Perceptual Learning and Perceptual Recognition Workshop University of York, UK

2008, May The Perception of Moods Conveyed by Music (poster in Hungarian) 18th National Scientific Congress of the Hungarian Psychological Association College of Nyíregyháza, Hungary

2004, May Jewish Identity Patterns and Assimilation Trends among Young Adult Jews in Hungary 2nd Paideia Academic Conference: Text and Culture Stockholm, Sweden

Invited

2016, November Is the Mind Really Nonmodular? 9th In-House Graduate Philosophy Conference Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2016, April Commentary on Gadamer in Dialogue: A Phenomenological Account of Impaired Intersubjectivity in Depression by Constantin Mehmel 6th International Graduate Philosophy Conference Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2016, March Cognitive Penetration: A New Look at the New New Look (full-class presentation) Philosophical Considerations on Psychological Research (instructor: Hanoch Ben-Yami) Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2015, October Hypnotic Hallucination: A Best Case for Cognitive Penetration? 8th In-House Graduate Philosophy Conference Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2013, October Distortions in the Perceived Lightness of Faces: A Defense of Cognitive Impenetrability 6th In-House Graduate Philosophy Conference Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2011, August Commentary on Being a Part and Yet Apart by Zygmunt Bauman The Paideia Decennial Conference: Jewish Perspectives on Transformations in Contemporary Europe, Uppsala University, Sweden

2011, October Is Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Empty? 4th In-House Graduate Philosophy Conference Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2010, October The Dissociation of Consciousness 3rd In-House Graduate Philosophy Conference Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

2008, March Musical Emotions: Experienced or Perceived? (poster in Hungarian) Sándor Illyés Memorial Conference Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2014 – European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions Member

2013 – European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Member

2013 – Society for Philosophy and Psychology Member

2012 – Network for Sensory Research Graduate Associate

ACADEMIC SERVICE

2016 Referee/Reviewer Consciousness and Cognition, 6th CEU International Graduate Philosophy Conference

2014 Conference Co-Organizer 5th CEU International Graduate Philosophy Conference: What We Do: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aims and Methods of Philosophy Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, April 4-5

2013 Referee/Reviewer Philosophical Psychology

2012 Conference Co-Organizer 4th CEU International Graduate Philosophy Conference: Aspects of Self and Agency Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, March 30-31

2011 – 2012 Debate Club Co-Organizer Philosophy Debate Club, Central European University

2010 – 2011 Student Union Representative (PhD) Central European University

2008 – 2010 Student Union Representative (MA) Central European University

2005 – 2008 Alumni Board Member Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden

REFERENCES

Philosophy Katalin Farkas Professor, Department of Philosophy Central European University [email protected]

Philosophy Howard Robinson Professor, Department of Philosophy Central European University [email protected]

Philosophy Ned Block Professor, Department of Philosophy New York University [email protected]

Psychology Gergely Csibra Professor and Head, Department of Cognitive Science Director, Cognitive Development Center Central European University [email protected]

Psychology Brian Scholl Professor, Department of Psychology Director, Perception and Cognition Laboratory Yale University [email protected]