Tamás Demeter
I am Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for
Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and I am
Reader in Philosophy at the University of Miskolc. In the previous
years I taught at the Technical University of Budapest, University of
Cambridge, Eötvös Collegium, University of Pécs.
In
2008-2010 I am Lorenz Krüger Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut
für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.
I
have held visiting fellowhsips at the Universities of Cambridge,
Edinburgh, and Helsinki, a Sasakawa
Fellowship at the Eötvös Loránd University, a
Soros/Chevening Scholarship at the University of Bristol, an External
Research Studentship at Trinity College, Cambridge, an Eötvös
Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, and Mellon
Visiting Fellowships at the IASH in
Edinburgh and at the NIAS in Wassenaar.
I
am editorial board member of
Studies in East European Thought
(Springer).
I am holder of
the Pro Scientia Golden
Medal (1999), and of the Academy Junior Award (2000).
My
scholarly interests are focused on three fields:
1)
Philosophy of Mind, Science and Metaphysics
Some
papers:
“Meaning
and Cartesian Thoughts”, Wittgenstein
Jahrbuch 2000 (2001),
“Supervenient
Causation and Programme Explanation”, Grazer
Philosophische Studien 64 (2002),
“A
Metaphysics for Explanatory Ecumenism”, Philosophica
71 (2003),
“Where
Rationality Is” in Barbara Merker (ed.),
Verstehen (Frankfurt:
Meiner, 2009),
“Two
Kinds of Mental Realism”, Journal
for General Philosophy of Science 40
(2009).
Some
reviews:
Stephen
Mumford, Dispositions
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1998), Philosophischer
Literaturanzeiger 54 (2001),
Frank
Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1998), Philosophischer
Literaturanzeiger 54 (2001),
Zoltán
Balázs & Francis Dunlop (eds.), Exploring
the World of Human Practice (Budapest:
CEU Press, 2004), Studies in East
European Thought 60 (2008).
2)
History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, Intellectual
History
Collection
edited:
Essays
on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2004).
Some
papers:
“From
Classical Studies towards Epistemology”, Studies
in East European Thought 51
(1999),
“Locke
and Metaphors”, European Journal for
Semiotic Studies 11 (1999),
“Beyond
Wittgenstein”, Studies in East
European Thought 51 (1999),
“The
Empiricists’ Trouble with Private Language”, Publicationes
Universitatis Miskolcinensis 10
(2005).
Some
reviews:
David
Bloor, Wittgenstein, Rules and
Institutions (London: Routledge, 1997),
Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger
52 (1999),
Beth
Savickey, Wittgenstein's Art of
Investigation (New York: Routledge,
1999), Wittgenstein Jahrbuch
2000,
Katalin
Neumer, Die Relativität der Grenzen
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), Philosophischer
Literaturanzeiger 54 (2001).
3)
Sociological Approaches to the History of Ideas
Collection
edited:
“The
Sociological Tradition of Hungarian Philosophy”, special issue of
Studies in East European Thought 60
(2008/1-2).
Some
papers:
“The
Many Faces of Sociological Interpretation” in Tamás Demeter
(ed.), Essays on Wittgenstein and
Austrian Philosophy (Amsterdam: Rodopi,
2004),
“History
of Ideas and the History of Communication” in Kristóf Nyíri
(ed.), Mobile Understanding (Vienna:
Passagen, 2006),
“The
Sociological Tradition of Hungarian Philosophy”, Studies
in East European Thought 60
(2008),
“Can
the Strong Program Be Generalized?”, Review
of Sociology 15 (2009).