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Name: BETEGH, Gábor

Born: Budapest, Hungary, 20th June 1968

Office: Department of Philosophy

Central European University

Nádor u. 9

1051 Budapest, Hungary

Tel.: (+36 1) 327-3000; Fax: (+36 1) 327-3072

e-mail: beteghg@ceu.hu

website:

Field of research: ancient philosophy, ancient religions

Current position:

Philosophy Department, Central European University, Budapest

• professor (since 2008)

• associate professor (2005-2008)

• assistant professor (2001-2005)

Previous positions:

• Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Science Junior Research Fellow (2000-2001)

• University of Pécs, Department of the History of Philosophy, assistant professor (1997-2000)

Visiting position:

• Visiting professor at Cornell University, Sage School of Philosophy (2007 Spring Term)

Education:

• Ph.D. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (1999). Summa cum laude/très honorable avec félicitation du jury. Dissertation: ‘Cosmology, Theology, and Exegesis in the Derveni Papyrus’. Supervisors: Jacques Brunschwig and Kornél Steiger

• Supervised research at Christ’s College and Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (1997/98). Supervisor: David Sedley

• D.E.A. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1993)

• Research student at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-St. Cloud (1992/94). Supervisor: Bernard Besnier

• B.A. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (1991)

Fellowships/Grants:

• Senior Research Fellow, Topoi Excellence Cluster, Humboldt University, Berlin (2009/10)

• ERC_HU_09 Research Grant for 2009-2014

• Marie Curie Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2004/05)

• Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (2000/01)

• Bolyai János Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2001/04)

• Research scholarship of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, Christ’s College, Cambridge and the Soros Foundation (1997/98)

• Scholarship of the French Government in the ‘co-tutorial’ system 8 months for the academic years 1991/93, and six months for the academic years 1993/94, 1994/95 and 1995/96.

Awards:

• Maróth Prize of the Hungarian Classical Society (2006)

• Choice Outstanding Academic Title for The Derveni Papyrus (CUP, 2004) (2006)

• Bolyai Plaquette of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2005)

• Junior Research Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2001)

• Révay Prize of the Hungarian Classical Society (2001)

• Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis of the Year at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1999)

Teaching experience:

a. Graduate courses:

• CEU: Plato; Aristotle; Hellenistic philosophy; Ancient Ethics; Practical Reasoning, Ancient and Modern; Scepticism, Ancient and Modern; The History of the Philosophy of Mind; Self and Agency in Ancient Philosophy; Aristotle De Anima; Aristotle Metaphysics Lambda; Greek Reading (Plato Alcibiades I; Plato Timaeus; Aristotle Parts of Animals I; Alcinous Didaskalikos; Epicurus Letter to Herodotus)

• Cornell University: Presocratic philosophy; Sextus Empiricus Against the Physicists

• ELTE: Aristotle, De Motu Animalium

b. Specialized undergraduate seminars:

• ELTE: Plato’s Timaeus; The Derveni Papyrus; Presocratic philosophy; Aristotle’s

•University Pécs: Aristotle’s De Caelo; Ancient cosmology

c. Undergraduate lecture courses:

• Cornell University: Aristotle

• ELTE: Plato, Hellenistic Philosophy Presocratic philosophy

• University of Pécs: Presocratic Philosophy, Plato; Aristotle

d. On-line course:

• The Open University of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Science: Ancient cosmologies

e. Tutorials:

• Invisible College: Gábor Zemplén: Ancient theories of vision

• Erasmus College: Máté Veres: Ancient natural philosophy and science

PhDs supervised:

Jakub Jirsa: The Ethics of Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Dialogues (defended)

Tamás Böröczki: Plutarch’s Platonism (defended)

Ákos Brunner: Platonic Themes in the Formation of Stoic Philosophy

Attila Németh (co-supervisor): The Epicurean Clinamen

Iryna Pigovska (co-supervisor): John Duns Scotus: Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis

Other academic functions:

• Member of the ‘Soci correspondenti’ of the Fondazione San Carlo

• Senior Fellow of CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions

• Co-director (with István Bodnár) of CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions (2005-2008)

• Symposium Hellenisticum organizing committee 2007-

• Symposium Praesocraticum organizing committee 2004-

• Co-director (with István Bárány and István Bodnár) of CEU Summer University ‘Philosophy and Science in the Greco-Roman World’ (2004, 2005, 2006).

• Referee: Cambridge University Press, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Classical Philology

• Founding member of the Southeast European Association for Ancient Philosophy

• Member of the editorial board: Percipi, Passim, Aitia

Invited lectures:

Harvard, Yale, Cornell, University of Toronto, McGill University, Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, Humboldt University Berlin, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, University of Paris X Nanterre, École Normale Supérieure, Charles University Prague, University of Salzburg, University of Pécs, University of Rijekai, Smolni College (St Petersburg), Bibliotheca Classica (St Petersburg)

Invited papers at conferences:

“The Next Cause: Aristotle, Metaphysics A3-4”, Symposium Aristotelicum, University of Leuven, 2008 July

“The Identity of Presocratic Gods”, IV Leventis Conference, University of Edinburgh, 2007 October

“Sextus on the Dogmatists’ Conception of Body”, Symposium Hellenisticum, Delphi, 2007 August

“What Makes a Discourse Eikos?”, Conference on the Timaeus, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2007 September

“Paul Tannery on the Presocratics”, III. Symposium Praesocraticum, München, 2006 September

“The Limits of the Soul”, II. Symposium Heracliteum, Mexico City, 2006 June

“Stoic Cosmology and the Derveni Papyrus”, God and the Cosmos in Stoic Philosophy, Mexico City, 2006 July

“Tale, Theology, and Teleology in the Phaedo”, Conference of the Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Philosophy, 2006 November

“Tablet C”, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife, Ohio State University, 2006 March

“Heraclitus on the Soul”, Jubilee Meeting of the Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Oxford, 2005 September

“Soul and Cosmos in Heraclitus”, Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Quintum: ‘Pythagoras and Heraclitus’, Samos and Ephesus, 2005 July

Symposium Aristotelicum, Nicomachean Ethics Book 7, Venice, 2005 July (invited participant)

“Orphic Models of the Soul”, ‘Orfeo y el orfismo. Nuevas perspectivas’, Palma de Mallorca, 2005 February

“Eschatology and Cosmology: Models and Problems”, II. Symposium Presocraticum, ‘The Construction of the Philosophical Discourse in the Presocratic Period’. Scola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2004 September

X. Symposium Hellenisticum: ‘Between Greece and Rome: Hellenistic Philosophy and Roman Culture from 150 to 88 BC’, Rome, 2004 August (invited participant)

“Exegesis in the Derveni Papyrus”, ‘Philosophy, Science, and Exegesis in the Greek, Latin, and Arabic Commentary Tradition. In honour of Richard Sorabji’, King’s College, London, 2002 June

“The Orphics and the Presocratics”, ‘Mysteries: a discussion across the disciplines’, Emory University, Atlanta, 2002 April

“Cosmological Ethics in the Timaeus and Early Stocism”, ‘Fragments and Synthesis in Early Stoicism’, Utrecht, 2001 December

IX. Symposium Hellenisticum: Philosophy of Language, Hamburg, 2001 (invited participant)

“Cosmological Models”, I. Symposium Presocraticum: ‘Qu’est-ce que la philosophie présocratique?’, Lille, 2000 October

“Empédocle, Orphée, et le Papyrus de Derveni”, ‘Les Ancients Savants’, Strasburg, 2000 April

“The Role of Fire in the Derveni Papyus”, Philosophical Papyri, Cambridge, 1997 November

“The Timaeus of A.N. Whitehead and A.E. Taylor”, Le Timée dans la Pensée Européenne (Deuxième Colloque International sur la réception de Platon), Université de Lausanne, 1997 November

“On Eudemus fr. 150”, Eudemus of Rhodes (Project Theophrastus - Rutgers University), ELTE, Budapest, 1997 June

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