Balázs Gyenis

 

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University of Pittsburgh teaching experience

  2010-11 Summer   ``Problem Solving - How Science Works?,'' Instructor.
An introductory course on common methods of reasoning in science.
 
  2010-11 Spring   ``Magic, Medicine and Science,'' Teaching Assistant of Peter Machamer.
A course covering topics in the history of science and medicine from Plato to Newton.
 
  2010-11 Fall   ``Philosophy of 20th Century Physics,'' Instructor.
An advanced level course on philosophy of relativity theory and non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
 
  2009-10 Summer   ``Problem Solving - How Science Works?,'' Instructor.
An introductory course on common methods of reasoning in science.
 
  2009-10 Spring   ``Philosophy of 20th Century Physics,'' Instructor.
An advanced level course on philosophy of relativity theory and non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
 
  2009-10 Fall   ``Problem Solving - How Science Works?,'' Instructor.
An introductory course on common methods of reasoning in science.
 
  2007-08 Spring   ``Problem Solving - How Science Works?,'' Instructor.
An introductory course on common methods of reasoning in science.
 
  2007-08 Fall   ``Magic, Medicine and Science,'' Instructor.
A course covering topics in the history of science and medicine from Plato to Newton.
 
  2006-07 Spring   ``Magic, Medicine and Science,'' Instructor.
A course covering topics in the history of science and medicine from Plato to Newton.
 
  2006-07 Fall   ``Myth and Science,'' Instructor.
A course focusing on the emergence of science from ancient myths, finishing with Plato.
 
  2005-06 Spring   ``Myth and Science,'' Instructor.
A course focusing on the emergence of science from ancient myths, finishing with Plato.
 
  2005-06 Fall   ``Principles of Scientific Reasoning,'' Instructor.
An introductory course on deductive and inductive logic.
 
  2004-05 Spring   ``Explanations of Humans and Society,'' Teaching Assistant of Peter Machamer.
A course focusing on Freud, Skinner, Piaget, and Bartlett.
 
  2004-05 Fall   ``Thinking about the Environment,'' Teaching Assistant of John Earman.
A course taking a critical look at environmentalism.
 

Other teaching experience

  Graduate   I assisted John Earman teaching his Ph.D. seminar on Determinism at the University of Pittsburgh.  
  Other   Since 2012 I'm a teaching consultant for Milestone Institute, a private organization that facilitates admission of students to Cambridge, Oxford, and other top-tier universities in the UK.
Between 1998 and 2001 I taught various Studium Generale preparatory courses in mathematics at Corvinus University.
 

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