Balázs Gyenis

Philosopher of science, physicist, philosopher, economist

 

Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN RCH
Toth Kalman str. 4., Budapest 1097, Hungary

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hps.elte.hu/~gyepi

  Balazs' photo

Specialization

  AOS   General philosophy of science, philosophy of physics

  AOC   Metaphysics, formal epistemology, philosophy of economics and mathematics, history of physics

Education

  PhD; MA   History and Philosophy of Science
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (🔗 #)
Dissertation: "Well posedness and physical possibility"
Committee: John Earman (co-advisor), John Norton (co-advisor), Gordon Belot, Anil Gupta

  MSc   Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh (🔗 #)

  MA   Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh (🔗 #)

  MSc   Theoretical Economics (minor: Stochastic Processes)
Corvinus University, Budapest (🔗 #)

  Fun fact: my academic genealogy extends to Avicenna (980-1037) and includes Gauss, Kepler, Brahe, Copernicus, Vesalius, Ficino, and Oresme. First steps are: Balazs Gyenis → John Earman → Carl Hempel (& Paul Benacerraf → Hilary Putnam →) → Hans Reichenbach → ... (🔗)

Employment

  2018-2020   Fellow in Philosophy of Physics
Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, London School of Economics. (🔗 #)

  2015-curr   Research Fellow
Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN BTK (previously: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, RCH) (🔗 #)

  2014   Visiting Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, UC (🔗 #)

  2012-2015   Assistant Research Fellow
Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, RCH (🔗 #)

Recent English-language courses with links

  ELTE   Methodology of Social Sciences (🔗)

  LSE   Einstein for Everyone (based on material developed by John Norton and Bryan Roberts) (🔗)

  LSE   Physics and The City (based on material developed by Bryan Roberts) (🔗)

Publications, talks, awards, courses, academic service etc.

  See my full academic CV: /balazs_gyenis_cv.pdf .



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