Katalin Farkas
Professor
CEU Provost/Academic Pro-Rector
Building:
Nador u. 9, Monument Building Room:
204 Phone number:
+36 1 327 3000 ext. 2227 Qualifications:
MA in Mathematics and Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
PhD in Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
DSc in Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Katalin Farkas's main area of research is the philosophy of mind. In her book, The Subject's Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2008) she defended an uncompromising internalism about the mental, and an equally uncompromising conception of the phenomenal availability of mental features. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she has great admiration for Descartes, and hopes to make a modest contribution to restoring his reputation after a century or so of bad press. Her present project is to develop an account of all varieties of sensory experiences: this includes perceptual experiences, sensations, imagery, dreams and hallucinations. She hopes to combine a philosophical investigation about the phenomenal character of experiences with a study of empirical results from the psychology.
Katalin Farkas was born and educated in Budapest, and after a few years of teaching at the Eotvos Lorand University, she joined CEU in the year 2000, when the Philosophy Department was founded. She was the head of the department between 2007 and 2010. She had been a Junior Fellow at the Collegium Budapest, a visitor at the University of Sydney, The Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen, the RSSS at the Australian National University in Canberra, and the holder of the Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Chair at the University of Stockholm. Since August 2010, she has been serving as Provost and Academic Pro-Rector of the university.
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philosophy of mind
Descartes
externalism/internalism debate
perception
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Philosophy Publications
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The subject's point of view. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Modern metafizikai tanulmányok, Edited by F. Huoranszki and K. Farkas. Budapest: ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2004.
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Metaphysics : a guide and anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Bölcselet és analízis, Edited by K. Farkas and Imre Orthmayr. Budapest, Hungary: ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2003.
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Nyelvfilozófia. Áron Kiadó, 2002.
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"A sense of reality." In Hallucinations., in press/forthcoming.
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"Constructing a world for the senses." In Phenomenal Intentionality. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press/forthcoming. Abstract
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"Independent intentional objects." In The Analytical Way: Proceedings of the 6th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, 149-165. London: College Publications, 2010.
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"Nyelvfilozófia." In Filozófia, edited by G. Boros, 1273-1288. Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007.
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"Semantic internalism and externalism." In The Oxford handbook of philosophy of language, edited by E. Lepore and B. C. Smith, 323-340. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Abstract
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"Is the whole world thinkable?" In Mind in world : essays on John McDowell's Mind and world, edited by J. Boros, 135-141. Pécs: Barmbauer, 2005.
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"Selection from Matter and Sense." In Metaphysics : a guide and anthology, edited by T. Crane and K. Farkas, 107-119. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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""Sajátos és eredeti módon" Frege az indexikus kifejezésekről." In Minden filozófia "nyelvkritika" II : . Analitikus filozófia és fenomenológia, edited by K. Neumer and J. Laki, 93. Budapest, Hungary: Gondolat, 2004.
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"Tartalom és jelölet." In Bölcselet és analízis, edited by K. Farkas and I. Orthmayr, 61-73. Budapest, Hungary: ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2003.
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"Mitől tudatos egy cselekedet?" In Bölcselet és analízis, edited by K. Farkas and I. Orthmayr, 170-186. Budapest: ELTE, 2003.
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"Externalizmus és önismeret." In Kitolási szakasz : fiatal filozófusok antológiája, edited by K. Kukla and T. Sutyák, 238-248. Budapest, Hungary: Balassi Kiadó, 1997.
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"O Sentido Determina a Referência." In The Explanation of Human Interpretation. Proceedings of the conference Mind and Action III, 389-397. Lisboa: Ediçoes Colibri, 2005.
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"Not every feeling is intentional." European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 5 (2009). Abstract
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"Phenomenal intentionality without compromise." Monist 91, no. 2 (2008): 273-293. Abstract
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"Indiscriminability and the Sameness of Appearance." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106, no. 2 (2006): 207-227. Abstract
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"Emotions In The Natural World." (2006).
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"Ismeretség és leírás." Világosság, no. 12 (2005): 53-60.
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"The unity of Descartes's thought." History of Philosophy Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2005): 17-30. Abstract
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"Does Twin Earth Rest on a Mistake?" Croatian journal of philosophy 3, no. 8 (2003): 155-169. Abstract
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"What is externalism?" Philosophical Studies 112, no. 3 (2003): 187-208. Abstract
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"A tárgyak megnevezése: az ágostoni nyelvkép kritikája a Vizsgálódásokban." Világosság 42, no. 2-3 (2001): 39-46.
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"Tőzsér János könyvérol." Magyar Filozofiai Szemle 45, no. 3 (2001): 431-438.
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"A név nem kötelez." 42, no. 4 (2001): 67-71.
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"Néhány megjegyzés az externalista elméletek értelmezésérol." Magyar Filozofiai Szemle 45, no. 1-2 (2001): 35-43.
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"Szkepticizmus és filozófiai gondolkodás." Világosság 41, no. 4 (2000): 59-78.
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"Egy nagyon globális szkepticizmus." Magyar Filozofiai Szemle, no. 3-4 (1997): 618-622.
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"Lehetséges-e feminista ismeretelmélet?" Világosság, no. 1 (1997): 74-.
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"De wereld interpreteren." Krisis: Tijdschrift Voor Acutele Filosofie (1995).
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"A konceptuális sémák érdemeirõl és fogyatékosságairól." Világosság, no. 6 (1995): 21-.
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Book review., 2008. Abstract
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Book review., 2003. Abstract
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Book Review., 1998. Abstract
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Courses taught by Katalin Farkas
| Being | 2011/2012 |
| Epistemology 2011/12 | 2011/2012 |
| Mental Phenomena | 2010/2011 |
| Epistemology 2010/11 | 2010/2011 |
| Knowledge and Scepticism | 2009/2010 |
| Epistemology 2009/10 | 2009/2010 |