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ZSÓFIA ZVOLENSZKY CURRICULUM VITAE

address: Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Múzeum krt. 4/i.,1088 Budapest, Hungary

e-mail: [email protected], http://phil.elte.hu/zvolenszky AREAS OF RESEARCH Philosophy of language, formal semantics, metaphysics CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION MARIE CURIE FELLOW, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SASPRO scheme (February 2016–) ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest (May 2015–) ◊ Head of the Analytic Philosophy Doctoral Program at the Institute (June 2015–) ◊ Assistant Professor II (2008–2015); Assistant Professor I (2006–2008)

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS ◊ Junior Research Fellow, Philosophy Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of

Sciences (MTA) (2005–2006) ◊ Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, MTA–ELTE

Philosophy of Language Research Group (director: János Kelemen) supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Support Office (2003–2006)

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS ◊ Habilitation, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University (ELTE),

September 2013. Dissertation (in Hungarian) entitled Kripke and Searle on Naming and Necessity. ◊ New York University, New York, U.S.A., Ph.D. in 2007.

Dissertation entitled Modality, Names and Descriptions, a portfolio of three essays: “The Lost Pillar of Deontic Modality” “Naming with Necessity” “Incomplete Descriptions, Incomplete Quantified Expressions”

Advisor: Kit Fine; readers: Stephen Neale, Stephen Schiffer, Anna Szabolcsi. (M.A. thesis also at NYU entitled Causation and Counterfactuals; 2003, advisor: Hartry Field)

◊ Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, U.S.A., B.A. summa cum laude in 1997. Majors: Philosophy, Logico-Linguistic Studies Honors thesis entitled Internalism and the Mental. Advisor: G. Lee Bowie

HONORS, AWARDS ◊ Marie Curie Fellowship, for 3 years, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences,

Bratislava, SASPRO/FP7-Marie Curie Actions-COFUND scheme (February 2016–) ◊ Bolyai János Research Fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2009–2012) ◊ H. M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University (1997-2002) ◊ Ph.D. Fellowship offers from Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, Rutgers, and UCLA (1997)

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◊ Supplementary Scholarship for Study Abroad given by the Soros Foundation (1992, 1997-1999)

◊ Phi Beta Kappa Society member, Mount Holyoke College (1997) ◊ Mary Lyon Scholar, Mount Holyoke College (1997) ◊ J. M. Warbeke Prize in Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College (1997) ◊ New England Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Essay Prize (1997) ◊ Four-year, full tuition scholarship at Mount Holyoke College (1992-1994, 1995-1997) ◊ Sarah Williston Scholar, Mount Holyoke College (1994) ◊ Diákcsere Mozgalomért Scholarship given by the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae

Foundation (1993) GRANTS, INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FUNDS ◊ Principal investigator, Grant no. K–116191 (for 4 years, 2016–2020): “Meaning,

Communication; Literal, Figurative: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Language”, grant by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – National Research, Development and Innovation Office (OTKA–NKFIH) (ELTE Institute of Philosophy; 12 grant participants) (February 2016–)

◊ Participating senior researcher and co-applicant, Grant no. K-109456 (for 4 years, 2013–2017): “Integrative Argumentation Studies”, grant by OTKA–NKFIH (principal investigator: Gábor Zemplén, Department of Philosophy and the History of Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)) (2013–)

◊ Participating researcher in Grant no. K–109638 (for 4 years, 2013–2017): “Connections Between Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology Within the Philosophy of Mind”, grant by OTKA–NKFIH (principal investigator: János Tızsér, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kaposvár) (2016–)

◊ Participating researcher, MTA–ELTE Philosophy of Language Research Group (director: János Kelemen) supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Support Office (2003–2012)

◊ Co-director and co-applicant (with Jason Stanley), CEU Summer University grant for a two-week summer course: Meaning, Context, Intention, with 15 invited instructors (mostly Americans) and approx. 70 participants (mostly Ph.D. students from 25 countries ranging from Argentina to China) (2010)

◊ Individual travel grants: � Erasmus Faculty Mobility Program travel grants (Tempus Public Foundation) to visit

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (6 times: May 2010, September 2011, May 2013, October 2014, September 2015, Spring 2016); and University College Dublin, Ireland (September 2012).

� ELTE Foreign Relations Grant to visit the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo (CSMN UiO), Oslo, Norway, November 2015, travel expenses covered.

◊ International travel funds: � University of Toronto travel funds for a visit to Toronto (Canada), April 2016. � Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo (CSMN UiO) funds for

(i) travel and accommodation to a Dubrovnik conference on Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s philosophy of language, September 2013; and (ii) accommodation for an Oslo visit, November 2015.

� Masaryk University (Brno) funds for travel and accommodation for a visit to Brno (Czech Republic), October 2014.


TEACHING AND SUPERVISION RECURRING COURSES TAUGHT, ELTE Philosophy Institute, Faculty of Humanities, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest

◊ Logic and Reasoning, a first-year lecture course for typically 80–130 students in the Fall, with teaching assistants (B.A.-level, in Hungarian; taught every semester between Fall 2006 and Spring 2013; again from Fall 2015)

◊ Introduction to Philosophy of Language (B.A.–M.A.-level, in Hungarian; taught every semester between Spring 2004 and Spring 2013)

COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH, ELTE Philosophy Institute, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest

◊ The Metaphysics of Fictional Characters, Ph.D.-level research seminar (Spring 2013) ◊ Theories of Meaning, M.A.–Ph.D.-level double-credit seminar (Fall 2012, Fall 2015) ◊ Sperber on Relevance, M.A.–Ph.D.-level research seminar (Spring 2012)

COURSES TAUGHT IN HUNGARIAN, ELTE Philosophy Institute, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics

◊ Water and Wombat: The Semantics of Natural Kind Terms (with Katalin Tihanyi), M.A.-level research seminar, (Spring 2013)

◊ Saul Kripke: Naming and Necessity (with Gábor Kovács), M.A.-level reading seminar (Spring 2012)

◊ Meaning, Sarcasm, Metaphor (with Gergı Somodi), M.A.-level research seminar (Fall 2011) ◊ Varieties of “Vulcan”: The Semantics of Names without Referents – M.A.-Ph.D.-level research

seminar (Spring 2011) ◊ Meaning, Context, Intention, M.A.-Ph.D.-level research seminar (Spring–Fall 2010) ◊ The Semantics of Identity Statements, M.A.-Ph.D.-level (Fall 2009) ◊ Undergraduate Thesis-Writing Seminar, B.A.–M.A.-level (with András Máté, László E: Szabó and

János Tızsér), (Spring 2009) ◊ Conditionals, M.A.-Ph.D.-level reading seminar (Spring 2009) ◊ Water and Wombat: The Semantics of Natural Kind Terms, M.A.–Ph.D.-level research seminar (Fall

2008) ◊ Saul Kripke: Naming and Necessity, B.A.–M.A.-level research seminar (Fall 2007, Spring 2008) ◊ Russell’s Theory of Descriptions, B.A.–M.A.-level (Fall 2005) ◊ Mental Language: Late Medieval and Contemporary Analytic Perspectives, B.A.–M.A.-level seminar

(with Gábor Borbély and György Geréby) (Spring 2004, Spring and Fall 2005) ◊ Philosophy of Mind, B.A.–M.A.-level course (with Katalin Farkas) (Fall 2003)

COURSES TAUGHT ELSEWHERE (in English, unless otherwise noted) ◊ Philosophy of Language, one-week B.A.-level course, Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science

(BSCS), Department of History and Philosophy of Science, ELTE Faculty of Science (October, 2013; October 2014, October 2015)

◊ “Frege’s Über Sinn und Bedeutung”, two presentations at University College, Dublin as guest lecturer in an introductory course on philosophy of language, as part of the Erasmus Faculty Mobility Program (September 2012)

◊ Philosophy of Language, M.A.-level seminar, Central European University, Department of Philosophy (Winter 2012)

◊ Philosophy of Language: Metaphor as a Speech Act (in Hungarian with Tibor Bárány), Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Theory (TEK), Corvinus University, Budapest (Fall 2009)

◊ History of Ancient Philosophy, for B.A. students, Philosophy Department, New York University (Summer 2002)


◊ Philosophy of Language, B.A.-level seminar, NYU Philosophy Department (Summer 2001) ◊ Formal Logic, B.A.-level seminar, NYU Philosophy Department (Summer 1998, 1999, 2001) ◊ Teaching assistant, NYU Philosophy Department: Philosophy of Language (Spring 2001); From

Hegel to Nietzsche (Fall 2000); Ethics and Society (Spring 2000); Ancient Philosophy; ◊ Teaching assistant, Philosophy Department, Mount Holyoke College: informal and formal

logic courses (Fall 1993, 1995, 1996, Spring 1997) STUDENT SUPERVISION, ELTE Philosophy Institute ◊ Ph.D. supervision, Logic Doctoral Program: primary advisor for 1 doctoral student (in her

fourth year) ◊ Ph.D. supervision, Analytic Philosophy Doctoral Program: primary advisor for 2 doctoral

students (in their fifth year) ◊ M.A. supervision, Master in Logic and Philosophy of Science Program, primary advisor: 1

student completed; 3 in progress ◊ Supervision in the 5-year combined program (B.A.–M.A., replaced by separate B.A. and M.A.

programs in 2006), philosophy major, primary advisor: 6 students completed, 1 in progress ◊ B.A. supervision, philosophy major, primary advisor: 4 students completed, 1 in progress ◊ 3 students supervised for the National Conference of the Academic Associations for

Hungarian BA and MA Students (OTDK) ◊ devised from scratch and maintained a system of undergraduate teaching assistants at ELTE’s

Logic Department in connection with the first-year lecture course Logic and Reasoning (typically for 80–130 students in the Fall semester); over 8 years (2006–2013), trained and worked with 22 teaching assistants, who stayed with the course, on average, for 3–4 semesters, carrying out a complex set of tasks besides administrative ones: leading biweekly help sessions for students, grading multiple homework assignments, developing the database of examples and exercises used in the course, training junior teaching assistants.

PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH ARTICLES (Abbreviations: invited journal article InvJournal, invited journal article that was subsequently peer-reviewed InvPeerJournal, paper in conference proceedings ConfProc, invited book chapter that was subsequently peer-reviewed InvPeerBookChap.) 1. (2016) Fictional Characters, Mythical Objects and the Phenomenon of Inadvertent Creation.

To appear in a special issue on fiction, Joshua T. Spencer (ed.), Res Philosophica, 2/93 April 2016, 311–333. http://dx.doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2016.93.2.2 (subscription only access) InvPeerJournal

2. (2015) Inferring Content: Metaphor and Malapropism. To appear in Croatian Journal of Philosophy 15/44 163–182. A special issue on Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s Philosophy of Language, Dunja Jutronic (ed.). InvJournal

3. (2015) An Argument for Authorial Creation. Organon F 22/4, 461–487. http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2015/4/461-487.pdf InvPeerJournal

4. (2015) Artifactualism and Inadvertent Authorial Creation. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics vol. 7/2015, 579–593. Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.). http://www.eurosa.org/volumes/7/ESA-Proc-7-2015-Zvolenszky.pdf ConfProc

5. (2015) Relevance Theoretic Inferential Procedures: Accounting for Metaphor and Malapropism. AISB Convention 2015 Proceedings (University of Kent, England), http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2015/AISB2015/proceedings/philosophy/zvolenszky.pdf ConfProc


6. (2015) Inadvertent Creation and Fictional Characters. Organon F 22/Supplementary Issue 1, 169–184. Supplementary Issue for Petr Kot’átko’s 60th birthday, Juraj Hvorecký (ed.). http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2015/1/169-184.pdf InvJournal

7. (2014) Artifactualism and Authorial Creation. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 6/2014, 457–469, Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.). http://www.eurosa.org/volumes/6/ZvolenszkyESA2014.pdf ConfProc

8. (2014) Conditionals, Dispositions, and Free Will. Hungarian Philosophical Review 58/4, 45–67. Special Issue: Are We Free After All? Reading Huoranszki, Tibor Bárány – András Szigeti (eds.). InvPeerJournal

9. (2013) Abstract Artifact Theory about Fictional Characters Defended — Why Sainsbury’s Category-Mistake Objection is Mistaken. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics vol. 5/2013 597–612, Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.). http://www.eurosa.org/volumes/5/ZvolenszkyESA2013.pdf ConfProc

10. (2012) Against Sainsbury’s Irrealism About Fictional Characters: Harry Potter as an Abstract Artifact. Hungarian Philosophical Review (Magyar Filozófiai Szemle) 56/4, 83–109. Special issue: Current Issues in Metaphysics, Gábor Bács, Dávid Márk Kovács and János Tızsér (eds.). InvPeerJournal

11. (2012) Searle on Analyticity, Necessity and Proper Names. Organon F vol. 19/Supplementary Issue 2, 109–136, Juraj Hvorecký and Petr Kot’átko (eds.). http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2012/2/109-136.pdf InvJournal

12. (2012) A Gricean Rearrangement of Epithets. In: 20 Years of Theoretical Linguistics in Budapest: A selection of papers from the 2010 conference celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Theoretical Linguistics Programme of Eötvös Loránd University, Ferenc Kiefer and Zoltán Bánréti (eds.), Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Institute for Linguistics, Tinta Publishing House, 183–218. InvPeerBookChap

13. (2010) Ruzsa on Quine’s Argument Against Modal Logic. Hungarian Philosophical Review (Magyar Filozófiai Szemle) 54/4, 40–48. Special issue: Imre Ruzsa: A Man of Consequence, András Máté, Péter Mekis (eds.). InvJournal

14. (2010) Naming and Uncertainty: The Historical-Chain Theory Revised. Proceedings of the XXVth Varna International Philosophical School, Sofia: IPhR-BAS, 132–141. ConfProc

15. (2006) A Semantic Constraint on the Logic of Modal Conditionals. Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language (LoLa 9), Beáta Gyuris, László Kálmán, Chris Piñon, Károly Varasdi (eds.), Budapest: Révai Digital Press, 167–177. ConfProc

16. (2006) Analytic Truths and Kripke’s Semantic Turn. Croatian Journal of Philosophy No. 17, 327–341. InvJournal

17. (2002) Is a Possible-worlds Semantics of Modality Possible? Semantics and Linguistic Theory XII. Brandon Jackson (ed.), Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 339–358. ConfProc

18. (2001) On Inclusive Reference Anaphora: New Perspectives from Hungarian. With Marcel den Dikken and Anikó Lipták. WCCFL 20: Proceedings of the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Karine Megerdoomian and Leora Anne Bar-el (eds.), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 137–149. ConfProc

19. (1997) Definite Descriptions: What Frege Got Right and Russell Didn’t. Aporia Undergraduate Philosophy Journal VII 1–16. InvPeerJournal

EDITED VOLUME

(2002) Semantics and Linguistic Theory XI. Edited with Rachel Hastings and Brendan Jackson, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.


BOOK REVIEW (2008) Book Review: Paul Elbourne, Situations and Individuals. Philosophical Review 117/2 314–316.

ONLINE PUBLICATION (2002) Is a Possible-worlds Semantics of Modality Possible? Linguistics in the Big Apple (LIBA):

CUNY/NYU Working Papers in Linguistics, Marcel den Dikken (ed.) http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Programs/Linguistics/LIBA/Zsolenszky2002.pdf

OTHER 1. Deontic Discourse – Lessons from Inferentialism. (manuscript submitted in 2005) In: János

Boros, Zsolt Garai (eds.), Robert Brandom’s Philosophy, Pécs Studies in Philosophy Series, forthcoming.

2. A Unified Account of Anaphora for Brandom’s Inferentialism. (manuscript submitted in 2003) In: János Boros, Zsolt Garai (ed.), Robert Brandom’s Philosophy, Pécs Studies in Philosophy Series, forthcoming.

PUBLICATIONS IN HUNGARIAN

ARTICLES (Abbreviations: invited journal article InvJournal, peer-reviewed journal article PeerJournal, invited journal article that was subsequently peer-reviewed InvPeerJournal, paper in conference proceedings ConfProc, invited book chapter BookChap.) 1. (2015/2016) Relevance Theory’s Argument about a Literal-Loose-Metaphorical Continuum:

What Linguistic Errors Show. [A relevanciaelmélet szó szerinti–laza–metaforikus kontinuumára vonatkozó érv: A nyelvi hibák, avagy millyen problémával jár, ha azt mondjuk, hogy valakit „Kentuckyban megpaprikáztak”?] In: Metaphor, Relevance, Meaning [Metafora, Relevancia, Jelentés.], Tibor Bárány, Zsófia Zvolenszky, János Tızsér (eds.), Budapest: Loisir, 61–76. BookChap

2. (2015/2016) Relevance Theory and the Literal–Metaphorical Continuum—In the Light of Texts Available in Hungarian. [Relevanciaelmélet és a szó szerinti–metaforikus kontinuum – A magyar nyelvő szövegek tükrében] Written with Tibor Bárány. In: Metaphor, Relevance, Meaning [Metafora, Relevancia, Jelentés.], Tibor Bárány, Zsófia Zvolenszky, János Tızsér (eds.), Budapest: Loisir, 11-28. BookChap

3. (2015) Possible Worlds and Deontic Modality: An Argument Against the Leibnizian Biconditional Analysis. [Lehetséges világok és deontikus modalitás: Érv a leibnizi bikondicionális elemzés ellen] Magyar Filozófiai Szemle 59/1 55–77. Special Issue: Monadológia [Monadology], Dániel Schmal (ed.). InvPeerJournal

4. (2015) Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts II: The Case for Authorial Creation. [Gombóc Artúr mint emberalkotta absztrakt tárgy 2: Egy érv a szerzıi alkotás mellett.] In: Understanding, Explanation, Realism, Miklós Márton, Gábor Molnár, János Tızsér (eds.), Budapest: L’Harmattan, 193–208. BookChap

5. (2014) Philosophers’ Myth about John Searle’s Theory of Proper Names. [Egy filozófiai mítosz John Searle névelméletérıl.] In: Studies in General Linguistics Vol. XXVI., János Kelemen, István Kenesei (eds.), Budapest: Akadémiai, 211–238. BookChap

6. (2014) A Text Through One’s Own Eyes: Searle and ‘Proper Names’. [Egy szöveg saját szemmel.] In: Understanding as a Vocation. Essays for Ágnes Erdélyi’s 70th Birthday, Tibor Bárány, Zsuzsa Gáspár, István Margócsy, Orsolya Reich, Ádám Vér (eds.), Budapest: L’Harmattan, 466–478. BookChap

7. (2013) Translating Kripke into Hungarian. [Kripke fordítva.] With Tibor Bárány. Budapest Review of Books (BUKSZ), 25/2, 2013, 151–162. PeerJournal


8. (2013) Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts: Why Sainsbury’s Category Mistake Objection is Mistaken. 6. [Gombóc Artúr mint emberalkotta absztrakt tárgy.] In: We Must not Become Misologues – Essays for András Máté’s 60th Birthday, Zsófia Zvolenszky, Attila Molnár et al. (eds.), Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2013, 296–307. BookChap

9. (2011) Twice Two Decades of “Logic and Conversation”. [“Társalgás és logika” kétszer két évtized távlatából.] In: H. Paul Grice: Studies in the Way of Words (translated by Tibor Bárány, Zsófia Gyarmathy et al.). Tibor Bárány and Miklós Márton (eds.), Budapest: Gondolat, 2011, 338–364. BookChap

10. (2007) Four Decades of Naming and Necessity. [Megnevezés és szükségszerőség – Négy évtized távlatában.] In: Naming and Necessity (translated by Tibor Bárány). Zsófia Zvolenszky (ed.), Budapest: Akadémiai, 2007, 151–218. BookChap

11. (2006) Grice’s Theory of Metaphor Defended: Who Said That Life isn’t a Piece of Cake? [Grice metaforaelméletének védelmében: Ki mondta, hogy az élet nem habos torta?] Világosság 2006/8–9–10, 9–19. InvPeerJournal

12. (2005) Incomplete Descriptions, Incomplete Quantified Expressions. [Ingatag határozott leírások, ingatag kvantifikált kifejezések.] Világosság 2005/12, 89–102. InvPeerJournal

13. (2005) In Defense of Russell. [Russell megingathatatlan elmélete a határozott leírásokról.] Kellék 27–28, 2005, 165–177. InvPeerJournal

14. (2005) Analytic Truths and Kripke’s Semantic Turn. [Analitikus igazságok és Kripke szemantikai fordulata.] Világosság 2005/2–3, 171–182. InvPeerJournal

EDITED VOLUMES

1. (2015/2016) Metaphor, Relevance, Meaning. [Metafora, Relevancia, Jelentés.] Edited with Tibor Bárány, János Tızsér. Budapest: Loisir.

2. (2013) We Must not Become Misologues – Essays for András Máté’s 60th Birthday. [Nehogy érvgyőlölık legyünk – Tanulmánykötet Máté András 60. születésnapjára.] Edited with Attila Molnár, Péter Mekis, Réka Markovich, Sára Jellinek, Márton Gömöri, Tamás Bitai. Budapest: L’Harmattan.

3. (2007) Naming and Necessity (translated by Tibor Bárány). [Megnevezés és szükségszerőség.] Budapest: Akadémiai.

4. (2005) “Description, Meaning, Denotation: On Denoting 100 Years Later”. [“Leírás, Jelentés, Denotáció – On Denoting: 100 év után”.] Conference Proceedings. Edited with János Kelemen and János Tızsér. Világosság 2005/12.

5. (2005) “Metaphysics, Mind, Language – Critical Perspectives”. [“Metafizika, ész, nyelv – kritikai perspektívák”.] Conference Proceedings, Volume 2. Edited with János Kelemen and János Tızsér. Világosság 2005/2–3.

6. (2004) “Metaphysics, Mind, Language – Critical Perspectives”. [“Metafizika, ész, nyelv – kritikai perspektívák”.] Conference Proceedings. Edited with János Kelemen and János Tızsér. Világosság 2004/10–11–12.

7. (2004) János Kelemen: Essays in Philosophy of Lanugage. [Nyelvfilozófiai tanulmányok.] Edited with Judit Bárdos. Budapest: Áron.

8. (2003) “Language, Persuasion, Reasoning”. [“Nyelv, meggyızés, érvelés”.] Conference Proceedings. Edited with János Kelemen. Világosság 2003/11–12.

BOOK REVIEW

1. (2015) Elementary, My Dear Kripke? [Pofonegyszerő, kedves Kripkém?] (Saul Kripke: Reference and Existence) Mőút 60/5/2015053 86–89, (Kiskáté series, guest editor: Tibor Bárány).

2. (2015) Elementary, My Dear Kripke? [Pofonegyszerő, kedves Kripkém?] (Saul Kripke: Reference and Existence) longer online edition. Mőút (Kiskáté series, guest editor: Tibor Bárány). http://www.muut.hu/?p=15361


ONLINE PUBLICATION

(2006) ‘The Door is Open’ and ‘Every Glass is Empty’: Definite Descriptions, Quantified Expressions, Truth Conditions. [“Nyitva az ajtó” és “Üres minden pohár”: Határozott leírások, kvantifikált kifejezések, igazságfeltételek.] Szabad Változók 3: Perspectives in Semantics Workshop—Proceedings. http://www.szv.hu/kiadasok/3

GLOSSARY (2007) 32-page analytic philosophy glossary for the Hungarian edition of Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity. [Megnevezés és szükségszerőség: Glosszárium.] With contributions from Miklós Márton, Budapest: Akadémiai, 222–254. OTHER 1. (2015/2016) Editors’ foreword to Metaphor, Relevance, Meaning [Metafora, Relevancia, Jelentés.]

Written with Tibor Bárány, János Tızsér. Budapest: Loisir, 7–9. 2. (2007) Editor’s and translator’s foreword to the Hungarian edition of Saul Kripke’s Naming

and Necessity. [Megnevezés és szükségszerőség. Pár szó a magyar kötetrıl.] ”. With Tibor Bárány. Budapest: Akadémiai 7–8.

3. (2007) Analytic philosophy terminology, to accompany the Hungarian edition of Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity. English–Hungarian, Hungarian–English [Megnevezés és szükségszerőség: Terminusszótár]. A proposal for developing, modifying and unifying the Hungarian analytic philosophy terminology. With Tibor Bárány. Budapest: Akadémiai 255–259.

INTERNATIONAL CITATIONS, USE IN COURSES “IS A POSSIBLE-WORLDS SEMANTICS OF MODALITY POSSIBLE?” (2002) has been assigned in several courses: 1. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL U.S.A.), Linguistics Department: Conditionals, Stefan

Kaufmann, Fall 2002. 2. MIT (Cambridge MA, U.S.A), Department of Linguistics and Philosophy: Advanced Semantics,

Kai von Fintel, Spring 2003. 3. New York University (New York NY, U.S.A.), Linguistics Department: Semantics II, Paul

Elbourne, Spring 2004. 4. University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), Department of Language, Linguistics and

Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ed Brandon, Spring 2004. 5. Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan), Modality, Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University),

Summer 2005. 6. MIT (Cambridge MA, U.S.A.), Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Cambridge MA,

U.S.A.), Conditionals in a Modal Context, Kai von Fintel, Fall 2006. (This course also cited a subsequent, expanded manuscript, “Modality Unanalyzed” 2005.)

7. Goethe University (Franfurt, Germany), Epistemic Modals, Joseph Salerno, Spring 2011. CITATIONS FOR “IS A POSSIBLE-WORLDS SEMANTICS OF MODALITY POSSIBLE?” (2002): 1. Anna Szabolcsi – Bill Haddican: Conjunction Meets Negation: A Study in Cross-linguistic

Variation. (2004) Journal of Semantics 21 (3), 219–249. 2. Bart Geurts: On an Ambiguity in Quantified Conditionals. (2004) Unpublished manuscript,

University of Nijmegen.


3. Bart Geurts: Entertaining Alternatives: Disjunctions as Modals. (2005) Natural Language Semantics 13, 383–410.

4. Stefan Kaufmann: Conditional Truth and Future Reference. (2005) Journal of Semantics 22, 231–280.

5. Volkmar Engerer: Vorwort zu Modalität: Linguistische, philosophische und logische Aspekte einen universalen Kategorie. (2005) In: Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning 3:2. Modality: Linguistic, Philosophical and Logical Aspects of a Universal Category, Volkmar Engerer (ed.) Århus (Denmark): Nord Grafisk, 5–19.

6. Lawrence S. Moss – Hans-Jörg Tiede: Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics. (2006) In: Studies in Logic and Practical Reasoning, Vol. 3, Handbook of Modal Logic, Patrick Blackburn, Johan van Benthem, Frank Wolter (eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1031–1076.

7. Janneke Huitink: Modals, Conditionals and Compositionality. (2008) Nijmegen: UB Nijmegen. 8. Fabrice Nauze: Modality in Typological Perspective. (2008) Amsterdam: ILLC Publications.

(Subsection 4.3.2 entitled: “Zvolenszky’s Problem”) 9. Angelika Kratzer: Modals and Conditionals Again. (2008) Unpublished manuscript,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 10. Adam Z. Wyner: Violations and Fulfillments in the Formal Representation of Contracts.

(2008) Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King’s College, London.

11. Fabrice Nauze: Modality, and Context Dependence. (2009) In: Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality, Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, A. L. Malchukov (eds.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 317–325.

12. Kaufmann, Stefan – Magdalena Kaufmann: A Uniform Analysis of Conditional Imperatives. (2009) In: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIX, Ed Cormany, Satoshi Ito, David Lutz (eds.), Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. (Originally under the name “Magdalena Schwager”.)

13. Cornelia Ebert: Quantificational Topics: A Scopal Treatment of Exceptional Wide Scope Phenomena. (2009) Springer Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 86. (Originally under the name ”Cornelia Endriss”.)

14. Francisco José Álvarez Montero: Construcción de recursos lingüísticos basados en ontologías con control de relaciones semánticas. (2009) Dissertation, Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.

15. Ana Arregui: On Negative Antecedents in Deontic Conditionals. (2010) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, M. Prinzhorn, V. Schmitt, S. Zobel (eds.),Vienna, 37–50.

16. Ana Arregui: Detaching If-Clauses from Should. (2010) Natural Language Semantics 18 (3), 241–293.

17. Rebecca Tamar Cover: Aspect, Modality, and Tense in Badiaranke. (2010) Dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, Linguistics Department.

18. Alex Silk: The Many Faces of Anankastic Conditionals. (2010) Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor.

19. Stergios Chatzikyriakidis: Clitics in Four Dialects of Modern Greek: A Dynamic Account. (2010) Dissertation, Department of Philosophy, King’s College, London.

20. Guðmundur A. Hjálmarsson: What If? An Enquiry into the Semantics of Natural Language Conditionals. (2010) Dissertation, Philosophy, University of St. Andrews.

21. Kai von Fintel: “Conditionals” (2011) In: Semantics: An International Handbook of Meaning, volume 2, Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, Paul Portner (eds.), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1515–1538.

22. Ana Arregui: Counterfactual-Style Revisions in the Semantics of Deontic Modals. (2011) Journal of Semantics 28 (2), 171–210.


23. Rebecca T. Cover: Modal Aspects of Badiaranke Aspect. (2011) Lingua 121 (8), 1315–1343. 24. H. W. Zeevat: Review: Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality. (2011) Language 87

(1), 203–207. 25. Angelika Kratzer: Modals and Conditionals: New and Revised Perspectives. (2012) Oxford: Oxford

University Press. (two pages in section 4.6 (106–107) on “Zvolenszky’s puzzle”) 26. Magdalena Kaufmann: Interpreting Imperatives. (2012) Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 88.

Dordrecht: Springer. 27. Kai von Fintel: The Best We Can (Expect to) Get? Challenges to the Classic Semantics for

Deontic Modals (2012) Paper for a session on Deontic Modals at the Central APA, February 17, 2012.

28. Sarah Zobel: Impersonally Interpreted Personal Pronouns. (2012) Dissertation, General Linguistics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

29. Matthew Chrisman: On the Meaning of ‘Ought’. (2012) In: Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 7. Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 304–332.

30. Jana E. Beck, Sophia A. Malamud, Iryna Osadcha: A Semantics for the Particle αν in and outside Conditionals in Classical Greek. (2012) Journal of Greek Linguistics 12/1, 51–83.

31. Chris Fox: Obligations and Permissions. (2012) Language and Linguistics Compass 6/9, 593–610. 32. Fabrizio Cariani: ‘Ought’ and Resolution Semantics. (2013) Noûs 47/3, 534–558. 33. Fabrizio Cariani, Magdalena Kaufmann, Stefan Kaufmann: Deliberative Modality under

Epistemic Uncertainty. (2013) Linguistics and Philosophy 36, 225–259. 34. Martin Aher: Modals in Legal Language. (2013). Dissertation, Institute of Cognitive Science,

University of Osnabrück. 35. Vladimir Nocić, Jasmina Nocić: Modalna logika i logika fikcije (Modal Logic and the Logic of

Fiction, in Serbian). (2013) Theoria (Serbia) 56/4, 47–62. 36. Jonathan Schaffer and Zoltán Gendler Szabó: Epistemic Comparativism: A Contextualist

Semantics for Knowledge Ascriptions. (2014) Philosophical Studies 168, 491–543. 37. Jennifer Carr: The If P then Ought P Problem. (2014) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Special Issue:

Deontic Modality, Stephen Finlay, Mark Schroeder (eds.) 95/4, 555–583. 38. Malte Willer: Dynamic Thoughts on Ifs and Oughts. (2014) Philosophers’ Imprint 14/28, 1–30. 39. Sarah Zobel: Impersonally Interpreted Personal Pronouns. (2014) Revised Dissertation, General

Linguistics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Published online at Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.

40. Chris Fox: The Semantics of Imperatives. (megjelenés elıtt: 2015) Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, 2nd edition, Shalom Lapin, Chris Fox (eds.), Wiley–Blackwell.

CITATIONS FOR “A SEMANTIC CONSTRAINT ON THE LOGIC OF MODAL CONDITIONALS”

(2006): 1. Janneke Huitink: Modals, Conditionals and Compositionality. (2008) Nijmegen: UB Nijmegen. 2. Ana Arregui: Detaching If-Clauses from Should. (2010) Natural Language Semantics 18 (3), 241–

293. 3. Ana Arregui: On Negative Antecedents in Deontic Conditionals. (2010) Proceedings of Sinn und

Bedeutung 14, M. Prinzhorn, V. Schmitt, S. Zobel (eds.), Vienna, 37–50. 4. Fabrizio Cariani: ‘Ought’ and Resolution Semantics. (2013) Noûs 47/3, 534–558. 5. Joseph Salerno: How to Embed Epistemic Modals without Violating Modus Tollens. (2013)

Unpublished manuscript, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis; Jean Nicod Institute, Paris. 6. Jennifer Carr: The If P then Ought P Problem. (2014) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Special Issue:

Deontic Modality, Stephen Finlay, Mark Schroeder (eds.) 95/4, 555–583. 7. Malte Willer: Dynamic Thoughts on Ifs and Oughts. (2014) Philosophers’ Imprint 14/28, 1–30.


Citations for “Definite Descriptions: “What Frege got Right and Russell Didn’t” (1997): 1. Peter Ludlow: Descriptions. (2004) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2007 Edition),

Edward N. Zalta (ed.) <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2007/entries/ descriptions/> 2. Peter Ludlow and Gabriel Segal: On a Unitary Semantical Analysis for Definite and Indefinite

Descriptions. (2004) In: Descriptions and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on Definite and Indefinite Descriptions, A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 420–436.

3. Zoltán Szabó Gendler: The Loss of Uniqueness. (2005) Mind 114. Centenary Issue on Bertrand Russell, Stephen Neale (ed.), 1185–1222.

4. Peter Ludlow and Stephen Neale: Descriptions. (2006) In: The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language. M. Devitt, R. Hanley (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, 288–313.

5. Berit Brogaard: The But Not All: A Partitive Account of Plural Definite Descriptions. (2007) Mind and Language 22/4, 402–426.

6. Dale Jacquette: Logic and How it Gets Its Way. (2010) Durham: Acumen. 7. Dale Jacquette: Logic and How it Gets Its Way. (2014) London: Routledge. CITATIONS FOR “SEARLE ON MEANING, ANALYTICITY AND PROPER NAMES” (2012): 1. John Searle: Reply to Commentators. (2012) Organon F vol. 19, 2012, Supplementary Issue 2,

Juraj Hvorecký and Petr Kot’átko (eds.), 199–225. 2. Jerzy Brzozowski: Searle: Nomes Proprios e Pressuposicoes (Searle: Proper Names and

Presuppositions, in Portugese). (2014) Gavagai (Brazil): 1/1 82–89. CITATIONS FOR: “THE EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT APPROACHES TO HANDLING INCOMPLETE

DESCRIPTIONS: A CRITIQUE OF REIMER”, unpublished manuscript (2000): 1. Ernie Lepore: An Abuse Context in Semantics: The Case of Incomplete Definite

Descriptions. (2004) In: Descriptions and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on Definite and Indefinite Descriptions, A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press 42–68.

2. Stephen Neale: This, That, and the Other. (2004) In: Descriptions and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on Definite and Indefinite Descriptions, A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 68–182.

CITATION FOR “CONDITIONALS, DISPOSITONS, AND FREE WILL” (2014): 1. Ferenc Huoranszki: Compatibilism, Conditionals, and Control: A Response to my Critics.

(2014) Hungarian Philosophical Review 2014/4 58, Special Issue: Are We Free After All? Reading Huoranszki, Tibor Bárány – András Szigeti (eds.), 117–139.

CITATION FOR “THE LOST PILLAR OF DEONTIC MODALITY” (2007) (part of Ph.D. thesis portfolio): 1. Jennifer Carr: The If P then Ought P Problem. (2014) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Special Issue:

Deontic Modality, Stephen Finlay, Mark Schroeder (eds.) 95/4. 555–583. CITATION FOR “ANALYTIC TRUTHS AND KRIPKE’S SEMANTIC TURN” (2006): 1. John M. Carpenter: Remedying Some Defects in the History of Analyticity. (2012) Dissertation, The

Florida State University, Philosophy Department, Electrionic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations. Paper 5326.

CITATIONS FOR A CO-AUTHORED ARTICLE, “ON INCLUSIVE REFERENCE ANAPHORA” (2001), with Marcel den Dikken and Anikó Lipták:


1. Richard S. Kayne: Pronouns and their Antecedents. (2002) In: Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program, S. D. Epstein and T. D. Seely (eds.), Blackwell, Malden (Generative Syntax 6), 133–166.

2. Ken Safir: The Syntax of Anaphora. (2004) New York: Oxford University Press. 3. Oluseye Adesola: A-bar Dependencies in Logophoric Contexts. (2004) Manuscript for the

Harvard—MIT–UConn Indexicality Workshop. 4. Masha Vassilieva, Richard K. Larson: The Semantics of the Plural Pronoun Construction.

(2005) Natural Language Semantics 13, 101–124. 5. Beata Trawiński: Plural Comitative Constructions in Polish. (2005) Proceedings of the HPSGO5

Conference, Stefan Müller (ed.) Stanford: CSLI Publications. 6. Marjo van Koppen: One Probe – Two Goals: Aspect of Agreement in Dutch Dialects. (2005)

Dissertation, University of Leiden, Center for Linguistics, Utrecht: LOT Publications. 7. Oluseye Adesola: Pronouns and Null Operators: A-bar Dependencies and Relations in

Yoruba. (2005). Dissertation, Linguistics, Rutgers University. 8. Carmen Conti Jimenez: Pluralidad comitativa (Comitative Plurals, in Spanish). (2005)Verba

(Spain) 32, 275–306. 9. Richard S. Kayne: Movement and Silence. (2005) New York: Oxford University Press. 10. Johan Rooryck: Binding into Pronouns. (2006) Lingua 116/10, 1561–1579 11. Oluseye Adesola: A-bar Dependencies in the Yoruba Reference-tracking System. (2006)

Lingua 116/2, 20068–2106. 12. Sean Madigan, Masahiro Yamada: Asymmetry in Anaphoric Dependencies: A Cross-

Linguistic Study of Inclusive Reference. (2007) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Tatjana Scheffler, Joshua Tauberer, Aviad Eilam, Laia Mayol (eds.) Penn Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 13 (1), 183–195.

13. Katalin É. Kiss (ed.): Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces. (2009) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

14. Richard S. Kayne: Some Silent First-person Plurals. (2009) In: Merging Features: Computation, Interpretation, and Acquisition, José M. Brucart, Anna Gavarró, Jaume Solà (eds.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

15. Richard S. Kayne: Some Silent First-person Plurals. (2010) In: Richard S. Kayne: Comparisons and Contrasts, New York: Oxford University Press.

16. Richard S. Kayne: Comparisons and Contrasts. (2010). New York: Oxford University Press. 17. György Rákosi: On Snapeks and Locative Binding in Hungarian. (2010) In: Miriam Butt,

Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG10 Conference, Stanford: CSLI Publications, 416-435.

18. Johan Rooryck, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd: Dissolving Binding Theory. (2011) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

19. Éva Katalin Dékány: A Profile of the Hungarian DP: The Interaction of Lexicalization, Agreement and Linearization with the Functional Sequence. (2011) Dissertation, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø.

20. Beata Trawiński: Polish Comitative Constructions. Empirical Investigation and Formal Description. (2011), Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen.

21. Marjo van Koppen: The Distribution of Phi-features in Pronouns. (2012) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30, 135–177.

22. Rafael Nonato: Clause Chaining, Switch reference and Coordination. (2014) Dissertation, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS IN ENGLISH (Abbreviations: peer-reviewed conference presentation PeerConfP, invited conference presentation InvConfP, invited colloquium InvColl, invited seminar InvSem, home institution talk HomeT. 2015 “Revisiting a Problem for Possible-Worlds Analyses of Modality. A Case Against the If-Direction.”

1. InvColl at Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2015.

2. InvConfP at 1st Belgrade Conference on Conditionals, Philosophy Department, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, May 2015.

“Inadvertently Created Fictional Characters are Innocuous.” 3. PeerConfP at the conference Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible II, Institute of

Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 2015. 4. InvColl at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech

Republic, September 2015. “Fictional Characters and Goodman’s Inadvertent Creation Challenge.”

5. PeerConfP at PhiLang 2015, 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Department of English and General Linguistics, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland, May 2015.

6. InvColl Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at University of Oslo (CSMN UiO), Oslo, Norway, November 2015.

7. HomeT Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, December 2015.

8. “A Post-Kripkean Role for Identifying Descriptions.” InvConfP at the workshop: Proper Names: Current Work in Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, CEU Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, May 2015.

9. “Relevance Theoretic Comprehension Procedures: Accounting for Metaphor and Malapropism.” PeerConfP (over skype) at the 8th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: The Significance of Metaphor and Other Figurative Modes of Expression and Thought, AISB Convention 2015 (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Behavior), University of Kent, Canterbury, Great Britain, April 2015.

10. “Why Think that Authors Create Fictional Characters?” InvColl at the Departmental Colloquium of the Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, Great Britain, March 2015.

11. “Fictional Characters, Mythical Objects and Goodman’s Inadvertent Creation Challenge”. InvSem at the Work in Progress Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, Great Britain, March 2015.

2014 12. “Does the Name ‘Harry Potter’ Refer to Anything?” InvSem at the Department of

Philosophy at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, October 2014. 13. “Artifactualism and Authorial Creation.” PeerConfP at the conference Modal Metaphysics:

Issues on the (Im)Possible II, Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 2014.

“Relevance Theory: Accounting for Metaphor and Malapropism.” 14. InvColl at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech

Republic, October 2014. 15. HomeT at the MASZAT Colloquium Series (Round Table Society of Hungarian Semanticists),

MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, September 2014.


16. “Inferring Content: Metaphor and Malapropism.” InvConfP at the conference Philosophy of Linguistics and Language X. in the Special Session on Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s Philosophy of Language, Interuniversity Center Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2014.

17. “Possible Worlds and Deontic Modality.” InvConfP at the Language, Understanding, Interpretation conference series, conference entitled “Leibniz’s Monadology,” Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, September 2014.

“Revisiting a Problem for Possible-Worlds Analyses of Modality: The Case for Entailment Rather Than Analysis.”

18. HomeT at LaPoM, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics Student and Faculty Seminar, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, November 2014.

19. PeerConfP at Logic, Grammar, and Meaning, a conference on philosophy, logic, and linguistics at the University of East Anglia, Institute of Philosophy, Norwich, Great Britain, June 2014.

20. InvColl ELLMM City Talks (organized by the Epistemology, Language, Logic, Mind, and Metaphysics Group), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., May 2014.

21. InvColl PhLing Talks, Northwestern University, Department of Philosophy, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A., April 2014.

22. “What Sort of Object is Harry Potter?” InvColl at the Philosophy Academic Society, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada, April 2014.

2013 23. “Philosophers’ Myth about John Searle’s Theory of Proper Names.” HomeT at LaPoM,

Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics Student and Faculty Seminar, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, October 2013.

24. “Philosophers’ Myth about John Searle’s Theory of Proper Names.” PeerConfP at the 2nd PLM Conference (Philosophy of Language and Mind), Philosophy Department, Central European University Budapest, September 2013.

25. “Abstract Artifact Theory about Fictional Characters Defended: Why Sainsbury’s Category-Mistake Objection is Mistaken.” PeerConfP at the European Society for Aesthetics (ESA) Conference, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2013.

2012 26. „Philosophers’ Myth about John Searle’s Theory of Proper Names.” HomeT at the

MASZAT Colloquium Series (Round Table Society of Hungarian Semanticists), MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, October, 2012.

27. “Searle on Analyticity, Necessity, and Proper Names.” InvConfP presented at the conference “John Searle’s Philosophy” at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2012.

28. “The Word According to David Kaplan.” HomeT at LaPoM, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics Student and Faculty Seminar, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, April 2012.

29. “The Word According to David Kaplan.” InvColl at the Departmental Colloquium Series, Philosophy Department, at Central European University Budapest, March 2012.

2011 30. “Words’ Virtues: David Kaplan’s common currency conception of words defended.”

InvColl at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2011.

31. “Conditionals, Dispositions, Free Will.” InvConfP at the workshop Are We Free After All? Reading Huoranszki, Central European University, Budapest, November 2011.


2010 32. “What is Said, What is Meant.” InvSem at the CEU SUN two-week course Meaning, Context,

Intention, Central European University, July 2010. 33. “Contextualism about Knowledge Claims: The Case for Nonindexical Contextualism.”

InvSem presented as part of the Erasmus Faculty Mobility Program in Tomas Marvan’s course, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2010.

34. “Implicature for Simpler Minds?” InvColl at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2010.

2009 35. „Ruzsa on Quine’s Argument against Modal Logic.” InvConfP at the Language, Understanding,

Interpretation conference series, conference entitled “Logic, Language, Mathematics: A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa,” Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, September 2009.

2008 36. “The Intention to Refer: Proper Names and Referentially Used Definite Descriptions.”

PeerConfP at the 6th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, August 2008.

37. “Naming and Uncertainty: The Historical-Chain Theory Revised.” InvConfP at the XXV Varna International Summer School organized by the BAS Institute for Philosophical Research, Varna, Bulgaria, June 2008.

38. “Referential Intentions: Lessons from Proper Names and Definite Descriptions.” HomeT at the Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, May 2008.

2006 39. “What Grice Said about What Is Said.” HomeT at the Philosophy of Science Colloquium

Series, History and Philosophy of Science Department, ELTE, Budapest, November 2006. 40. “A Semantic Constraint on the Logic of Modal Conditionals.” PeerConfP at the Ninth

Symposium on Logic and Language (LoLa9), Theoretical Linguistics Program at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Besenyıtelek, Hungary, September 2006.

2005 41. “Incomplete Descriptions, Incomplete Quantified Expressions: Variation Matters.”

InvConfP at the conference “Descriptions (100 years of Russell’s paper On Denoting and 55 years of Strawson’s On Referring)”, Villa Lana, Department of Analytic Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy within the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, October 2005.

“Analytic Truths and Kripke’s Semantic Turn.” 42. InvColl at the Budapest Mind Society, Central European University, Budapest, April

2005. 43. Invited talk at the Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest,

July 2005. 44. Comments on Nenad Miscevic’s “Empirical Concepts and A Priori Truth.” Presented at the

CEU–Oxford Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism, Central European University, Budapest, April 2005.

45. “Deontic Discourse – Lessons from Inferentialism.” InvConfP at the Pécs Philosophy Conferences: on Robert Brandom, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, April 2005.


2004 46. Comments on Ferenc Huoranszki's “Contractualism and Political Obligations.” Presented at

the Dutch-Hungarian Philosophy Conference Series, European Patriotic Passions, Beek (Nijmegen), the Netherlands, november 2004.

2003 47. “The Semantics of Natural Kind Terms: Lessons from Putnam.” InvConfP at the Pécs

Philosophy Conferences: on Hilary Putnam, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, May 2003. 2001 “On Inclusive Reference Anaphora: New Perspectives from Hungarian.” Paper with Marcel den Dikken and Anikó Lipták, presented by Marcel den Dikken as

48. InvColl the 5th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Research Institute for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, May 2001.

49. ConfP at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, February 2001.

50. HomeT at the CUNY Colloquium Series, City University of New York, New York, NY, U.S.A., October 2000.

2000 51. Comments on Marco Santambrogio’s “Belief and the Justification of Deduction.” Presented

at the Summer School in Analytic Philosophy entitled Normativity and Reason, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, July 2000.

52. “The Semantics of Anaphora: A Unified Account.” InvConfP at the Pécs Philosophy Conferences: on Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, May 2000.

53. “The Explicit and Implicit Approaches to Handling Incomplete Descriptions.” HomeT at the NYU Graduate Student Colloquium Series, New York University, New York, NY, April 2000.

54. “Conceivability and the Mind-Body Problem.” InvColl at the Mount Holyoke College Philosophy Department, South Hadley MA, U.S.A., February 2000.

1997 55. “Definite Descriptions: What Frege got Right and Russell didn't.” PeerConfP at the New

England Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Tufts University, Medford MA, U.S.A., April 1997. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS IN HUNGARIAN (Abbreviations: peer-reviewed conference presentation PeerConfP, invited conference presentation InvConfP, invited colloquium InvColl, invited seminar InvSem, home institution talk HomeT.) 2015 1. “Relevance Theory about Metaphor and Malapropism.” HomeT Integrative Argumentation

Studies OTKA Reading Group, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest, April 2015.

2. “Understanding and Slips of the Tongue.” InvConfP at the conference Meaning and Experience, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, January 2015.

2013


3. “Searle, Proper Names, and Reasoning Strategies.” HomeT at Integrative Argumentation Studies OTKA Reading Group, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest, October, 2013.

4. “What Commitments are Incurred by Someone Who Says that ‘I’m no more than a pom pom on my wife’s slipper’?”., InvConfP at the Metaphor Workshop organized by the Hungarian Coaches Association and Erasmus Collegium’s Language Research Group, Budapest, May, 2013.

2012 5. “Fiction and Realism: Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts.” InvConfP at the

conference Realism within Phenomenology and within Analytic Philosophy, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, January 2012.

2011 6. “Necessity and Naming: Translating Kripke’s book (and turning it upside down).” InvConfP

at the conference Between Languages: Interdisciplinary Dialogue as part of the Celebrating Science in Hungary Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, held at Eötvös University’s Faculty of Humanities, organized by the MTA-ELTE Philosophy of Language Research Group, the Erasmus Collegium, and the Hungarian Wittgenstein Society, November 2011.

2010 7. “What do Grice’s Theory of Meaning and Communication Say about ‘Say’?” InvConfP at

the conference 20 Years of the Theoretical Philosophy Program, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, November 2010.

8. “Grice’s Theory of Meaning and Theory of Communication: What should we say about ’say’, what should we mean by ’mean’?” HomeT at the Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, November 2010.

9. “Implicature, Human Style and Animal Style.” InvConfP at the conference Language, Human, Animal at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary, April 2010.

2009 10. “Senses of Necessity.” InvConfP at It isn’t So II, a conference series organized by Erasmus

Collegium’s Language Research Group, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, September 2009.

2008 11. “Naming by Acquaintance and Naming by Description.” InvConfP at the Language,

Understanding, Interpretation conference series, conference entitled “Language, Knowledge, Consciousness”, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, September 2008.

12. The Causal Theory of Reference isn’t (Primarily) about Causation.” InvConfP at It isn’t So I, a conference series organized by Erasmus Collegium’s Language Research Group, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, April 2008.

13. “The Role of Intentions within the Causal Theory of Reference.” InvConfP at the conference Causation at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary, April 2008.

14. “Propositions: Frege’s Sinn versus Kaplan’s Character.” HomeT at the LaPoM (Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics) staff seminar, Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest January 2008.

2007


15. “The Causal Theory of Santa Claus.” InvConfP at the Erasmus Collegium workshop, Esztergom, Hungary, December 2007.

2006 16. “Grice’s Theory of Metaphor Defended: Who Said That Life isn’t a Piece of Cake?”

InvConfP at the Language, Understanding, Interpretation conference series, conference entitled “Metaphor, Tropes, Meaning”, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, September 2006.

2005 17. “Semantics for Deontic Logic.” HomeT at the Logic Workshop Presentation Series,

Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, November 2005. 18. “In Defense of Russell.” HomeT at the Philosophy Research Institute of the Hungarian

Academy of Sciences (MTA), Budapest, October 2005. 19. “Incomplete Descriptions, Incomplete Quantified Expressions.” InvConfP at the Language,

Understanding, Interpretation conference series, conference entitled “Description, Meaning, Denotation. On Denoting: 100 Years Later”, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, September 2005.

20. “‘The Door is Open’ and ‘Every Glass is Empty’: Definite Descriptions, Quantified Expressions, Truth Conditions.” InvConfP at the Perspectives in Semantics Workshop, Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, June 2005.

2004 21. “Analyticity, Kripke, and Another Semantic Turn.” InvConfP at the Language, Understanding,

Interpretation conference series, conference entitled “Metaphysics, Mind, Language – Critical Perspectives”, Institute of Philosophy, ELTE, Budapest, September 2004.

2003 22. “Quine on Modality.” InvConfP at the Language, Understanding, Interpretation conference series,

conference entitled “Language, Persuasion, Reasoning”, ELTE Philosophy Institute, Budapest, September 2003.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, INTERNATIONAL

REFEREEING ◊ Journal referee (philosophy and linguistics):

Multiple reviews: � Organon F, International Journal of Analytic Philosophy (Czech Republic–Slovakia) � Philosophical Studies � Synthese Also reviewed for: � Acta Linguistica Hungarica � Argumentation � Erkenntnis � Linguistics and Philosophy � Natural Language Semantics � Philosophia, The Philosophical Quarterly of Israel � SATS Northern European Journal of Philosophy

◊ Journal referee (outside philosophy/linguistics):The BMJ (British Medical Journal) ◊ Grant reviewer: Estonian Science Foundation (2012); SASPRO Mobility Programme of

the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2014); Icelandic Research Fund (2015).


ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, SUMMER SCHOOLS ◊ co-organizer (with Craige Roberts, The Ohio State University, CEU IAS), workshop at

the Central European University (CEU), Budapest (CEU Institute for Advanced Study, ELTE Department of Logic, MTA Institute for Theoretical Linguistics): Proper Names: Current Work in Linguistics and Philosophy of Language (May 2015) � invited speakers: David Braun, Delia Graff Fara, Emar Maier, Ora Matushansky,

Craige Roberts, Anders Schoubye, Zsófia Zvolenszky � invited discussants: Brendan Balcerak Jackson, Hanoch Ben-Yami, Hans-Martin

Gärtner, Aidan Gray, Robin Jeshion, Hans Kamp, Karen Lewis, Eliot Michaelson, David Pitt, Matthew Moss, Hazel Pearson, Brian Rabern, Paolo Santorio

◊ co-director (with Jason Stanley, Rutgers University), CEU Summer University (CEU SUN) two-week course: Meaning, Context, Intention (Central European University, Budapest) (July 2010)

� invited lecturers (mostly from U.S. universities): David Beaver, Ray Buchanan, Elisabeth Camp, Herman Cappelen, Wayne Davis, Katalin Farkas, Hans Kamp, Ernie Lepore, Stephen Neale, Craige Roberts, Adam Sennet, Jason Stanley Matthew Stone, Zoltán Szabó Gendler, Zsófia Zvolenszky

� approx. 70 participants (mostly Ph.D. students) from 25 countries ranging from Argentina to China

◊ international advisory board member, Ernst Mach Workshop / Werkstatt Ernst Mach, Department of Analytic Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2011–)

◊ member, program committee for the Symposium on Logic and Language (LoLa) (2006) EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP, OTHER MEMBERSHIP, TRANSLATION, EDITING ◊ editorial board member, Organon F, International Journal of Analytic Philosophy (Czech

Republic–Slovakia) (2009–) ◊ managing editor, Croatian Journal of Philosophy (2008–) ◊ member of the European Society for Aesthetics (ESA) (2013–) ◊ László Kalmár: “The Development of Mathematical Rigor from Intuition to Axiomatic

Method.” In: András Máté, Miklós Rédei, Friedrich Stadler (eds.) The Vienna Circle in Hungary. Vienna-New York: Springer, 2011, 269–288. (translation from Hungarian to English)

◊ Imre Ruzsa: “Russell versus Frege.” Croatian Journal of Philosophy 10/1, 13–20, 2010 (translation from Hungarian to English)

◊ Stephen Neale: Facing Facts. Oxford University Press, 2001. (editing, copy editing) ◊ Gary F. Marcus: The Algebraic Mind. MIT Press, 2001. (editing, copy editing)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, WITHIN HUNGARY ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ◊ Roundtable of Hungarian Semanticists (MASZAT), Research Institute for Linguistics of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences (co-organizers: Hans-Martin Gärtner and Beáta Gyuris), monthly colloquium series (2014–)

◊ Pragmatics workshop, OTKA symposium, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, BME, Department of Logic, ELTE Institute of Philosophy (November 2014)

◊ Jimmy 70 – Surprise conference to celebrate János Kelemen on his 70th birthday, Italian Institute of Cultural in Budapest (September 2013)


◊ Metaphor workshop, organized by the Hungarian Coaches Association and the Erasmus Collegium (May 2013)

◊ Language, Meaning, Interpretation conference series at the ELTE BTK Philosophy Institute (2003–2006, 2009–2011, 2014, eight times)

◊ It isn’t So, conferences organized by the Erasmus Collegium, MTA Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest (April 2008, September 2009)

MENTORING, DEVELOPING TEACHING MATERIALS, REFEREEING, MEMBERSHIP ◊ invited instructor, Erasmus Collegium, Budapest (a highly selective interuniversity honors

program for mentoring B.A. and M.A. students; directors: Ágnes Erdélyi, István Margócsy) (2006–), Language Research Group (head instructor, with László Kálmán).

◊ devised from scratch and maintained a system of undergraduate teaching assistants at ELTE’s Logic Department in connection with the first-year lecture course Logic and Reasoning (typically for 80–130 students); over 8 years (2006–2013), trained and worked with 22 teaching assistants, who stayed with the course, on average, for 3–4 semesters.

◊ developed (with András Máté) accreditation materials for the English-language MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Logic in ELTE Philosophy (2008–2009, program launched in Fall 2010).

◊ developed digital course materials for the Liberal Arts BA program at ELTE: logic, philosophy of language (2006–2007).

◊ developed background materials for the accreditation of the BA program in Philosophy at ELTE Philosophy (2005, program launched as part of the Bologna Process in Fall 2006).

◊ reviewer: National Conference of the Academic Associations for Hungarian BA and MA Students (OTDK) (2009–); Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) (2005–); Hungarian Philosophical Review, Elpis.

◊ membership: � board for the Cogito Prize, founded by the ELTE Philosophy Institute, L’Harmattan

Publishers and the Hungarian Philosophical Society. Each year’s winning monograph by a young, unpublished philosopher (typically a Ph.D. student who has just defended), is published in the Cogito Series (L’Harmattan Publishers) (2004–)

� MTA–ELTE Philosophy of Language Research Group (director: János Kelemen) supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Support Office (2003–2012);

� Hungarian Philosophical Society (2010–); � Search committee member for 3 assistant professor II jobs at ELTE Institute of

Philosophy (2010, 2015); � ELTE Humanities Faculty Council (2008–2011); ELTE Philosophy Institute Council

(2008–); public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007–).

PHILOSOPHY EDITORIAL CONSULTING, LANGUAGE EDITING, TRANSLATION EDITING ◊ Hungarian Philosophical Review, English-language issues (2010, 2012) ◊ H. P. Grice: Studies in the Way of Words, Hungarian edition (translated by Tibor Bárány et

al.) Tibor Bárány, Miklós Márton (eds.), Budapest: Gondolat, 2011. ◊ Saul Kripke: Naming and Necessity, Hungarian edition (translated by Tibor Bárány). Zsófia

Zvolenszky (ed.), Budapest: Akadémiai, 2007. ◊ Katalin Farkas – Ferenc Huoranszki (eds.): Essays in Modern Metaphysics. (in Hungarian)

Budapest: ELTE Eötvös Publishers, 2004.


MISCELLANEOUS ◊ Translation from Hungarian to English:

� The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of Genocide. Authors: Zoltán Vági, László Csısz, Gábor Kádár. Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context Series. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press (Rowman & Littlefield) in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2013.

� Xantus Film, Gábor Xantus’s and Áron Xantus’s documentary film studio, Cluj, Romania (2012–)

� National Geographic, Hungarian edition, National Geographic Kids, (2002–) ◊ Berlitz, New York, translation, copy editing (2001) ◊ Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institute (COLPI), Budapest, program officer

(1994–1996) ◊ Relay marathon (12K-leg), Spar Budapest Marathon (2014), ELTE Department of Logic

team (completed with a baby stroller) ◊ medal-winning scooterist (non-motorized scooter); Tour de Tisza-tó 2009: 55 km; Tour

de Tisza-tó 2008: 66.6 km, Tour de Zalakaros 2008: 38 km ◊ Balaton Cross-Swimming, Révfülöp-Balatonboglár, 5.2 km (2008, 2009) ◊ Balatonfüred–Tihany Cross Bay Swim, 3.6 km (2009, 2012) ◊ registered squash player (2005–7; highest rank: #72 in the Hungarian women’s rankings)

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