István Aranyosi
Bilkent University Ankara
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October 2016 - March 2017
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István Aranyosi received his PhD in 2005 at the Central European University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University. He specializes in the philosophy of mind and of cognitive science and in metaphysics, and has further teaching competence in philosophy of language philosophy of religion, Ancient and Modern social and political philosophy. His publications include two books – The Peripheral Mind (Oxford University Press, 2013) and God, Mind, and Logical Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) – as well as a number of articles on various topics within his fields of research, such as “A New Argument for Mind-Brain Identity,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62 (3): 489–517, 2011 (Honorable Mention at the American Philosophical Association 2012 Article Prize), "The Solo Numero Paradox," American Philosophical Quarterly 48 (4): 347–360 , 2011, and "Should We Fear Quantum Torment?," Ratio 25 (3): 249–259, 2012.