The Doctoral School of Philosophy is an operative unit of the Faculty of Humanities, where doctoral education towards a PhD degree is conducted in a number of disciplines of the philosophical sciences, consisting of the Institute of Philosophy, the Institue of Art History and the Institute for the Theory of Art and Media Studies. Instructors and staff of other universities or research institutes participate as core members or as guest supervisors/instructors.
Head of the Doctoral School:
Professor Tamás Ullmann
e-mail: ullmann.tamas@btk.elte.hu
Doctoral School secretariat:
Marlyin Mónika
e-mail: marlyin.monika@btk.elte.hu
Programs:
Aesthetics Doctoral Program
Head:
Professor Sándor Sajó
e-mail: sajo.sandor@btk.elte.hu
The Aesthetics PhD. Program has been launched as an independent doctoral program in 1995. It was integrated into Doctoral School of Philosophy some years later, but the program preserved its independent profile. According to the first principle the Aesthetic Doctoral Program does not limit the possible subjects for dissertations, but remains open for all high quality and well-founded research project. According to the second principle it is not a general, but higher level formation remaining in the framework of university teaching, but a very specific scientific activity. The core of the teaching in the Aesthetics program is the history of aesthetics and philosophy of art. The most important teaching method is tutorial consultation. We organize at the end of each semester a conference where all doctoral students have to present their actual work.
Analytic Philosophy Doctoral Programme
Head:
Professor Zsófia Zvolenszky
e-mail: zvolenszky.zsofia@btk.elte.hu
The analytic tradition in philosophy has been prominent in the English-speaking world since the second half of the 20th century and became influential in Hungary since the 1990s due in large part to János Kelemen’s teaching and research as well as his participation in launching, in 1995, the Doctoral Program in Analytic Philosophy. Since 2015, Zsófia Zvolenszky has been head of the Program. Several faculty members teaching and advising in the Program are internationally renowned scholars in analytic philosophy; the majority regularly teaches English-language courses. Hungarian as well as international students with an MA in Philosophy (or equivalent) can apply to the Doctoral Program, which has a Hungarian as well as an English version. The Analytic Philosophy Program encompasses the following areas: philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, epistemology; ethics, metaethics, moral philosophy; history of analytic philosophy; analytic approaches to feminist philosophy; analytic aesthetics and philosophy of art; analytic political philosophy. Further areas covered through cooperation with other doctoral programs in Philosophy, primarily the Doctoral Program in Logic and Philosophy of Science: philosophical logic; philosophy of mathematics; mathematical logic; philosophy of science.
Képzési tervek, tárgyleírások / Curricula and course descriptions