Somodi Gergő

Gergő Somodi
Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details
Nationality: Hungarian
Date of Birth: 28 September 1982
Address
Budapest, 1045
Rózsa utca 1, 10/59
Hungary
Tel. +03630 4717229
E-mail: somodi.gergo@ceu-budapest.edu

Education

2007—present                    PhD Student in Philosophy
Central European University,
Department of Philosophy,
Budapest, Hungary

2001—2006                    MA in Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University,            MA, philologist in Hungarian Literature
Faculty of Humanities                 and Grammar
Budapest, Hungary

2002—2006                    MA, teacher of Hungarian Literature
Eötvös Loránd University,            and Grammar
Faculty of Humanities,
Faculty of Education and             MA, teacher of Philosophy
Psychology,
Budapest, Hungary

Membership in professional organizations & public activities

2009 fall    Visiting student, LOGOS, Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group, University of Barcelona

2006 –2007      Secretary of the Erasmus Collegium

2005 –      Fellow of the Erasmus Collegium, Budapest

2004 –2006     Secretary, Students’ Research Circle

2002        Founding member, Students’ Research Circle, Institute for Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Scholarships and Awards

fall 2009            Doctoral Research Support Grant
Central European University

spring 2006              second prize, Stipend for Academic Excellence, Institute for Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University,
Faculty of Humanities

fall 2005            third prize, Stipend for Academic Excellence, Institute for Philosophy ,
Eötvös Loránd University,
Faculty of Humanities

march 2005                         Third prize, Philosophy II. Section
XXVII. National Competitions
of Student Research in Humanities
and Social Sciences

spring 2005                Golden Degree, Stipend for Academic Excellence, Institute for Philosophy,
Eötvös Loránd University,
Faculty of Humanities

Teaching experience

spring 2009                    Philosophy of Language seminar
Department of Philosophy            (together with Zsófia Zvolenszky)
Eötvös Loránd University,
Faculty of Humanities

Conference talks

Moderate Non-Cognitivism
SOPHA, Triannual conference of the French Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Geneva,     Geneva, Switzerland, September 2-6, 2009.

“Metaphor as Speech act”
A Figure of Speech: Conference on Metaphor.  Third International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. 2007. December 16.

“A metafora mint beszédaktus” [Metaphor as speech act]
Conference on ‘Tropes, Metaphors, Meaning’, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Philosophy of Language Research Group & Institute for Philosophy of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, September 2006.

“Davidson a metafora és a hasonlat kapcsolatáról ” [Davidson on the relation between simile and metaphor]
Conference of the Erasmus College, Budapest, June 2006.

“A metafora hasonlat-elméletének davidsoni kritikája” [Davidson as a critic of the simile theory of metaphor]
First Conference of the Students’ Research Circle, Institute for Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, March 2006.

“Locke, Nietzsche, metafora” [Locke, Nietzsche, Metaphor]
XXVII. National Competitions of Student Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Philosophy II. section, March 2005.

Publications

Ignorance Radicalized (forthcoming) Studia Philosophica Estonica 2.2 http://www.spe.ut.ee/

2006. “A metafora mint beszédaktus” [Metaphor as speech act] Világosság,  8-9-10: 21-30

2006. “Amit a metaforákba(n) gondolunk” [Are there Conceptual Metaphors?]
Review, Kövecses Zoltán: A metafora – Gyakorlati bevezetés a kognitív metaforaelméletbe /ford.: Várhelyi Gabriella és Kövecses Zoltán; Typotex, Budapest, 2005. (Zoltán Kövecses: Metaphor. A Practical Introduction. Oxford University Press, New York, 2002)
In. BUKSZ 4(Tél [winter]): 316-324

2005 “Locke, Nietzsche, metafora“ [Locke, Nietzsche, Metaphor]
In: A XXVII. Országos Tudományos Diákköri Konferencia Társadalomtudományi Szekciójának díjazott dolgozatai. (on-line kötet) Szerk.: Csomán Gábor, Kiadó: Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, 2005 url: http://www.uni-corvinus.hu/otdk2005 ISBN 963 503 340 0