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
