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I’m a Hungarian philosopher. I live in Budapest and work as a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, HUN-REN.. I got my PhD in philosophy from Eötvös Loránd University in 2005, and earned my DSc doctorate at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Throughout my career, I have dealt with quite a few first-level philosophical problems (perhaps too much), but in the last 10-12 years my interest has turned to metaphilosophy. Basically, three questions make me excited. (1) How should we evaluate philosophy’s epistemic achievements and what kind of expectations should we have towards its future—is the picture rather dark (there’s less progress in philosophy than we hoped for) or rather bright (we should, after all, be satisfied with philosophy’s progress)? (2) What should we do with our philosophical beliefs about which there is permanent dissensus among philosophers—can we sustain them, or should we suspend them, or, at least, lower our confidence? (3) What explains the fact of pervasive and permanent philosophical dissensus—why don’t we know the answers to the big questions of philosophy; why do philosophical problems so stubbornly defy any solution?
My recent book (The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge) is about the former
issues—especially about (2). In it, I paint a rather dark picture of philosophy as an epistemic
enterprise, and argue that, as much as we would like to, we cannot reassuringly account for
the epistemic status of our substantive philosophical beliefs. You can find the book
here.
Read more about my views here
and here.
I have two grown-up sons: Kristóf and Bence. My partner is Judit Gébert, with whom I have been in a super (inspiring and loving) relationship for many years.