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LSZL KAJTR
Curriculum Vitae

Central European University kajtar_laszlo@phd.ceu.edu

Department of Philosophy lkajtar@gmail.com
Ndor utca 9 laszlokajtar.weebly.com
1051 Budapest, Hungary

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, Central European University, 2017
Dissertation: Philosophical Issues in the Study of Narrative
Committee: Hanoch Ben-Yami (chair), Stacie Friend, Peter Lamarque, David
Weberman (supervisor)

MA Department of Philosophy, Central European University, 2012

MA Department of Philosophy, Eotvos Lorand University, 2010

BA Department of English and American Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, 2010

AREAS
Specialization

Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind & Language

Competence

Epistemology, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychology

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

forthcoming Fiction Cannot Be True. Philosophical Studies. doi: 10.1007/s11098-016-

0793-1

2016 What Mary Didnt Read: On Literary Narratives and Knowledge. Ratio 29
(3), 327-343. doi: 10.1111/rati.12098

Book Reviews

2016 The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction by Jukka Mikkonen. Philosophy

and Literature 40 (1), 317-319.
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2015 The Opacity of Narrative by Peter Lamarque. British Journal of Aesthetics, 55

(3), 399-401.

Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind by David Herman. The Journal of

Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73 (3), 367-369.

Semi-philosophical

2015 Rooting for the Villain: Frank Underwood and the Lack of Imaginative
Resistance. In House of Cards and Philosophy (ed. J. E. Hackett), Wiley-
Blackwell (pp. 227-236).

Infinite Lighthouses, Infinite Stories: BioShock and the Aesthetics of Video

Game Storytelling. In BioShock and Philosophy (ed. L. Cuddy), Wiley-
Blackwell (pp. 127-138).

2014 My Dad, the Jihadist Murderer: Traumatized Brody and the Philosophy of
Personal Identity. In Homeland and Philosophy (ed. R. Arp), Open Court
Publishing.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2016 Write-up Grant, Central European University
2015 Travel Grant, American Society for Aesthetics
2015 Doctoral Research Support Grant, Central European University
2014, 2015 Conference Participation Support, The Hungary Initiatives Foundation
2013, 2014, 2015 Travel Grant, Central European University
2014 Summer School Grant, Central European University
2012-5 The Full Central European University Doctoral Fellowship
2011-2 The Full Central European University Fellowship

AWARDS

2016 Award for Advanced Doctoral Students, Central European University

2014 The Academic Achievement Award for First-Year Doctoral Students, Central
European University
2012 The Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Central European University
2012 The Academic Pro-Rectors Excellence Award, Central European University

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY (SELECTED)

Invited
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2016 The Communicative View of Narrative Identity. Issues in Personal Identity,

Charles University, Prague, CZ, November 9-10.

2016 Narrative Worldmaking Beyond the Possible. Literature and Media

Innovation Twin Conference, Brussels, Belgium, March 17-18.

Refereed

2016 Fiction Cannot Be True. Philosophy of Language (I): Semantics of Fictional

Discourse, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SK, October 20-21.

2016 Functions and Intentions in Interpreting Narrative Art. European Society for
Aesthetics Conference, Barcelona, SP, June 8-11.

2016 The Role of the Imagination for Narratives in Art. The Nordic Society of
Aesthetics Annual Conference, Uppsala University, SW, May 26-28.

2016 Functions and Intentions in Interpreting Narrative Art. British Society for
Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference, University of Southampton, UK, April 1-
2.

2015 The Cognitive Value of Literary Narratives: A Phenomenological View.

American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, US,
November 11-14.

2015 The Cognitive Value of Literary Narratives: A Phenomenological View.

Annual Graduate Conference in Phenomenology, University of Sussex, UK,
June 12-13.

2015 Arguments against Narrative Representationalism. The 4th Conference of the

European Narratology Network, University of Ghent, BG, April 16-18.

2015 What Mary Didnt Read: On Literary Narratives and Knowledge. American
Society of Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, US, April
8-10.

2015 The Truth of Literary Narratives: A Philosophical Account. International

Conference on Narrative, Chicago, IL, US, March 5-8.

2014 Complex PTSD and Personal Identity: Psychological and Narrative

Approaches. European Society for Philosophy & Psychology 22nd Annual
Meeting, University of Messina, IT, September 16-19.

2013 Ricoeur and Narrative Identity: Application to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

in Contrast to Psychological Approaches to Personal Identity. 2nd APGC,
World Philosophies Conference, University of Hull, UK, June 20-21.
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Departmental Talks

2017 Narrative Art: Cognitive Workout and Aesthetic Experience. Narrative

workshop, CEU, Department of Philosophy, March 28.

2016 Fiction Cannot Be True. 9th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference,

CEU, Department of Philosophy, November 4-5.

2014 What Mary Didnt Read: On Literary Narratives and Knowledge. 7th In-
house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy,
October 10-11.

2013 'Memory Wars': Unconscious, Repression and the Philosophy of Personal

Identity. 6th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of
Philosophy, October 11-12.

2012 Between Psychological and Narrative Approaches to Personal Identity

through Time: The Case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 5th In-house
Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy, October
12-13.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Central European University, Teaching Assistant

Truth in Narratives: History and Fiction (winter 2015)

Contemporary Topics in Aesthetics (fall 2014)

Corvinus University

Introduction to Philosophy (T.A. fall 2013, co-instructor, fall 2016)

Eotvos Lorand University, Sole Instructor

The Philosophy of Fiction (fall 2014)

SERVICE
Peer Review: British Journal of Aesthetics, South African Journal of Philosophy

Conference/Workshop Organization

2015 Organizer, Kant and Aesthetics Workshop, Department of Philosophy, Central

European University, March 25
2014 Organizer, 7th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, Department of
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Philosophy, Central European University, October 10-11.

2014 Organizer, 5th International Graduate Conference, What We Do: Historical
and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aims and Methods of Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy, Central European University, April 4-5.
2014-2016 Organizer, Departmental Colloquium Series, Department of Philosophy,
Central European University
2015 Organizer, Aesthetics Reading Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

AFFILIATIONS
American Society for Aesthetics, 2015-2016
American Philosophical Association, 2015-2016
European Narratology Network, 2014-present
The European Society for Aesthetics, 2014-present
The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2014-present

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Hungarian: native
English: fluent
German: basic

REFERENCES
Greg Currie Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of York
gregory.currie@york.ac.uk

Stacie Friend - Lecturer

Department of Philosophy
Birkbeck, University of London
s.friend@bbk.ac.uk

Peter V. Lamarque - Professor

Department of Philosophy
University of York
p.v.lamarque@york.ac.uk

Derek Matravers Professor

Philosophy Department
The Open University
derek.matravers@open.ac.uk

David Weberman Associate Professor

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Department of Philosophy
Central European University
webermand@ceu.edu