Bence Nanay   (°1974) Hongaar

Werkte aan:

University of Cambridge, UK

Nieuwe thuishaven:

UA, departement Filosofie

Hij zal onderzoek voeren over “Perception, Action and What's in between” (Waarneming, handeling en wat ertussenin is).

Zijn Odysseus toelagen (Groep II) bedragen  967.100 EUR, verspreid over 5 jaar. Hij zal in Antwerpen een team van 5 onderzoekers leiden.

Academische carrière:

o   Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (2010- heden)

o   Assistant professor, Syracuse University, Department of Philosophy (2006-2010)

o   Assistant professor without review, University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy (2007-2010)

o   Lakatos Research Fellow, London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy (2008)

o   PhD. University of California, Berkeley. Department of Philosophy (2006)

o   Junior Fellow. Institute for Advanced Studies. Collegium Budapest. (2001-2002) 

Drie belangrijke publicaties:

Perceiving the World. Oxford University Press, 2010 (edited collection)

Imaginative resistance and conversational implicature. The Philosophical uarier/y 60(2010): 586-600.

Imagining, recognizing and discriminating. Reconsidering the Ability Hypothesis. Philosophy and

Phenomenological Research 79(2009): 699-717.

Uit het jury-rapport:

Bence Nanay’s has an excellent PhD experience, in one of the best institutions of the world and with some of the leading philosophers, such as John Searle. Even more striking is the quantity and the quality of his published and forthcoming work. Notwithstanding his still relatively young age, Nanay has already published in the very best international journals and with some of the very best international publishers. His research interests are wide and original, and he seems to fully master the relative literature in all fields.

His ambitious research project aims at studying human cognition (with a particular focus on "action-guiding perceptual representations") by investigating the intersections of several fields: epistemology, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, theory of evolution, neuroscience. It is to be expected that the candidate's spectacular background will make it possible for him to master the relevant data and ideas that come from so many different fields.