Juraj Hvorecký

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EDUCATION

September 1997-present Slovak Academy of Sciences, Philosophy Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia PhD studies in Philosophy, expected graduation Spring 2004. Till October 2000 I was an internal student, from then on I continue working externally. Dissertation topic: The Nature of Intentional Objects

September 1992-May 1997 Comenius University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Bratislava, Slovakia, Magister (equivalent of MA) in Philosophy. Diploma work: Third Dogma of Empiricism. Because of one-year study abroad, I graduated in 4 years instead of standard 5
January - December 1995 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock, PA, USA, BA, majoring in Philosophy, top 10% of the class

EMPLOYMENT
Febraury 2004 - present Philosophy Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Junior Researcher, Independent research at the Working group for Analytic Philosophy and Theory of Interpretation

September - December 2003

Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Western Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Project analyst

Project: Interdisciplinary Education in the Czech Republic

Responsible for management, data collection, analysis and presentation of foreign and domestic interdisciplinary academic workplaces. Working in the team with 5 members

January 2001 - August 2003

Center for Theoretical Study, Prague, Czech Republic

Postdoctoral fellow

Individual research position in innovative theoretical research on Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences. The main academic conference organizer for Towards the Science of Consciousness 2003 (July 2003, Prague)

January 2001 - May 2003

Lecturer

Preparation and delivery of 4 different courses on Philosophy and Cognitive Science

January 1999 - December 2000

Comenius University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Bratislava and City University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Lecturer

Preparation and delivery of courses on Philosophy of Mind and Contemporary Ethics, (the latter delivered in English)

July 1998

Open Society Fund, Budapest, Hungary

Project Coordinator

Project: Invisible College Summer Camp Meeting 1998

Responsible for overseeing the preparation of the meeting

AWARDS
- September 2002 - June 2003

Curriculum Research Center, Budapest, Hungary

Scholarship awarded in a tender for the design and delivery of a novel course into the curriculum at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

August 1999 - July 2000

University of Arizona, Dept. of Philosophy, Tucson, AZ, USA

Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, recognized award for distinguished research and study

September 1996 - May 1997

The Society for Higher Learning and The Open Society Fund, Bratislava, Slovakia

Scholarship covering expenses for the research project "Philosophy of Mind" and the related tutorship

August - December 1995

Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, USA

Tuition waiver for academic excellence

STUDY STAYS
- July 2002

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Summer School on Consciousness, participating on a research project

May 2002

University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

CEEPUS Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, delivering a series of lectures on Theories of Consciousness

July 2001

New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Summer School on Cognitive Sciences, taking credited courses

July 1999

Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Summer School in Political Philosophy

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