Department of
History and Philosophy of Science
Balázs Gyenis
Balazs Gyenis
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh
1017 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA
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Research interest
I'm a third year student in the Ph. D. program. Besides collecting degrees in various departments, I'm currently thinking about choosing a dissertation topic and publishing some papers. I'm generally interested in questions related to how mathematics gets used in different mathematical sciences. This semester my focus is on psychology of mathematics, philosophy of modal logic, general relativity and a bit on quantum gravity; also, I'm teaching a course on ancient "Myth and Science".
Education
2006 : MA in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh.
2005 : MA in History and Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
2003 - : Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
2000 - : Student at Eötvös University, Budapest, MA Program in Philosophy.
1998 - 2003 : Student at Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. In the first three years participant of Intensive Methodological Program; in the last two enrolled to Theoretical Economics (major) and to Stochastic Processes (minor). Received MSc degree in 2003 (rating: excellent).
1994 - 1998 : Student at Városmajori High School, Budapest.
Fellowships & Awards
2003 / 2004 : Andrew Mellon Fellowship, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Pittsburgh.
Recent Publications (in English)
Gyenis, B. and Redei, M. (2004): "When can Statistical Theories be Causally Closed?", Foundations of Physics 34, Issue 9.
Work in progress: Maxwell and the normal distribution
Talks, presentations, conference activity
2003.08.7-13 : "On causal closedness of statistical theories", talk on the 12th IUHPS/DLMPS, Oviedo.
2001.08.19-23: Workshop on Modality, Probability and Bell's Theorems, Cracow.
2001 : Elaborating the conditions of an empirical research launched by the Organizational Behavior Program, Stanford University.
2001 : "Reichenbachian common cause closed systems": paper and talk on the biannual Hungarian Students' Research Projects Competition (Philosophy, first prize).
Teaching experience
2005 - 2006 spring: Instructor, Myth and Science.
2005 - 2006 fall: Instructor, Principles of Scientific Reasoning.
2004 - 2005 spring: Explanations of Humans and Society (Freud, Skinner, Piaget, Bartlett). Teaching Assistant of Peter Machamer.
2004 - 2005 fall: Thinking about the Environment. Teaching Assistant of John Earman.
1998 - 2001 : Mathematics and History (Preparatory courses for BUESPA, Studium Generale), one year as Junior, two years as Senior.
Languages
French: fluent. German, Turkish: poor.
Programming skills: Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic. I can handle HTML and JavaScript source and all the usual Windows applications as well. I'm somewhat familiar with the usual econometric and with some of the mathematical program packages. I'm a fan of LaTeX.
Hobbies
Music listening (mainly instrumental), books, sometimes poetry. I like to participate in surviving trips, and I walk around after midnight. Since I'm in the States I'm a fan of electric nick-nacks.
