Szabó Gábor
Szabó, Gábor
Tudományos fokozat: PhD, DSc
Beosztás: tudományos tanácsadó
Osztályvezető, kutatócsoport-vezető
Osztály, kutatócsoport: Tudománytörténet és Tudományfilozófia Osztály, Fizika Filozófiája Kutatócsoport
Szobaszám: B.7.26.
Személyes honlap: Oktatói honlap
Academic degree: PhD, DSc
Position: Scientific Advisor
Head of Department, Research Group Leader
Department, research group: History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics Research Group
Room: B.7.26.
Personal web-page: Faculty webpage
Munkahelyek
| Év | Intézmény |
|---|---|
| 2019-től | tudományos tanácsadó, MTA BTK Filozófai Intézet |
| 2012-től | főmunkatárs, MTA BTK Filozófai Intézet |
| 2012-2016 | docens, Óbudai Egyetem Neumann János Kar |
| 2008-2011 | Bolyai János kutatóösztöndíjas, ELTE Logika Tanszék |
| 2006-2012 | docens, Zsigmond Király Főiskola |
| 2003-2006 | Bolyai János kutatóösztöndíjas, BME Tudományfilozófia és Tudománytörténet Tanszék |
Tanulmányok, tudományos fokozatok
| Év | Intézmény, képesítés |
|---|---|
| 2020 | D.Sc.tudományfilozófia (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia) |
| 2012 | habilitáció (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest) |
| 2001 | Ph.D. tudományfilozófiából (Budapesti Muszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem, Budapest) |
| 1993 | fizikus |
Díjak és ösztöndíjak
| Idő | Díj, projekt megnevezése |
|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Kutatói Díj, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, München, Németország |
| 2011-2012 | Fulbright-ösztöndíj, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA. |
| 1996-1997 | KAAD-ösztöndíj, Ludwig-Maximilian Egyetem München, Filozófia Tanszék, Németország. |
| 2015 június | Senior Research Fellowship, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, München, Németország. |
| 2017 június | Az Olasz Külügyminisztérium utazási támogatása, Róma, Olaszország |
Academic positions
| Years | Institute |
|---|---|
| 2021-2024 | deputy head of the Institute for Philosophy at the Research Centre for the Humanities |
| 2020-2021 | head of the Institute for Philosophy at the Research Centre for the Humanities |
| 2019-present | leader of Sociophysics research group at Institute of Advanced Studies, Koszeg. |
| 2018-present | scientific advisor in the Institute for Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2012-2018 | senior research fellow in the Institute for Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2012-2016 | associate professor in János Neumann Faculty at Óbuda University |
| 2008-2011 | János Bolyai research fellow at Eötvös University Budapest |
| 2006-2012 | associate professor at King Sigismund College |
| 2003-2006 | János Bolyai research fellow at Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
Education, academic degrees
| Years | Institute |
|---|---|
| 2020 | D.Sc. in philosophy of science (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| 2012 | habilitation (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) |
| 2001 | Ph.D. in philosophy of science (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) |
| 1993 | M.A. in physics (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) |
Scholarships and Awards
| Years | Name of award, project |
|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Munich, Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Munich, Germany |
| 2011-2012 | Fulbright Research Grant in the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| 1996-1997 | KAAD Research Grant in the Department of Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian, University |
Kutatási területek
A kvantumelmélet filozófiai alapjai, a valószínűség és a kauzalitás története és metafizikája, Bell-egyenlőtlenségek, a reichenbachi közös ok elv, a modern fizika története és filozófiája.
Részvétel csoportos / egyéni pályázatokban
| A valószínűség, a kauzalitás és a kontextualitás alapjainak újragondolása: alkalmazások a fizikában és azon túl, NKFIH, K-134275, (vezető kutató), 2020-2025 (17,6 MFt). |
| Probability, Causality and Determinism, a Magyar és a Lengyel Tudományos Akadémia Bilaterális Mobilitási Pályázata, (magyar vezető kutató), 2014-2016 (2.200 EUR). |
| A fizika metafizikai alapjai formális megközelítésben, OTKA, K-115593, (vezető kutató), 2015-2019 (16 MFt). |
| Valószínűség, kauzalitás, tér és idő, OTKA, K-100715, (kutatótárs), 2012-2015 (8.600.000 HUF). |
| Korrelációk és magyarázataik, OTKA, T-043642, (kutatótárs), 2003-2005 (4.100.000 HUF). |
| Tudásformák - a tudás kül.nb.zo formái, ezek alapjai, közös és kül.nb.zo vonásai, OTKA, T-037575, (kutatótárs), 2002-2005 (8.400.000 HUF). |
Szerkesztőségi tagság
| European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (editorial board) |
Tudományos társasági tagság
| European Philosophy of Science Association |
Konferenciaszervezés (válogatás)
| Physics meets Philosphy (https://physicsmeetsphilosophy.tumblr.com/) |
| Meaning, Truth and Physics (https://eszabo70.blog/) |
| Quantum foundations, Probability, Categories (https://redei70.tumblr.com/) |
Konferencia-részvételek, meghívott előadások (válogatás)
| ”Causality and operational equivalence," Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 2024 October. |
| ”Bridgmanian quantum mechanics," Department of Philosophy, Pisa, Italy, 2024 August. |
| ”Operational equivalence and causal structure," Sigma Club, London School of Economics, London, 2024 March. |
| ”Operational equivalence and causal structure," Physics meets Philosophy workshop, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2023 November. |
| ”Kvantumelmélet és interpretáció (Quantum Theory and interpretation)," Kelet Kávézó, Budapest, 2023 November. |
| ”A kvantumelmélet modális interpertációja (The Modal interpretation of Quantum Theory)," Modalitások konferencia, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2023 October. |
| ”Three types of Bell inequality," ”Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science, Urbino, Italy, 2023 September. |
| ”Three types of Bell inequality," ”MCMP-Wuppertal-Hannover Workshop, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, Germany, 2023 July. |
| ”Three types of Bell inequality," Physics meets Philosophy Workshop, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academly of Sciences, Austria, 2023 June. |
| ”History and Philosophy of Science: Present and Prospects" Round table discussion, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, 2023 June. |
| ”Contextuality in the natural and social sciences,” Fióka seminar, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 2023 May. |
| ”Partneri viszonyok, elfogadás és befogadás egy német középiskolában” (Partnership, Acceptance and Inclusion in a German Secondary School), Együttmuk.do közoktatás, Civil Közoktatási Fórum, Budapest, 2023 January. |
| ”Mi az ido?” (What is Time?), Videokávészalon, Budapest, 2023 January. |
| ”Ido a fizikában,” (Time in Physics), Time in the Sciences and in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary, 2022 December. |
| ”A kvantumelmélet interpretációi,” (Interpretations of quantum theory), Tudomány Napja, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary, 2022 November. |
| "Ido és relativitás," (Time and relativity) Könyvtári keddek, József Attila Gimnázium, Budapest, 2022 November. |
| "Is the quantum state real?," Physics meets philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2022 September. |
| “Contextuality in natural and social sciences," Milestone Interdisciplinary Reading Group, Budapest, 2022 August. |
| ”Between social and classical: contextuality in quantum theory,” Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Pöcking, Germany, 2022 July. |
| ”Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence,”Work-in-Progress Seminar, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, Germany, 2022 May. |
| ”Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics,” History and Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar, Lichtenberg Group, University of Bonn, Germany, 2022 April. |
| ”Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence,” Research Seminar, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 2022 April. |
| ”Contextuality in the natural and social sciences,” Institute seminar, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary 2022 March. |
| ”Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence,” Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary 2022 February. |
| ”A dynamical systems approach to causation,” Philosophy of Science Seminar, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, Germany, 2021 December. |
| ”Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics,” New Foundations for Physics, Center for Advanced Studies LMU, Munich, Germany, 2021 November. |
| “Kvantum és kvantumszeru“ (Quantum and quantum-like), book review of Thomas Filk: Quantum and quantum-like, introduction to quantum theory and its application in cognitive and social sciences, iASK-MTA conference, 2021 October. |
| Comment on Daniel Kodaj’s “Finite Conditional Frequentism,“ Institute of Philosophy Seminar, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2020 December. |
| “EPR’s reality criterion,“ Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2020 September (with Márton Gömöri). |
| “A valószínuség interpretációi“ (Interpretations of probability), Physics meets philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2020 September. |
Research Interests
History and philosophy of probability and causality, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and quantum logic, Bell theorems and Reichenbach’s Common Cause Principle, philosophy and history of modern physics.
Participation in group / personal research grants
| Bessel Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (45.000 EUR) |
| “Rethinking the foundations of probability, causality, and contextuality: applications in physics and beyond,” National Research, Development and Innovation Office, OTKA, K 134275, (philosophy of science, principal investigator), 2020-2024. (52.000 EUR) |
| Senior Research Grant of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2020 May-June. (10.000 USD, cancelled due to pandemic). |
| “Contextuality – a limit on unifying discourses,” Senior Research Grant of the Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg, 2019 September-December. |
| “Contextuality in physics and beyond,” Senior Research Grant of the Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg, 2018 September-December. |
| “A Formal Approach to the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics,” Research Grant of the Hungarian National Science Foundation, OTKA, K 115593, (philosophy of science, principal investigator), 2015- 2019. (52.000 EUR). |
| “Probability, Causality and Determinism,” Bilaterial Mobility Grant of the Hungarian and Polish Academies of Sciences, (philosophy of science, co-principal investigator), 2014-2016. (2.200 EUR). |
| Senior Research Fellowship of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Munich, 2015 June. (1.500 EUR). |
| “Probability, Causality, Space, and Time,” Scientific Research Grant of the Hungarian National Science Foundation, OTKA, K 100715, (philosophy of science, member), 2012-2015 (27.000 EUR). |
| Fulbright Research Grant, 2011-2012 (18.000 USD). |
| Research Grant of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, 2011-2012 (21.000 USD). |
| “Correlations and their explanation,” Scientific Research Grant of the Hungarian National Science Foundation, OTKA, T 043642, (philosophy of science, member), 2003-2005 (28.000 EUR). |
| “Forms of knowledge,” Scientific Research Grant of the Hungarian National Science Foundation, OTKA, T 037575, (philosophy of science, member), 2002-2005 (16.000 EUR). |
Editorial membership
| European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (editorial board) |
Scientific society membership
| European Philosophy of Science Association |
Conference organization (selection)
| Physics meets Philosphy (https://physicsmeetsphilosophy.tumblr.com/) |
| Meaning, Truth and Physics (https://eszabo70.blog/) |
| Quantum foundations, Probability, Categories (https://redei70.tumblr.com/) |
Conference participation & Invited talks
| ”Causality and operational equivalence," Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 2024 October. |
| ”Bridgmanian quantum mechanics," Department of Philosophy, Pisa, Italy, 2024 August. |
| ”Operational equivalence and causal structure," Sigma Club, London School of Economics, London, 2024 March. |
| ”Operational equivalence and causal structure," Physics meets Philosophy workshop, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2023 November. |
| ”Kvantumelmélet és interpretáció (Quantum Theory and interpretation)," Kelet Kávézó, Budapest, 2023 November. |
| ”A kvantumelmélet modális interpertációja (The Modal interpretation of Quantum Theory)," Modalitások konferencia, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2023 October. |
| ”Three types of Bell inequality," ”Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science, Urbino, Italy, 2023 September. |
| ”Three types of Bell inequality," ”MCMP-Wuppertal-Hannover Workshop, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, Germany, 2023 July. |
| ”Three types of Bell inequality," Physics meets Philosophy Workshop, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academly of Sciences, Austria, 2023 June. |
| ”History and Philosophy of Science: Present and Prospects" Round table discussion, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, 2023 June. |
| ”Contextuality in the natural and social sciences,” Fióka seminar, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 2023 May. |
| ”Partneri viszonyok, elfogadás és befogadás egy német középiskolában” (Partnership, Acceptance and Inclusion in a German Secondary School), Együttmuk.do közoktatás, Civil Közoktatási Fórum, Budapest, 2023 January. |
| ”Mi az ido?” (What is Time?), Videokávészalon, Budapest, 2023 January. |
| ”Ido a fizikában,” (Time in Physics), Time in the Sciences and in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary, 2022 December. |
| ”A kvantumelmélet interpretációi,” (Interpretations of quantum theory), Tudomány Napja, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary, 2022 November. |
| "Ido és relativitás," (Time and relativity) Könyvtári keddek, József Attila Gimnázium, Budapest, 2022 November. |
| "Is the quantum state real?," Physics meets philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2022 September. |
| “Contextuality in natural and social sciences," Milestone Interdisciplinary Reading Group, Budapest, 2022 August. |
| ”Between social and classical: contextuality in quantum theory,” Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Pöcking, Germany, 2022 July. |
| ”Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence,”Work-in-Progress Seminar, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, Germany, 2022 May. |
| ”Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics,” History and Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar, Lichtenberg Group, University of Bonn, Germany, 2022 April. |
| ”Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence,” Research Seminar, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 2022 April. |
| ”Contextuality in the natural and social sciences,” Institute seminar, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary 2022 March. |
| ”Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence,” Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary 2022 February. |
| ”A dynamical systems approach to causation,” Philosophy of Science Seminar, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, Germany, 2021 December. |
| ”Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics,” New Foundations for Physics, Center for Advanced Studies LMU, Munich, Germany, 2021 November. |
| “Kvantum és kvantumszeru“ (Quantum and quantum-like), book review of Thomas Filk: Quantum and quantum-like, introduction to quantum theory and its application in cognitive and social sciences, iASK-MTA conference, 2021 October. |
| Comment on Daniel Kodaj’s “Finite Conditional Frequentism,“ Institute of Philosophy Seminar, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2020 December. |
| “EPR’s reality criterion,“ Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2020 September (with Márton Gömöri). |
| “A valószínuség interpretációi“ (Interpretations of probability), Physics meets philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 2020 September. |
Egyetemi oktatás
| Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest (2012-2024): |
| Flow of time |
| Relativity for Everyone |
| Models and Theories |
| Quantum Contextuality |
| Interpretations of Quantum theory |
| Philosophy of Time Entropy, Demon and the Direction of Time: Introduction to the Thermal Philosophy |
| Quantum Theory and Local Causality |
| Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Theory |
| Reading seminar in the Philosophy of Spacetime |
| Physics and Chance, Philosophical Foundations of Statistical Physics |
| Reading seminar in the Philosophy of Statistical Physics |
| Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics |
| Metaphysics of Probability |
| Zsigmond Király Főiskola (2005-2012): |
| A filozófia diszciplínái |
| Bevezetés a logikába |
| Tudományfilozófia |
| Reading Philosophy |
| Analytic Philosophy |
| Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem (2000-2005): |
| Tudományelmélet |
University / higher education
| Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2012-2024): |
| Flow of time |
| Relativity for Everyone |
| Models and Theories |
| Quantum Contextuality |
| Interpretations of Quantum theory |
| Philosophy of Time Entropy, Demon and the Direction of Time: Introduction to the Thermal Philosophy |
| Quantum Theory and Local Causality |
| Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Theory |
| Reading seminar in the Philosophy of Spacetime |
| Physics and Chance, Philosophical Foundations of Statistical Physics |
| Reading seminar in the Philosophy of Statistical Physics |
| Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics |
| Metaphysics of Probability |
| Zsigmond Király Főiskola (2005-2012): |
| A filozófia diszciplínái |
| Bevezetés a logikába |
| Tudományfilozófia |
| Reading Philosophy |
| Analytic Philosophy |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics (2000-2005): |
| Tudományelmélet |
Könyvek
| Hofer-Szabó, G., P. Vecsernyés, Quantum Theory and Local Causality, Springer Brief (2018). |
| Hofer-Szabó, G., L. Wronski (eds.) Making it Formally Explicit – Probability, Causality and Indeterminism, European Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series, Springer Verlag (2017). |
| Hofer-Szabó, G., M. Rédei, L. E. Szabó, The Principle of the Common Cause, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2013). |
| Szabó, G., A valószínuség interpretációi, Typotex, Budapest, (2013). |
Nemzetközi publikációk
| (2024c). Hofer-Szabó G., "Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence," European Journal for Philosophy of Science, (submitted). |
| (2024b). Hofer-Szabó G., "PBR, nonreality and entangled measurement," Foundations of Physics, 54, 36. |
| (2024a). Hofer-Szabó G., "Sequential measurements and the Kochen-Specker arguments," Journal for General Philosophy, 55, 29-42. |
| (2022). Hofer-Szabó G., "Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93, 21-29. |
| (2021e). M. Gömöri, G. Hofer-Szabó, "On the meaning of EPR’s reality criterion," Synthese, 199, 13441–13469. |
| (2021d). Hofer-Szabó G. "Causal contextuality and contextuality-by-default are different concepts," Journal of Mathematical Phychology, 104, 102590. |
| (2021c). Hofer-Szabó G., "Three noncontextual hidden variable models for the Peres-Mermin square," European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 11, 30. |
| (2021b). P. Fazekas, B. Gyenis, G. Hofer-Szabó, G. Kertész, "A dynamical systems approach to causation," Synthese, 198, 6065-6087. |
| (2021a). Hofer-Szabó G., "Commutativity, comeasurability, and contextuality in the Kochen-Specker arguments," Philosophy of Science, 88, 483-510. |
| (2020b). Hofer-Szabó G., Placek T., Luc J., "Modality in Physics," Foundations of Physics, 50, 515-521. |
| (2020a). Hofer-Szabó G., "On the three types of Bell’s inequality," in Orly Shenker, Meir Hemmo (eds.) Quantum, Probability, Logic: The Work and Infuence of Itamar Pitowsky, Berlin: Springer, 353-374. |
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A teljes bibliográfia és az egyes tanulmányokra való független hivatkozások az MTMT Adatbázisban tekinthetők meg. |
Books
| Hofer-Szabó, G., P. Vecsernyés, Quantum Theory and Local Causality, Springer Brief (2018). |
| Hofer-Szabó, G., L. Wronski (eds.) Making it Formally Explicit – Probability, Causality and Indeterminism, European Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series, Springer Verlag (2017). |
| Hofer-Szabó, G., M. Rédei, L. E. Szabó, The Principle of the Common Cause, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2013). |
| Szabó, G., A valószínuség interpretációi, Typotex, Budapest, (2013). |
Papers
| (2024c). Hofer-Szabó G., "Quantum mechanics without operational equivalence," European Journal for Philosophy of Science, (submitted). |
| (2024b). Hofer-Szabó G., "PBR, nonreality and entangled measurement," Foundations of Physics, 54, 36. |
| (2024a). Hofer-Szabó G., "Sequential measurements and the Kochen-Specker arguments," Journal for General Philosophy, 55, 29-42. |
| (2022). Hofer-Szabó G., "Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93, 21-29. |
| (2021e). M. Gömöri, G. Hofer-Szabó, "On the meaning of EPR’s reality criterion," Synthese, 199, 13441–13469. |
| (2021d). Hofer-Szabó G. "Causal contextuality and contextuality-by-default are different concepts," Journal of Mathematical Phychology, 104, 102590. |
| (2021c). Hofer-Szabó G., "Three noncontextual hidden variable models for the Peres-Mermin square," European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 11, 30. |
| (2021b). P. Fazekas, B. Gyenis, G. Hofer-Szabó, G. Kertész, "A dynamical systems approach to causation," Synthese, 198, 6065-6087. |
| (2021a). Hofer-Szabó G., "Commutativity, comeasurability, and contextuality in the Kochen-Specker arguments," Philosophy of Science, 88, 483-510. |
| (2020b). Hofer-Szabó G., Placek T., Luc J., "Modality in Physics," Foundations of Physics, 50, 515-521. |
| (2020a). Hofer-Szabó G., "On the three types of Bell’s inequality," in Orly Shenker, Meir Hemmo (eds.) Quantum, Probability, Logic: The Work and Infuence of Itamar Pitowsky, Berlin: Springer, 353-374. |
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