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Peter Hajnal

Background:

Peter Hajnal received his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 2003 and his MA in philosophy from University of Calgary in 1994, after an MSc in computer science from Rutgers University in 1992, and a BA in mathematics and philosophy from ELTE, Budapest in 1990. He has taught courses in finite mathematics at Rutgers University, and courses on logic, existentialism, epistemology, and philosophy and literature at Columbia University. Hajnal's research interests are in aesthetics, the philosophy of perception, Marxism, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as exploring the relationship between analytical and continental philosophy; his dissertation examines the later Lukacs' Philosophy of Art History. From 2003-2007 he was Programme Director for the Academy Year Programme, and since January 2007 he has been Co-Dean of the College and Academic Affairs.

Classes Taught at ECLA:

Core Courses:
Co-designed and taught Project Year Core Courses on Film and Philosophy, and Marx.
As Programme Director of the Academy Year Programme from 2003-2007 he participated actively in the design, coordination and teaching of most Academy Year Core courses.
In 2007 proposed, coordinated, and taught the Academy Year Core Course on Art, Morality, and Politics in Renaissance Florence.

Electives:
Richard Wollheim's Art and it's Objects
First-order logic

Project Year Research Topics supervised at ECLA:

Kant's Critque of Judgement - Mary Mothersill's Beauty Restored - Methods in Philosophy: Conceptual Analysis and Phenomenological Description
Walter Benjamin: Views on the Autonomous, Popular and Avant-garde Art, and the Aesthetic Debate with Theodor Adorno
The Epistemological Suicide of Narcissus - an enquiry into the relationship between conceptual art and philosophy