About me
I'm a Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, where I started in the 2017 Fall semester. In the 2016-2017 academic year, I was an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, where I started after finishing my PhD at Cornell University. Before that, I obtained a graduate degree in law from the Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences.
I specialize in metaphysics and mind, but I also have substantial research interests in epistemology. I think a lot about meta-metaphysics, personal identity and the self, material objects, the epistemology of ontology, explanation, dependence, and the conceptual tools we need to do metaphysics and philosophy in general. Lately, I've also been interested in the metaphysics of nations, and how metaphysics can inform political philosophy. As a teacher, I am an enthusiastic generalist, with teaching interests spanning from the philosophy of language to early modern philosophy to applied ethics. Outside philosophy I am interested in history and enjoy traveling to new places. Contact You can contact me at david.mark.kovacs [at] gmail dot com |