Katalin Balog

Katalin Balog is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University – Newark, with a joint affiliation to the Graduate Faculty in the Philosophy Department at Rutgers, New Brunswick. She joined Rutgers in 2010 after teaching at Cornell and Yale Universities for over a decade. Her primary research areas include the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and ethics, focusing on consciousness, subjectivity, the self, and free will.

• Education: Ph.D. from Rutgers University

Her work emphasizes the irreplaceable role of subjectivity in understanding the human experience, particularly through critiques of materialism and explorations of phenomenal concepts. She is currently completing a book titled What is left of the mind under a NEH fellowship.

Recent publications span topics like ontological emergence, the knowledge argument, and the philosophy of transformative experience, with a focus on reconciling subjective and objective perspectives. She also engages in public philosophy through essays in The New York Times and 3 Quarks Daily.

• Winner of the 2017 APA Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest
• Senior Research Fellow, Central European University (2012)
• Fulbright Travel Grant (2012)
• Collegium Budapest Senior Research Fellow (2005–2006)
• AAUW Postdoctoral Research Grant (2005–2006)

Balog has held prestigious fellowships at Yale, Cornell, and CEU, and her 1999 paper was recognized as one of the decade’s best by The Philosopher’s Annual. She actively participates in academic discussions, including lectures at Central European University and a roundtable at the Helix Center.