Kristóf Nyíri

Kristof [ J. C. ] Nyíri (* 1944) is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Technical Education of Technology and Economics Budapest University, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig in WS 2006/07. Research interests: Wittgenstein, philosophy of communication, philosophy of the image, the philosophy of time.

Nyíri studied philosophy and mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, where until 2004 he was professor from 1987. He was 1993-1998 President of the Hungarian Society for Philosophy, 1995-2005 Director of the Research Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.