University of Bucharest
Award, Doctor Honoris Causa, May 2004
Laudatio (Professor Mircea Dumitru, decan [dean], Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea Bucuresti)
Discurs, Doctor Honoris Causa[acceptance speech – in Romanian]
AMONG RECTORS: at the ceremony [first five photos] from left to right: Professor Mircea Dumitru, then Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, currently Rector (President) of the University of Bucharest; RJB; Professor Ioan Mihailescu, then Rector of the University of Bucharest; and Professor Ioan Panzaru, then Vice-Rector and later Rector of the University of Bucharest; after the ceremony [last photo], from left to right: RJB; Vasile Morar; Sorin Costreie; Mariana Celac and Silviu Brucan [to magnify photos, click on an individual photo].
Clip from Romanian Television (Ceremony, short presentation and interview – in Romanian)
ROMANIAN ACADEMY, Bucharest
Elected Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy and member of its philosophy and psychology section (March 2024)
https://acad.ro/institutia/sectia_12.html
YouTube video clips from public lectures and discussions
THE MIND FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES, October 2019 (in Romanian)
Mintea din perspectve diferite (o introducere in stiintele cognitive)
Conferintele Ateneului Roman, cu Mircea Dumitru, rectorul Univeristati din București
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRdvDVeMCIM
WHY SELF-REFLECTION? An Evolutionary Puzzle 1, November 2019 (in English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7xazdFAoo
WHY SELF-REFLECTION? An Evolutionary Puzzle 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p95sNfIs0RU&t=8s
WHY SELF-REFLECTION? An Evolutionary Puzzle 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRnK3MBJbvg&t=287s
Three lectures, and questions and answers, at the Universiity of Bucharest, previewing the book WHY ME? (about the evolution of self-reflection), Cambridge Unievsrity Press, 2021.
In the second and third videos, getting closer to the audience, the speaker may often disappear from the image, unaware that the unmanned camera was in a fixed position; the sound remains good
ACADEMIC DIALOGUE WITH MIRCEA DUMITRU, April 2024 (in Romanian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PT9XVTtGA