In his lecture at the Universität Wien, Department of Philosophy, titled Epicurus’ Conceptions of Time Attila Németh explores Epicurus’ metaphysics as part of the Speaker’s Events of Epicurean Philosophy series.
Date: December 12, 2024.
The HUN-REN Institute of Philosophy cordially invites everybody to the upcoming talk by Gyula Klima (Fordham University) entitled Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Form and Existence vs. Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics.
The talk will be given in English, but the subsequent discussion will be in Hungarian.
In his lecture at the UCL Institute on Friday 15th November 2024, titled Freedom and Self-Esteem in Epictetus, Attila Németh explores how Epictetus, a key figure of the imperial Stoa, understood the complex relationship between shame, moral conscience and the divine in shaping an individual’s self-evaluation and self-esteem.
Attila Németh’s study titled Diogenes of Oinoanda and the Epicurean Epistolary Tradition has been published in Francesca Masi, Pierre-Marie Morel and Francesco Verde (eds.) Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception. Volume II. Epistemology and Ethics. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Attila Németh’s study titled Democritus on the Atomic Shapes of Colour has been published in Véronique Decaix and Katerina Ierodiakonou (eds.) Theories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes, London and New York: Routledge, 2024.
The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities cordially invites everyone to the upcoming workshop entitled Shaping Civic Identities in Hungary and Poland. Orientalist Influences in Central and Eastern European Nation-Building.
The HUN-REN RCH Department of Philosophy cordially invites everyone to their workshop titled Bamberg–Budějovice–Budapest Workshop in the History of Philosophy which will be organized on the 21-22 October, 2024.
Gábor Hofer-Szabó gives a talk entitled Causality and Operational Equivalence on 14 October at the Philosophy Department of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
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