Workshop: On Gardens. Rethinking the Relation of Nature and Architecture from a Philosophical Regard
The Institute of Philosophy cordially invites everyone to the workshop titled On Gardens. Rethinking the Relation of Nature and Architecture from a Philosophical Regard, organised in context of the joint research project of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences entitled Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) concepts – Philosophical, Sociological and Historical Analyses.
Gábor Hofer-Szabó has been awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize on July 23 at the ceremony of the 2022 Annual Humboldt Meeting.
Certificates recognising the qualification "Research Centre of Excellence" conferred by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences have been issued.
The Forum of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy cordially invites you to its next seminar on The Epicurean Notion of Epibolé by Prof. Voula Tsouna (UC Santa Barbara) on May 27, 2021 at 12.00 pm New York / 5.00 pm Cambridge / 6.00 pm Budapest / 7.00 pm Athens time.
The Forum of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy cordially invites you to its next seminar on Between the World and the Void: A Stoic Category of Unfilled Space by Prof. David Konstan (New York University) on March 25, 2021 at 12.00 pm New York / 4.00 pm Cambridge / 5.00 pm Budapest / 6.00 pm Athens time.
The paper is available for download after Registration:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdOuhrDgtH90xh7t3Yp8YWW-X7PANVeV8
Abstract available here.
The National University of Public Service and the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences invite proposals for their upcoming workshop on 4 November 2019,
The symposium is being organized as a part of our series called The Intellectual History of the City, and this time, our focus point is going to be the research methodology of the intellectual history of early modern urban life.
By now, empirical historians have provided massive amounts data concerning everyday urban life in early modernity (supporting claims about urbanisation, highlighting birth and death rates as well as the average level of education etc.), while intellectual historians have made considerable analyses of "urban mentalities" (of the underlying attitudes behind confessional conflicts and coexistence, of political decision making etc.). Microhistorians have revealed much of the forgotten past of urban life, while methods of statistical analysis could highlight aspects which were mostly hidden from contemporary scientists as well. Also, even more recent approaches (like that of knowledge flow or big data analysis) equally promise benefits for their practitioners.
However, apparently there is no platform to confront these results with each other, a kind of neutral ground for historical urban studies. The current workshop, hence, aims at bringing together scholars from diverse fields (e.g. empirical and intellectual historians, sociologists, historians of philosophy etc.) in order to share their experience concerning the methodological backgrounds of their particular approaches. Speakers are invited to present particular case studies of their interest with a special emphasis on the methodology employed by them.
A further priority is to take examples of early modern urban developments in Central and Eastern Europe. This is only an encouragement, not an explicit criteria, but apparently research on this field is still handicapped.
The keynote speaker of the conference is going to be Professor Jaroslav Miller, from Palacky University Olomouc. He is the author of the monograph: Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500-1700 (2008).
The venue of the conference is going to be at The National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary (Main building, 1st floor, room 145).
Proposals should be sent to until 31 August, 2019.
Organizers:
Ferenc Hörcher
Ádám Smrcz
The National University of Public Service and the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences are organizing
An international conference in honor of Alasdair MacIntyre
Date and venue: June 27-28, 2019, Budapest, Hungary
The conference is conceived to honor the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, who turned 90 this year. He is among the most important figures of contemporary philosophy and has touched upon several topics during his long-spanning career since his first publication in 1950. These topics pertain to, among other fields, moral philosophy, medical ethics, political theory, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, aesthetics and the philosophy of education; while all kinds of academic disciplines besides philosophy have benefited from his contributions, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, theology, business studies, etc. His views have changed significantly during these years, and he subsequently managed to incorporate in his philosophy insights from diverse thinkers like Marx, Aristotle and Aquinas – to name just the most important ones for him from the hundreds whose ideas he has fruitfully engaged with.
To honor this occasion, the organizers have invited as keynote speakers Ron Beadle (Northumbria University) and Robert P. George (Princeton). Abstract submissions engaging the wide-ranging oeuvre of MacIntyre are also welcomed. Proposed topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following:
- MacIntyre and his roots: Gaelic culture
- The changes in MacIntyre’s thinking
- MacIntyre’s relationship to Marxism
- MacIntyre’s blend of NeoAristotelianism
- Thomism and natural law
- Is MacIntyre a virtue ethicist?
- Narratives and the unity of human lives
- The notion of tradition
- The problem of moral rationality
- Human rights and justice
- The prospects for the politics of local communities today
- Criticisms and defenses of liberalism, conservatism and communitarianism
- MacIntyre and analytic/continental philosophy
- MacIntyre and religion
- Dependent Rational Animals at 20: naturalist ethics and biology
Proposals – including the name, e-mail address, affiliation and position of the speaker, a title and an abstract of 1500 characters – should be sent by April 30, 2019 to with ‘MacIntyre 90 proposal’ as their topic. Feel free to send any inquiries concerning the conference to the same address.
Organizers:
Ferenc Hörcher (National University of Public Service, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Tamás Paár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Zoltán Turgonyi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
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Időpont: április 3. 17:00
Helyszín: Budapesti Francia Intézet, Auditórium, 1011 Budapest, Fő u. 17.
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