Ferenc Hörcher will give a lecture in Paris, at the invitation of the IPC - Facultés libres de philosophie et de psychologie, on the theme of the virtue of practical wisdom, co-presented by Emmanuel Brochier, Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Dean and Director of the host institution

Gábor Gángó, scientific advisor of the Institute of Philosophy, held a lecture in Erfurt on 6 March 2025, titled Wolffianism and natural law in Gdańsk: Michael Christoph Hanov in East-Central European context. The lecture took place during the conference Wolffian Natural Law: A Contested Identity?.

Gábor Gángó, scientific advisor of the Institute of Philosophy, delivered a lecture titled For the Soviet Bloc better than Hannah Arendt? Ágnes Heller’s theory of totalitarianism on 28 January, 2025 in Erfurt.

The HUN-REN Institute of Philosophy cordially invites everybody to the upcoming talk by Steven Gouveia (University of Porto) entitled “Anyway, he looks like a [AI] Doc, doesn't he?”: Ethical Challenges in Medical AI, to be held on the 11th of February, at 11 AM.

The talk and the subsequent discussion will be held in English.

The HUN-REN Institute of Philosophy cordially invites everybody to the upcoming talk by Luka Boršić and Ivana Skuhala Karasman (Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb) entitled Breaking barriers: the unconventional life of dr. sc. Elza Kučera.

The talk and the subsequent discussion will be held in English.

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.

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.

Gábor Hofer-Szabó gives a talk entitled Causality and Operational Equivalence on 14 October at the Philosophy Department of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Prof. Paolo G. Carozza (University of Notre Dame, USA) is giving his lecture in the framework of the invitation of the Research Institute for Politics and Government of the Eötvös József Research Center, in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Legal Sciences (HUN-REN). On this occasion he will talk about Freedom of Expression and other Human Rights in the Regulation (and Self-Regulation) of Social Media.

The HUN-REN Institute of Philosophy cordially invites everybody to the upcoming talk by Lou Marinoff (professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York) entitled Philosophical Practice: An Introduction and Overview.

The talk will be given in English.

The HUN-REN Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities cordially invites everybody to the upcoming talk by Cody James Inglis (doctoral candidate in comparative history at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna) entitled Republicanism on the Left in Hungary and Yugoslavia, 1918–1948. Remarks on a Regional Intellectual History. 

Cover picture: Maksim Gaspari, Caricature of Albin Prepeluh as a Jacobin, 1925, in Arhiv Republike Slovenije (Ljubljana), SI AS 2077 Zbirka Albina Prepeluha, t.e. 4.

The HUN-REN Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities cordially invites everybody to the upcoming talk by Adrian Kuźniar (PhD, Hab. Head of the International Studies in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw), entitled Lewisian Compatibilism and the Inability to Work Miracles. The talk will be given in English.

Regular faculty member of the institute, Gábor Szabó will be holding a lecture on the 25th of March, titled Operational equivalence and causal structure, as part of the London School of Economics' Sigma Club event series.

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities cordially invites everybody to the upcoming talk by Prof. Costica Bradatan entitled Becoming a Martyr Philosopher. The talk will be given in English.

Update: Due to an unexpected emergency, the event was postponed to December 14, 2023.

The Forum of Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy cordially invites everyone to its next podium talk titled Romanising Greek Political Thought: Cicero on Magistrates and the Cosmopolis.

On 9-10 November, Ferenc Hörcher will be a guest of the Catholic University of Chile at the university's conference on natural law.