Talks by Csaba Olay in Hong Kong and Cluj-Napoca

Csaba Olay gives a talk with the title “Indulgence in play and gambling: Gadamer and Csíkszentmihályi” on October 19th at the conference “Philosophy of Gambling” at Macau University, and a talk with the title “Nancy’s early theory of community” on October 24th in the Institute of Philosophy of Chinese University Hong Kong. He gave the lecture “Implicit regional identity and explicit national identity” on October 8th in the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Babes-Bolyai University of Sciences (UBB-STAR).

Conference: Mental Fictionalism

The MTA BTK Lendület "Morals and Science" Reasearch Group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on

Mental Fictionalism

Date: 24-25 October 2019
Helyszín: Institute of Philsophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán str.

For the detailed program see conference poster.

Paper presented by Ferenc Hörcher in Detroit

Ferenc Hörcher presents a talk at the annual conference of the Philosophy of the City Research Group, organised in the Law School and the School of Architecture of the University of Detroit Mercy, established by the Jesuits. His paper is scheduled on 4 Oct, 2019, with the title The Political Philosophy of the European City: The Conceptual Framework.

Workshop: Ernest Nagel and the Making of Philosophy of Science

The MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on

Ernest Nagel and the Making of Philosophy of Science as a Profession

Date: 4th of October, 2019.
Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Toth Kalman st., 7th floor

Organizers: Matthias Neuber (Universität Tübingen) and Ádám Tamás Tuboly (BTK Institute of Philosophy, PTE ITD).

For details see poster.

Talk by Ferenc Hörcher at Princeton University

Ferenc Hörcher gives a talk at the Department of Philosophy of Princeton University, with the title Philosophy, Literature and the Author’s Life: Nietzsche and Thomas Mann. The talk is presented in Alexander Nehamas’s graduate seminar on Nietzsche on 1 October 2019.

Ference Hörcher’s talk on British conservative thinker in Lisbon

Ferenc Hörcher presents a paper entitled The Poetry of the Past: Oakeshott’s Uncommon Rhetoric of Common Sense Conservatism in Lisbon on 21 September 2019. The talk of our Institute's senior fellow is part of the 10th Anniversary Conference of the international Michael Oakeshott Association, held at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal. The programme of the conference is available here.

Paul Gopal-Chowdhury, Portrait of Michael Oakeshott (Image: Gaius & Caius College, University of Cambridge)

Physics Meets Philosophy 5: ''On what there is''

The Research Group for Philosophy of Physics, Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to its interdisciplinary workshop on

Physics Meets Philosophy 5:  ''On what there is''

Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Date: 23 September 2019 (Monday)

For details see the webpage of the workshop.

Talks by Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Márton Gömöri in Geneva

Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Márton Gömöri are giving talks at the 7th Biennial Meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association held on 11-14 September at the University of Geneva. Gábor Hofer-Szabó's talk is titled "Commutativity, simultaneous measurability, and contextuality in the Kochen-Specker arguments"; Márton Gönöri's talk is titled "A Causal Account of Initial Distributions."