Balázs Gyenis' talk

Balázs Gyenis is giving an invited talk in the conference titled "Causation and Reduction: From Metaphysics to the Sciences", organized by the University of Illinois, on the 4th of April (due to travel restrictions the conference moved online). Details can be found here.

A special issue on György Szabad, the historian

Iván Zoltán Dénes and Ferenc Hörcher were the guest editors of the thematic issue of Magyar Tudomány, the official journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on the academic achievements of the late Professor György Szabad (1924-2015), a historian of the classical age of 19th century Hungarian political history. The thematic issue is available here in Hungarian.

The table of contents is as follows (each article is online, and has an English language abstract):

Iván Zoltán Dénes, Ferenc Hörcher: BEVEZETÉS (Introduction)

György Miru: SZABAD GYÖRGY ÉS A MAGYAR TÖRTÉNETÍRÁS FÜGGETLENSÉGI PARADIGMÁJA (György Szabad and the Paradigm of Independence in Hungarian Historiography)

Róbert Hermann: SZEMÉLYES VAGY TUDOMÁNYOS? KOSÁRY DOMOKOS ÉS SZABAD GYÖRGY VITÁJÁNAK ELŐZMÉNYEI (Personal or Scientific? The Precedents of the Domokos Kosáry and György Szabad Debates)

Iván Zoltán Dénes: EGY SZOKATLAN VITA (An Unusual Discussion of a Monography)

Ferenc Velkey: SZABAD GYÖRGY AUTOBIOGRÁFIÁI (György Szabad’s Autobiographies)

László Csorba: SZEREPLŐ ÉS VISSZATEKINTŐ – EGY SZÖVEGTÍPUSRÓL JEGYZETKÉSZÍTÉS KÖZBEN (Actor and Retrospective Observer – About a Text-type during Note Making)

Talk by Gábor Hofer-Szabó in Barcelona

Gábor Hofer-Szabó gives a talk with the title “Simultaneous versus measurement contextuality in quantum theory” on March 9th at the University of Barcelona, organized by LOGOS - Research Group in Analytic Philosophy. 

Paper by Márton Gömöri in Foundations of Physics

Márton Gömöri's study "On the Very Idea of Distant Correlations" has been published in Foundations of Physics. The paper points to a yet unanalyzed conceptual component of statistical correlation and shows how this aspect may give us a new way to understand the famous EPR correlations in quantum mechanics.

Hungarian thematic issue of Filozofia

Hungarian thematic issue of journal Filozofia appears focussed on the topic of the historiography of the Hungarian philosophy with writings of the fellows of our Institute

Ferenc Hörcher participates at a session on Trust and values in a global perspective at IASK

Ferenc Hörcher participates today at the afternoon session of the Winter School of IASK at Kőszeg, on Trust and values in a global perspective. His position paper is entitled "Of the spatial and personal aspects of the confinement of political trust".

Date: 27th February, 2020., 2.30-4.00 pm

Venue: IASK, Chernel street 14, H-9730 Kőszeg

International Book Launch of Ferenc Hörcher's Book in Political Philosophy

Ferenc Hörcher's new book is entitled A Political Philosophy of Conservatism. Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2020). The international book launch will feature two prominent foreign scholars: 

Robert Grant (Prof. emeritus, Glasgow University)
Ryszard Legutko (Professzor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

The roundtable talk will be hosted by John O’Sullivan, president of Danube Institute. The author will also participate at the roundtable.

Date: 19 February, 2020, 5 pm
Venue: NUPS, Ludovika Main Building, Zrínyi Hall (2 Ludovika tér, 1083, Budapest)

Everyone is welcome, please register here.

Paper by Balázs Gyenis in Foundations of Physics

Balázs Gyenis' study "Determinism, Physical Possibility, and Laws of Nature" has been published in Foundations of Physics. The paper calls attention to different formulations of how physical laws relate to what is physically possible in the philosophical literature, and argue that it may be the case that determinism fails under one formulation but reigns under the other. The text is available here.