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."

Ferenc Hörcher's English language article in Routledge handbook

Ferenc Hörcher's article entitled Philosophers and the City in Early Modern Europe is published by Routledge, in an outstanding new handbook, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City. The handbook's description is available here at the homepage of the publisher.

Special issue of Organon F edited by Ádám Tamás Tuboly

Special issue of journal Organon F edited by Ádám Tamás Tuboly and Matteo Pascucci (Universitä Wien) appears with title "Reflecting on the Legacy of C.I. Lewis: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Modal Logic." Invited authors are: Max Cresswell, Llyod Humberstone, Edwin Mares, Francesco Paoli és Claudio E. A. Pizzi.

Talk by Ferenc Hörcher in Belfast

Ferenc Hörcher presents a talk in Belfast, at the Constitutional Law Summer School of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, on 9 August 2019. His presentation is entitled Continuity, Tradition and Constitutional Values – the Case of Hungary.

Balazs Gyenis wins LSE's "Excellence in Education" award

Our research fellow Balazs Gyenis, who in the 2018/19 academic year was on leave to London School of Economics' Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, won the "Excellence in Education" award for his work at LSE.