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.

CFP: Urban Cultures in The Early Modern Habsburg Territories

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,

Urban Cultures in The Early Modern Habsburg Territories - A Workshop on Recent Research Methodologies.

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