Conference: Science, Freedom, Democracy
The MTA BTK Lendület "Morals and Science" Research Group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on
Date of the event: 8th-9th July, 2019.
Venue of the event: 1097 Budapest, 4. Toth Kalman st., 7th floor
Programme:
Monday, 8th of July
09.00-10.00: Steve Fuller: Post-Truth Epistemology: Life after Rawls and Habermas Bubble
10.00-11.00: Klemens Kappel: Science as public reason
11.00-11.20: Break
11.20-12.20: Stephanie Ruphy: Can the virtues of participative democracy be imported in scientific research? Political and epistemological prospects (and challenges) of citizen science
12.20-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-15.00: Jeroen Van Bouwel: Are transparency and representativeness of values hampering scientific pluralism?
15.00-16.00: Mark Brown: Democracy, Populism, and the Politicization of Science
16.00-16.20: Break
16.20-17.20: Heather Douglas (online): Freedom of Research and Scientific Responsibility in Democratic Societies
17.20-18.20: Hans Radder: Which science, which freedom, and which democracy?
Tuesday, 9th of July
09.00-10.00: Hugh Lacey: Participatory democracy and methodological pluralism
10.00-11.00: Phil Mullins: Michael Polanyi's Post-Critical Vision of Science and Society
11.00-11.20: Break
11.20-12.20: Peter Hartl: The ethos of science and central planning: Merton and Michael Polanyi on the autonomy of science
12.20-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-14.45: Tihamer Margitay: What can liberalism learn from science?
14.45-15.30: Dustin Olson: Public Opinion, Democratic Legitimacy, and Epistemic Compromise
15.30-16.15: Jisoo Seo: A Consequentialist Way of Looking at Values in Science
16.15-16.35: Break
16.35-17.35: Matthew Brown: Expert Authority and Autonomy
Conference: MacIntyre 90
The Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to its conference
MacIntyre 90 - Practice, Tradition, Natural Law
organized jointly with the National University of Public Service.
Date: 27-28 June 2019
Venue: National University of Public Service, Budapest, Ludovika square 2., main building, 1st floor, room Hunyadi
Organizers: Ferenc Hörcher (National University of Public Service, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Tamás Paár (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Zoltán Turgonyi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
See program here.
Talks by Gábor Szabó in Athens and Sofia
Gábor Szabó is giving two talks in June 2019: one, delivered at the Deparment of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, is titled "Two concepts of noncontextuality," the other one, at the Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, is titled “Noncontextuality in physics and beyond.”
Book co-edited by Ferenc Hörcher launched in London
The book entitled
A History of the Hungarian Constitution.
Law, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe,
edited by Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman, collecting essays by Hungarian and British experts on the field, published by IB Tauris, will be discussed at a book launch, organised at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College, London.
Participants of the roundtable discussion will include:
Ferenc Hörcher (RIPG, NUPS; RCH, HAS) and Thomas Lorman (SSEES, UCL) – editors
Martyn Rady (professor of Central European History) and Philip Barker (SSEES) – authors
The event will start with the welcome speech by
His Excellency, Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Hungary's Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Venue: Masaryk Room, SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
Date: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, 07 May 2019
Entry is free and all welcome.
See further details here.
Talk by Gábor Szabó in Munich
Gábor Szabó is giving a talk titled "Bell's Local Causality in Local Physical Theories" at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy on 4 May at a workshop on Relativistic Locality.
Conference: Rethinking the European City
The Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to the conference
Rethinking the European City: New Conceptions and the Living Heritage
Date: 26-27 April 2019
Venue: Budapest (Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS)
Keynote speaker: Shane Epting (president, Philosophy of the City Research Group)
The detailed program is available here.
Conference: The Registers of Philosophy V.
The MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on
The Registers of Philosophy V.
Date: Saturday, 13 April 2019
Helyszín: MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy, 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1097 Budapest, 7th floor, room "Trapéz"
Program:
9:30 – 9:40 Opening remarks (Ferenc Hörcher, Tamás Paár)
9:40 – 10:40
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Günter Figal (University of Freiburg): Description and Conceptuality. Phenomenological, Metaphysical, and Hermeneutical Aspects
10:40 – 11:00 Commentary by István Fehér M. (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
11:00 – 11:40 Discussion
11:40 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 12:20 Antonia Egel (University of Salzburg): Philosophical Writing Interacting with Poetry. Notes on Husserl, Arendt, and Heidegger
12:20 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Sharon Rider (Uppsala University): The Unsettling of Ideas and the Power of Style
14:30 – 14:50 Commentary by Csaba Olay (ELTE)
14:50 – 15:30 Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 Tamás Paár (PPKE): Metaphors, Irony and Lying in the Light of a MacIntyrean Ethics of Enquiry
16:20 – 16:40 Tibor Görföl (Theological College of Pécs): Lack and Hypertrophy of Speech. Remarks on the Language of Mysticism
16:40 - 17:00 Discussion
Organizers: Ferenc Hörcher (MTA, NKE), Tamás Paár (PPKE)
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