Registers of Philosophy, 2018/2.

Registers of Philosophy 2018/2. Alexander Nehamas: Is Living An Art That Can Be Taught?

Update to CFP Arts and the City

Please find further pieces of information to the CFP Arts of the city.

CFP: Arts and the City

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, together with Károli Gáspár University, is organising a conference entitled Arts and the City. The conference will be held in Budapest, on 23-24 May, 2019.

The Call for Papers is available at https://artsandthecity2019.wordpress.com/ and https://artsandthecity.webnode.hu/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

ANDREW GIBSON, Royal Holloway, University of London
BERNARDINE EVARISTO, writer, London (author of Lara, Soul Tourists and Blonde Roots, among other novels)
NOÉMI SZÉCSI, writer, Budapest (author of The Finno-Ugrian Vampire and Mandragora Street 7, among other novels)

Leuven University Press has expressed an interest in publishing selected papers, full chapters are expected to be submitted before 15 August, 2019.

For further details, see: https://fi.btk.mta.hu/hu/esemenyek/esemenyek/1214-cfp-the-arts-and-the-city

CFP: Arts and the City

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, together with Károli Gáspár University, is organising a conference entitled Arts and the City. The conference will be held in Budapest, on 23-24 May, 2019.

The Call for Papers is available at https://artsandthecity2019.wordpress.com/ and https://artsandthecity.webnode.hu/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
ANDREW GIBSON, Royal Holloway, University of London
BERNARDINE EVARISTO, writer, London (author of Lara, Soul Tourists and Blonde Roots, among other novels)
NOÉMI SZÉCSI, writer, Budapest (author of The Finno-Ugrian Vampire and Mandragora Street 7, among other novels)

Registration fees:

Early Bird (until 30 April)
Full price: 55 EUR; partial fee waiver: 40 EUR
Student: 40 EUR; partial fee waiver: 25 EUR

Normal
Full price: 65 EUR; partial fee waiver: 45 EUR
Student: 45 EUR; partial fee waiver: 30 EUR

Partial registration fee waivers are available to participants from low and middle income countries, please apply before 31 March, 2019.

Please submit 250-word abstracts and short bios using the form under “Contact” at https://artsandthecity2019.wordpress.com/ before 15 February, 2019.

Ferenc Hörcher resigned from the position of the director at the Institute of Philosophy

On account of another assignment, Ferenc Hörcher resigned from the position of the director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He held the position for six years between 1 January 2013 and  31 December 2018. He will remain at the institute as senior researcher on a part time basis.

English Language Book about the Hungarian Constitution

I.B. Tauris in London published A History of the Hungarian Constitution. Law, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe, edited by Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman.

Here is a short summary of the book:

The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy. Of particular concern was the constitutional text's explicit claim that it was situated within a reinvigorated Hungarian legal tradition that had allegedly developed over centuries before its violent interruption during World War II, by German invaders, and later, by Soviet occupation. To explore the context and validity of this claim, and the legal traditions which have informed the stormy centuries of Hungary's constitutional development, this book brings together a group of leading historians, political scientists and legal scholars to produce a comprehensive history of Hungarian constitutional thought. Ranging in scope from an overview of Hungarian medieval jurisprudence to an assessment of the various criticisms levelled at the new Hungarian Basis Law of 2012, contributors assess the constitutions, their impacts and their legacies, as well as the social and cultural contexts within which they were drafted. The historical analysis is accompanied by a selection of original source materials, many translated here for the first time. This is the only book in English on the subject and is essential reading for all those interested in Hungary's history, political culture and constitution.

Talk by Charles T. Wolfe

The MTA BTK Morals and Science Research Group cordially invites you to the upcoming talk of its seminar series:

Dr. Charles T. Wolfe (University of Ghent)
Vitalism and the Metaphysics of Life: The Discreet Charm of Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

Date: 10 December 2018, 4pm
Venue: MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy, 4 Tóth Kálmán st., 1097 Budapest, 7th floor

Talk by Balázs Gyenis at LSE

On the 20th of November Balázs Gyenis will present "Towards new notion(s) of physical possibility" at the Popper seminar of the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at LSE.

Conference: The Value of Truth

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

The Value of Truth

Date: 22-23 November 2018
Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán st.

Program:

22 November

Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
9.00-10.00: Jeffrey Dunn (De Pauw University): Accuracy as Similarity
10.00-11.00: Clayton Littlejohn (King's): An Accuracy Argument Against Credal Reductivism

11.00-11.20: Break

Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
11.20-12.20: Michael P. Lynch [via Skype] (University of Connecticut): Fake news and the Politics of truth
12.20-13.20: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): Three kinds of veritism and epistemically useful false beliefs

13.20-15.00: Lunch

Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
15.00-16.00: Kate Nolfi (University of Vermont): Epistemic Norms all Things considered
16.00-16.30: Laszlo Kocsis (University of Pecs): The value of truth-making: truth-groundedness and the truth as an epistemic goal

16.30-16.50: Break

Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
16.50-17.50 Miriam McCormick (University of Richmond): Value Beyond Truth Value
17.50-18.50: Tihamer Margitay (Eotvos Lorand University): The Epistemic Value of Moral and Other Values

Dinner

23 November

Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
9.00-10.00: Anna Maria-Eder (University of Cologne): No Commitment to the Truth
10.00-11.00: Filippo Ferrari (University of Bonn): Alethic Pluralism and the Value of Truth

11.00-11.20: Break

Chair: Laszlo Kocsis (University of Pecs)
11.20-12.20: Andrew D. Chignell (Princeton): The Value of truth versus The Value of Believing True
12.20-13.20. Brian Pollex (University of Texas at Austin): Understanding The Swamping Problem: Two Competing Theories of the Value of True Belief

13.20-15.00: Lunch

Chair: Laszlo Kocsis (University of Pecs)
15.00-16.00: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Truth and Morality in Rational Argumentation

16.00-16.20: Break

Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
16.20.-17.20: Mihaly Heder (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): When truth is not the final epistemic value: the case of the epistemology of engineering
17.20-18.20: Duncan Pritchard [via Skype] (University of Irvine, California): Intellectual Virtues, Ignorance and the Truth Goal

Conference ending
Dinner