The Journal for General Philosophy of Science recently published the paper titled "On the Persistence of the Electromagnetic Field" coathored by Márton Gömöri with László E. Szabó (Department of Logic, Eötvös University). Read the paper here.
Ferenc Hörcher presents a paper at the conference on Crisis and Renewal in the History of Political Thought at the University of Heidelberg in Germmany on 11th October 2018. His talk is entitled ’The Neo-Aristotelian Concepts of Stasis, concord and prudentia in the Conservative Politica of Althusius.’
A workshop entitled
Free Will and Epistemology
is taking place on 26 October at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The workshop is about Robert Lockie’s book Free Will and Epistemology and the related philosophical problems. The workshop is co-organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Central European University, and the Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project.
Venue: Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1097 Budapest, Trapéz room (7th floor)
Program:
9.00-9.10 Welcome
9.10-10.00 Robert Lockie: The Epistemic Transcendental Argument against Determinism
10.00-10.50 András Szigeti: Some Comments on Chapter 8 of Lockie’s Free Will and Epistemology
11.10-12.00 Amit Pundik: What Kind of Probability is Lockie’s Negative Chance?
12.10- 13.00 László Bernáth: The Role of Transcendental Arguments
14.30-15.20 Paul Russell: Libertarianism and Free Will Pessimism
15.20-16.10 Anna Réz: Responsibility, Belief Formation, and “Ought Implies Can”
16.30-17.20 Ferenc Huoranszki: Self-determination, Causation, and Compatibilism
17.30-18.20 Timothy O’Connor: In Search of a Lockiean Theory of Self-Determination
For the website of the workshop click here.
The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group cordially invites you to the upcoming workshop on
Social Ontology Meets Social Science
Date: 1-2 October 2018
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Program:
1 October
10:00 – 12:00 Keynote lecture:
John Searle: Social Ontology, Social Science and Political Power
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Josef Moural: Social Ontology and Historiography
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Rastko Jovanov: Social Ontology and Collective Engagement
16:00 – 17:00 Akos Sivado: Can There Be a Science of Collective Intentions?
2 October
10:00 – 12:00 Keynote lecture:
Raimo Tuomela: Social Corporations as Social Institutions
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Petar Bojanic: What is an Engagement Act? Commitment, Joint Commitment and Engagement
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Hans Bernhard Schmid: Aristotle on Joint Activity and Common Sense
16:00 – 17:00 Brian Epstein: Social Ontology and the Design of Institutions
The Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to its international conference on
Hamlet in Wittenberg: Civic and Princely Education in Early Modern Europe
Date: 28-29 September 2018
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, 7th floor, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Keynote speakers:
James Hankins (Harvard University)
Jan Waszink (Leiden University)
For the detailed program see link.
The Research Group for Philosophy of Physics, Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to its interdisciplinary workshop on
Physics Meets Philosophy: "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences"
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Date: 25 September 2018 (Tuesday)
For details see the webpage of the workshop.
The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, the NKFI 124970 “Empiricism and atomism in the twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon philosophy” Research Group and the Department of Sociology (University of Pécs) cordially invites you to the upcoming conference on
The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic
Organizer and contact: Adam Tamas Tuboly ()
Date of the conference: 19-20 September 2018.
Location of the conference: University of Pécs, Ifjúság street 6, room A329.
19 September 2018.
09:45-10:00 Opening
10:00-11:00 Andreas Vrahimis: A. J. Ayer and ‘Continental’ philosophy
11:00-12:00 Aaron Preston: Ayer’s Book of Mistakes and the Crises of Contemporary Western Culture
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 László Kocsis: Definition versus Criterion: Ayer on the Problem of Truth and Validation
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau: Phenomenalism: from the Vienna Circle to Ayer
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Hans-Johann Glock: Ayer’s Verificationism – Dead as a Dodo?
20 September 2018.
10:00-11:00 Siobhan Chapman: ‘Viennese bombshells’: Reactions to Language, Truth and Logic from Ayer’s philosophical contemporaries
11:00-12:00 Krisztián Pete: Ayer and Berkeley on the Meaning of Ethical and Religious Language
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Thomas Uebel: Other Minds in Early Ayer and Carnap
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Christian Damböck: Ayer versus Carnap on Value Statements
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Adam Tamas Tuboly: A Cricket Game, a Train Ticket and a Vacuum to be Filled: Ayer in the Web of Fascism-debates
The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, the NKFI 124970 “Empiricism and atomism in the twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon philosophy” Research Group and the Department of Sociology (University of Pécs) cordially invites you to its upcoming workshop on
Thomas Uebel on Verstehen and Logical Empiricism
Date of the workshop: 17 September 2018.
Location of the workshop: University of Pécs, Ifjúság street 6, room A329.
Organizer and contact: Adam Tamas Tuboly ()
10:00-11:00 Thomas Uebel: More on Neurath on Verstehen
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Akos Sivado: The Operation Called “Missverstehen”: the Uses and Misuses of Weber’s Interpretive Sociology in Early Analytic Philosophy
12:30-13:30 Fons Dewulf: Misunderstandings of Understanding after Dilthey
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Christian Damböck: Is there a hermeneutic aspect in the Aufbau?
16:00-17:00 Andreas Vrahimis: Neurath’s Critique of Verstehen and the Reply to Horkheimer
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:30 Aaron Preston: Still Seeking a Middle Path
18:30-19:30 Adam Tamas Tuboly: Understanding Metaphysics and Understanding with Metaphysics: A Frank Approach
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