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

Talks by Balázs Gyenis in Pittsburgh and Seattle

Balázs Gyenis leads an invited conference seminar titled "What powers inductive inference" during the "The material theory of induction" conference as well as delivers a talk in the PSA 2018 meeting titled "Determinism, Physical Possibility, and Laws of Nature".

Studies by Ferenc Hörcher and Béla Mester

Both Ferenc Hörcher and Béla Mester published a study in the volume Anthropologische Ästhetik in Mitteleuropa 1750–1850 - Anthropological Aesthetics in Central Europe 1750–1850, edited by Piroska Balogh and Gergely Fórizs, and published by Wehrhahn Verlag, in its series Quellen und Forschungen zum 18. Jahrhundert. Ferenc Hörcher’s co-authored chapter is entitled "The Scottish Discourse on Taste in Early 19th-Century Hungary: Two Translations of Hugh Blair's Introduction to Rhetoric," co-authored by Kálmán Tóth. Béla Mester’s chapter is entitled "The Role of Aesthetics in the Works of a Professor at a Calvinist College. A Case Study on József Rozgonyi (1756–1823)."

Physicalism and reduction: a Jerusalem-Budapest twin workshop

The Philosophy of Physics Research Group at the Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, together with the Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is organizing a pair of workshops on "Physicalism and reduction". At the first workshop, happening on 5-6 November in Jerusalem, Gábor Szabó is giving a talk on "Do Kochen-Specker arguments prove quantum contextuality?". The second workshop will take place in Budapest in Spring 2019. For the website of the twin workshop click here.

Talk by Márton Gömöri in Düsseldorf

Márton Gömöri is giving a talk at the colloquium of the Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Düsseldorf on 23 October. The title of his talk is "Outline of a Causal Theory of Chance."