Workshop: Thomas Uebel on Verstehen and Logical Empiricism

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

Ferenc Hörcher’s talk in Rome

Ferenc Hörcher, the director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences participates, organises a session and gives a paper at the 14th International Conference on Urban History, to be held between 29 August and 1 September, 2018. The conference bears the title: Urban renewal and resilience. Cities in comparative perspective, and his own paper is entitled The Resolution of Urban Conflicts in 16th Century Central Europe: The Case of Cluj/Kolozsvár. The program of the conference is to be found under the following link.

Talk by Ádám Tamás Tuboly in Ghent

Ádám Tamás Tuboly is giving a talk entitled "Knowledge Missemination: Frank, Stebbing and Joad on the Philosophy of Physicists" at the conference on Matter and Life: Historico-logical Issues in Post-1800 Physics and Biology, hosted by the Sarton Centre for History of Science at Ghent University on the 27th of August 2018.

Humeanisms - 2nd Bucharest-Budapest workshop in Philosophy

The Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to

Humeanisms
2nd Bucharest-Budapest workshop in Philosophy

Date: 28-29 July 2018
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán st., 1097 Budapest, 7th floor, room B.7.16

Conference program

The 45th Annual Hume Society Conference

The Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to

The 45th Annual Hume Society Conference

Date: 23-27 July 2018
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán st., 1097 Budapest

Conference website

Talk by Ádám Tamás Tuboly at HOPOS congress

Ádám Tamás Tuboly is giving a talk on "The 1940-45 Neurath-Carnap correspondence and its philosohical significance" (joint talk with Jordi Cat, Indiana University) at HOPOS 2018 held on 9-12 July in Groningen. The program of the congress is available here.

Talks by Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Márton Gömöri in Utrecht

Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Márton Gömöri are giving talks at The 19th UK and European Conference on Foundations of Physics held on 10-13 July at the University of Utrecht. Gábor Szabó's talk is on "What is quantum contextuality, and what is not?"; Márton Gönöri's talk is on "Why do initial conditions in an actual sequence of experiments approximately follow the uniform distribution over phase space with respect to the Lebesgue measure?"

László Bernáth wins Bolyai Research Fellowship

László Bernáth, young research fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, won the János Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 2018-2021. His research, „The Source of Moral Responsibility”, attempts to elaborate a decision-centered theory of moral responsibility according to which one can be morally responsible only for her decisions and their consequences. The novelty of the research plan is that it aims to elaborate a decision-centered theory on the basis of ethical principles instead of relying mainly on metaphysical intuitions or thought-experiments despite the fact that philosophers who grounded their theories mainly on ethical intuitions and principles tended to reject decision-centered theories. Based on the results, the research addresses also the issues about the compatibility of determinism and moral responsibility, and the challenges of contemporary neurosciences.