Collective volume: "In the shadow of the Great War. Contacts between Italy and Hungary: history, literature, culture"

A new collective volume has been published by the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences entitled "All'ombra della Grande Guerra. Incroci fra Italia e Ungheria: storia, letteratura, cultura" (In the shadow of the Great War. Contacts between Italy and Hungary: history, literature, culture) edited by Zoltán Turgonyi, senior researcher of the Institute of Philosophy (RCH HAS) and Roberto Ruspanti, professor of Università degli Studi di Udine, director of CISUECO (Interuniversity Research Centre of Hungarology and Central and Eastern-European Studies). The book contains the selected and edited papers of the conference organized in Budapest on 11-12 June 2015. The table of contents is available here. Members of the Institute of Philosophy Zoltán Frenyó, Ferenc Hörcher and Zoltán Turgonyi are among the authors of the volume. The Italian language, multidisciplinary volume of essays can be ordered from the Institute of Philosophy.

Paper by Ádám Tamás Tuboly

Ádám Tamás Tuboly's paper on "Carnap's Weltanschauung and the Jugendbewegung: the story of an omitted chapter" has been published in Friedrich Stadler's "Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: Problems, Perspectives, and Case Studies" (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol. 20. Springer 129-144) volume. The paper deals with the question that why did Carnap cut from his famous intellectual autobiography that chapter which describes his influential years in the so-called German Youth Movement (Jugendbewegung).

Talk by Ákos Sivadó in Antwerp

Ákos Sivadó is giving a talk at the conference organized by the University of Antwerp on "What Were the Early Moderns Afraid of?" (8-9th June 2017). The title of his talk is "Fear of Matter: The Strange Case of Sir William Petty's Natural Philosophy".

Resources of Phenomenology in the Central European Context: Forms and Heritages

The Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences cordially invite you to the research workshop “Resources of Phenomenology in the Central European Context: Forms and Heritages,” organized in the framework of an inter-academy bilateral cooperation. For details see poster.

Talk by László Bernáth in Pavia

László Bernáth is giving a talk on 8 June 2017 at the conference "Dimensions of Responsibility" at the University of Pavia. The title of his lecture is "Epistemic Defense of Moral Responsibility".

Talk by Péter András Varga at the Conference of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology

Péter András Varga is giving a talk at the annaul conference "At the Origins of Phenomenology: Logic, Psychology, Ontology" of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology (NASEP) (1-3 June 2017, Seattle University). The title of his talk is "Husserl on the Logic of Existential Judgements: From Sigwart to the Transcendental Phenomenology and a Reassessment of Frege".

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Talk by Ferenc Hörcher in Vilnius

Ferenc Hörcher is giving a talk on 1 June 2017 in the framwork of the Lithuanian-Hungarian bilateral research project 'Conception of Creative City within Central Europe: Historical Images and Empirical Indices' at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The title of the talk is 'The Dark Night of the City. Solar Construction and Urban Destruction in Communist Minsk'.

Talks by Ferenc Hörcher in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár at Babeș–Bolyai University of Sciences

Ferenc Hörcher is giving three consecutive talks in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, at Babes-Bolyai University of Sciences.

He is going to talk about The Tradition of Urban Republicanism and Its Key Concepts at the Hungarian Institute of Philosophy, on 23 May 2017., at 10.00 am at the main building of BBTE (Farkas/Kogặlniceanu str., 1.), I. floor, BÖHM KÁROLY lecture hall.

He is giving a paper on The concept of Civic Republicanism and Its Relevance Today at the Department of Political Science on 24 May 2017 at 12.00 pm (noon).

Finally, his lecture is titled The Model of Late Medieval and Renaissance City Republics, and scheduled at 12.00 pm (noon) on 25 May, 2017 at the Institute of History.