Talk by Neil Sinhababu

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Dr. Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore) entitled "Humean Nature". The talk is scheduled at 17 pm on the 11th of April.

Call for Papers: Vocations of Realistic Political Theory

Vocations of Realistic Political Theory

Convenors:
Prof. Ferenc Hörcher (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Dr. Gulsen Seven

We invite for this workshop, papers that focus on possible vocations of realist political theory having accepted the claim that it is not possible for political theory to promote grand recipes for guiding human actions. By aiming to offer consideration of a variety of realist perspectives, the panel hopes to contribute towards achieving a heightened awareness of the significance of political realism beyond but never independent of the realm of political action, in political theory. It also intends to encourage representatives of political realism to engage in scholarly dialogue with representatives of other theoretical inclinations regarding vocations of political theory.

We welcome submissions from a range of relevant fields, including, but not limited to, philosophy, political science, international relations, sociology, legal and political theory and so on. To submit a paper for the workshop please send a max. 500-word abstract to by 15th of May, 2017. Notification of acceptance will be given within a week after the deadline.

Papers for the workshop (no longer than 4000 words) will be pre-circulated. Full drafts will be due for circulation to workshop participants by 28th of August, 2017.

Additional details of the workshop and the full text of the call for papers can be accessed here.

Call for Papers - Ratio Civilis

We invite participants to describe, analyse and discuss the dramatically transforming political cultures of European cities in the age of the Reformation at the following conference:

“Ratio Civilis”
The Transformation of Urban Political Cultures in the Age of the Reformation

Proposals (with a title and abstract of the length of 3-500 words) should be sent to the following address by 30 April 2017 31 May 2017: .

Keynote speakers:
Heinz  Schilling (Berlin)
Hans Blom (Rotterdam)

Venue: the conference will be organised in Budapest, at the headquarters of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Organisers: Prof. Ferenc Hörcher, director, Institute of Philosophy, HAS and Adam Smrcz, assistant researcher, Institute of Philosophy, HAS

Date of the conference: 17-18 November, 2017.

For further questions please contact:

Seminar Series: Tamás Demeter

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences kindly invites you to the upcoming talk of its seminar series

Tamás Demeter (IF RCH HAS):
The Sociological Tradition of Hungarian Philosophy (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 21st March 2017, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4. Tóth Kálmán Street, 7. floor, "Pepita" room.

Márton Gömöri's talks in the United States

Márton Gömöri is giving two talks in the United States, the first one on the 11th of March 2017 at the University of California, Irvine, entitled "On the relation of the relativity principle and covariance", and the second one on the 14th of March 2017 at the University of Pittsburgh (Center for the Philosophy of Science), entitled "On the persistence of the electromagnetic field".

Ferenc Hörcher's lecture in London

Ferenc Hörcher, director of the Institute of Philosophy (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) is giving a public lecture entitled 'The Hungarian Constitutional Moment of 1848 and its Meaning Today' on 15 March 2017 at the University College London, with opening remarks by Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Hungary’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Talk by Peter Stachel

The Institute of Philosophy, HAS kindly invites you to the following lecture:

Peter Stachel
(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
"In the End, are all Sociologists Fatalists?”
Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838 - 1909): An Old-Austrian Pioneer of Early Sociology

Date: March 13, 2017. 4 pm.
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4. Tóth Kálmán Street, 7. floor, room B7.16

Abstract:
Kraków-born Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838-1909), professor of law at Graz University, was one of the pioneers of early sociology. In books like Der Rassenkampf (1883) and Grundriss der Sociologie (1885) he analyzed human culture and social institutions as parts of a “natural process” according to “eternal laws”. Highly acclaimed at his lifetime, not only in Austria, but as well in the United States and France, his theories later were rated as social-darwinistic and even as an intellectual basis of fascistic ideology. But this verdict is based on a very generalized understanding of his theories and in fact not true.

Tamás Demeter's talk in Princeton

Tamás Demeter is giving a talk on the 10th of March 2017 entitled "Methods of Inquiry in the Scottish Enlightenment" at the conference on Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, organized by the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy in Princeton.