Talk by Rafal Smoczynski

The Insitute of Philosophy of RCH HAS cordially invities you to the following talk:

Rafal Smoczynski (IFiS PAN, Warsaw)

Approaching the Polish Intelligentsia in 20th century. Working notes

Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Tóth Kálmán st.

Date: 2nd March 2017, 14:00.

Seminar Series: Ákos Sivadó

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

Ákos Sivadó (IF RCH HAS):
"More dangerous than Hobbes": Sir William Petty's atomist natural philosophy (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 28th February 2017, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4. Tóth Kálmán Street, 7. floor, "Pepita" room.

Seminar Series: László Gergely Szücs

Talk by Rina Tzinman

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Dr. Rina Tzinman (Bilkent University) entitled "Constitution and Bodily Awareness: A Puzzle". The talk is scheduled at 11 am on the 13th of February.

Art, Truth and Knowledge - cancelled

The ""Art, Truth and Knowledge" conference that was supposed to be held on the 17-18th of February has been CANCELLED.

Philosophy of Borders

The Institute of Philosophy RCH HAS and the Central European University cordially invite you to their upcoming conference on the 3rd and 4th of February:

Philosophy of Borders - Nations, States and Immigration

Keynote speakers:
David Miller (University of Oxford)
Margaret Moore (Queen's University)

Venues of the event:
2017. 02. 03.: 1051 Budapest, 9. Nádor st., CEU, Monument Building, Gellner Room
2017. 02. 04.: 1051 Budapest, 1. Arany János st., Library and Information Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Art, Truth and Knowledge

The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science, the Research Group for Moral and Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, and the Hungarian Academy of Arts cordially invite you to their upcoming conference:

Art, Truth and Knowledge

Programme:

17. February:

10:00 - Conference opening (Tamás Kucsera, Andrew Huddleston, Ferenc Hörcher)

10:10 - 11:25 - Elisabeth Schellekens: On the Relation between Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Value

11:25 - 12:40 - James Grant: Understanding and Artistic Value

12:40 - 13:00 - Coffee Break

13:00 - 14:15 - Errol Lord: Learning about Morality through Art

14:15 - 15:30 - Lunch Break

15:30 - 16:45 - Ferenc Hörcher: How to Learn through Catharsis: Once again about the Cognitive Value of Poetry in Aristotle

16:45 - 18:00 - Vid Simoniti: Art and Minor Philosophical Genres

18. February:

11:15 - 12:30 - Stacie Friend: Learning from Stories

12:30 - 12:45 - Coffee Break

12:45 - 14:00 - Deodáth Zuh: Framing the Philosophy of Art History. Arnold Hauser's Take on the Cognitive Value of Art

14:00 - Closing Lunch

Date of the conference: 17-18th February, 2017.
Venue of the conference: Pesti Vigadó, 1051 Budapest V., Vigadó tér 2., 4th floor, Imre Sinkovits Chamber Theatre

Abstracts of the conference talks are available here.

Balazs Gyenis’ article in "Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics"

Balazs Gyenis’ „Maxwell and the normal distribution: A colored story of probability, independence, and tendency toward equilibrium” is forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.

The abstract of the paper:

We investigate Maxwell’s attempt to justify the mathematical assumptions behind his 1860 Proposition IV according to which the velocity components of colliding particles follow the normal distribution. Contrary to the commonly held view we find that his molecular collision model plays a crucial role in reaching this conclusion, and that his model assumptions also permit inference to equalization of mean kinetic energies (temperatures), which is what he intended to prove in his discredited and widely ignored Proposition VI. If we take a charitable reading of his own proof of Proposition VI then it was Maxwell, and not Boltzmann, who gave the first proof of a tendency towards equilibrium, a sort of H-theorem. We also call attention to a potential conflation of notions of probabilistic and value independence in relevant prior works of his contem- poraries and of his own, and argue that this conflation might have impacted his adoption of the suspect independence assumption of Proposition IV.