Seminar Series: Gergely Ambrus

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

Gergely Ambrus (ELTE BTK):
Carnap and Wittgenstein on Other Minds and the priority-debate concerning physicalism (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 29th October 2016, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Seminar Series: Tamás Ullmann

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 Ullmann (ELTE BTK):
How Does the Subconscious Operate? (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 29th October 2016, 2.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

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

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.

Date:  November 28, 2016. 4 pm.
Venue:  Budapest, 1014 Országház u. 30. „Pepita” room

Seminar Series: László Bernáth

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

László Bernáth (MTA BTK FI):
Free Will and Neuroscience (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 22nd October 2016, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Ferenc Hörcher's talk in Lisbon

Ferenc Hörcher, director of the Institute ofPhilosophy, HAS, RCH, is going to give a paper at the international confeerence on Lost and Transformed Cities. A Digital Perspecitve, in Lisbon. His talk is entitled: "Buda(pest): the virtual life of the city in a novel", its abstract isavailable here.

Flow of Time - mini-symposium

The Research Group on the Philosophy of Physics at the RCH, HAS kindly invities you to its mini-sympsium:

FLOW OF TIME

Speakers:
Giuliano Torrengo (Center for Philosophy of Time, Milan)
László E. Szabó (ELTE University, Department of Logic)

Venue: Budapest, 1014, 30. Országház st., Institute of Philosophy, room 026
Date: 16th November 2016., 16:00

Further information is available on the website of the research group.

Political Realism and Practical Morality

The Institute of Philosophy, HAS, the Institute for Political Science, HAS, and the Corvinus University of Budapest kindly invites you to the following international conference:

Politcal Realism and Practical Morality (website available here)

Programme:

Venue 1 (Friday, 18th of November; 30 Országház st., Budapest)

09:00-09:30 - Registration

09:30-11:00 - Keynote Lecture: John Dunn (University of Cambridge): Domestic Politics and International Relations across the Millennia
11:00-11:15 - Coffee break

11:15-13:30 - Section 1: Morality and RealismMatt Sleat (Sheffield University): Ethics, Morality and the Case for Realist Political Theory
Tibor Mándi (Institute for Political Science, HAS): The Morality of Political Realism
Andrija Šoć (Belgrade University): Deliberative Democracy between Moralism and Realism

13:30-14:30 - Lunch break

14:30-15:45 - Section 2: Just War and RealismAdam Cebula (Warsaw University): Just War Theory and the Duplex Nature of Extra-Moral Absolutism
Adam Smrcz (Institute of Philosophy, HAS / ELTE University): What Renders a Conflict Inevitable? The Question of Bellum Necessarium among Early Modern Natural Law Theorists
Sabeen Ahmed (Vanderbilt University): The Epistemic Violence of Jeff McMahan's Revisionist Just War Theory

15:45-16:00 - Coffee break

16:00-17:15 - Section 3: History and RealismStephen Hailey (Cambridge University): Aristotle and Political 'Realism'
Dávid Molnár (University of Pécs): State/Sovereignty/Statesovereignty. Political Thought in Edward Forsett's 'A Comparative Discourse of the Bodies Natural and Politique'
Ferenc Hörcher (Institute of Philosophy, HAS): How to Govern a City - Political Realism in a Conservative, Republican Key

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Registers of Philosophy 2016/4.

Registers of Philosophy 2016/4. Jon Stewart: Dostoevsky and the Novel as Philosophy.