Tamás Demeter's Book

Tamás Demeter's book entitled "David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism" has been published by Brill Academic Publishers.

Registers of Philosophy 2016/3.

Registers of Philosophy 2016/3. Grace Whistler: Albert Camus and the Virtue of the Literary Register

Seminar Series: Ottó Hévizi

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

Ottó Hévizi (MTA BTK FI):
The monogram-argument and the antinomies (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 4th October 2016, 2.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Seminar and talk by Michael Quante

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you on the 3rd of October 2016 to a seminar and a talk by Prof. Michael Quante (University of Münster):

12:00 - Prof. Michael Quante (University of Münster): "Hegel, Marx and Their Critique of the Market" (seminar)

14:00 - Prof. Michael Quante (University of Münster): "Physician Assisted Suicide: The German Debate" (talk)

Gentry Heritage in East-Central Europe

Gentry Heritage in East-Central Europe

A Workshop of the research project
“The Impact of Gentry Heritage on the Formation of East-Central European Citizenship”
of the Polish and Hungarian Academies of Sciences

3rd October 2016, 14:00 – 18:00
Venue: “Pepita Room” of the Institute of Philosophy in the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Országház u. 30., 1014 Budapest

14:00 – 14:15: Opening remarks
Ferenc Hörcher

14:15 – 15:45: Section I
Rafał Smoczyński: The role of the nobility and its traditions in the contemporary Polish society
Gábor Gángó: G. W. Leibniz on Polish nobility
Ferenc Hörcher: Nobleman and burgher: a contradiction in terms in early 19th century Hungary

15:45 – 16:15: Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45 Section II
Béla Mester: A 19th-century nation as a philosophical project and the model of Gentry politics in the Hungarian nation building
Gábor Kovács: The clerical, the intellectual and the gentry – the history of European regions from the perspectives of structuralism and 'psychohistory' in the theories of István Hajnal and István Bibó
Éva Sztáray Kézdy: The Descendants of Former Aristocratic Families in Hungary in the 21st century

17:45 – 18:00: Closing remarks
Rafał Smoczyński

Quantum States and Linearity

The Philosophy of Physics Research Group of the Institute of Philosophy of HAS RCH invites you to the second conference of "Physics meets Philosophy", titled "Quantum states and linearity", to be held on the 28th of September, 2016.

Speakers include Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Lajos Diósi, Tamás Geszti, and Tamás Fülöp, the detailed program schedule can be reached here.
(The language of the conference is Hungarian.)

Call for Papers - Philosophy of Borders: Nations, States and Immigration

Philosophy of borders: nations, states and immigration

February 3-4, 2017.

Budapest, Hungary

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the forthcoming conference entitled Philosophy of borders: nations, states and immigration.

Confirmed keynote speaker: David Miller (University of Oxford)

The issues of citizenship, immigration, global justice and the rights and duties of states in relation to citizens and non-citizens are not only the subject of recent public discourse but are permanent topics in normative political philosophy. The conference aims to discuss some of the following issues:

-          the obligations of states to citizens and non-citizens;

-          the normative dilemmas of allocating citizenship rights;

-          the normative legitimacy of bounded nations and states;

-          ethics of immigration.

The conference organizers invite scholars and researchers to submit their proposals discussing these normative issues from a philosophical, historical or interdisciplinary perspective. Submissions from advanced doctoral students are also welcome.

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Talk by Miren Boehm

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Prof. Miren Boehm (University of Wisconsin) entitled "Hume on Causation: Old and New". The talk is scheduled at 2 pm on the 19th of September.