Talk by Ruth Lorand

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Prof. Ruth Lorand (University of Haifa) entitled "Types of Disorder". The talk is scheduled at 4 pm on the 16th of June.

Seminar Series: Deodáth Zuh

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

Deodáth Zuh:
The Epistemology Behind Art History. Conflicting Methodologies in Gombrich and Panofsky (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 9th June 2015, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

International conference on Italian-Hungarian connections in the shadow of the Great War

All’ombra della Grande Guerra. Incroci fra Italia e Ungheria: storia, letteratura, cultura

International conference on World War I.

Date and venue:
11th June 2015 - 9.30 - 18.00
Italian Cultural Institute, Federico Fellini room (Budapest, VIII. 8. Bródy Sándor st.)

12th June 2015 - 9.30 - 18.00
HAS, Research Centre for the Humanities, Jacobite room (Budapest, I., 30. Országház st.)

Organizing commitee:
Roberto RUSPANTI (University of Udine)
Zoltán TURGONYI (Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, HAS)

The detailed program of the conference is avaliable here (in Italian).

Tamás Demeter's talk in Cambridge

Tamás Demeter is giving a talk on Hungarian contributions to social theory at the University of Cambridge on the 5th June, 2015, entitled 'Ex Oriente Lux: the legacy of Lukács, Mannheim and Hauser'.

"Horizons Beyond Borders" conference: Program announced

The program of the "Horizons Beyond Borders. Traditions and Perspectives of the Phenomenological Movement in Central and Eastern Europe" conference, containing more than 60 presentations from scholars with affiliations in 30 cities of 16 countries, has been announced and is available for download.

Studies in East European Thought

Springer has published the special issue of Studies in East European Thought (2015/1-2) on "Marxist Roots of Science Studies", edited by Tamás Demeter. The issue contains articles by Tamás Demeter, Gábor Szécsi and Deodáth Zuh.

Seminar Series: Igor Cvejić

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

Igor Cvejić:
A NEW OUTLOOK ON KANT`S ACCOUNT OF FEELING

Date and Venue of the lecture: 26h May 2015, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Abstract:
I will present approach to Kant`s understanding of feeling rather different from those we are commonly encountered. Consideration of specific original meaning of German word “Gefühl“, and specific understanding of pleasure and displeasure by Kant`s predecessors is of crucial importance. Kant himself has had many doubts about how to use this word before he articulated it as a feeling of pleasure and displeasure. Central presupposition was tripartite division of faculties into faculty of knowledge, desires, and feeling of pleasure and displeasure. As I intend to show, in accordance with this division, Kant understood feeling not as representation itself, but rather as subjective relational property of some representation, namely, its subjective causality to maintain or restrain its state (statum representativum). Both dominant interpretations of feeling (causal and intentional), as I will argue, fail to grasp this crucial aspect. Further, I will point to potential implications of my thesis concerning understanding of Kant`s aesthetics, by focusing my attention to §12. of Critique of the Power of Judgment.

Seminar Series: Ferenc Huoranszki

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

Ferenc Huoranszki:
Compatibilism, Chance, and Freedom

Date and Venue of the lecture: 21h May 2015, 5.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Traditionally, compatibilism in metaphysics is a thesis about the possibility of free will in deterministic worlds. More recently, however, a new question about compatibility has been raised in philosophy of science. Is chance, i.e. single case objective probability, possible in deterministic worlds? In this talk I shall discuss the potential relevance of this latter type of question to the metaphysics of free will by investigating the connection between chances and abilities.