Talk by Jaroslava Vydrová

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

Dr. Jaroslava Vydrová

"Zur Emotionsproblematik in der Phänomenologie: die lachende Subjektivität"

Date and Venue of the lecture: 28th October 2014, 2.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Talks by David Pitt and Stephan Hartmann

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming talks:

6th October 2014, 16:00
Dr. David Pitt (California State University, Los Angeles): "The Quality of Thought"

10th October 2014, 16:00
Prof. Stephan Hartmann (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy): "A New Solution to the Problem of Old Evidence"

The talks have been sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Cultural Fund of Hungary, EU-Fire Kft. and Equilor Zrt.

Ferenc Hörcher in Rome

Prof. Ferenc Hörcher gave a paper at the international conference in Rome, Italy, entitled Sources of the Civic: Catholic Higher Education and Democracy in Europe, organised by Notre Dame University, USA, 26-27 September, 2014 (the programme is available here). The title of Prof. Hörcher's paper was: “Justice and the Common Good: Classical Christian and Contemporary Accounts”.

Seminar Series: Tamás Moldvay

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 Moldvay

"Gödel's Monadology" (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 30th September 2014, 3.00 pm (special start time!), Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Seminar Series: Samuel Fletcher

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:

Samuel Fletcher

"The Topology of Intertheoretic Reduction"

Date and Venue of the lecture: 23rd September 2014, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

Philosophers' Debate

PHILOSOPHERS' DEBATE - organized by Oktatói Hálózat

Not much has changed between 399 BC and 2014 AD: those in positions of power, along with a certain part of the general populace, still consider philosophy to be suspicious. How does this perception of philosophy relate to the number and esteem of the philosophers themselves, and to the presence of philosophy in public thought as well as in public education? These are the main questions that we attempt to answer with help from the directors of Hungary's two most prestigious Institutes of Philosophy (MTA BTK and ELTE BTK).

Participants:
István Bodnár (director, ELTE BTK Institute of Philosophy)
Ferenc Hörcher (director, MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy)

Moderator: András Máté (director, ELTE BTK Department of Logic)

Date and venue of the event:
16th September, 2014, 17-20h

ELTE Tanári Klub, Budapest V. district, Szerb st. 21-23.

Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought

The international conference "Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought - Third International Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought" is going to be held between 17-19th September, organized by the Central European University (CEU).

Our Institute will be represented by the director Ferenc Hörcher, along with Gábor Gángó.

The detailed programme of the conference is available here.

Hungarian-Polish Workshop

The 1st workshop of the Budapest-Krakow Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism, jointly sponsored by the Hungarian and the Polish Academy of Sciences, took place in the beginning of this week, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy of HAS RCH.

The workshop covered a variety of topics that formed the basis of past as well as present collaborations between the researchers. Topics included indeterminism in general relativity, foundational analysis of the notion of correlation, relationship of causal set theory and branching spacetimes, Bayesian learning theory, the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox, accuracy-centered formal approaches to epistemology, the dynamical systems approach to causality, and common cause closedness.

The talks, which were being held in the Pepita Room at the Orszaghaz street building, were attended by philosophers of science based at various Hungarian universities, as well as several experts of other institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (notably from physics and mathematics). Talks were followed by informal discussion sessions, joint meals and night programs. The second installation of the workshop is going to take place in Krakow, Poland, in the beginning of December 2014; see the homepage of the research group and the schedules here.