Seminar series: Walter Schweidler

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences kindly invites you to the upcoming talk of its seminar series:

Prof. Dr. Walter Schweidler:

The Slave in Ourselves. Neo-Aristotelianism and 20th Century German Practical Philosophy

Date and Venue of the lecture: 7th May 2013, 16.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

The abstract of the talk can be found here.

Talk by Roland Poellinger

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to Roland Poellinger's (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) talk entitled "Possibility, Opportunity, Choice in a Deterministic World". The talk is scheduled at 3pm on on the 6th of May. You may read the abstract here. The talk has been sponsored by Equilor Zrt.

Seminar series: Ferenc Hörcher

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences kindly invites you to the upcoming talk of its seminar series:

FERENC HÖRCHER: Aesthetic Thought and Practice in Courtly Culture: The case of Sir Philip Sidney

Date and Venue of the lecture: 30 April 2013, 16.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.

The key question of the paper was brought up at the intersection of two parallel research projects. One of them, an OTKA-project, focused on late Renaissance, early modern aesthetic thought, the other, an NKA research, was to provide an overall picture of the aesthetic thought of the age of Enlightenment. Both of them led to the figure and oeuvre of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586). The figure, cult and poetic work (The Defence of Poetry (1596)) of the English poet, courtier and soldier raises the following question: What does the concept of taste mean in this period, and how does it connect moral philosophy with politics and aesthetics?

Talk by Gábor Gángó

Gábor Gángó presents a paper on

Leibniz and Eastern Europe (given in Hungarian)

Date: 16. 04. 2013.
Venue: HAS RCH Institute of Philosophy, 30. Országház str., Pepita Lecture Hall.

Please find the abstract here.

All those interested are welcome!

The passing of István Hont (1947-2013)

On 29. March 2013. Hungarian born Cambridge historian of political and economic thought István Hont died. He was 65 years old. As a postgraduate researcher he worked at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Science.

For details of his life and of some of his publications, see: http://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminars/intros2010-2011/Hont_Introduction.pdf

For a talk with him, with Richard Tuck and others at Harvard, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v83Zh2IenM4

Seminar series: Ryszard Legutko

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences kindly invites you to the presentation of its next international guest speaker, Professor Ryszard Legutko. Professor Legutko, a former minister of culture of Poland, is a professor of philosophy at the Jagellonian University of Cracow, Poland, and an MEP at the same time.

The title of his talk: Is there such a Thing as European Democracy
Find its abstract here.

Date and Venue of the lecture: 27 March 2013, 18.00 pm, Philosophy Institute, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 53 Úri Street, 2. floor, room 224.

Welcoming message

Welcome to the new homepage of the Institute of Philosophy! We hoped to create a modern website with blog-like capabilities that, besides informing the general public about research conducted in our Institute, may reach a wider audience interested in philosophy and related events in Hungary.

Currently the page is under construction; please check on us again in a couple of days!

In case you have relevant content to share please get in touch with us at sivado.akos at btk.mta.hu.

We would like to thank Csaba Katona and Imre Horvath for their technical help in creating these pages.

Best regards,

4th of February, 2013

Ferenc Hörcher
Director

Talk by Roman Frigg

The History and Philosophy of Science unit of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to Roman Frigg's (London School of Economics) talk entitled "Reconsidering Reductionism in Statistical Mechanics." The talk is scheduled at 5pm on on the 22nd of March. You may read the abstract here. The talk has been sponsored by Equilor Zrt.