The Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to its international conference on

Hamlet in Wittenberg: Civic and Princely Education in Early Modern Europe

Date: 28-29 September 2018
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, 7th floor, B.7.16. (seminar room)

Keynote speakers:
James Hankins (Harvard University)
Jan Waszink (Leiden University)

For the detailed program see link.

The Research Group for Philosophy of Physics, Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to its interdisciplinary workshop on

Physics Meets Philosophy: "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences"

Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Date: 25 September 2018 (Tuesday)

For details see the webpage of the workshop.

The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, the NKFI 124970 “Empiricism and atomism in the twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon philosophy” Research Group and the Department of Sociology (University of Pécs) cordially invites you to its upcoming workshop on

Thomas Uebel on Verstehen and Logical Empiricism

Date of the workshop: 17 September 2018.
Location of the workshop: University of Pécs, Ifjúság street 6, room A329.

Organizer and contact: Adam Tamas Tuboly ()

10:00-11:00 Thomas Uebel: More on Neurath on Verstehen

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Akos Sivado: The Operation Called “Missverstehen”: the Uses and Misuses of Weber’s Interpretive Sociology in Early Analytic Philosophy
12:30-13:30 Fons Dewulf: Misunderstandings of Understanding after Dilthey

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00 Christian Damböck: Is there a hermeneutic aspect in the Aufbau?
16:00-17:00 Andreas Vrahimis: Neurath’s Critique of Verstehen and the Reply to Horkheimer

17:00-17:30 Coffee break

17:30-18:30 Aaron Preston: Still Seeking a Middle Path
18:30-19:30 Adam Tamas Tuboly: Understanding Metaphysics and Understanding with Metaphysics: A Frank Approach

Ferenc Hörcher, the director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences participates, organises a session and gives a paper at the 14th International Conference on Urban History, to be held between 29 August and 1 September, 2018. The conference bears the title: Urban renewal and resilience. Cities in comparative perspective, and his own paper is entitled The Resolution of Urban Conflicts in 16th Century Central Europe: The Case of Cluj/Kolozsvár. The program of the conference is to be found under the following link.