Tamás Demeter is giving a talk entitled "Hume on the Social Construction of Mathematical Certainty" at the Oxford Hume Forum on the 26th of April, organized by Oxford Brookes University (starting time of the event: 17:30).

Márton Gömöri is giving two talks in the United States, the first one on the 11th of March 2017 at the University of California, Irvine, entitled "On the relation of the relativity principle and covariance", and the second one on the 14th of March 2017 at the University of Pittsburgh (Center for the Philosophy of Science), entitled "On the persistence of the electromagnetic field".

The Institute of Philosophy, HAS kindly invites you to the following lecture:

Peter Stachel
(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
"In the End, are all Sociologists Fatalists?”
Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838 - 1909): An Old-Austrian Pioneer of Early Sociology

Date: March 13, 2017. 4 pm.
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4. Tóth Kálmán Street, 7. floor, room B7.16

Abstract:
Kraków-born Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838-1909), professor of law at Graz University, was one of the pioneers of early sociology. In books like Der Rassenkampf (1883) and Grundriss der Sociologie (1885) he analyzed human culture and social institutions as parts of a “natural process” according to “eternal laws”. Highly acclaimed at his lifetime, not only in Austria, but as well in the United States and France, his theories later were rated as social-darwinistic and even as an intellectual basis of fascistic ideology. But this verdict is based on a very generalized understanding of his theories and in fact not true.

Tamás Demeter is giving a talk on the 10th of March 2017 entitled "Methods of Inquiry in the Scottish Enlightenment" at the conference on Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, organized by the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy in Princeton.

The Insitute of Philosophy of RCH HAS cordially invities you to the following talk:

Rafal Smoczynski (IFiS PAN, Warsaw)

Approaching the Polish Intelligentsia in 20th century. Working notes

Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Tóth Kálmán st.

Date: 2nd March 2017, 14:00.