The Research Group on the Philosophy of Physics at the RCH, HAS kindly invities you to its mini-sympsium:

FLOW OF TIME

Speakers:
Giuliano Torrengo (Center for Philosophy of Time, Milan)
László E. Szabó (ELTE University, Department of Logic)

Venue: Budapest, 1014, 30. Országház st., Institute of Philosophy, room 026
Date: 16th November 2016., 16:00

Further information is available on the website of the research group.

The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference:

Early Modern Encounters of Science and Philosophy

Program:

10:00 - 10:45 - Dániel Schmal: Perception and Matter: The Concept of Causality in Francis Glisson's Philosophy of Nature

10:45 - 11:30 - Bálint Kékedi: Sheep and Magnets: Purposeful Behaviour in Cartesian Machines

11:30 - 11:45 - Coffee break

11:45 - 12:30 - Olivér István Tóth: Innate Ideas and the Role of Science in Spinoza's Rationalist Epistemology

12:30 - 13:15 - Gábor Á. Zemplén: Diagrammatic Carriers and the Acceptance of Newton's Optical Theory

15:00 - 15:45 - Charles Wolfe: Life as Substance or as Function: Learning from Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

15:45 - 16:30 - Tamás Demeter: Layers of Hume's Vitalism

16:30 - 16:45 - Coffee break

16:45 - 17:30 - Máté Veres: Philosophy's Happy Escape: Scepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Natural History of Religion

17:30 - 18:15 - Natália Borza: Musicality in Natural Philosophy: An Analysis of Adam Smith's Posthumous Essays

Date of the conference: 15th November, 2016.

Ferenc Hörcher is giving a talk entitled "The Constitutional Moment of 1848" on the conference organized by the Universitat de Barcelona between the 19-21st of October, 2016. The title of the conference: "European Society for the History of Political Thought, Fourth International Conference: Constitutional Moments, Founding Myths, Charters and Constitutions Through History".

The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science and the Research Group for Moral and Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference:

Hume and After: Discourses of Morality and Politics in Enlightenment Britain

A konferencia programja:

13:00 - 13:45 - James Harris: The Most Difficult Question of Any: Hume and Smith on Allegiance

13:45 - 14:30 - Tamás Demeter: Hume's Three Perspectives on Human Action

14:30 - 15:00 - Coffee break

15:00 - 15:45 - Alessio Vaccari: The Passion of Resentment in Hume's Theory of Justice

15:45 - 16:30 - László Kontler: William Robertson and the Political Morality of Imperial Expansion

16:30 - 17:00 - Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45 - Ferenc Hörcher: "The Age of Chivalry is Gone." Edmund Burke's Account of the French Revolution as a Loss of Virtue, Learning and Commerce

17:45 - 18:30 - Anna Plassart: Democracy after French Republicanism: Reformist Discourses in Early 19th-Century Britain

Date of the workshop: 18th October, 2016.

Ferenc Hörcher, the director of the Institute of Philosophy at the RCH HAS is giving a talk entitled Hungary, 1956: The Role of the Tragic in the Construction of Central European National Identities, on the 11th of October 2016. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the USA.