The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to the following workshop:

"The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy"

Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street
Date: 10th March, 2015.

Program:
9:50: opening

10-11: Ákos Sivadó: Strength in numbers: How political arithmetick shaped society
11-12: Dana Jalobeanu: Baconian science versus Newtonian science: Revisiting the Kuhnian divide

12-12:30: coffee break

12:30-13:30: Gábor Zemplén: Newton's strategic maneuvering and the historical epistemology of his first optical controversy

13:30-15: lunch break

15-16: Eric Schliesser: Anti-Mathematicism in the 18th century
16-17: Steffen Ducheyne: Petrus van Musschenbroek and empirico-mathematics

17:15-17:30: coffee break

17:30-18:30: Charles Wolfe: Vital anti-mathematicism: Mandeville, Buffon and Diderot

Ferenc Hörcher is giving a keynote talk at the joint colloquium of the Humane Philosophy Project and the Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion, Oxford, on the 28th of February (Persons and Community), entitled "The Concept of the Person: A Catholic-Aristotelian, Practical Account".

Other keynote speeches: Michael Inwood: "Self-consciousness and Other Selves in Hegel''; Tenzin Dechen Rochard: "Being Kind to Oneself Means Being Kind to Others: A Buddhist Approach to Rational Self-Interest, Selflessness, and Altruism".

The keynotes are going to be followed by short talks from Nikolas Prassas, Agata Filipowicz, Robbert-Jan Winters and Jacob Burda.

All further details of the event are available here.

Balazs Gyenis participated as an invited discussant in the conference titled “From Metaphysics to Physics and Back Again”, held in Trinity College of Cambridge University between the 6th-7th of February to honor the scholarly achievements of Prof. Jeremy Butterfield. The details about the program are available here.

Balazs then gave an invited talk in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method of the London School of Economics titled “Bayes rules all: On the equivalence of various forms of learning in a probabilistic setting” on the 9th of February. The abstract is available here; the preprint of the paper on which the talk was based can be accessed here.

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:

Gábor Gángó

"G. W. Leibniz's Candidacy to be Chancellor of Transsylvania" (given in Hungarian)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 3rd March 2015, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.