Dr. Tamás Demeter has been elected David Hume Fellow for the academic year 2014/15 at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. During the tenure of his fellowship Dr. Demeter is going to work on Hume's epistemology and metaphysics in the context of eighteenth-century knowledge making practices, and Hume's theory of human nature as a middle range theory between physiological theory and normative ethics.

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:

Sara Lagi: Georg Jellinek, a liberal political thinker between the Habsburg Empire and Germany (1885-1898)

Date and Venue of the lecture: 27st January 2015, 4.00 pm, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Tanácsterem" room.

The talk has been sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute of History (Művészetek és tudomány a nemzetépítés szolgálatában a 19. századi Magyarországon OTKA-kutatócsoport (K 108670)).

Abstract

Georg Jellinek is commonly known as one of the most prominent 19th century jurists. There is an extensive and excellent academic production stressing his fundamental contribution to German juspositivism and the influence German cultural context had on him and his works.
In this paper we want to re-consider this “image” of the German jurist: we will seek to show and prove that he was not only a jurist but also a political thinker with a clear and strong liberal profile. Moreover we will show how part of his liberal view was influenced by the period he spent in Vienna as a Professor of Law. In this sense, we will analyze how Jellinek responded to crucial questions on freedom, minorities and State power as a political thinker who lived between Austria and Germany.

The Hungarian Acadmy of Sciences cordially invites you to a public roundtable discussion entitled On the Usefulness of the Humanities, to be held on the 21st January, 2015, at 1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István square 9.

The discussion is based primarily on Ferenc Hörcher's (the director of the Institute of Philosophy) recently published bilingual (Hungarian and English) book of the same title.

Participants of the discussion: László Lovász, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, József Hámori, member of the Academy, Csaba Pléh, member of the Academy, Lajos Vékás, member and vice-president of the Academy, Pál Fodor, director of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Academy, and Ferenc Hörcher, director of the Institue of Philosophy. More details are available here.