The following events have taken place at the Insitute of Philosophy in 2013:

19th March:
Seminar Series of the Institute
Béla Mester: Propylaeumok a magyar filozófia történetéhez (Propylaeums for the History of Hungarian Philosophy)

22nd March:
Seminar Series of the Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science
Roman Frigg (LSE): Reconsidering Reductionism in Statistical Mechanics

26th March:
Seminar Series of the Institute
Gábor Gyáni: A történész mint bíró - A történeti ítélkezésről (The Historian as a Judge - On Historical Judgement)

27th March:
Seminar Series of the Institute
Ryszard Legutko: Is There Such a Thing as European Democracy?

Gábor Gángó presents a paper on

Leibniz and Eastern Europe (given in Hungarian)

Date: 16. 04. 2013.
Venue: HAS RCH Institute of Philosophy, 30. Országház str., Pepita Lecture Hall.

Please find the abstract here.

All those interested are welcome!

On 29. March 2013. Hungarian born Cambridge historian of political and economic thought István Hont died. He was 65 years old. As a postgraduate researcher he worked at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Science.

For details of his life and of some of his publications, see: http://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminars/intros2010-2011/Hont_Introduction.pdf

For a talk with him, with Richard Tuck and others at Harvard, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v83Zh2IenM4

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We would like to thank Csaba Katona and Imre Horvath for their technical help in creating these pages.

Best regards,

4th of February, 2013

Ferenc Hörcher
Director

Between 11-25 February 2013 Tamás Demeter, Senior Research Fellow, is visiting the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, as Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellow. During his stay Dr. Demeter gives a graduate research seminar on the connections between David Hume's philosophy and contemporary natural philosophy, as well as a talk in a Hume workshop organized by the department. Dr. Demeter's visit also aims to improve an existing professional cooperation. The fellowship provides the opportunity for working on a prospective co-edited volume and a co-authored paper.