The international conference "Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought - Third International Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought" is going to be held between 17-19th September, organized by the Central European University (CEU).

Our Institute will be represented by the director Ferenc Hörcher, along with Gábor Gángó.

The detailed programme of the conference is available here.

The 1st workshop of the Budapest-Krakow Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism, jointly sponsored by the Hungarian and the Polish Academy of Sciences, took place in the beginning of this week, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy of HAS RCH.

The workshop covered a variety of topics that formed the basis of past as well as present collaborations between the researchers. Topics included indeterminism in general relativity, foundational analysis of the notion of correlation, relationship of causal set theory and branching spacetimes, Bayesian learning theory, the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox, accuracy-centered formal approaches to epistemology, the dynamical systems approach to causality, and common cause closedness.

The talks, which were being held in the Pepita Room at the Orszaghaz street building, were attended by philosophers of science based at various Hungarian universities, as well as several experts of other institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (notably from physics and mathematics). Talks were followed by informal discussion sessions, joint meals and night programs. The second installation of the workshop is going to take place in Krakow, Poland, in the beginning of December 2014; see the homepage of the research group and the schedules here.

The Department of Sociology at the University of Pécs kindly invites you to the "International Arnold Hauser Colloquium in the Sociology of Art and Knowledge", organized by Tamás Demeter.

Date of the event: 6th June 2014.

The detailed program of the event is available here.

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences cordially invites you to its international conference on

Is the Universal Morality Possible?
Moral philosophy and the challenges of the postmodern age

Venue: Budapest 1014 Táncsics Mihály st. 7. (MTA BTK Institute for Musicology, Bartók Room, Haydn Room)

Date: 8-9 May, 2014.

The detailed program of the conference can be found here and here.
Abstracts of the talks can be accessed here.

Roundtable Talk on the Renaissance (text in Hungarian)

Participants:
Pál Ács, historian of literature
Gábor Boros, philosopher, historian of philosophy
Ernő Marosi, historian of art

Moderator: Ferenc Horkay Hörcher, historian of ideas