The CEU-IAS (Iulian Toader) and the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Tamás Demeter) kindly invite you to the following two-day workshop:

The Bucharest-Budapest Workshop in Philosophy - FICTIONALISM

Date: April 4-5, 2014

Venue: 1051 Budapest, Nador st. 11, groundfloor, room 004.

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is organizing a conference on the 8th and 9th of May 2014, entitled "Is a Universal Morality Possible?". We welcome proposals for talks from those interested in the topic broadly understood (from the fields of philosophy, religious studies, history, law etc.).

Please send your proposals by the 31st March, 2014 to the following address: fi.titkarsag at btk.mta.hu

All additional information can be found here.

The Doctoral School in Philosophy and the Doctoral School in Demography and Sociology at the University of Pécs invites applications for the International Summer School in Social and Historical Epistemology.  Date of the event: 30th June-8th July, 2014. Application deadline: 15th May 2014.

Further information is available here.

Tamás Demeter is giving a talk on 15th January at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest entitled "Post-Newtonian Moral Philosophy in Enlightenment Scotland: The Flight from Mathematics in the Human Sciences". He will also take part in the conference organized by the faculty on 16-17th January ("Mechanism, Mathematics and Experiment: Early Modern Intersections") with his talk: "Hume on the Limits and Prospects of Natural Philosophy".

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?