The MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on

Ernest Nagel and the Making of Philosophy of Science as a Profession

Date: 4th of October, 2019.
Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Toth Kalman st., 7th floor

Organizers: Matthias Neuber (Universität Tübingen) and Ádám Tamás Tuboly (BTK Institute of Philosophy, PTE ITD).

For details see poster.

Ferenc Hörcher gives a talk at the Department of Philosophy of Princeton University, with the title Philosophy, Literature and the Author’s Life: Nietzsche and Thomas Mann. The talk is presented in Alexander Nehamas’s graduate seminar on Nietzsche on 1 October 2019.

Ferenc Hörcher presents a paper entitled The Poetry of the Past: Oakeshott’s Uncommon Rhetoric of Common Sense Conservatism in Lisbon on 21 September 2019. The talk of our Institute's senior fellow is part of the 10th Anniversary Conference of the international Michael Oakeshott Association, held at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal. The programme of the conference is available here.

Paul Gopal-Chowdhury, Portrait of Michael Oakeshott (Image: Gaius & Caius College, University of Cambridge)

The Research Group for Philosophy of Physics, Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to its interdisciplinary workshop on

Physics Meets Philosophy 5:  ''On what there is''

Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Date: 23 September 2019 (Monday)

For details see the webpage of the workshop.

Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Márton Gömöri are giving talks at the 7th Biennial Meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association held on 11-14 September at the University of Geneva. Gábor Hofer-Szabó's talk is titled "Commutativity, simultaneous measurability, and contextuality in the Kochen-Specker arguments"; Márton Gönöri's talk is titled "A Causal Account of Initial Distributions."