Az MTA BTK Lendület Morál és Tudomány Kutatócsoportja 2018. március 29-én 16 órai kezdettel szeretettel meghív minden érdeklődőt

Prof. Paul A. Roth (UC Santa Cruz)
Does Language Exist?

című előadására.

Absztrakt: This talk is based on a combination of papers of mine that I am currently writing regarding the notion of meaning. I argue that philosophical skepticism about the existence of language famously articulated by Davidson—“there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed”—presupposes and has its roots in Quine’s criticisms of Carnap’s views on linguistic frameworks. Specifically, I examine the conceptual and historical role within analytic philosophy of Carnap’s "Principle of Tolerance" in his account of linguistic frameworks, and reasons for Quine’s rejection of it. For if one sees, as does Quine, choices guided from the outset by pragmatic notions, then all so-called frameworks must be understood as post facto inventions by us. As a result, the thought that we can identify constraints on meaning, e.g., logic, proves philosophically misplaced and indeed idle.

Az előadás helyszíne: 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4.

A CEU Filozófia Tanszéke és az MTA BTK Filozófia Intézete szeretettel meghív minden érdeklődőt

Alfred R. Mele
(Florida State University)

következő előadásaira.

Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agents’ Histories

Időpont: március 26., 17:30-19:00
Helyszín: CEU, Nádor utca 15., 103-as szoba.

Absztrakt: A common idea in the literature on free will and moral responsibility is that all that is needed for free action and for moral responsibility for an action is present in an agent’s internal condition at the time of action. Here, an agent’s internal condition at a time may be understood as something specified by the collection of all psychological truths about the agent at the time that are silent on how he came to be as he is at that time. I will argue that this idea should be rejected and, moreover, that it should be rejected both by compatibilists about free will and moral responsibility and by incompatibilist believers in free will and moral responsibility. Topics addressed include the bearing of various cases of manipulation on the assessment of the common idea at issue and how incompatibilist believers in free will and moral responsibility may plausibly deal with the problem of present luck.

Free Will and Neuroscience: Old and New

Időpont: március 27., 16:00-17:30
Helyszín: MTA BTK Filozófia Intézete, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7. emelet, Trapéz terem.

Absztrakt: A major source of scientific skepticism about free will is the belief that conscious decisions and intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions. I present three serious problems encountered by any attempt to justify this belief by appealing to existing neuroscientific data. Experiments using three different kinds of technology are discussed: EEG, fMRI, and depth electrodes. I focus on three questions: When are decisions made (or intentions acquired) in the experiments at issue? When, in these experiments, is the point of no return reached for the featured overt actions? And can we properly generalize from the experimenters’ alleged findings to all decisions?

Kapcsolat:

Az MTA BTK Lendület Morál és Tudomány Kutatócsoport

Recasting the Treatise
Vol. 1.

címmel workshopot szervez 2018. március 15-én és 16-án.

Helyszín: 1014 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7. emelet (Trapéz terem)

Szervezők:
Demeter Tamás (MTA)
Peter Millican (Hertford College, Oxford)

A részletes program itt érhető el.

Az MTA BTK Lendület Morál és Tudomány Kutatócsoportja 2018. március 3-án 10 órai kezdettel szeretettel meghív minden érdeklődőt

Eric Schliesser: Adam Smith - Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker

című könyvének diszkussziójára (Oxford University Press, 2017).

A diszkusszió résztvevői:
Sonja Amade (Swansea)
Demeter Tamás (MTA)
Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam)
Craig Smith (Glasgow)
Spyridon Tegos (Crete)
Charles Wolfe (Ghent/CEU)

A diszkusszió helyszíne: 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7. emelet, Trapéz terem.

AZ MTA BTK Filozófiai Intézete 2018. február 27-én, kedden délután 14h-kor műhelykonferenciát szervez a következő címmel:

Intellectual role models of Hungarian and Polish thought in the 19th and 20th centuries

Helyszín: MTA BTK, Filozófiai Intézet, Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4., 7. emelet, trapéz terem

A műhelykonferencia programja elérhető itt.