The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Dr. Pat Bondy (Cornell University) entitled "Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments". The talk is scheduled at 4 pm on the 27th of July.
Physics Meets Philosophy: In Time
The Philosophy of Physics Research Group at the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to the upcoming interdisciplinary workshop on
Physics Meets Philosophy: In Time
Date and venue of the event:
16th September 2015, 1014 Budapest, 30. Országház st. ("Pepita" room)
Additional details are available at the workshop's website.
Talk by Ferenc Hörcher
Ferenc Hörcher is giving a talk at the conference on "Competition among Systems of Law", to be held on the 4th of September, 2015, at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Ferenc Hörcher's talk is entitled "Commercial competition and competition of states. Hume, Smith, and the Discourse on Contemporary realism".
Obituary: Katalin Neumer
It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our colleague dr. Katalin Neumer. She was 58 years old.
She was an excellent historian of philosophy, her writings provided fundamental contributions to the history of Hungarian and Austrian philosophy. She published many remarkable papers and books on 18th and 19th century philosophy of language, although the work of the later Wittgenstein always remained her primary interest throughout her life. Besides writing and publishing important monographs and papers in both Hungarian and foreign languages, she also found the time to translate Wittgenstein's works into Hungarian. Though she primarily considered herself a philosopher, she frequently ventured into the fields of literature, literary history, and other areas of the Kulturwissenschaften, most imporantly of the cinematic arts. Besides the creative application of new perspectives, her writings could be characterized first and foremost by philological precision, conceptual clarity, and the thorough review and analysis of textual sources. She also provided important contributions regarding the nature of the humanities, considering both their inner connections and their place within the system of sciences in general.
Her activities as an organizer of scientific activities resulted in the carrying out of various research projects, and the organization of various workshops and conferences. She made essential contributions to the development and maintenance of work relations between Austrian and Hungarian philosophy, to the identification of the Central-Eurpean philosophical tradition's main characteristics, and to regional cooperations. She was an active participant in the public philosophical life of Hungary, and she mentored and supported several young researchers. She was one of the leading researchers of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Hungarian philosophy suffered a great loss with her untimely passing.
The HAS, the Research Centre for the Humanities (HAS), and her colleagues at the Institute of Philosophy share the immense grief of her family.
Talk by David Mark Kovacs
The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by David Mark Kovacs (Cornell University) entitled "Metaphysical Explanation and Expressive Power". The talk is scheduled at 4 pm on the 10th of August.
Tamás Demeter's publication
Tamás Demeter's article entitled "Before the Two Cultures: Merging the Canons of the History of Science and Philosophy" has been published in Metaphilosophy 46/3.
A New Publication of the Institute of Philosophy
A new collected volume of the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is out, with the title: Is a Universal Morality Possible? The new publication is edited by Ferenc Hörcher, Béla Mester and Zoltán Turgonyi, authored mainly by philosophers and theologians, an published by the Institute together with L’Harmattan Publishing House.
Please find enclosed the Table of Contents, the short introduction of it and the endorsement of the book by William Desmond, professor of the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium and David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA.
Seminar Series: Máté Paksy
The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences kindly invites you to the upcoming talk of its seminar series
Máté Paksy:
Leibniz, Scholar of Law (given in Hungarian)
Date and Venue of the lecture: 14th June 2015, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
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