Talk by Peter Stachel
The Institute of Philosophy, HAS kindly invites you to the following lecture:
Peter Stachel
(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
"In the End, are all Sociologists Fatalists?”
Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838 - 1909): An Old-Austrian Pioneer of Early Sociology
Abstract
Kraków-born Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838-1909), professor of law at Graz University, was one of the pioneers of early sociology. In books like Der Rassenkampf (1883) and Grundriss der Sociologie (1885) he analyzed human culture and social institutions as parts of a “natural process” according to “eternal laws”. Highly acclaimed at his lifetime, not only in Austria, but as well in the United States and France, his theories later were rated as social-darwinistic and even as an intellectual basis of fascistic ideology. But this verdict is based on a very generalized understanding of his theories and in fact not true.
Date: November 28, 2016. 4 pm.
Venue: Budapest, 1014 Országház u. 30. „Pepita” room
Seminar Series: László Bernáth
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
László Bernáth (MTA BTK FI):
Free Will and Neuroscience (given in Hungarian)
Date and Venue of the lecture: 22nd October 2016, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Ferenc Hörcher's talk in Lisbon
Ferenc Hörcher, director of the Institute ofPhilosophy, HAS, RCH, is going to give a paper at the international confeerence on Lost and Transformed Cities. A Digital Perspecitve, in Lisbon. His talk is entitled: "Buda(pest): the virtual life of the city in a novel", its abstract isavailable here.
Flow of Time - mini-symposium
The Research Group on the Philosophy of Physics at the RCH, HAS kindly invities you to its mini-sympsium:
FLOW OF TIME
Speakers:
Giuliano Torrengo (Center for Philosophy of Time, Milan)
László E. Szabó (ELTE University, Department of Logic)
Venue: Budapest, 1014, 30. Országház st., Institute of Philosophy, room 026
Date: 16th November 2016., 16:00
Further information is available on the website of the research group.
Political Realism and Practical Morality
The Institute of Philosophy, HAS, the Institute for Political Science, HAS, and the Corvinus University of Budapest kindly invites you to the following international conference:
Politcal Realism and Practical Morality (website available here)
Programme:
Venue 1 (Friday, 18th of November; 30 Országház st., Budapest)
09:00-09:30 - Registration
09:30-11:00 - Keynote Lecture: John Dunn (University of Cambridge): Domestic Politics and International Relations across the Millennia
11:00-11:15 - Coffee break
11:15-13:30 - Section 1: Morality and RealismMatt Sleat (Sheffield University): Ethics, Morality and the Case for Realist Political Theory
Tibor Mándi (Institute for Political Science, HAS): The Morality of Political Realism
Andrija Šoć (Belgrade University): Deliberative Democracy between Moralism and Realism
13:30-14:30 - Lunch break
14:30-15:45 - Section 2: Just War and RealismAdam Cebula (Warsaw University): Just War Theory and the Duplex Nature of Extra-Moral Absolutism
Adam Smrcz (Institute of Philosophy, HAS / ELTE University): What Renders a Conflict Inevitable? The Question of Bellum Necessarium among Early Modern Natural Law Theorists
Sabeen Ahmed (Vanderbilt University): The Epistemic Violence of Jeff McMahan's Revisionist Just War Theory
15:45-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-17:15 - Section 3: History and RealismStephen Hailey (Cambridge University): Aristotle and Political 'Realism'
Dávid Molnár (University of Pécs): State/Sovereignty/Statesovereignty. Political Thought in Edward Forsett's 'A Comparative Discourse of the Bodies Natural and Politique'
Ferenc Hörcher (Institute of Philosophy, HAS): How to Govern a City - Political Realism in a Conservative, Republican Key
Registers of Philosophy 2016/4.
Registers of Philosophy 2016/4. Jon Stewart: Dostoevsky and the Novel as Philosophy.
Seminar Series: Ferenc Hörcher
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
Ferenc Hörcher (MTA BTK FI):
Of Civil Prudence (given in Hungarian)
Abstract:
This talk is going to reconstruct the concept of civil prudence (prudentia civilis) in the discourse of early modern political Aristotelianism, as exemplified among others by Johannes Althusius. It wants to show that there existed a tradition to talk in a philosophically elaborate way about the practicalities of politics before the idea of the State as we know it now was created. This tradition is based on the experience of city governments in medieval Europe, on court literature, on the political ideas of the Reformists and on the humanists' reappropriation of the ancients, expecially Aristotle and Cicero. The paper also wants to argue that this tradition has a relevance in the context of the crisis of the European Union in the early 21. century. The talk is going to be given in Hungarian, with slides projected in English.
Date and Venue of the lecture: 8th November 2016, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Early Modern Encounters of Science and Philosophy
The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference:
Early Modern Encounters of Science and Philosophy
Program:
10:00 - 10:45 - Dániel Schmal: Perception and Matter: The Concept of Causality in Francis Glisson's Philosophy of Nature
10:45 - 11:30 - Bálint Kékedi: Sheep and Magnets: Purposeful Behaviour in Cartesian Machines
11:30 - 11:45 - Coffee break
11:45 - 12:30 - Olivér István Tóth: Innate Ideas and the Role of Science in Spinoza's Rationalist Epistemology
12:30 - 13:15 - Gábor Á. Zemplén: Diagrammatic Carriers and the Acceptance of Newton's Optical Theory
15:00 - 15:45 - Charles Wolfe: Life as Substance or as Function: Learning from Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
15:45 - 16:30 - Tamás Demeter: Layers of Hume's Vitalism
16:30 - 16:45 - Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30 - Máté Veres: Philosophy's Happy Escape: Scepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Natural History of Religion
17:30 - 18:15 - Natália Borza: Musicality in Natural Philosophy: An Analysis of Adam Smith's Posthumous Essays
Date of the conference: 15th November, 2016.
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