Studies in East European Thought
Springer has published the special issue of Studies in East European Thought (2015/1-2) on "Marxist Roots of Science Studies", edited by Tamás Demeter. The issue contains articles by Tamás Demeter, Gábor Szécsi and Deodáth Zuh.
Working Papers in Philosophy, 2015/3.
Working Papers in Philosophy 2015/3. Jay Daniel Mininger: The Style Unto Death - Meditations on Untimely Late Style in Philosophy
Working Papers in Philosophy, 2015/2.
Working Papers in Philosophy 2015/2. Turgonyi Zoltán: Pornography and Liberalism (text in Hungarian)
Seminar Series: Igor Cvejić
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
Igor Cvejić:
A NEW OUTLOOK ON KANT`S ACCOUNT OF FEELING
Date and Venue of the lecture: 26h May 2015, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Abstract:
I will present approach to Kant`s understanding of feeling rather different from those we are commonly encountered. Consideration of specific original meaning of German word “Gefühl“, and specific understanding of pleasure and displeasure by Kant`s predecessors is of crucial importance. Kant himself has had many doubts about how to use this word before he articulated it as a feeling of pleasure and displeasure. Central presupposition was tripartite division of faculties into faculty of knowledge, desires, and feeling of pleasure and displeasure. As I intend to show, in accordance with this division, Kant understood feeling not as representation itself, but rather as subjective relational property of some representation, namely, its subjective causality to maintain or restrain its state (statum representativum). Both dominant interpretations of feeling (causal and intentional), as I will argue, fail to grasp this crucial aspect. Further, I will point to potential implications of my thesis concerning understanding of Kant`s aesthetics, by focusing my attention to §12. of Critique of the Power of Judgment.
Seminar Series: Ferenc Huoranszki
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 Huoranszki:
Compatibilism, Chance, and Freedom
Date and Venue of the lecture: 21h May 2015, 5.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Traditionally, compatibilism in metaphysics is a thesis about the possibility of free will in deterministic worlds. More recently, however, a new question about compatibility has been raised in philosophy of science. Is chance, i.e. single case objective probability, possible in deterministic worlds? In this talk I shall discuss the potential relevance of this latter type of question to the metaphysics of free will by investigating the connection between chances and abilities.
Talk by Bryan Roberts
Our speaker for next Wednesday (20th of May, 16h, Pepita room, Orszaghaz str. 30) is Bryan Roberts (LSE) who is going to talk about “New directions for passing time”. Please find the abstract below.
Bryan W. Roberts (LSE), “New directions for passing time”
Abstract:
The problem of passing time is that it is a pervasive part of our experience, and yet seems to have no natural description in our best scientific theories. After introducing this problem I will point out a new way forward using the concept of ‘time observables’, and then indicate some further applications such as for the characterisation of the direction of time.
III. Hungarian-Polish Workshop
Next week (Thursday-Friday, May 21-22) the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest will host the 3rd workshop of the Budapest-Krakow Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism.
Speakers: Sam Fletcher, Márton Gömöri, Michał Tomasz Godziszewski, Balázs Gyenis, Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Ferenc Huoranszki, Attila Molnár, Bryan Roberts, Iñaki San Pedro, Slobodan Perović, Tomasz Placek, Leszek Wroński.
The workshop website with schedule and further details is here.
Everyone is welcomed to attend!
Ferenc Hörcher in Lublin and Warsaw
Ferenc Hörcher, the director of the Insititue of Philosophy at the HAS, has given a talk on the 6th of May at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin on the conference on Elites - their past, now and future, entitled The Communist Destruction of the Middle Classes of Hungary - Is There a Way to Heal It? He was and will be giving lectures in Warsaw on the 7th and 20th of May as a part of the Humane Philosophy Project at the University of Warsaw. His lectures are scheduled within the series of talks on Humane Philosophy and the Idea of the Tragic, where he was and will be talking about Sophocles's "Antigone" and T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral".
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