The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Prof. David Hillel-Ruben (University of London) entitled "Traditions". The talk is scheduled at 4:30pm on the 8th of September. The talk has been sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, EU-Fire Kft. and Equilor Zrt.
Ferenc Hörcher in Rome
Prof. Ferenc Hörcher gave a paper at the international conference in Rome, Italy, entitled Sources of the Civic: Catholic Higher Education and Democracy in Europe, organised by Notre Dame University, USA, 26-27 September, 2014 (the programme is available here). The title of Prof. Hörcher's paper was: “Justice and the Common Good: Classical Christian and Contemporary Accounts”.
Seminar Series: Tamás Moldvay
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:
Tamás Moldvay
"Gödel's Monadology" (given in Hungarian)
Date and Venue of the lecture: 30th September 2014, 3.00 pm (special start time!), Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Seminar Series: Samuel Fletcher
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:
Samuel Fletcher
"The Topology of Intertheoretic Reduction"
Date and Venue of the lecture: 23rd September 2014, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Philosophers' Debate
PHILOSOPHERS' DEBATE - organized by Oktatói Hálózat
Not much has changed between 399 BC and 2014 AD: those in positions of power, along with a certain part of the general populace, still consider philosophy to be suspicious. How does this perception of philosophy relate to the number and esteem of the philosophers themselves, and to the presence of philosophy in public thought as well as in public education? These are the main questions that we attempt to answer with help from the directors of Hungary's two most prestigious Institutes of Philosophy (MTA BTK and ELTE BTK).
Participants:
István Bodnár (director, ELTE BTK Institute of Philosophy)
Ferenc Hörcher (director, MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy)
Moderator: András Máté (director, ELTE BTK Department of Logic)
Date and venue of the event:
16th September, 2014, 17-20h
ELTE Tanári Klub, Budapest V. district, Szerb st. 21-23.
Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought
The international conference "Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought - Third International Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought" is going to be held between 17-19th September, organized by the Central European University (CEU).
Our Institute will be represented by the director Ferenc Hörcher, along with Gábor Gángó.
The detailed programme of the conference is available here.
Hungarian-Polish Workshop
The 1st workshop of the Budapest-Krakow Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism, jointly sponsored by the Hungarian and the Polish Academy of Sciences, took place in the beginning of this week, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy of HAS RCH.
The workshop covered a variety of topics that formed the basis of past as well as present collaborations between the researchers. Topics included indeterminism in general relativity, foundational analysis of the notion of correlation, relationship of causal set theory and branching spacetimes, Bayesian learning theory, the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox, accuracy-centered formal approaches to epistemology, the dynamical systems approach to causality, and common cause closedness.
The talks, which were being held in the Pepita Room at the Orszaghaz street building, were attended by philosophers of science based at various Hungarian universities, as well as several experts of other institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (notably from physics and mathematics). Talks were followed by informal discussion sessions, joint meals and night programs. The second installation of the workshop is going to take place in Krakow, Poland, in the beginning of December 2014; see the homepage of the research group and the schedules here.
Seminar Series: Rafal Smoczynski
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:
Rafał Smoczynski
"The impact of gentry heritage on Polish citizenship model"
Date and Venue of the lecture: 16th September 2014, 3.00 pm (special start time!), Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
The presentation is concerned with the gentry legacy that has been actively used by the Polish intelligentsia since 19th century in their collective identity strategies as well as in nation-building policies. It will be argued that modern intelligentsia has naturalized several elements of the gentry ethos what is visible for instance while analyzing the role of cultural assets in sustaining the social stratification in Poland. One of specific features of this legacy lies in “culturalization” of social hierarchies and blurring of the actual economic hierarchy, namely, intelligentsia tends to minimize the role of the economic status in the definition of the overall Polish social hierarchy. The presentation will argue that this specific system of Polish symbolic stratification proved to be very stable and lies at the basis of the Polish social order until today despite radical social change of the communist post-second World War period, which did not challenge the structurally defined dominant role of the cultural elite.
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