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The Institute of Philosophy of the RCH, HAS, kindly invites you to the upcoming conference celebrating the life and work of Katalin Neumer:

Das Kulturerbe Mittel- und Osteuropas - Katalin Neumer zum Gedenken //
The Cultural Heritage of Central-Eastern Europe - Commemorating Katalin Neumer

Date of the event: 2015. 11. 20-21.

The detailed program of the conference is available here.

Ferenc Hörcher, the Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is giving a talk at the London School of Economics and Political Science on the international worskhop entitled CONSTITUTIONAL FAILURE IN EUROPE on the 25th March 2015. The topic of the talk is going to be the essay of Prof. Sotirios A. Barber (University of Notre Dame) on the failure of the American constitution.

The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Dr. Slobodan Perović (University of Belgrade, Serbia) entitled "The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Experimentation in High Energy Physics". The talk is scheduled at 4 pm on the 17th of March.

Abstract:
Several physicists, including Steven Weinberg, have recently suggested that the inescapable logic of discovery forces us to build mega-experiments at high energies (e.g. Large Hadron Collider at CERN) if we wish to tackle the fundamental levels of the physical world (e.g. recently discovered Higgs boson). Yet the nature of theoretical and physical constraints in high energy physics, and technological obstacles stemming from them, turn out to be surprisingly open-ended. Thus, an appeal to the logic of scientific discovery in this case is in danger of being circular and self-serving. I discuss various reasons behind the decisions to build the mega-labs, as well as the possibilities and limits of desirable epistemic and technological diversification of experimentation in High Energy Physics.