The main research field of the group is: foundations of quantum mechanics and relativity theory, philosophy of determinism, causality, locality and probability.

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 Gömöri, Márton

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 Gyenis, Balázs

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 Szabó, Gábor (research group leader)

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The Research Group for Epistemology focuses on philosophical questions concerning knowledge broadly construed and, in particular, those changes which are entailed by information technology revolution. Our research areas of high priority include collective epistemology, cognitive and digital knowledge architectures, artificial intelligence and learning theories, embodied cognition, and meta-philosophy. The interaction between epistemology and cognitive science, peculiar philosophical questions about cognition as well as its epistemic and logical means are crucial in our research, in addition, our research group intensively investigate the epistemic status of philosophical knowledge in general.

The horizon of our investigations stretches beyond analytic tradition (in a strict sense) and incorporates historic, hermeneutic, and phenomenological accounts. Discussions about representationalism (a vivid tradition from the times of Descartes) provide the main ground for our ongoing studies. Our research addresses recent debates in epistemology, reconsidering their results both for the historical and the analytical traditions. Historically, there is a particular emphasis on the evolution of linguistic and other representational means and their impact on epistemological attitudes and methodologies. Lessons from our investigations pave the way towards an epistemological theory for science and the humanities.

Bernáth, László

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Golden, Dániel

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Hévizi, Ottó

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Kondor, Zsuzsanna (research group leader, advisory council member)

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Laki, János

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Tőzsér, János

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The aim of the department is to serve as a hub in the institute for adopting cutting-edge international research in the history of modern philosophy and embedding the historiography of Hungarian philosophy in its regional and European contexts. In addition to its research in the history of European philosophy, the department initiated the systematic publication of primary sources pertaining to the history of philosophy in Hungary. The focal points of this enterprise are constituted by manuscript sources – e.g., the correspondence of József Eötvös, the memoires of Gustavus Szontagh, documents of the Hungarian early phenomenology or the Hungarian Kant Debate – respectively sources hitherto available only in foreign languages (e.g., in Latin)

Together with other members of the institute, the research group operates the Hungarian Archives of Philosophy (Magyar Filozófiai Archívum, MFA).

A distinguished task of the Hungarian Philosophy Research Group is the analysis of the history of Hungarian philosophy, history of ideas, and history of sciences in the international context, especially the comparative research of the philosophical cultures of East-Central Europe. A main feature of our researches the methodological reflexivity. An important part of our task is the research of the methodological questions of the history of philosophy in the historiography of the Hungarian and Eastern-Central European philosophies, with a glance to the relationship of the history of philosophy and other disciplines.

The Modern History of Philosophy and Intellectual History Research Group combines complex historiographic methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches in researching the 19-20th century European and Hungarian history of philosophy and intellectual history. The research group develops the Hungarian Archives of Philosophy, involving both unpublished manuscripts and novel research methods in humanities (e.g., network analysis).

Current Areas of Specialization (AOSs):

• Contemporary European Philosophy, with a special focus on its origins in the post-Hegelian German and Austrian philosophy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
• The emergence of modern philosophy in Hungary, its various local historical traditions, as well as its relations to contemporaneous philosophical and intellectual currents of thought in Europe.
• Methodology, theory and history of writing the history of philosophy.

Jász, Borbála

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Szabados, Bettina

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Szücs, László Gergely

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Varga, Péter András (research group leader)

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