Ferenc Hörcher presents a paper on 12 October 2017 in Porto, Portugal, at the conference Philosophy of The City 2017, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, October 11-13. His talk is entitled: Philosophers as City Magistrates in Early Modern Europe, and deals with the theory and practice of Machiavelli, Montaigne and Althusius in a comparative manner.
The Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS cordially invites you to its conference organized within the framework of the bilateral research project "Conception of Creative City within Central Europe: Historical Images and Empirical indices", supported by the Lithuanian and Hungarian Academies of Sciences:
Modern Capitals and Historical Peripheries
Organizers:
Gábor Kovács, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
Tomas Kačerauskas, Department of Philosophy and Communication, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Date: 20-21 October 2017
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán st., Budapest, 1097
The program of the conference is available here. For futher information about the research project see link.
The Institute of Philosophy RCH HAS and the MTA Lendület Research Group Morals and Science cordially invites you to its upcoming conference:
100 Years After/100 Jahre danach
on the history and legacy of the Budapest Sunday Circle. This conference was initiated to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Free School of the Human Sciences (Szellemi Tudományok Szabadiskolája) organized by the founding members of the Circle.
The poster of the conference is avaiilable here.
Peter Andras Varga is giving a talk in Graz (Austria) at the international conference organised on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Franz Brentano's death (Oct 5-7, 2017).
Ferenc Hörcher is giving a talk at the VI. International Conference of the Society for the History of the Humanitis, at Somerville College, Oxford. His presentation on 30 September bears the title The Concept of the “Arts and Sciences” in Hume’s Essays.
