The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Dr. Pat Bondy (Cornell University) entitled "Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments". The talk is scheduled at 4 pm on the 27th of July.
A New Publication of the Institute of Philosophy
A new collected volume of the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is out, with the title: Is a Universal Morality Possible? The new publication is edited by Ferenc Hörcher, Béla Mester and Zoltán Turgonyi, authored mainly by philosophers and theologians, an published by the Institute together with L’Harmattan Publishing House.
Please find enclosed the Table of Contents, the short introduction of it and the endorsement of the book by William Desmond, professor of the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium and David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA.
Seminar Series: Máté Paksy
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
Máté Paksy:
Leibniz, Scholar of Law (given in Hungarian)
Date and Venue of the lecture: 14th June 2015, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Knowledge from Music: Philosophical, Literary, Sociological
The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming workshop:
"Knowledge from Music: Philosophical, Literary, Sociological"
Venue of the workshop: 1014 Budapest, 30. Országház st.
Date of the workshop: 8th July, 2015.
Program:
12:00 - 12:45 - Tamás Demeter (HAS): The Sociological Tradition of Hungarian Musicology
12:45 - 13:30 - Deodáth Zuh (HAS): Conventions and Creativity. Arnold Hauser's Sociology of Music
13:30 - 14:00 - Coffee break
14:00 - 15:00 - David Pitt (CSULA): What is Tonality?
15:00 - 16:00 - Simone Mahrenholz (Manitoba): How Music Thinks
16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 - Ákos Windhager (Arts Harmony): Who Cares about Bruckner's 8th?
17:30 - 18:30 - Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Kuwait): Music, Astronomy and the Philosophy of the Organic: Béla Tarr and László Krasznahorkai
Ferenc Hörcher's book launch in Budapest and Brussels
Ferenc Hörcher, director of the Institute of Philosophy at the RCH, HAS, is participating in the book launch for the recently published volume: John O'Sullivan & Kálmán Pócza (eds.): The Second Term of Viktor Orbán. Beyond Prejudice and Enthusiasm, London, Social Affairs Unit, 2015. Ferenc Hörcher's article is entitled "After the 2014 General Election: Constitutional Majority and No Opposition: A Burden or an Opportunity", op. cit. 253-272.
The event is organized by the Danube Institute at the following venues:
Budapest: 30th July 2015, 17:30 - Szamos Gourmet House, 1052 Budapest, 1. Váci st.
Brussels: 1st July 2015, 17:00 - Hungarian Development Center, 1000 Brussels, Boulevard Bischoffsheim 11.
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