The History and Philosophy of Science research group of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to the following workshop:
"The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy"
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street
Date: 10th March, 2015.
Program:
9:50: opening
10-11: Ákos Sivadó: Strength in numbers: How political arithmetick shaped society
11-12: Dana Jalobeanu: Baconian science versus Newtonian science: Revisiting the Kuhnian divide
12-12:30: coffee break
12:30-13:30: Gábor Zemplén: Newton's strategic maneuvering and the historical epistemology of his first optical controversy
13:30-15: lunch break
15-16: Eric Schliesser: Anti-Mathematicism in the 18th century
16-17: Steffen Ducheyne: Petrus van Musschenbroek and empirico-mathematics
17:15-17:30: coffee break
17:30-18:30: Charles Wolfe: Vital anti-mathematicism: Mandeville, Buffon and Diderot
CFP Reminder with EXTENDED deadline:
HORIZONS BEYOND BORDERS. TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL MOVEMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (17–19 June, 2015, Budapest, Hungary)
Please send paper proposals by the extended deadline of 8 March.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
Michael Gubser (James Madison University)
George Heffernan (Merrimack College)
Marci Shore (Yale University)
Nicolas de Warren (KU Leuven)
Planned Sessions:
* Roots: The historical roots of Central and Eastern European phenomenology and its philosophical predecessors are well known. For example, Bolzano was born in Prague, Bohemia; Twardowski studied with Brentano in Vienna; and even Husserl was born in Prostejov (Prossnitz), Moravia. But is it possible to relate the emergence and development of early phenomenology to the specific philosophical and political conditions of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th century?
* Figures: Central and Eastern European philosophers participated in the prewar and interwar stages of the Phenomenological Movement. Here presentations on lesser known figures and comparative investigations of their works are especially welcome.
* Beyond Borders: Are there any general characteristics of phenomenology as it has been practiced in Central and Eastern Europe, and has there been any specific influence of that phenomenology on the philosophical and political development of its host countries?
* Beyond Politics: How has phenomenology been understood in the political contexts of Central and Eastern Europe? Is it possible to ground politics phenomenologically? Or is it rather the case that politics cannot be the object of phenomenological inquiry? How can we define the relationship between phenomenology and Marxism? Are we justified in speaking of a “dialog” between phenomenology and Marxism in Central and Eastern Europe?
* Beyond Particularism: Did phenomenology collaborate with other currents of philosophy in Central and Eastern Europe? Here we are also looking for contributions that analyze the contemporary situation of phenomenology in Central and Eastern European countries.
* New Phenomenology: This section is devoted to original research on any aspect of phenomenology and its history by scholars with academic affiliation in Central and Eastern Europe.
* László Tengelyi Commemorative Session: The saddening sudden death of the Hungarian born phenomenologist László Tengelyi (1954–2014) has deprived Central and Eastern European Phenomenology of one of its best-known and most capable representatives. For this session we are soliciting contributions on Tengelyi’s oeuvre and his impact on contemporary phenomenology.
* Krzysztof Michalski Commemorative Session: Krzysztof Michalski (1948-2013) was a Polish phenomenologist, the co-founder and rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna that promotes intellectual exchange among scholars from different fields, societies and cultures. For this session we are expecting contributions on Michalski's philosophy and phenomenology, as well as his organizational work and influences on present-day phenomenological movement.
Contributions are welcome from both junior (pre-doc, post-doc) and senior scholars from every part of the world. The only geographically constrained section is the “New Phenomenology” session, which aims to present new research on any phenomenological topic by scholars with academic affiliation in Central and Eastern Europe.
For further visit the dedicated conference website: http://ceephenomenology2015.
Ferenc Hörcher is giving a keynote talk at the joint colloquium of the Humane Philosophy Project and the Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion, Oxford, on the 28th of February (Persons and Community), entitled "The Concept of the Person: A Catholic-Aristotelian, Practical Account".
Other keynote speeches: Michael Inwood: "Self-consciousness and Other Selves in Hegel''; Tenzin Dechen Rochard: "Being Kind to Oneself Means Being Kind to Others: A Buddhist Approach to Rational Self-Interest, Selflessness, and Altruism".
The keynotes are going to be followed by short talks from Nikolas Prassas, Agata Filipowicz, Robbert-Jan Winters and Jacob Burda.
All further details of the event are available here.
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:
Dániel Golden
"The Open Science and its Enemies" (given in Hungarian)
Date and Venue of the lecture: 24th February 2015, 4.00 pm, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 30. Országház Street, 2. floor, "Pepita" room.
Balazs Gyenis participated as an invited discussant in the conference titled “From Metaphysics to Physics and Back Again”, held in Trinity College of Cambridge University between the 6th-7th of February to honor the scholarly achievements of Prof. Jeremy Butterfield. The details about the program are available here.
Balazs then gave an invited talk in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method of the London School of Economics titled “Bayes rules all: On the equivalence of various forms of learning in a probabilistic setting” on the 9th of February. The abstract is available here; the preprint of the paper on which the talk was based can be accessed here.
