The György Pólya Heuristic Subcommittee of the Standing Committee of the History of Science and Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, and the California State University, Fresno jointly organized a Special Session of the Fall Meeting of the American Mathematical Society titled

How to Solve It? Heuristics and Inquiry Based Learning

The Special Session follows up the 2nd International Conference on Heuristics: Motivating, Orienting and Modeling Invention.

The Sectional Meeting is held virtually.

Program and information available here.

Ferenc Hörcher gives a talk at the online conference entitled Educating the Soul through Art, organised by the University of Public Service and Buckingham University.

The title of his talk is going to be: Aristotelian or Platonist? Scruton's Philosophy and the Great Tradition.

A detailed program of the conference is downloadable here.

An invitation will be sent to those registered at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The conference can be followed live on YouTube, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aOy83ETfYQ&feature=youtu.be Here you cannot participate in the discussion, only use the chat function).

Everyone is welcome.

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming talk

Gyula Klima (Fordham University)

Whatever Happened to Efficient Causes?

The talk will be online.

Abstract:

To dispel any possible false hopes at the beginning, I do not know the answer to the question raised in the title. All I am going to argue for in this paper is that “a funny thing happened” to efficient causes, or rather to our notion of them, “on the way” into modern philosophy and science; indeed, that “the funny thing” that happened was a paradigmatic change well worth investigating in a more comprehensive fashion than the confines of a single lecture would allow.

Commentator: Balázs Gyenis (Institute of Philosophy, RCH)

Date: 22 September 2020 (Tuesday), 2pm

You can join by clicking on the link below.

https://meet.jit.si/Filozófiai_intézet_szeminárium

English language summary and a Spanish and a German language review

A short English language summary in the Summer-Autumn 2020 issue of the European Conservative (here), a German language review in Agenda on page 7 (here), and a Spanish language review in La Razón Historica (here) published of Ferenc Hörcher’s A Political Philosophy of Conservatism. Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2020).

The Department of History of Philosophy and History of Ideas

Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities

cordially invites you to the opening lecture of the Autumn Semester of the Research Seminar series:

Rafał Smoczyński (IFiS PAN, Warsaw)

A self-orientalizing positioning towards the European ‘core’

Working notes on making good and bad citizens in Poland

The abstract of the lecture is available here, presentation is available here.

New date: Tuesday, 15 September, 2020, 11h AM

You can join by clicking on the link below:

https://meet.jit.si/Osztalyszeminarium.FilEszme