We invite participants to describe, analyse and discuss the dramatically transforming political cultures of European cities in the age of the Reformation at the following conference:

“Ratio Civilis”
The Transformation of Urban Political Cultures in the Age of the Reformation

Proposals (with a title and abstract of the length of 3-500 words) should be sent to the following address by 30 April 2017 31 May 2017: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Keynote speakers:
Heinz  Schilling (Berlin)
Hans Blom (Rotterdam)

Venue: the conference will be organised in Budapest, at the headquarters of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Organisers: Prof. Ferenc Hörcher, director, Institute of Philosophy, HAS and Adam Smrcz, assistant researcher, Institute of Philosophy, HAS

Date of the conference: 17-18 November, 2017.

For further questions please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Márton Gömöri is giving two talks in the United States, the first one on the 11th of March 2017 at the University of California, Irvine, entitled "On the relation of the relativity principle and covariance", and the second one on the 14th of March 2017 at the University of Pittsburgh (Center for the Philosophy of Science), entitled "On the persistence of the electromagnetic field".

The Institute of Philosophy, HAS kindly invites you to the following lecture:

Peter Stachel
(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
"In the End, are all Sociologists Fatalists?”
Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838 - 1909): An Old-Austrian Pioneer of Early Sociology

Date: March 13, 2017. 4 pm.
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 4. Tóth Kálmán Street, 7. floor, room B7.16

Abstract:
Kraków-born Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838-1909), professor of law at Graz University, was one of the pioneers of early sociology. In books like Der Rassenkampf (1883) and Grundriss der Sociologie (1885) he analyzed human culture and social institutions as parts of a “natural process” according to “eternal laws”. Highly acclaimed at his lifetime, not only in Austria, but as well in the United States and France, his theories later were rated as social-darwinistic and even as an intellectual basis of fascistic ideology. But this verdict is based on a very generalized understanding of his theories and in fact not true.

Tamás Demeter is giving a talk on the 10th of March 2017 entitled "Methods of Inquiry in the Scottish Enlightenment" at the conference on Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, organized by the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy in Princeton.

The Insitute of Philosophy of RCH HAS cordially invities you to the following talk:

Rafal Smoczynski (IFiS PAN, Warsaw)

Approaching the Polish Intelligentsia in 20th century. Working notes

Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Tóth Kálmán st.

Date: 2nd March 2017, 14:00.