Ferenc Hörcher, director of the Institute ofPhilosophy, HAS, RCH, is going to give a paper at the international confeerence on Lost and Transformed Cities. A Digital Perspecitve, in Lisbon. His talk is entitled: "Buda(pest): the virtual life of the city in a novel", its abstract isavailable here.
The Research Group on the Philosophy of Physics at the RCH, HAS kindly invities you to its mini-sympsium:
FLOW OF TIME
Speakers:
Giuliano Torrengo (Center for Philosophy of Time, Milan)
László E. Szabó (ELTE University, Department of Logic)
Venue: Budapest, 1014, 30. Országház st., Institute of Philosophy, room 026
Date: 16th November 2016., 16:00
Further information is available on the website of the research group.
The Institute of Philosophy, HAS, the Institute for Political Science, HAS, and the Corvinus University of Budapest kindly invites you to the following international conference:
Politcal Realism and Practical Morality (website available here)
Programme:
Venue 1 (Friday, 18th of November; 30 Országház st., Budapest)
09:00-09:30 - Registration
09:30-11:00 - Keynote Lecture: John Dunn (University of Cambridge): Domestic Politics and International Relations across the Millennia
11:00-11:15 - Coffee break
11:15-13:30 - Section 1: Morality and RealismMatt Sleat (Sheffield University): Ethics, Morality and the Case for Realist Political Theory
Tibor Mándi (Institute for Political Science, HAS): The Morality of Political Realism
Andrija Šoć (Belgrade University): Deliberative Democracy between Moralism and Realism
13:30-14:30 - Lunch break
14:30-15:45 - Section 2: Just War and RealismAdam Cebula (Warsaw University): Just War Theory and the Duplex Nature of Extra-Moral Absolutism
Adam Smrcz (Institute of Philosophy, HAS / ELTE University): What Renders a Conflict Inevitable? The Question of Bellum Necessarium among Early Modern Natural Law Theorists
Sabeen Ahmed (Vanderbilt University): The Epistemic Violence of Jeff McMahan's Revisionist Just War Theory
15:45-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-17:15 - Section 3: History and RealismStephen Hailey (Cambridge University): Aristotle and Political 'Realism'
Dávid Molnár (University of Pécs): State/Sovereignty/Statesovereignty. Political Thought in Edward Forsett's 'A Comparative Discourse of the Bodies Natural and Politique'
Ferenc Hörcher (Institute of Philosophy, HAS): How to Govern a City - Political Realism in a Conservative, Republican Key
The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference:
Early Modern Encounters of Science and Philosophy
Program:
10:00 - 10:45 - Dániel Schmal: Perception and Matter: The Concept of Causality in Francis Glisson's Philosophy of Nature
10:45 - 11:30 - Bálint Kékedi: Sheep and Magnets: Purposeful Behaviour in Cartesian Machines
11:30 - 11:45 - Coffee break
11:45 - 12:30 - Olivér István Tóth: Innate Ideas and the Role of Science in Spinoza's Rationalist Epistemology
12:30 - 13:15 - Gábor Á. Zemplén: Diagrammatic Carriers and the Acceptance of Newton's Optical Theory
15:00 - 15:45 - Charles Wolfe: Life as Substance or as Function: Learning from Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
15:45 - 16:30 - Tamás Demeter: Layers of Hume's Vitalism
16:30 - 16:45 - Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30 - Máté Veres: Philosophy's Happy Escape: Scepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Natural History of Religion
17:30 - 18:15 - Natália Borza: Musicality in Natural Philosophy: An Analysis of Adam Smith's Posthumous Essays
Date of the conference: 15th November, 2016.
Ferenc Hörcher is giving a talk entitled "The Constitutional Moment of 1848" on the conference organized by the Universitat de Barcelona between the 19-21st of October, 2016. The title of the conference: "European Society for the History of Political Thought, Fourth International Conference: Constitutional Moments, Founding Myths, Charters and Constitutions Through History".
