The Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science and the Research Group for Moral and Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference:

Hume and After: Discourses of Morality and Politics in Enlightenment Britain

A konferencia programja:

13:00 - 13:45 - James Harris: The Most Difficult Question of Any: Hume and Smith on Allegiance

13:45 - 14:30 - Tamás Demeter: Hume's Three Perspectives on Human Action

14:30 - 15:00 - Coffee break

15:00 - 15:45 - Alessio Vaccari: The Passion of Resentment in Hume's Theory of Justice

15:45 - 16:30 - László Kontler: William Robertson and the Political Morality of Imperial Expansion

16:30 - 17:00 - Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45 - Ferenc Hörcher: "The Age of Chivalry is Gone." Edmund Burke's Account of the French Revolution as a Loss of Virtue, Learning and Commerce

17:45 - 18:30 - Anna Plassart: Democracy after French Republicanism: Reformist Discourses in Early 19th-Century Britain

Date of the workshop: 18th October, 2016.

Ferenc Hörcher, the director of the Institute of Philosophy at the RCH HAS is giving a talk entitled Hungary, 1956: The Role of the Tragic in the Construction of Central European National Identities, on the 11th of October 2016. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the USA.

Gentry Heritage in East-Central Europe

A Workshop of the research project
“The Impact of Gentry Heritage on the Formation of East-Central European Citizenship”
of the Polish and Hungarian Academies of Sciences

3rd October 2016, 14:00 – 18:00
Venue: “Pepita Room” of the Institute of Philosophy in the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Országház u. 30., 1014 Budapest

14:00 – 14:15: Opening remarks
Ferenc Hörcher

14:15 – 15:45: Section I
Rafał Smoczyński: The role of the nobility and its traditions in the contemporary Polish society
Gábor Gángó: G. W. Leibniz on Polish nobility
Ferenc Hörcher: Nobleman and burgher: a contradiction in terms in early 19th century Hungary

15:45 – 16:15: Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45 Section II
Béla Mester: A 19th-century nation as a philosophical project and the model of Gentry politics in the Hungarian nation building
Gábor Kovács: The clerical, the intellectual and the gentry – the history of European regions from the perspectives of structuralism and 'psychohistory' in the theories of István Hajnal and István Bibó
Éva Sztáray Kézdy: The Descendants of Former Aristocratic Families in Hungary in the 21st century

17:45 – 18:00: Closing remarks
Rafał Smoczyński

The Philosophy of Physics Research Group of the Institute of Philosophy of HAS RCH invites you to the second conference of "Physics meets Philosophy", titled "Quantum states and linearity", to be held on the 28th of September, 2016.

Speakers include Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Lajos Diósi, Tamás Geszti, and Tamás Fülöp, the detailed program schedule can be reached here.
(The language of the conference is Hungarian.)

Philosophy of borders: nations, states and immigration

February 3-4, 2017.

Budapest, Hungary

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the forthcoming conference entitled Philosophy of borders: nations, states and immigration.

Confirmed keynote speaker: David Miller (University of Oxford)

The issues of citizenship, immigration, global justice and the rights and duties of states in relation to citizens and non-citizens are not only the subject of recent public discourse but are permanent topics in normative political philosophy. The conference aims to discuss some of the following issues:

-          the obligations of states to citizens and non-citizens;

-          the normative dilemmas of allocating citizenship rights;

-          the normative legitimacy of bounded nations and states;

-          ethics of immigration.

The conference organizers invite scholars and researchers to submit their proposals discussing these normative issues from a philosophical, historical or interdisciplinary perspective. Submissions from advanced doctoral students are also welcome.