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Tamás Demeter's paper on "Hume's Science of Mind and Newtonianism" has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Newton (ed. by Eric Schliesser and Chris Smeenk).

The latest special issue of Synthese on "The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy", edited by Tamás Demeter and Eric Schliesser, has been published.

Contributions include:

1. Tamás Demeter and Eric Schliesser: The uses and abuses of mathematics in early modern philosophy: introduction
2. Mark Wilson: What I've learned from the early moderns
3. Alan Nelson: Descartes on the limited usefulness of mathematics
4. Mary Domski: Imagination, metaphysics, mathematics: Descartes's arguments for the Vortex Hypothesis
5. Alison Peterman: Empress vs. Spider-Man: Margaret Cavendish on pure and applied mathematics
6. Jonathan L. Shaheen: Part of nature and division in Margaret Cavendish's materialism
7. Gábor Áron Zemplén: Diagrammatic carriers and the acceptance of Newton's optical theory
8. Steffen Ducheyne: Constraining (mathematical) imagination by experience: Nieuwentijt and van Musschenbroek on the abuses of mathematics
9. Tamás Demeter: Hume on the social construction of mathematical knowledge
10. Charles T. Wolfe: Vital anti-mathematicism and the ontology of emerging life-sciences: from Mandeville to Diderot

Tamás Demeter is giving a talk on "Anatomies of the Mind in Enlightenment Britain" at the History of Science Society's conference on "Naturalization of the Mind after Locke" in Utrecht on the 27th of July 2019.

Our research group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on

Science, Freedom, Democracy

Date of the event: 8th-9th July, 2019.
Venue of the event: 1097 Budapest, 4. Toth Kalman st., 7th floor

Programme:

Monday, 8th of July

09.00-10.00: Steve Fuller: Post-Truth Epistemology: Life after Rawls and Habermas Bubble

10.00-11.00: Klemens Kappel: Science as public reason

11.00-11.20: Break

11.20-12.20: Stephanie Ruphy: Can the virtues of participative democracy be imported in scientific research? Political and epistemological prospects (and challenges) of citizen science

12.20-14.00: Lunch break

14.00-15.00: Jeroen Van Bouwel: Are transparency and representativeness of values hampering scientific pluralism?

15.00-16.00: Mark Brown: Democracy, Populism, and the Politicization of Science

16.00-16.20: Break

16.20-17.20: Heather Douglas (online): Freedom of Research and Scientific Responsibility in Democratic Societies

17.20-18.20: Hans Radder: Which science, which freedom, and which democracy?

Tuesday, 9th of July

09.00-10.00: Hugh Lacey: Participatory democracy and methodological pluralism

10.00-11.00: Phil Mullins: Michael Polanyi's Post-Critical Vision of Science and Society

11.00-11.20: Break

11.20-12.20: Peter Hartl: The ethos of science and central planning: Merton and Michael Polanyi on the autonomy of science

12.20-14.00: Lunch break

14.00-14.45: Tihamer Margitay: What can liberalism learn from science?

14.45-15.30: Dustin Olson: Public Opinion, Democratic Legitimacy, and Epistemic Compromise

15.30-16.15: Jisoo Seo: A Consequentialist Way of Looking at Values in Science

16.15-16.35: Break

16.35-17.35: Matthew Brown: Expert Authority and Autonomy

Gábor Zemplén is giving a talk on "Profiling dialogues: Multi-trait mapping of televised argumentative exchanges" at the ECA Groningen (the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation - "Reason to Dissent"). The conference takes place between the 24th and 27th of June 2019.