Our research group cordially invites you to the upcoming talk of its seminar series:
Dr. Charles T. Wolfe (University of Ghent)
Vitalism and the Metaphysics of Life: The Discreet Charm of Eighteenth-Century Vitalism
Date of the event: 10th December 2018., 16:00
Venue of the event: 4. Tóth Kálmán st., Budapest, 1097; 7th floor
Our research group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on
Date: 22-23rd November 2018
Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Tóth Kálmán st.
Program:
November 22:
Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology)
09.00-10.00: Jeffrey Dunn (De Pauw University): Accuracy as Similarity
10.00-11.00: Clayton Littlejohn (King's): An Accuracy Argument Against Credal Reductivism
11.00-11.20: Break
Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
11.20-12.20: Michael P. Lynch [via Skype] (University of Connecticut): Fake news and the Politics of truth
12.20-13.20: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): Three kinds of veritism and epistemically useful false beliefs
13.20-15.00: Lunch
Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
15.00-16.00: Kate Nolfi (University of Vermont): Epistemic Norms all Things considered
16.00-16.30: László Kocsis (University of Pecs): The value of truth-making: truth-groundedness and the truth as an epistemic goal
16.30-16.50: Break
Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
16.50-17.50: Miriam McCormick (University of Richmond): Value Beyond True Value
17.50-18.50: Tihamer Margitay (Eotvos Lorand University): The Epistemic Value of Moral and Other Values
Dinner
November 23:
Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
09.00-10.00: Anna Maria-Eder (University of Cologne): No Commitment to the Truth
10.00-11.00: Filippo Ferrari (University of Bonn): Alethic Pluralism and the Value of Truth
11.00-11.20: Break
Chair: Laszlo Kocsis (University of Pecs)
11.20-12.20: Andrew D. Chignell (Princeton): The Value of Truth versus The Value of Believing True
12.20-13.20: Brian Pollex (University of Texas at Austin): Understanding The Swamping Problem: Two Competing Theories of the Value of True Belief
13.20-15.00: Lunch
Chair: Laszlo Kocsis (University of Pecs)
15.00-16.00: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Truth and Morality in Rational Argumentation
16.00-16.20: Break
Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
16.20-17.20: Mihály Héder (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): When truth is not the final epistemic value: the case of the epistemology of engineering
17.20-18.20: Duncan Pritchard [via Skype] (University of Irvine, California): Intellectual Virtues, Ignorance and the Truth Goal
Dinner
Tamás Demeter's paper, "Hume on moral responsibility and free will" has been published in The Humean Mind (edited by Angela M. Coventry and Alexander Sager).
Video recordings of the keynote lectures presented at our workshop on Social Ontology meets Social Science are available online:
John Searle: "Social Ontology, Social Science and Political Power"
Our research group cordially invites you to its upcoming workshop:
Social Ontology Meets Social Science
Date: 1st-2nd October 2018
Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Tóth Kálmán st.
Program:
October 1:
10:00 – 12:00 Keynote lecture:
John Searle: Social Ontology, Social Science and Political Power
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Josef Moural: Social Ontology and Historiography
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Rastko Jovanov: Social Ontology and Collective Engagement
16:00 – 17:00 Akos Sivado: Can There Be a Science of Collective Intentions?
October 2:
10:00 – 12:00 Keynote lecture:
Raimo Tuomela: Social Corporations as Social Institutions
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Petar Bojanic: What is an Engagement Act? Commitment, Joint Commitment and Engagement
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Hans Bernhard Schmid: Aristotle on Joint Activity and Common Sense
16:00 – 17:00 Brian Epstein: Social Ontology and the Design of Institutions
