Akos Sivado is giving a talk on "Numbers made certain by the sovereign power: rhetoric and arithmetic in Sir William Petty's science of the state" at the "Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy X", to be held in St. Andrews between the 8th and 10th of May 2019.
Peter Hartl and Akos Sivado are giving talks in London at the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, taking place at King's College (24-26 April). Peter Hartl's talk on "Hume, early modern atheism and the art of theological lying" is scheduled on Friday, while Akos Sivado's talk on "An atomism of biblical proportions: the reconciliation of scriptural and natural knowledge in Sir William Petty's natural philosophy" is scheduled on Wednesday. More information about the conference is available here.
The MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group and the NKFI 124970 "Empiricism and atomism in the twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon philosophy" Research Group cordially invite you to their conference:
Language, Logic and Reality: The Legacy of Russell’s Logical Atomism
Date: April 25, 2019.
Venue: University of Pécs, D/425; 7624 Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6.
Programme:
Morning session
10.00-11.00 Peter Simons: Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory Made to Work
11.00-11.45 Krisztian Pete: „Basically, at heart, I am a logical atomist.” (W. Sellars) Sellars on logical atomism, on Sellars’ logical atomism
11.45-12.00 Coffee
12.00-13.00 Anssi Korhonen: Russell’s 1918 Lectures and their place in his philosophical development: the logical and the psychological in Russell’s logical atomism
13.00-13.45 Ákos Gyarmathy: Russell’s logical atomism and hyperintensional logic
13.45-15.00 Lunch
Afternoon session
15.00-16.00 Kevin Mulligan: Perception, Judgement & Isomorphism
16.00-16.45 Miklós Márton: Russell on physical properties
16.45-17.00 Coffee
17.00-17.45 Dániel Kodaj: The philosophy of logical atomist idealism: An exercise in alternate history
17.45-18.30 László Kocsis: Is there any place for falsehood? Russell on the metaphysics of falsity
19.30 Dinner
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Péter Hartl has successfully defended his thesis, "The taming of religion: Hume's sceptical theism and his criticism of vulgar religion in context", at the University of Aberdeen.
Our research group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on
Date of the event: 29th-30th March, 2019.
Venue of the event: 1097 Budapest, 4. Toth Kalman st., 7th floor
Programme:
Friday, 29th of March
09.00-10.00: Janette Dinishak: "Autistic Autobiography" Ten Years Later
10.00-10.30: Krzysztof Tarkowski: Who Are You, Professor Hacking?
10.30-11.00: Loren King: Between Two Worlds: Reading Hobbes through Hacking
11.00-11.30: coffee break
11.30-12:30: Mark Risjord: Surrogative Inference and Entity Realism
12.30-13.00: Joao Ribeiro Mendes: The Influence of Gaston Bachelard's Philosophy of Science on Ian Hacking's Experimental Realism: An Assessment
13.00-14.30: lunch
14.30-15.00: Tina Wachter: Can Conventionalism Save the Identity of Indiscernibles?
15.00-15.30: Ozan Altinok: Ian Hacking: Limiting Language to Make Place for Reality
15.30-16.00: Charles Djordjevic: Doing 'Meaning and Use' Right: Hacking, History and the Legacy of the Later Wittgenstein
16:00-16:30: coffee break
16.30-17.00: Marius Markuckas: Ian Hacking's Philosophy and the Self-Contradiction of Transhumanism
17.00-18.00: Thomas Uebel: Language, Truth, and Hacking
Saturday, 30th of March
09.00-10.00: Jonathan Tsou: Hacking on Looping Effects and Kinds of People: Instability and Stability in the Classification of Human Types
10.00-10.30: Georgina H. Mills: The Only Epistemic Looping Effect
10.30-11.00: Matteo Colombo & Regina Fabry: Predictive Processing and Delusion. On the Looping Dynamics of Personal and Sub-personal Explanation
11.00-11.30: coffee break
11.30-12.00: Vincenzo Politi: What If You Can't Spray Them? On Entities, Realisms and Inferences
12.00-12.30: Catherine Green: Nomadic Concepts: Hacking's Human Kinds and Social Science Concepts
12.30-13.30: lunch
13.30-14.30: Luca Sciortino: Why Styles of Reasoning Matter
14.30-15.00: Matteo Vagelli: Discursive Formations and Styles of Reasoning
15.00-15.30: Hanna Szabelska: Hacking's Archaeology of Probability: Critical Remarks
15.30-16.00: coffee break
16.00-17.00: Axel Gelfert: The Primacy of Practice: Ian Hacking's Philosophy of Mathematics
17.00-18.00: Paul Roth: Hacking's Historiography
