Péter Hartl's PhD-defence
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.
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Adam Tamas Tuboly's Review
Adam Tamas Tuboly's review "Miscalculating Happiness" (on Bruno S. Frey's Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2018) has been published in Journal of Economic Methodology.
The Philosophy of Ian Hacking
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
Talk by Gábor Zemplén in Lisbon
Gábor Zemplén is participating in the conference of the "European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis" which takes place in Lisbon between the 19th and the 22nd of March, 2019. His presentation is entitled "Empirical Research from Hungary: Mapping Deliberative Discourses".
Recasting the Treatise, Vol. II.
The MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group and Hertford College, Oxford cordially invite you to their workshop:
Recasting the Treatise, Vol. II.
Date of the event: 23rd and 24th of March, 2019.
Venue of the event: Hertford College, Catte St. Oxford, OX1 3BW
Programme:
Saturday, 23rd of March
10:00-11:30: Amyas Merivale: "Changes in Matter Aplenty II: The Passions after 1740"
Coffee break
12:00-13:00: Tamás Demeter: "Recasting the Experimental Method"
Lunch break
14:30-15:30: Katie Paxman: "The Troubled Anatomist: Changes in Hume's Treatment of Sympathy"
Coffee break
16:00-17:00: Jane McIntyre: "New Emphases in Hume's Later Treatment of the Passions"
Coffee break
17:30-18:30: Margaret Watkins: "Hume's Spirited Treatment of the Passions"
Sunday, 24th of March
10:00-11:00: Peter Millican: "Hume on the Will and Free Will"
Coffee break
11:30-12:30: Josef Moural: "Liberty and Necessity (with Lord Kames in the Background)"
Lunch break
14:00-15:00: Amyas Merivale: "Hume on the Religious Passion"
Coffee break
15:30-16:30: Alison MacIntyre: "Intensifying Cause vs. Producing Causes in a Dissertation on the Passions: A Clarification of the Treatise 2.1.11 Account of Seconding as a Cause of Pride"
Coffee break
17:00-18:00: Jackie Taylor: "Hume on Pride and Resentment"
Organized by
Tamás Demeter (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Peter Millican (Hertford College, Oxford)
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