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The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group,
the NKFI 124970 “Empiricism and atomism in the twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon philosophy” Research Group
and the Department of Sociology (University of Pécs)

cordially invites you to the upcoming conference on

The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic

Organizer and contact: Adam Tamas Tuboly (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Date of the conference: 19-20 September 2018.
Location of the conference: University of Pécs, Ifjúság street 6, room A329.

19 September 2018.

09:45-10:00 Opening

10:00-11:00 Andreas Vrahimis: A. J. Ayer and ‘Continental’ philosophy
11:00-12:00 Aaron Preston: Ayer’s Book of Mistakes and the Crises of Contemporary Western Culture

12:00-12:30 Coffee Break

12:30-13:30 László Kocsis: Definition versus Criterion: Ayer on the Problem of Truth and Validation

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00 Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau: Phenomenalism: from the Vienna Circle to Ayer

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 Hans-Johann Glock: Ayer’s Verificationism – Dead as a Dodo?

20 September 2018.

10:00-11:00 Siobhan Chapman: ‘Viennese bombshells’: Reactions to Language, Truth and Logic from Ayer’s philosophical contemporaries
11:00-12:00 Krisztián Pete: Ayer and Berkeley on the Meaning of Ethical and Religious Language

12:00-12:30 Coffee Break

12:30-13:30 Thomas Uebel: Other Minds in Early Ayer and Carnap

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00 Christian Damböck: Ayer versus Carnap on Value Statements

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:30 Adam Tamas Tuboly: A Cricket Game, a Train Ticket and a Vacuum to be Filled: Ayer in the Web of Fascism-debates

The MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group,
the NKFI 124970 “Empiricism and atomism in the twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon philosophy” Research Group
and the Department of Sociology (University of Pécs) cordially invites you to its upcoming workshop on

Thomas Uebel on Verstehen and Logical Empiricism

Date of the workshop: 17 September 2018.
Location of the workshop: University of Pécs, Ifjúság street 6, room A329.

Organizer and contact: Adam Tamas Tuboly (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

10:00-11:00 Thomas Uebel: More on Neurath on Verstehen

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Akos Sivado: The Operation Called “Missverstehen”: the Uses and Misuses of Weber’s Interpretive Sociology in Early Analytic Philosophy
12:30-13:30 Fons Dewulf: Misunderstandings of Understanding after Dilthey

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00 Christian Damböck: Is there a hermeneutic aspect in the Aufbau?
16:00-17:00 Andreas Vrahimis: Neurath’s Critique of Verstehen and the Reply to Horkheimer

17:00-17:30 Coffee break

17:30-18:30 Aaron Preston: Still Seeking a Middle Path

18:30-19:30 Adam Tamas Tuboly: Understanding Metaphysics and Understanding with Metaphysics: A Frank Approach

The Journal of Scottish Philosophy has published a symposium on Eric Schliesser's book Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker. The symposium, edited by Tamás Demeter, is based on the papers presented at our research group's book discussion on the 3rd of March 2018.

Contributions include:

1. Tamás Demeter: On Smith's Method

2. László Kontler: Smith/Schliesser's Enlightenment

3. Craig Smith: Comment on Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith

4. Spiros Tegos: Independent and Servile Manners in Adam Smith

5. Crola Freiin von Villiez: Emotional Configuration and Intellectual Duty

6. Charles T. Wolfe: Smithian Vitalism?

7. Eric Schliesser: Author Meets Critics

Ádám Tamás Tuboly is giving a talk entitled "Knowledge Missemination: Frank, Stebbing and Joad on the Philosophy of Physicists" at the conference on Matter and Life: Historico-logical Issues in Post-1800 Physics and Biology, hosted by the Sarton Centre for History of Science at Ghent University on the 27th of August 2018.

The IRH at the University of Bucharest and
The MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group

cordially invite you to their workshop:

Axiomatic Mathematics and Phenomenology

Venue: Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest
Date: September 3-4, 2018.

Organized by: Iulian Toader

Programme:

Monday, September 3

09:00-10:00 - Bernd Buldt: Reduction, Axioms, Practice
10:00-11:00 - Andrea Reichenberger: Intuition and Axiomatics in the Neo-Friesian School
Chair: Iulian Toader

Coffee break

11:30-12:30 - Mircea Dumitru: Gödel's Realism: What Kind of Conceptual Realism?
12:30-13:30 - Constantin Brîncuş: Finitism and Phenomenology: Is Negation an Ideal Element, After All?
Chair: Grigore Vida

Lunch break

15:30-16:30 - Deodáth Zuh: Husserl's Logic of Signs as the Harbinger of Constitutive Phenomenology
16:30-17:30 - Carlo Ierna: Husserl on the 'Remarkable Doubling of All Pure Mathematical Concepts': A Computational Approach to Axiomatic Mathematics
17:45-18:45 - Georg Schiemer: Husserl and Carnap on Completeness
Chair: Constantin Brîncuş

19:30 - Dinner

Tuesday, September 4

09:00-10:00 - Ilie Pârvu: Theoretical Naturalism and Transcendental Phenomenology
10:00-11:00 - Mirja Hartimo: Husserl's Transcendentalisation of Mathematical Naturalism: Maddy and Husserl in Comparison
Chair: Grigore Vida

Coffee break

11:30-12:30 - Ansten Klev: Meaning Explanations
12:30-13:30 - Iulian Toader: Weyls Widerliches Geschwätz: Predicativism, Evidence, and the ω-Rule
Chair: Constantin Brîncuş