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Talk by Sebastian Lutz
Tenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity
Two new institutes were established within the Research Centre for the Humanities
Ancient and Modern Selves: Tension or Complementarity?

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Talk by Sebastian Lutz

Details: Written by Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: Events; Published: 03 May 2021

I suggest that standardization of quantities is a pragmatically and vaguely distinguished special case of concept formation and that measurement is an inference from empirical results about a standardized quantity given some background assumptions (including laws of nature). The measurement debate is thus but a special case of the debates about concept formation and inference, and the logical empiricists’ positions on these topics can be immediately applied to it. Their positions provide straightforward solutions to alleged problems of conventionalism in the philosophy of measurement, for instance the influence of empirical results on standardization, different methods of measuring the same quantity, improvements of measurements and standardizations, and the roles of theoretical assumptions and of models in standardization and measurement.

Commentator: Ádám Tamás Tuboly. Date: 4 May 2021 (Tuesday), 2pm

You can join by clicking here: https://tinyurl.com/btk-fi-lutz

The Zoom Meeting ID for this talk is 946 9243 3230 and Passcode is 000000

Tenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

Details: Written by Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; Published: 28 April 2021

May 6-8, 2021, the Tenth Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity will take place in Budapest, hosted by the Research Centre for the Humanities.

Two new institutes were established within the Research Centre for the Humanities

Details: Written by Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; Published: 18 April 2021

According to the decision of the Governing Body of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network and with the approval of its president Miklós Maróth two new institutes of the Research Centre for the Humanities were established on March 3, 2021. The Institute of Archaeogenomics researches the genomic relationships of the region’s and other archaic and contemporary populations of Eurasia, and the Gyula Moravcsik Institute coordinates research based on the methodology of classical philology.

Ancient and Modern Selves: Tension or Complementarity?

Details: Written by Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: Events; Published: 14 April 2021

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming online workshop on

Ancient and Modern Selves: Tension or Complementarity?

Date: 16 April 2021

The notion of the self is not only a hotly contested topic of debate in modern ethics, but it is unclear whether the ancients at all possessed a clearly formulated concept of it. The work of Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault on spiritual exercises and the transformation of the self has stimulated some important recent work on the problems of the self in Hellenistic philosophy. Several important scholars and philosophers (like Brad Inwood, Christopher Gill, Charles Taylor and Bernard Williams) have argued, however, that our view of ancient thinkers on the self is profoundly distorted by the Cartesian subjective-individualist model of selfhood typical of modernity.

Talk by Zoltán Gendler Szabó

Details: Written by Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont; Category: Events; Published: 02 April 2021

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming online talk: Zoltán Gendler Szabó (YALE) How specific should I be?

Abstract:

You can’t normally utter ‘I like that car’ out of the blue when there is no car around. The standard view in philosophy of language is that this is because the sentence fails to express a specific proposition in such a context, and hence, there is nothing specific you can say in uttering it. On the other hand, if you point at a car nearby your utterance is unproblematic: it is true or false depending on whether you like the car you pointed at.

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Balázs Balogh has been elected Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities

Details: Written by Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; Published: 05 March 2021

Balázs Balogh, the Director of the Institute of Ethnography was elected Director General of the Research Center for the Humanities for five years at the last meeting of the Governing Body of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, since the mandate of Pál Fodor as Director General ended on 28 February 2021.

Pope Francis appoints Antal Molnár to head Pontifical Committee

Details: Written by Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; Published: 24 February 2021

Pope Francis has appointed Hungarian historian Antal Molnár to head of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences for five years, the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference.

Antal Molnár has been director of the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities since 2019. The papal committee established in 1954 cooperates with ecclesiastical and non-religious bodies and institutions, focusing on ecumenical dialogue. Molnár is an expert on the early history of the Catholic Church with a focus on relations between Hungary and the Holy See, as well as the history of Hungary and the Balkans in the 16th-17th centuries.

Arpadiana - a book series about Árpád era in Hungary

Details: Written by Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; Published: 15 February 2021

The Kingdom of Hungary in the Árpád era does not take its place in the historical memory as it should deserve. Yet a deeper knowledge of this bright period in the Hungarian history could be an important element of a modern European and Hungarian identity. The Hungarian government wished to facilitate this by adopting the regulation 1832/2013. (XI. 15.) on the Árpád Dynasty Program and related development sub-programs (2013–2038). An Operational Board was set up to elaborate the project, led by Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Pál Fodor. The Board, with the involvement of the leading researchers of the period, developed the Árpád Dynasty Program within a few months, the implementation of which started in 2018.

The program focuses on the preservation, presentation and development of the national memorial site in Székesfehérvár, but it also provides intense support for historical, philological, archaeological, archaeogenetic, etc. research, which enables a more thorough knowledge and presentation of the Árpáds – and the Árpád era in a broader sense. To communicate the results to an international audience, a new English-language series entitled Arpadiana was launched last year by the Research Centre for the Humanities (editors: Pál Fodor and Attila Zsoldos). This article presents the first four volumes published so far.