The mission of the Research Group in Political Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion is to engage with the contemporary philosophical discourses on politics and religion internationally and in Hungary. The research group focuses on the early modern, modern, and contemporary ideas of Western political thought, connecting conceptual analysis with a “Cambridge” methodology of historical reconstruction. It is interested in underrated areas, like conservatism, urban republicanism, or the social and political thought of Central Europe and Hungary. Based on decades-long tradition at our institute in this area, the research group’s second focal point consists in the philosophy of religion, with a special emphasis on Catholic philosophy, against the backdrop of broad investigations of the history of 19-20th century German, Austrian, and Hungarian philosophy, the methodology and historiography of philosophy, also involving digital humanities approaches. |
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Hörcher, Ferenc (research group leader) |
Email: horcher.ferenc at abtk.hu Phone: + 36 1 224 6700/4135 |
Email: szecsi.gabor at abtk.hu Phone: + 36 1 224 6700/4180 |
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Email: varga.peter at abtk.hu Phone: + 36 1 224 6700/4176 |
Is science free from external values and influences? How to secure the autonomy and freedom of scientific research? Is it possible to safeguard science from the attacks and unwarranted challenges of recent science-denial and science-skepticism? These are among the most important and challenging questions that philosophy of science could and shall answer. In fact, during the last few decades, when socially engaged philosophies of science gained wellestablished institutional foothold among philosophers and academia, these were the questions that philosophers, along with historians and sociologists, addressed in details. The research group VALPOS (Value-Polarizations in Science) will contribute to that field by focusing on two major subjects of inquiries. First, it aims to provide novel perspectives about general and historical philosophy of science as a basis for further research. This part of the research group (“General and Historical Philosophy of Science Cluster”) will answer such questions as how public and internal-to-science perceptions of science has changed in the twentieth century (historically and systematically) against the background of economic and political crises, how major figures in the history of science and philosophy (e.g. Thomas Kuhn, James Conant, Michael Polanyi) argued for a value-laden conception of the nature and practice of science against the conceived orthodoxy of positivism, and finally, how those historical discourses are relevant to our current debates around science. The other part of the research group, the “Biomedical Cluster”, utilizing the conceptual and systematic results of the first cluster, will focus on contemporary issues in biomedical research, where – via technological innovations and practically oriented systems of reference – the multidimensional value-ladenness of data and theory are more visible. Within that cluster, a more nuanced notion of “value” shall be developed and through it, three dimensions of research will be related. One of them is the field of bioethics, the other is medical humanities (embedding medical sciences in the valueoriented web of culture), and the third is infant nutrition. All three relate to the notion of how values influence medical sciences within socially conceived interests and aims of science. |
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Email: barcsi.tamas at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
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Bárdos, Dániel |
Email: bardos.daniel at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
Email: biro.gabor.istvan at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
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Email: demeter.tamas at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4164 |
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Email: dombrovszki.aron at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
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Email: hartl.peter at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
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Karakas, Alexandra |
Email: karakas.alexandra at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
Email: kertesz.gergely at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
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Kocsis, László |
Email: kocsis.laszlo at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
Tuboly, Ádám Tamás (research group leader) |
Email: tuboly.adam at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4164 |
Email: zuh.deodath at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4166 |
The emergence of artificial intelligence entails challenges as regards the understanding of natural (human) intelligence, as well. Accordingly, it does not pay to investigate separately the two phenomena from either a technical-ergonomic or a philosophical perspective.
If we cast a glance at the different approaches in the history of AI research, we can see that conceptions of the mind always have a considerable effect on how and to what extent AI can be built.
We attempt to shed light on the relation between natural and artificial intelligence from as many angles as possible and make visible the challenges we face with along their common history.
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Balázs Gyenis is giving an invited talk in the conference titled "Causation and Reduction: From Metaphysics to the Sciences", organized by the University of Illinois, on the 4th of April (due to travel restrictions the conference moved online). Details can be found here.
A Klasszikus és Kora Modern Filozófiatörténet Kutatócsoport fő kutatási területei az antik és a kora újkori filozófiára, valamint a német idealizmusra és recepciójára irányulnak. Kiemelt tematikus kutatásaink egyrészt az antik atomizmust, az arisztotelészi hagyományt, a hellenisztikus filozófiát és a kései antikvitást érintik; másrészt a reflexivitás történetét és a kora újkori szelf-elméletek ezzel összefüggő átalakulását, valamint az antropológiai különbség problémáját, illetve a biológiai élet és az öntudat közötti kapcsolatot vizsgálják. A csoport koherenciáját az episztemológia, lélekfilozófia, nyelvfilozófia, etika és a metafizika, valamint az irodalmi formák filozófiai szerepére vonatkozó, az egymástól távol álló filozófiatörténeti kérdések összehasonlítása és a történeti kapcsolatot jelentő középkorra és reneszánszra is irányuló közös kérdésfeltevéseink garantálják. |
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Kovács Dániel |
Email: kovacs.daniel at abtk.hu Telefon: + 36 1 224 6700/4181 |
Németh Attila (csoportvezető) |
Email: nemeth.attila at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4135 |
Email: schmal.daniel at abtk.hu Telefon: +36 1 224 6700/4188 |
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