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Physics Meets Philosophy: Observation and Measurement
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: October 17, 2024
Organizers: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Péter Vecsernyés
Meaning, Truth, and Physics. A conference in honour of László E. Szabó
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: June 7, 2024
Organizers: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Márton Gömöri
Physics Meets Philosophy: Collapse, Field, Locality, Causality: Topics in the Foundations of Quantum Theory
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: November 9, 2023
Organizers: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Péter Vecsernyés
Rédei 70: Quantum foundations, probability, categories
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: December 16, 2022
Organizers: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Balázs Gyenis
Budapest Reading Seminar on the Foundations of Physics
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: December 8, 2022, Thursday, 16.00
Paper: Rob Spekkens: Contextuality for preparations, transformations, and unsharp measurements
Short intro: Gábor Hofer-Szabó
Idő a tudományokban és a filozófiában
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: December 1, 2022
Organizer: Gábor Hofer-Szabó
The language of the workshop is Hungarian
PMP: Foundations of quantum theory
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: September 22, 2022
Organizers: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Péter Vecsernyés
The language of the workshop is Hungarian
MCMP Workshop: Physicalism
Venue: IBZ, Amalienstraße 38, 80799 München
Date: May 21, 2022
Organizer: Gábor Hofer-Szabó
PMP: Conceptual foundations of relativity
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: September 9, 2021
Organizers: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Péter Vecsernyés
Physicalism and reduction: Budapest workshop
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: December 19-20, 2019
Organizers: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Orly Shenker
PMP: On what there is
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: September 23, 2019
Organizer: Philosophy of Physics Research Group, Institute of Philosophy
Contact: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Péter Vecsernyés
PMP: The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4, Floor 7, Seminar room (B.7.16)
Date: September 25, 2018
Organizer: Philosophy of Physics Research Group, Institute of Philosophy
Contact: Gábor Hofer-Szabó and Péter Vecsernyés
Modality in Physics
Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52, Kraków, Poland
Date: June 11-13, 2018
Making it Formally Explicit

This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism.

TPF: Zalán Gyenis & Miklós Rédei
Venue: ELT BTK, Múzeum krt. 4/i, Room 226
Date: 29 March (Wednesday) 5:00 PM
Title: Categorial subsystem independence as morphism co-possibility
Márton Gömöri: On the Persistence of the Electromagnetic Field
Venue: 817R Cathedral of Learning
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 12:05pm
Title: On the persistence of the electromagnetic field
PMP: When two spacetimes are the same?
Venue: MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy, 1014 Országház u. 30, Room 026
Date: December 19, 2016, 4pm
PMP: Flow of time
Venue: MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy, 1014 Országház u. 30, Room 026
Date: Date: November 16, 2016, 4pm
TPF: Zalán Gyenis & Miklós Rédei
Venue: ELTE BTK Department of Logic, Building i, Room 226
Date: 20 April 2016, Wednesday, 17:00
Title: Having a look at what a Bayesian Agent cannot see (the Bayes Blind Spot)
TPF: Márton Gömöri
Venue: ELTE BTK Department of Logic, Building i, Room 226
Date: 9 March 2016, Wednesday, 17:00
Title: Reichenbach’s Common Cause Principle from a Humean perspective
TPF: Gábor Hofer-Szabó
Venue: ELTE BTK Department of Logic, Building i, Room 226
Date: 2 March 2016, Wednesday, 17:00
Title: How man and nature shake hands: the role of no-conspiracy in physical theories
PMP: Local causality and causal graphs
Venue: MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy, 1014 Országház u. 30, Room 026
Date: March 21, 2016, 4pm
Fifth Workshop in Budapest
Venue: MTA BTK Filozófiai Intézet, 1014 Országház u. 30, Pepita room
Date: May 23-24, 2016
PMP: In time
Venue: Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest
Date: September 16, 2015
Fourth workshop in Krakȯw
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakȯw
Date: September 7-8, 2015 (Monday, Tuesday)