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55Can the Strong Program Be Generalized?Review of Sociology 15 (1): 5-16. 2009.I argue that, despite recent attempts, the strong program in the sociology of knowledge cannot be applied as a general method of inquiry in the history of ideas. My main point is that its methodological commitments only allow the strong program to be fruitful in those fields of knowledge whose content can be given by truth conditions. But even in these fields sociological questions can be asked that are not sensitive to truth conditional content. In these cases, as I argue, a hermeneutic method …Read more
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61The search for an image of manStudies in East European Thought 62 (2): 155-167. 2010.The present paper offers a narrative of the post-World War II development of Hungarian philosophy, and argues that it is characterized by a double, historical and anthropological orientation under Marx’s influence. The resulting amalgam is an intellectual history that looks beyond the ideas themselves, searching for underlying images of man which are represented as ideological backgrounds to theories of nature, society, cognition, etc. The most important works of this approach interpret ideas an…Read more
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8Post-Mechanical Explanation in the Natural and Moral Sciences: The Language of Nature and Human Nature in David Hume and William CullenJahrbuch für Europäische Wissenschaftskultur. forthcoming.It is common wisdom in intellectual history that eighteenth-century science of man evolved under the aegis of Newton. It is also frequently suggested that David Hume, one of the most influential practitioners of this kind of inquiry, aspired to be the Newton of the moral sciences. Usually this goes hand in hand with a more or less explicit reading of Hume’s theory of human nature as written in an idiom of particulate inert matter and active forces acting on it, i.e. essentially that of Newton’s …Read more
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310In Defence of Empty RealismJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 41 (1): 195-197. 2010.This piece defends the distinction I have drawn in my "Two Kinds of Mental Realism" against criticism put forward in János Tőzsér's "Mental Realism Reloaded".
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1Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy—In Honour of J. C. NyíriStudies in East European Thought 60 (1-2): 159-163. 2008.
Tamas Demeter
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Hungarian Academy of SciencesResearch Group Leader, Senior Fellow
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Corvinus University of BudapestProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |