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A Jelentés És A Karteziánus Gondolatok: Nagel És Kripkenstein TalálkozásaMagyar Filozofiai Szemle 4. 1999.
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21The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2024.Explores the impact of Enlightenment philosophers in Scotland on the development of sociology The first collection to look at the significance of the Scottish Enlightenment for sociological thought, this book explores how and what sociological ideas were developed during this period. It also analyses how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop in subsequent traditions of sociology. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed and refined a descriptive-explanatory approach a…Read more
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19The social and the medical in HumeBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1-10. forthcoming..
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22David Landy. Hume’s Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation. London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xi+266. £120.00 . ISBN 978-1-138-50313-7 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (2): 415-419. 2019.
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7A társadalom aspektusai: társadalomelméleti tanulmányok Lendvai L. Ferenc köszöntésére (edited book)Áron Kiadó. 2000.
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6Conflicting values of inquiry: ideologies of epistemology in early modern Europe (edited book)Brill. 2015.Conflicting Values of Inquiry explores how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.
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1Hume on moral responsibility and free willIn Angela Michelle Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.
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19A Plea for an Integrated Historiography of Natural and Moral Philosophy in Enlightenment Scotland: A Programmatic EssayJournal of Scottish Philosophy 20 (3): 183-202. 2022.I begin with a diagnosis. Present-day scholarly work on the Scottish Enlightenment is bifurcated: it is either focused on the areas of moral philosophy or of natural philosophy, broadly construed in both cases. The aspiration to combine these inquiries is rare and unsystematic. This paper makes a case for the need and possibility of a perspective that conceives moral and natural inquiry as integrated enterprises in the period. It also suggests that potentially useful interpretive devices can be …Read more
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76What is Mental Fictionalism?In Tamás Demeter, T. Parent & Adam Toon (eds.), Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations, Routledge. pp. 1-24. 2022.This chapter introduces several versions of mental fictionalism, along with the main lines of objection and reply. It begins by considering the debate between eliminative materialism (“eliminativism”) versus realism about mental states as conceived in “folk psychology” (i.e., beliefs, desires, intentions, etc.). Mental fictionalism offers a way to transcend the debate by allowing talk of mental states without a commitment to realism. The idea is to treat folk psychology as a “story” and three di…Read more
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16The Foundational Document of Cognitive ScienceIn Judit Gervain, Gergely Csibra & Kristóf Kovács (eds.), A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in Honor of Csaba Pléh, Springer Verlag. pp. 163-174. 2021.David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature is arguably the best candidate for the first ever overarching attempt at a descriptive-explanatory science of the mind. This paper characterizes the key tenets of Hume’s undertaking and situates its central features in the context of then-contemporary science. According to the present argument, Hume’s science of man provides a chemical-organismic account of mental functioning that fits an intellectual environment dominated by post-Newtonian natural philosoph…Read more
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7Towards a Humean epistemic ideal: Contested alternatives and the ideology of modern scienceBelgrade Philosophical Annual 1 (34): 7-25. 2021.I suggest that it is fruitful to read Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding as a concise exposition of an epistemic ideal whose complex philosophical background is laid down in A Treatise of Human Nature. Accordingly, the Treatise offers a theory of cognitive and affective capacities, which serves in the Enquiry as the foundation for a critique of chimerical epistemic ideals, and the development of an alternative ideal. Taking the "mental geography" of the Treatise as his starting point,…Read more
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104Varieties of Humeanism: an introductionSynthese 199 (Humeanisms): 15069-15086. 2021.An introduction to the Synthese topical collection "Humeanisms"
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33Where Rationality IsIn Barbara Merker (ed.), Verstehen: Nach Heidegger und Brandom, Meiner. 2009.The paper contrasts Robert Brandom’s account of rationality with that of Daniel Dennett. It argues that neither of them is tenable, and sketches an alternative outlook that avoids the problems. In spite of their fundamental differences, both Brandom and Dennett employ a robust, i.e. explanatory and predictive notion of rationality, and for different reasons they both fail to offer a plausible theory supporting it. The lesson offered here is that rationality should not be treated alongside other …Read more
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36J.C. Nyíri’s work is well-known for his interpretation of Wittgenstein as a conservative thinker. Nevertheless, his reading of Wittgenstein is only one strand, even if presumably the most influential one, in his general interpretation of Austro-Hungarian philosophy. Therefore his reading of Wittgenstein is best understood if viewed as part of a complex, sociologically inspired picture of Austrian philosophy. In this introductory essay I present Nyíri’s work as an exercise in the sociology of phi…Read more
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31The sociological tradition of Hungarian philosophyStudies in East European Thought 60 (1): 1-16. 2008.In this introductory paper I sketch the tradition, several early aspects of which are discussed in the following essays and reviews. I introduce the main figures whose work initiated and maintained the sociological orientation in Hungarian philosophy thereby tracing its evolution. I suggest that its sociological outlook, if taken to be a characteristic tendency that gives Hungarian philosophy its distinctive flavour, provides us with the framework of a possible narrative about the history of Hun…Read more
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27Three genres of sociology of knowledge and their Marxist originsStudies in East European Thought 67 (1-2): 1-11. 2015.In the present paper I sketch three genres of sociology of knowledge and trace their roots to Marx and Marxist literature while reconstructing two causal and one hermeneutic strand in this context. While so doing the main focus is set on György Lukács and György Márkus and their interpretation of Marx’s contribution to sociologically minded theories of knowledge. As a conclusion I point out that Marx-inspired sociologies of knowledge are more sensitive to the relation of larger-scale social and …Read more
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109Supervenient causation and programme explanationGrazer Philosophische Studien 64 (1): 83-93. 2002.Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Jaegwon Kim put forward two models of higher-level causal explanation. Advocates of both versions are inclined to draw the conclusion that the models don't differ substantially. I argue, on the contrary, that there are relevant metaphysical differences between Jackson and Pettit's notion of programme explanation on the one hand, and Kim's idea of supervenient causation on the other. These can be traced back to underlying differences between the contents of their…Read more
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34Nyíri, J.C., Tradition and Individuality: Philosophical Essays, “Synthese Library”; Nyíri, Kristóf, A hagyomány filozófiája (The Philosophy of Tradition); Neumer, Katalin, Gondolkodás, beszéd, írás (Thought, Language, and Writing) (review)Studies in East European Thought 51 (4): 329-340. 1999.
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47From classical studies towards epistemology: The work of józsef BaloghStudies in East European Thought 51 (4): 287-305. 1999.In this paper, I introduce a prominent classical scholar, József Balogh, whose work can be read as a significant contribution to the historiography of ancient, and in some sense modern, philosophy. Following a summary biography, I sketch the relevance of Balogh''s interpretation of Augustine. I draw some analogies between his and Eric Havelock''s treatment of the problems in ancient philosophy, and argue that the obvious similarities between them have a common origin, namely the perspective of t…Read more
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Frank Jackson: From Metaphysics to Ethics: Defence of Conceptual Analysis (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 54 (2). 2001.
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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.
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David Bloor: Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 52 (3). 1999.