CEU Philosophy Department and ELTE cordially invite you to a public lecture by Harry Frankfurt Monday, 28 April, 5.30 PM- Popper room (Nador str. 9./room 102) "Some Mysteries of Love" Love, in which the will is constrained to a disinterested concern for the good of the beloved, is not necessarily a response to reasons or to value. It is a creator of reasons and of value: things become valuable to us because we love them, and our love means that we have reason to perform the actions that sustaining and promoting their good requires. The ultimate ground of practical normativity and practical reason lies, then, in the contingent necessities of love. These volitional necessities, far from impairing our freedom, are in fact themselves liberating. Harry Frankfurt is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, a past president of the American Philosophical Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He specializes in ethics and the history of philosophy, with particular emphasis on the problem of free will. His publications include the articles "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,", "Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility" and the books Demons, Dreamers and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes' Meditations; The Importance of What We Care About and Necessity, Volition and Love. *************************************************************************************************************************** CEU Philosophy Department and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to a public lecture by Hilary Putnam 9. May, 5.00 PM - Popper Room "Ethics Without Metaphysics" Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions -- a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.