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A relaxed reader in the Carnegie Library.
Cecilia's birthday party in the Tamarind Restaurant.
Another of the yearly Cathedral of Learning Snowboard events.
CT: Hasok Chang: "A Case for Scientific Pluralism".
Repent, repent, for I have not strived to be thoughtful enough..
Reading family on the bus.
LTT: Robert Rupert: "Do Group Cognitive States Play a Causal-Explanatory Role?"
LTT: Michela Massimi: "'Carving Nature at Its Joints'. Natural Kinds, Kantian Kinds, and the Problem of Induction."
Jason's WIP talk on the definition of health, or rather the needlessness of it.
As our HPS volleyball game got cancelled, we headed out to an excellent Lebanese restaurant with Jonathan and Eric, financed by the profit of my investment in their fantasy baseball league, which performed perfectly last year.
I already wowed several times to stop taking photos of center lunches. Here we go again.
Capitalism: this is it!
Weekend in New York
Arriving at 4am with the Pittsburgh-New York night bus. One of the few places which was open; seating available downstairs.
Wrong way sign for bicyclists!
Maybe this hole eight years after 09/11 symbolizes better the loss of America (and of the civilized world), but then stop pretending you are working on it.
Watching the Sun rising in south Manhattan while waiting for the tango shoe store to open.
Something struck between the walls of Wall Street. Too much reliance on hope?
oOo
MoMa. Art and scientific precision.
A pretty impressive street performer.
Halloween is crazy on the streets of New York.
We choose to listen to Puccini's Turandot in the Metropolitan Opera instead.
We stayed with Dani, Peter and Vera Kardos - beautiful apartment in Great Neck, great breakfast!
ObamaBag WTF?
The view from the top of the Metropolitan Museum is breathtaking.
On the top of the last hill of the 40th New York Marathon. The mixture of suffering, happiness and determination on the faces was extremely inspiring. I must run it sometimes.
Dinner with Michael and Lizzy in a Ukranian restaurant.
Sunday night milonga.
Central Park.
Neue Galerie - decent collection of Austrian and German art, and pretty good American coffee in a Viennese style cafe.
Naming and Necessity.
When this guy slept on the bus, noone else did.
LTT: Alan Baker: "Science-driven Mathematical Explanation".
Zumrut and Sergio in the Wednesday milonga.
Jim Lennox meets with new TAs in the grad lounge.
Any ideas how can I remove these annoying spots from the sensor of my pocket camera?
Off to infinity in finite time.
Peterfest 2009. Many old friends, many good stories! Peter, live long and prosper.
One of the many beautiful HPS babies.
Poker night.
Lunch with David Malament and philphys folks from HPS.
Center lunch, N plus two.
Andras' new unibody Macbook Pro - as cool from the inside as it is from the outside.
A home-made solution to avoid soy sauce stains.
LTT: John Norton: "Cosmology and Inductive Inference: A Bayesian Failure."
May look weird, but this is exactly how I like to read in the library.
Interesting cocktail bar in the strip district; the door to the toilet is secretly hidden behind a bookcase.
Dinner with Mike Tamir, and Alma and Bryan Roberts. Excellent beef, and the best cheesecake I recall to have ever had.
We spent another Saturday sealing doors and windows to prepare for the winter weather.
Mark Sprevak: "Does a rock perform every computation?"
The last tanda.
Dinner before watching Cirque du Soleil's great show Alegria.
I really liked the Pittsburgh workshop of Susanna Miller. She is beautiful.
Nice Center lunch again.
First attempts with chopsticks in Rose Tea Coffee.
I recently installed this Jesus light switch. Now even I can turn Jesus on! I actually found it in a serious catalogue of Christian gadgets, so it was not meant to be a joke.
Sergio's tango class at Pitt.
"Black Cat, White Cat" dinner with Claudia, Mike, Lilly and Annalisa.
Decent Opera opening night: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, and a good spirited dinner afterwards with Philosophy folks.
European HPS members cycled to the Bear Run Campground, but not back, due to the heavy Saturday rain which washed away the otherwise very well organized HPS Retreat. Thanks for all second years!
LTT: Slobodan Perovic: "Examining the Limits of Physics: Experimental Diversity Versus the Physics of Big Experiments."
G20 Pittsburgh
Soldiers practice the difficult task of holding flags for the Thursday meeting at the Phipps Conservatory.
Downtown protests on Thursday. The "Free Tibet" and the "G4:20 - Free Marihuana" people, the two biggest crowd, at least have a point to make, albeit that has nothing to do with the G20 per se.
Strip district. Embarrassingly few protesters (and boringly few hooligans) in the main protest line; most of them are high-school kids.
Thursday night, Oakland. 1 percent protesters, 1 percent ACLU, 98 percent bystanders. Everything is OK.
That I could take a photo of the glass-made Phipps from the top of the Cathedral of Learning (750m aerial distance, well within the range of, say, the $1000 Hezbollah-favorite RPG-29) while the G20 heads of state arrived and had dinner there, without even seeing a single policeman/guard in the building, speaks louder than any words about the security sensibilities of the organizers.
Friday march: Free Palestine - Free Hugs. (It's hard to decide whether this is too old for a joke.)
Overall impression of G20 idiots: weak. The hooligans have lot to learn from their anti-gay Budapest comrades in terms of providing the spectators with entertainment.
Tango performance of Cuidado in Schenley Plaza, and lunch afterwards with Zümrüt, Matthias, Cecilia, John and Saeed.
Another of those great family dinners with Mike and Lilly.
Tom is WIPping again on Relational Quantum Mechanics.
ALS: Kristin Shrader-Frechette: "Epidemiological Method, Causal Inference, and Non-Randomized Statistics: The Case of Three Mile Island"
We celebrated Constitution Day with Jonathan by comparing line-by-line the Bill of Rights with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (it seems that the former offers way stronger protections) and attempting to draft a privacy amendment to the US Constitution.
New year - new Center Lunch season with the new Center fellows.
New icon for the Mac OS X updater - I wonder when will Alaska consumers start to push for a US centered depiction of the globe.
HPS Beginning of the year party.
Police bike with lights and siren.
Guido came over for an Italian Sunday lunch.
Biking to Mars.
Dinner with Will and Tom in their new place. Will got an electric six-string cello - nice.
Are you reading all those simultaneously?
Peters Pub - same old milonga, people.
After 4 attempts, 2 falls and one injuries I managed to climb Canton Avenue (the steepest public street in the world) with my new road bike. What's the name of the game? :)
During the summer I got into barefoot running; I ran a half-marathon in one of these Vibram FiveFingers shoes on Margit Island. It is excellent on the foam, but much less pleasant on the pavement..
Congratulations, Dr. Peter G!
My new place in Pittsburgh, where I'm going to live together with Mike, Lilly, and Annalisa.
Last morning in Budapest: starting the day in Gellert Thermal Bath (Rudas was closed), then a good breakfast and coffee in Gerloczy Cafe.
Last night in Budapest: the Boszormenyi family joined ours to explore Taj Mahal, the only good Indian restaurant I found so far in Budapest.
Literary evening in Treffort Kert.
Keith Bemer and his brother-in-law came to explore Budapest.
Tuesday milonga in Mucsarnok on Heroes Square.
Visiting Peter Kardos, Vera Feuer and little Danika in their home. Amazing panorama!
XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology.
Few photos of our trip to Grossvenediger - we mostly needed to face snowstorms when I didn't dare to use my camera. Hopefully Charlie or Marci made better pics.
Opening ceremony of Pixrael, a photo-exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv.
Visiting Budapest Institute, brainchild of Balazs Varadi, Petra Reszketo and others. Is there a proper Hungarian translation of the English word "integrity"?
Canoeing-picnic with a mixed (well, not too mixed) company of mainly former members of TEK and Rajk. The flood-basin was beautiful! Pictures of Orsi Vincze can be accessed here.
Quartett Esqualo concert playing works of Astor Piazzola.
The Danube surging out.
Some have a tiresome job at CEU.
Happy birthday, Edesapa!
Milonga in the Castle Hill. You can check out some of Laszlo Feher's pictures here, some featuring me as well.
Kertem.
On the top of the Bazilika. The coin minting machine surely breaks the law prohibiting damaging the national currency.
Actions, Reasons, and Desires: Gary Watson on Freedom and Agency. Presentations of Gary Watson, Ferenc Huoranszki and Andras Szigeti.
Roadmap for Boszi's cross-country trip in America.
Siraly closes for the summer.
Boris came back to Budapest to (successfully) defend his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
Mountaineering-meeting with Andris Kiss and Balazs Kovacs.
Climbing in the Alps (including i.e. Palon de la Mare) with Marci, Charlie and Andras Monostori (an expert mountaineering instructor). Excellent views, lots of new experiences!
Thanks for the help, Anna!
CEU still.
European Parliamentary elections with quite disappointing results.
Happy birthday, Dani!
Watch closely the lights. How far will this go?
Spring-closing tango festival in the Budai Fono.
Club Era concert, Corvin teto.
Climbing the peak "Satan" in the High-Tatras with Balazs Lerner and Marci Mihaltz. Charlie has much better photos here.
Trying to find a genuinely good Indian restaurant in Budapest. Indigo: fail (whatever you hear from others).
Szinvaltasok: Tamas Acs: "Szokratesz vedobeszede".
Street-art-less.
Habermas conference organized by the philosophy department of JPTE.
The 25th ELTE surviving competition in Slovakia was quite fun! Our team was composed of Gabor Zemplen, Attila Gulyas, Zsuzsa Kravalik, Balazs Hegedus, and myself.
Tibor Barany's talk on the connection between intentionality and intensionality.
Viento de Tango concert in Millenaris, excellent tango performance by Johanna Kulik and her partners, and a large milonga afterwards.
Ph.D. defense of Csaba Henk...
...and concert of kata-valami afterwards.
Discussion with Boszi after watching Tarkovski's Stalker.
Ravens are not cutting other ravens' eye...
Will the Berkeley guys be happy to see this?
Vive le 1ere du Mai.
Family gathering.
Aji's "ballagas". Good bye, E5vos.
Peti Varga's Husserl research.
Solidarity demonstration for Jeno Koka who was shot at Tiszalok. The crowd was way too small.
Gergo Szekely's presentation on axiomatizing special relativity.
But which political party would actually endorse this agenda?
Starting the "Blue tour" with Dani and Sevi.
Dani and Sevi.
Critical Mass 2009, Budapest
36th Annual Philosophy of Science Conference, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik
We left (with my father) early in the morning; we had a late lunch in the middle of nowhere in Croatia.
This is, my friends, the view we had from our hostel room.
Kathleen Okruhlik: Misrepresenting Science.
Doreen Fraser: The Applicability of Mathematics and Scientific Realism.
James McAllister: What do Patters in Empirical Data Tell Us About Structures in the World.
Mark Shumelda: Why Philosophers Should be Interested in Quantum Graphity.
One of the many lunches together with Apa.
Mauricio Suarez: A History of Quantum Propensities.
Oliver Pooley: Relativity and The Passage of Time.
Small street in the inner city.
The building of the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik.
Mladen Domazet: Law-constitutive Definition of Objects at the Level of Microstructure.
F.A. Muller: The Second Underdetermination Thesis. There was blood.
Mauro Dorato: Structural Explanation and Structural Realism.
Anian Chakravartty: Subatomic Ontology and Structural Realism.
Hilary Greaves: The Empirical Significance of ("Global" and "Local") Symmetries.
Nenad Miscevic: Dispositionalism vs. Semantic Theory.
Frank Arntzenius: Nominalizing Modern Physics.
Tarkovski-flashback.
Josephine Papst: On Newton's Time.
Dennis Lehmkuhl: What is a (Classical) Unified Field Theory?
Ruediger Schack: From Dutch Book Coherence to Quantum Coherence.
Boris Grozdanoff: Millean Properties for the Fregean.
Captain, oh my captain!
Driving back to Hungary through Bosnia and Serbia. Beautiful, but horrible.
Back to Budapest for a day; leaving for Dubrovnik next morning.
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