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2014
28 March 2014	Lecture	Inconsistent and Functional Theories: A Classification Few has been written and explored about the strategies that is possible to develop for describing and organizing elements that do not satisfy the ideal conditions that an empirical scientific theory has to fulfil. I sustain that, appealing to certain philosophical analysis... Read more
14 February 2014	Lecture	Causal Structure and Natural Kinds Some have argued for the view that causal structure is central to the individuation of natural kinds. Let’s call this the Causal Realist view of natural kinds. Central to the position is the idea that the natural kinds are such that they are characteristically associated... Read more

2013
20 December 2013	Lecture	Dissensus in Public Historiographical Debate: What is the Point of Writing History? Dissensus in Public Historiographical Debate: What is the Point of Writing History?
13 December 2013	Lecture	How do Mechanistic Explanations Explain? Mechanistic explanations are a common form of explanation in such sciences as neuroscience and psychology. In giving these explanations, researchers attempt to explain a capacity of a mechanism in terms of the capacities of its components. The most popular account of... Read more
6 December 2013	Lecture	Degrees of inconsistency. Carefully combining classical and paraconsistent negation In this talk I argue in favour of the hypothesis that combining inconsistency tolerance (there is an overlap between the extension of a property and it's negation) with the expressiveness of the classical complement operation (being able to express that something is [... Read more
29 November 2013	Lecture	Heuristic Reevaluation of the Bacterial Hypothesis of Peptic Ulcer Disease in the 1950s The history of research on peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is usually perceived as consisting of three main phases: a) from the second half of the 19th century to the 1950s, during which two main hypotheses (the acidity and the bacterial hypothesis) were investigated in parallel... Read more
8 November 2013	Lecture	From paraconsistent logic to dialetheic logic One of the most well-known paraconsistent logics is Logic of Paradox (LP) developed by Graham Priest. As is clear from its name, LP is strongly motivated by the considerations on paradoxes such as the liar paradox and Russell's paradox. And the characteristic aspect of... Read more
25 October 2013	Workshop	2nd Philosophical activism workshop - Expressing discontent: appropriate or not? And if so, when, where and how? In our second workshop, i.e., Expressing discontent: appropriate or not? And if so, when, where, and how?, we intend to (1) examine what the notion of discontent might entail from a philosophical perspective, and (2) elaborate on how discontent can and should be (... Read more
16 September 2013 to 18 September 2013	Conference	Congress on Logic and Philosophy of Science The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of Ghent University was founded in 1993. On occasion of its 20th anniversary the Centre organises an international Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS13) on the themes that are central to its research:... Read more
21 June 2013	Lecture	Metaphysical arguments in artificial intelligence Over the last two decades, the field of artificial intelligence has experienced a separation into two schools that hold opposite opinions on how uncertainty should be treated. This separation is the result of a debate that began at the end of the 1960's when AI first... Read more

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