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13 November 2008 |
Lecture |
Baroque mindset and the new science: the dialectic of the seventeenth-century culture. |
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17 September 2008 |
Lecture |
In his book Metaphysics, George Schlesinger claims that the so-called infinite regress argument is “one of the most versatile weapons in the armoury of the metaphysician” (1983: 218). He is right, first, because the argument is truly one that is frequently used; several of... Read more |
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1 September 2008 to 2 September 2008 |
Conference |
Workshop & Young Researchers Days in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science
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8 July 2008 to 10 July 2008 |
Conference |
Induction: Historical and Contemporary Approaches - 5th Ghentian Conference in the Philosophy of Science |
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20 June 2008 |
Lecture |
Representation of inferential contexts may need logical systems that could be different from classical ones, particularly when the pretension is to model how inferences are in concrete scientific practices. Such contexts will be represented by means of different consequence... Read more |
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6 June 2008 |
Lecture |
The concept of empirical generalisation has recently received close attention in the causal modelling debate. Notably, in Woodward’s account, empirical generalisations replace the traditional concept of law. This paper investigates the role of empirical generalisations in... Read more |
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2 June 2008 |
Lecture |
My talk will aim at giving an overview of my dissertation, which deals with probabilistic theories of causation. I will first explain that generic causation and singular causation are in dissimilar positions with regard to probabilistic theories, and I will briefly set out... Read more |
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30 May 2008 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Stephan van der Waart van Gulik, Promotor: Joke Meheus |
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26 May 2008 |
Lecture |
We present the dialogical approach to logic, in a conceptual framework that, although deeply influenced by S. Rahman's work, is new in a number of respect. We show how to give in this framework a dialogical semantics for a variety of modal logics, relying on Gabbay... Read more |
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22 April 2008 |
Lecture |
(from a joint work with G. Sundholm) Brouwer's demonstration of his Bar Theorem gives rise to provocative questions regarding the proper explanation of the logical connectives within intuitionistic and constructivist frameworks, respectively, and, more generally,... Read more |
