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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 |
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22 April 2008 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Peter Verdée, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
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9 April 2008 |
Lecture |
I discuss the question of ontological commitment of plural quantification. First, I introduce the language of Quantified Name Logic (QNL^e) and provide it with a set-theoretic semantics . Next, I compare QNL^e with Boolos's logic of plurals and prove that the... Read more |
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7 April 2008 to 8 April 2008 |
Conference |
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who investigate different aspects of
the conceptual development that the concepts of space and time underwent in the seventeenth
century, by analyzing the problems that confronted natural philosophers at the time.... Read more |
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14 March 2008 |
Lecture |
Complexity is not beyond our understanding; it requires a new way of understanding. It requires a more detailed analysis of the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. Historical contingency conspires with episodes of randomness to create the actual forms... Read more |
