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2008
14 March 2008	Lecture	Epistemic complexity from an objective Bayesian perspective Evidence can be complex in various ways: e.g., it may exhibit structural complexity, containing information about causal, hierarchical or logical structure as well as empirical data, or it may exhibit combinatorial complexity, containing a complex combination of kinds of... Read more
13 March 2008	Doctoral defense	Laws of Nature and Causality in the Special Sciences. A Philosophical and Formal Analysis Doctoral Defense Bert Leuridan, Promotor: Joke Meheus
10 March 2008	Lecture	Panpsychism, Emergence, and Dynamical Systems The lecture will begin with a brief overview of the current state of philosophy mind, with a focus on the problem of emergence within a physicalist framework. Emergence of mind occurs on at least two levels (combinatorial and ontologic), and involves at least three... Read more
8 February 2008	Lecture	An Adaptive Logic Framework for Abstract Argumentation An Adaptive Logic Framework for Abstract Argumentation
25 January 2008	Lecture	A Stroll Through Dynamic Epistemic logic Representing an epistemic situation involving several agents depends very much on the modeling point of view one takes. In fact, the interpretation of a formalism relies quite a lot on the nature of this modeling point of view. Classically, in epistemic logic, the models... Read more

2007
14 December 2007	Lecture	How to be a Scientific Realist: a Proposal for Empiricists The thought that there is a way to reconcile empiricism with a realist stance towards scientific theories, avoiding instrumentalism and without fearing that this will lead straight to metaphysics, has been tempting for many empiricists—and certainly many of the logical... Read more
7 December 2007 to 8 December 2007	Conference	Structure and Identity It is known since Plato that, in order to remain metaphysically consistent, one cannot simply equate a thing with the collection of its properties, i.e., count its being among the predicates applicable to it (Kant agreed with him in this respect). Transcendental idealism (... Read more
9 November 2007	Lecture	The Language of Dialetheism II: the Powers of Language. Assume, for the sake of argument, that there are true contradictions. Assume, further, that these are generated by our languages/conceptual schemes. Perhaps one cannot always revise these to avoid the contradictions. But if we can, should we? I will argue that this is not... Read more
8 November 2007 to 9 November 2007	Workshop	Causation in Science and Technology Causation in Science and Technology
10 October 2007	Lecture	Conjuntions in the Discursive Logic In the logical literature, Discursive (or Discussive) Logic introduced by Stanislaw Jaskowski is recognized as one of the earliest examples of the so-called paraconsistent logic. There is some confusion over what is actually discursive logic nevertheless. Some authors takes... Read more

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