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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 |
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14 March 2008 |
Lecture |
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 |
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13 March 2008 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Bert Leuridan, Promotor: Joke Meheus |
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10 March 2008 |
Lecture |
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 |
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8 February 2008 |
Lecture |
An Adaptive Logic Framework for Abstract Argumentation |
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25 January 2008 |
Lecture |
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 |
