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28 September 2007 |
Conference |
The goal of this symposium is to bring together a small number of representative Newton scholars to openly reflect on future perspectives in Newtonian scholarship and the Newtonian legacy in
eighteenth-century science and philosophy in Europe. The goal of the symposium... Read more |
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3 August 2007 |
Lecture |
In this talk, I will present the propositional fragment of the logic LA, a logic that aims to formalize the notion of CL-analysis. When goal directed proofs are constructed with the prospective dynamics (as defined in [1]), no constructive steps are needed (formulas are... Read more |
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29 June 2007 |
Lecture |
In this lunchtalk I will present an adaptive interpretation of belief merging. In the first part I will provide a brief (but almost complete) introduction to the idea of belief merging. I will focus on the first interpretation due to Revesz (1993), who presented merging as... Read more |
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27 June 2007 |
Lecture |
As a young man at Oxford in the 1320s, Thomas Bradwardine wrote a treatise on Insolubles (self-referential paradoxes) which transformed the medievals' approach to these problems. He was, in the later words of Ralph Strode (a friend of Chaucer's) "that prince... Read more |
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22 June 2007 |
Lecture |
This lunchtalk focuses on two related aims. (1) Most of the oldest propositional paraconsistent logics (as well as some other logics) had an indeterministic semantics. In this lunchtalk I offer a method to transform the models of a large family of two-valued indeterministic... Read more |
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20 June 2007 |
Lecture |
When searching for an explanation for a (puzzling) phenomenon, people often reason backwards: from the explanandum to possible explanations. As such, they perform a reasoning process usually called `abduction'. All abduction processes share a common element: inferences... Read more |
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13 June 2007 |
Lecture |
Causal relations and causal reasoning have long escaped precise treatment. Since the 1980s, however, this has changed. By combining probability and graph theory, Judea Pearl (2000), Spirtes, Glymour & Scheines (2000) and others were able to successfully formalize... Read more |
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8 June 2007 |
Lecture |
This paper aims to rehabilitate Alfred North Whitehead's ether concept by replacing a commonplace in the history of science with a more subtle story. The commonplace holds that the advent of the theory of relativity in 1905 implied the end of all meaningful ether talk... Read more |
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31 May 2007 |
Lecture |
Hans Lyke introduced on chapter 6 of his PHD-thesis the concept of “full deductive weight”. The concept is semantically speaking equivalent to Daniel Vanderveken’s strong implication. Though the former has a dynamic character which is lacking in the latter. The point is... Read more |
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30 May 2007 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Hans Lycke, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
