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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 |
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25 May 2007 |
Lecture |
Prof. Chikara Sasaki is teaching history of mathematics at the University of Tokyo. He studied mathematics in Japan and specialized in the history of mathematics at Princeton University under Thomas S. Kuhn. He received his Ph.D from Princeton on Descartes's... Read more |
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23 May 2007 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Liesbeth De Mol, Promotor: Erik Weber |
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20 April 2007 |
Lecture |
In this talk I am going to present a linguistic account of human quantified reasoning. Given that experimental investigations of deduction are presented verbally and require most of the time a verbal conclusion, it is well-known that linguistic processes play an important... Read more |
