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29 May 2006	Conference	Kritische Metafysica: Gilles Deleuze Kritische Metafysica: Gilles Deleuze
18 May 2006	Lecture	Descartes Changing Mind Descartes is always and ever concerned with knowledge. Around 1628 he begins his systematic philosophical work by starting to write, though never publishing, the `Rules for the Direction of the Mind' (`Regulae' `ad Directionem Ingenii'). In this work he lays... Read more
17 May 2006	Lecture	Explanation and Information Causal explanations have not been well explicated. The main question is how explanations provided intelligible unity or coherency. Many explanations provided in the biological and neurosciences (as well as elsewhere) refer to mechanisms that carry information. Some... Read more
15 May 2006	Doctoral defense	An archaeology of Galileo's science of motion Doctoral Defense Maarten Van Dyck, Promotor: Erik Weber
12 May 2006	Lecture	Two problems and a solution? Normal distributions, regression towards the mean and the ancestral theory of inheritance. In the second half of the 19th century, when words like ‘gene' or ‘genetics' did not yet exist and Mendel's theory had sunk into oblivion for decennia, Francis Galton developed his own, very influential theory of inheritance. Unlike Mendel, Galton was very... Read more
1 March 2006	Doctoral defense	Virtuosi at Work: Historical-philosophical Essays on Causality and Methodology in the Natural Philosophy of Galileo, Huygens and Newton Doctoral Defense Steffen Ducheyne, Promotor: Erik Weber
24 February 2006	Lecture	Logica's van inductieve definities en causale probabilistische events (en hun verbanden met logic programming) Wat hebben logische programma's (Prolog), inductieve definities, causaliteit en probaliteit met elkaar te maken? Ik zal twee gerelateerde logica's bespreken: ID-logica, en CPE-logica. De eerste is een integratie van klassieke logica met een taalconstructie om... Read more
22 February 2006	Doctoral defense	Van precepten tot vergelijkingen. De conceptuele ontwikkeling van symbolische algebra in de zestiende eeuw Doctoral Defense Albrecht Heeffer, Promotor: Diderik Batens

2005
16 December 2005	Lecture	Creativity and the Dynamics of Incongruity-Resolution Among contemporary humor theorists, the prevalent view of how a cognitive agent gets a joke is the so-called forced reinterpretation-account (henceforth FR) of incongruity-resolution (henceforth IR). Firstly, the cognitive agent interprets the set-up of the joke (or the... Read more
30 November 2005	Doctoral defense	Adaptieve Inductielogica's. Theorie en Praktijk van het Inductief Redeneren Doctoral Defense Lieven Haesaert, Promotor: Diderik Batens

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