Events archive
| 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... |
| 1 March 2006 | Doctoral defense |
Virtuosi at Work: Historical-philosophical Essays on Causality and Methodology in the Natural Philosophy of Galileo, Huygens and NewtonDoctoral 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... |
| 22 February 2006 | Doctoral defense |
Van precepten tot vergelijkingen. De conceptuele ontwikkeling van symbolische algebra in de zestiende eeuwDoctoral Defense Albrecht Heeffer, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
| 16 December 2005 | Lecture |
Creativity and the Dynamics of Incongruity-ResolutionAmong 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... |
| 30 November 2005 | Doctoral defense |
Adaptieve Inductielogica's. Theorie en Praktijk van het Inductief RedenerenDoctoral Defense Lieven Haesaert, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
| 18 November 2005 | Lecture |
From Solvability to Unsolvability: Posts frustrating problem of Tag.In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his incompleteness results, and some years later Church and Turing showed that the decision problem for certain systems of symbolic logic has a negative solution. However, already in 1921 the young logician Emil Post worked on similar problems... |
| 28 October 2005 | Lecture |
Een Erotetisch ModelDe bestaande erotetische logica’s (Harrah, Belnap, Hintikka, Wiœniewski) vertonen enkele belangrijke nadelen en beperkingen: het probleem van logische alwetendheid en het ontbreken van een bewijstheorie, evokatie en implicatie van irrelevante vragen, de beperking van which-... |
| 22 September 2005 | Doctoral defense |
De Disjunctie. Adaptief-logische formalisering van een aantal Griceaanse implicaturenDoctoral Defense Liza Verhoeven, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
| 9 September 2005 | Lecture |
A New Semantics for Quantification for Substructural and Modal LogicsThis is a non-technical talk that presents a new approach to the semantics of the quantifiers. On the standard approach, (forall x)Fx is true if and only if Fx is true for all assignments of the variable x to individuals in the domain. The standard approach, however, has... |