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23 September 2004 |
Conference |
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3 September 2004 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Kristof De Clerq, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
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18 June 2004 |
Lecture |
The main focus of my talk will be the question “How can we ascribe notions from theories of philosophy of science to past scientists (in my research: 17th-century natural philosophers) who clearly lacked such notions?”. Such an enterprise seems to be vexed with the... Read more |
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12 May 2004 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Guido Vanackere, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
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6 May 2004 to 8 May 2004 |
Conference |
Patterns of Scientific Reasoning: Adaptive and Interrogative Perspectives |
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23 April 2004 |
Lecture |
Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle states that if there exists a probabilistic correlation between two events then either there is a direct causal connection between the correlated events or there exists a (Reichenbachian) common cause that explains the correlation... Read more |
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22 March 2004 |
Lecture |
Two extreme theses can be formulated with respect to analogies: 1. Analogies have a temporary and a purely heuristic function. 2. All our thinking is conducted in terms of analogies. The first thesis has its natural locus in 1950s and 1960s philosophy of science (and before... Read more |
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12 March 2004 |
Lecture |
In zijn monumentale studie over de geschiedenis van wiskundige symboliek, hanteert Florian Cajori (1928-9), de zeer enge interpretatie van 'symbool' als 'teken' en maakt hierdoor geen onderscheid tussen bvb. het gelijkteken in een rekenkundige berekening... Read more |
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27 February 2004 |
Lecture |
Is structureel realisme de juiste wetenschappelijke metafysica? |
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13 February 2004 |
Lecture |
Among the current philosophical attempts to understand causation two seem to be the most prominent. The first is James Woodward's counterfactual approach; the second is the mechanistic approach advocated by Peter Machamer, Lindley Darden, Carl Craver, Jim Bogen and... Read more |
