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22 October 2004 |
Lecture |
The talk concerns a diagrammatic procedure for proof search in classical propositional logic P. The procedure may be extended to full predicative classical logic and may be (heavily) varied to accommodate intuitionistic logic and other logics. The idea is to start from a... Read more |
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20 October 2004 |
Lecture |
Some people believe that if there is any reasoning process that cannot be captured by logic, it should be our apprehension of humour. Incongruity-based humour, however, has been analysed, especially by cognitive linguists, as something which can be regimented... Read more |
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8 October 2004 |
Lecture |
Part I: Singular explanation. We all know that Hempel, in his famous covering-law model of scientific explanation, proposed that a bona fide explanation is a certain sort of logical argument. From a premise stating a law of nature (or law-like premise, if we are cautious) a... Read more |
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24 September 2004 to 25 September 2004 |
Conference |
Thought Experiments Rethought |
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23 September 2004 |
Conference |
More information on this event will follow. |
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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 |
