Events archive
| 22 March 2004 | Lecture |
Scientific Analogies: How they are used and how we can study them.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... |
| 12 March 2004 | Lecture |
De rol van symbolische representatie in probleemoplossing.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... |
| 27 February 2004 | Lecture |
Is structureel realisme de juiste wetenschappelijke metafysica?Is structureel realisme de juiste wetenschappelijke metafysica? |
| 13 February 2004 | Lecture |
A Glimpse of the Secret Connexion: Harmonising Mechanisms with Counterfactuals.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... |
| 23 January 2004 | Lecture |
Non-normal Dialogics for a Wonderful World and More.The aim of my talk is to offer a dialogical interpretation of non-normal modal logic which will suggest some explorations beyond the concept of non-normality. This interpretation will be connected to the discussion of two issues, one more philosophical and the second of a... |
| 16 January 2004 | Lecture |
Revolving around blood circulationIn this presentation, I deal with four issues related to Harvey’s quantitative argument. Firstly, I present (together with Dagmar Provijn) an account of the discovery process. Subsequently, I summarize my arguments to the effect that Harvey’s quantitative argument is a «... |
| 15 December 2003 | Lecture |
Mechanisms. Productivity and Information.The history of philosophy might well be rewritten by contrasting those metaphysicians and epistemologists who argued for some form of productive causation as contrasted with those who abjured such robust ontic commitments. In the former group belong Aristotle,... |
| 31 October 2003 | Lecture |
Transfinite Adaptive ProofsA framework for studying minimally inconsistent models, called ACLuN2, was formulated by Diderik Batens D. [Inconsistency-adaptive logics. In: Logic at Work, Springer, 1999, pp.445-472]. The system ACLuN2 is a central example of what are known as adaptive logics: it is... |
| 25 April 2003 | Lecture |
Klassieke rekenkunde is zeer onnatuurlijkGeïnspireerd door de discussie rond supertasks - opdrachten die uit een oneindig aantal stappen bestaan en waarbij de centrale vraag de vraag naar de eigenschappen van de eindtoestand is in functie van de voorgaande stappen - definieer ik een supertask waarbij elke stap een... |
| 26 March 2003 | Lecture |
Inconsistency-tolerant Description Logic. Part 1: Motivation and Basic SystemsDescription logics are among the most prominent formalisms for knowledge representation. Many expressive but still decidable description logics have been investigated and implemented. Although there is some work on description logics using non-monotonic, many-valued, or... |