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2004
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... Read more
16 January 2004	Lecture	Revolving around blood circulation In 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 «... Read more

2003
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,... Read more
31 October 2003	Lecture	Transfinite Adaptive Proofs A 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... Read more
25 April 2003	Lecture	Klassieke rekenkunde is zeer onnatuurlijk Geïnspireerd 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... Read more
26 March 2003	Lecture	Inconsistency-tolerant Description Logic. Part 1: Motivation and Basic Systems Description 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... Read more
24 March 2003	Doctoral defense	Thinking through thought experiments Doctoral Defense Tim De Mey, Promotor: Erik Weber
24 March 2003	Lecture	Kinds, Essences, and Projectibility There are two common ways of elucidating the notion of a natural kind, one referring to micro-structure, the other referring to inductive projectibility. I argue that these are not just two ways of saying what natural kinds are, but that they yield two different conceptions... Read more
14 March 2003	Doctoral defense	Een pluralisme van verklaringen van acties Doctoral Defense Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Promotor: Erik Weber
14 March 2003 to 15 March 2003	Lecture	Action Sustaining Intentions, Motor Control and the Role of Consciousness A causal connection between an intention to F and intentionally F-ing (moving one's body in order to F) (Davidson 1963) not a sufficient condition for intentionally F-ing. The connection between the conceptual level of planning, intention-formation and means-end... Read more

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