Events archive
| 13 November 2015 to 14 November 2015 | Workshop |
50 Shapes of Scientific ExplanationThis workshop uses the 50th anniversary of the publication of Carl Hempel’s book Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science as an occasion to reflect on the future of the philosophical study of scientific explanation. For a more... |
| 18 May 2015 | Doctoral defense |
Evaluating the aims and methods of defining art: a metaphilosophical investigation regarding the question 'what is art?'Doctoral defence Annelies Monseré. Promotor: Erik Weber. |
| 7 May 2015 to 8 May 2015 | Workshop |
Explanation and Abduction: Logico-Philosophical PerspectivesExplanation is one of the central goals of scientific research and abduction is a type of inference in which explanation plays a key role. Thus far, most philosophers will agree. When we consider more specific claims, however, many questions are still open to debate. What... |
| 16 March 2015 | Lecture |
On two interesting properties of some reducts of the standard model of arithmeticThe so-called analytical hiearachy (of degrees of unsolvability) plays a very important role in foundations of mathematics. Its definition involves describing $Pi^1_n$-sets, for all positive natural numbers $n$. As a matter of fact, there are two popular ways to do this: 1... |
| 13 March 2015 | Lecture |
Capturing natural properties of probability spaces in probability logicA number of probability logics have been suggested over the last several decades. However most of them (we shall limit our attention to non-model-theoretic ones, i.e. those with finite syntax) fail to capture natural properties of probability spaces—such as `being finite... |
| 12 January 2015 | Doctoral defense |
Interests and epistemic integrity in science: a new framework to assess interest influences in scientific research processesDoctoral defence Jan De Winter. Promoters: Erik Weber and Jeroen Van Bouwel. |
| 24 November 2014 to 25 November 2014 | Workshop |
International Workshop: Feminist Philosophy of ScienceInvited keynote speaker is Stéphanie Ruphy (Université Pierre Mendès Greboble, France). |
| 24 October 2014 | Workshop |
Workshop Inconsistencies in Scientific Reasoning"Inconsistencies in Scientific Reasoning'' is a one day workshop organized by the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at Ghent University (http://logica.ugent.be/centrum). The workshop aims at exploring two closely related issues. First, the... |
| 12 July 2014 to 15 July 2014 | Conference |
DEON 2014: 12th International Conference on Deontic LogicThe biennial DEON conferences are designed to promote interdisciplinary cooperation amongst scholars interested in linking the formal-logical study of normative concepts and normative systems with computer science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, organization theory... |
| 8 July 2014 to 11 July 2014 | Workshop |
Trends in Logic XIVLogicians have devoted considerable effort to applying formal methods to what are now considered core disciplines of analytic philosophy: philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and metaphysics. Researchers in these fields have been accused of sharpening their... |