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2003
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
7 March 2003	Lecture	The influence of 16th-century mercantile arithmetic on the development of symbolic algebra and the liberation of mathematical ontology The development of symbolic algebra goes with a fundamentally new ontological status of the objects of analysis. Powers and curves are not coupled anymore with physical interpretations, such as "space" and "dimension". Concepts such as "number... Read more
21 February 2003	Lecture	An Empirical Approach to Theories of Implication Empirical considerations should play a more pervasive role in constructing theories of implication than has hitherto been the case. It will be argued that constructing theories of implication is essentially an interdisciplinary undertaking, in which logicians (philosophical... Read more
7 February 2003	Lecture	Applications of the Adaptive Logic for Causal Discovery In his article 'Causal Discovery Using Adaptive Logics' (1), Maarten Van Dyck proposed a logic that allows one to derive causal statements from probabilistic information. This causal logic is adaptive. One of his purposes in using this sort of logic is trying to... Read more
31 January 2003	Doctoral defense	Verklaringspluralisme in de sociale wetenschappen. Een wetenschapsfilosofische verdediging met toepassingen in de geschiedbeoefening, de theorie van de internationale relaties en de economische wetenschappen Doctoral Defense Jeroen Van Bouwel, Promotor: Erik Weber
24 January 2003	Lecture	Socratic Proofs and the Logic of Questions Let us imagine that we are confronted with the following problem:<br /><br />(1) Is s <span class=\logKar\">Ú</span> <span class=\"logKar\">Ø</span>q derivable from: p, <span class=\"logKar\">Ø</span... Read more
10 January 2003	Lecture	Klassieke logica en relevantie “Wie kunnen we er nog opzetten voor een lunchtalk in januari?” “Als 'k [tegen dan] iets heb, wil ik er wel een geven.” “En ga je iets hebben?” Op het eerste zicht is de derde zin een relevante vraag als je zeker wil weten of ik die lunchtalk ga geven of niet. Mocht ik... Read more

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