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4 May 2001 |
Lecture |
The historian Paul Veyne (1984) expresses an idea that exists in many social scientists' minds: "For a historical explanation to be admissible, it must not present any interruption of continuity in causal relations that connect the agents involved in the plot.... Read more |
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4 May 2001 |
Lecture |
The aim of this paper is to present a dispositional model for the explanation of behavior. This model, we contend, suggests a viable method which, like the method of behaviorism, seeks to uncover relations between behavior and the environment, but manages to avoid a... Read more |
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20 April 2001 |
Lecture |
Apart from being an extremely popular genre of science fiction literature, professional historians too describe and discuss alternative histories. In such an uchronia, one conjectures what would have happened if one or more past events happened otherwise. Although many... Read more |
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9 April 2001 to 11 April 2001 |
Conference |
The aim of the project is to elaborate the foundations of paraconsistency, both from a logical and an epistemological point of view. With the advent of paraconsistent logics and inconsistent mathematical systems, there is a strong need to embed these in a broader framework... Read more |
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30 March 2001 |
Lecture |
In this lecture I shall expound a theory coping with the dynamics of inconsistent information. A method is set forth to represent possibly inconsistent information by a *finite state*. Next, operations for expansion and contraction of finite states are given. No extra-... Read more |
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16 March 2001 |
Lecture |
The more one uses logic on the formalization of problems originated from the most variegated areas of investigation, such as philosophy, foundations of mathematics, linguistics, artificial intelligence, logic programming and computer science, the more necessary it is to... Read more |
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23 February 2001 |
Lecture |
The classically based AGM theory of belief revision takes consistency and conservativeness to be the driving forces of belief revision: When integrating new information, we attempt to maintain a consistent belief set and to do so we sometimes have to relinquish those... Read more |
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9 February 2001 |
Lecture |
Diagnostic reasoning may relate to an established fault in a system or an established fault in an individual. A system is to be understood as a structured whole of components, while an individual is an object that is not analysed into components. With respect to systems,... Read more |
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26 January 2001 |
Lecture |
Wanneer men gedurende een discussie z'n opinie gedeeltelijk wijzigt naar aanleiding van nieuwe informatie en nieuwe argumenten, kunnen er logische contradicties ontstaan. Rescher-Manor mechanismen zijn in deze context niet steeds efficiënt. Via een modale vertaling kan... Read more |
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19 January 2001 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Wim Christiaens, Promotor: Diderik Batens |
