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21 December 2000 |
Conference |
More information on this event will follow. |
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15 December 2000 |
Lecture |
Without claiming completeness (biologists may ask other types of questions), we can say that two types of explanatory questions are very common in biology. The format of the first type is: (Q1) How is capacity C brought about in s? s is here a biological system. The... Read more |
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8 December 2000 |
Lecture |
The paper argues that there are situations where we are rationally obliged to do incompatible things. Indeed, some familiar examples in game-theory, such as Newcomb's problem, can be seen in this way. |
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24 November 2000 |
Lecture |
The use of metaphors seems to be a thoroughly studied subject. However, when one tries to integrate results, coming from different domains as philosophy of language, philosophy and history of science and logic, they turn out to be quite incompatible. In the first part of... Read more |
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10 November 2000 |
Lecture |
The importance of erotetic inferences for scientific reasoning, and for reasoning and problem solving in general, can hardly be overestimated. The explanation of new phenomena, the discovery of new laws and theories, even the design and performance of experiments, all... Read more |
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20 October 2000 |
Lecture |
Dispositions are essential in the description, the understanding, the explanation and the prediction of events. We say that sugar and salt are soluble. We also say that red wine stains unlike beer and that thin rubber is flexible and elastic while steel is stiff and sturdy... Read more |
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12 October 2000 to 14 October 2000 |
Conference |
The Ontological Foundations of Paraconsistency |
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4 October 2000 |
Lecture |
I shall report on two new papers: I) A Dynamic Characterization of the Pure Logic of Relevant Implication. It is known that there are dynamic proofs for consequence relations that are non-monotonic, and also for monotonic consequence relations that lack a positive test.... Read more |
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27 September 2000 |
Lecture |
In het kader van het stimuleringsprogramma "Innovatie Hoger Onderwijs", ontwikkelt het centrum voor Logica en Wetenschapsfilosofie een logicaprogramma waarmee de studenten zelfstandig logica-oefeningen kunnen maken. Dit programma draait onder Windows en vormt een... Read more |
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27 April 2000 to 29 April 2000 |
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 |
