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6 December 2013 |
Lecture |
In this talk I argue in favour of the hypothesis that combining inconsistency tolerance (there is an overlap between the extension of a property and it's negation) with the expressiveness of the classical complement operation (being able to express that something is [... Read more |
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29 November 2013 |
Lecture |
The history of research on peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is usually perceived as consisting of three main phases: a) from the second half of the 19th century to the 1950s, during which two main hypotheses (the acidity and the bacterial hypothesis) were investigated in parallel... Read more |
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8 November 2013 |
Lecture |
One of the most well-known paraconsistent logics is Logic of Paradox (LP) developed by Graham Priest. As is clear from its name, LP is strongly motivated by the considerations on paradoxes such as the liar paradox and Russell's paradox. And the characteristic aspect of... Read more |
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25 October 2013 |
Workshop |
In our second workshop, i.e., Expressing discontent: appropriate or not? And if so, when, where, and how?, we intend to (1) examine what the notion of discontent might entail from a philosophical perspective, and (2) elaborate on how discontent can and should be (... Read more |
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16 September 2013 to 18 September 2013 |
Conference |
The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of Ghent University was founded in 1993. On occasion of its 20th anniversary the Centre organises an international Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS13) on the themes that are central to its research:... Read more |
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21 June 2013 |
Lecture |
Over the last two decades, the field of artificial intelligence has experienced a separation into two schools that hold opposite opinions on how uncertainty should be treated. This separation is the result of a debate that began at the end of the 1960's when AI first... Read more |
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11 June 2013 |
Workshop |
Epistemology Afternoon |
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15 May 2013 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Raoul Gervais. Promotors: Erik Weber and Jeroen Van Bouwel |
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13 May 2013 to 14 May 2013 |
Workshop |
Mechanisms, Causality and Explanation (workshop) |
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26 April 2013 |
Lecture |
Is there a plausible semantics of discourse about fiction that does without exotica: dependent abstract entities, Meinongian non-existent objects and the like? And if not - if we need to posit exotica - which species of exotica should we posit? In the first part of this... Read more |
