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2013
22 February 2013	Lecture	Rational Belief: Four Approaches, One Theory What should a joint theory of rational belief and rational degrees of belief look like? While the former concept will contribute principles of doxastic logic, the latter will contribute principles of probability theory, but how can we make sense of their interaction? I will... Read more
15 February 2013	Workshop	Philosophical Activism What is philosophical activism? What makes philosophy into philosophical activism and how does it relate to the widely accepted notion of philosophy as first and foremost a reflective endeavour? If the 'love of wisdom' motivates, as it is said, a critical... Read more

2012
30 November 2012	Lecture	Paraconsistent Concept Formation in Structuralist Framework The formation of a theoretical concept is brought about by establishing axioms of a scientific theory that determine the meaning of that concept. We are familiar with this idea from the work of Carnap and others. All formal accounts, however, of the formation of theoretical... Read more
23 November 2012	Lecture	A formal framework for structured argumentation Argumentation is currently an important research topic in artificial intelligence. Argumentation is a form of reasoning that makes explicit the reasons for the conclusions that are drawn and how conflicts between reasons are resolved. This provides a natural mechanism to... Read more
10 October 2012 to 12 October 2012	Conference	Turing in Context II - Historical and Contemporary Research in Logic, Computing Machinery and AI In the spirit of Alan Turing's interdisciplinary research, an international meeting will be held at the Royal Flemish Academy for the Sciences and Arts, exploring recent research into the many directions brought together in his work. This meeting is the second... Read more
28 September 2012	Lecture	The Social Life of the Brain Headlines assigning agency to the brain have been a prominent feature of our media landscape for almost two decades, with the brain being credited for everything from God and morals to our personalities and our chess moves. The brains of celebrated personalities from Lenin... Read more
14 September 2012	Workshop	Acting Right. A Workshop on Norms, Games and Actions Acting Right is a one-day workshop on (relations between) norms, games and actions organized at the Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Humanities by the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (http://logica.ugent.be/centrum). Specific topics discussed during the... Read more
13 September 2012	Doctoral defense	Tolerating Normative Conflicts in Deontic Logic Doctoral Defense Mathieu Beirlaen, Promotor: Joke Meheus and Christian Strasser
10 September 2012	Lecture	Adding precision to norms of mechanistic explanation: disambiguating functional reasoning in mechanistic explanation In this presentation I outline my research proposal “Explanatory Reasoning: a Mechanistic Perspective” for the research project “Methodological and Epistemological Analysis of Scientific Reasoning Processes”. The overall aim of my proposal is to develop an account of... Read more
3 August 2012	Lecture	Confusion and Vagueness Sometimes we treat two or more things as one, ignoring the difference between them. Call this "confusion". Sometimes we're confused because we don't realize at all that there are distinct things involved, as when I thought that Sam Neill and Sam Rockwell... Read more

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