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30 November 2012 |
Lecture |
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 |
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23 November 2012 |
Lecture |
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 |
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10 October 2012 to 12 October 2012 |
Conference |
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 |
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28 September 2012 |
Lecture |
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 |
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14 September 2012 |
Workshop |
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 |
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13 September 2012 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Mathieu Beirlaen, Promotor: Joke Meheus and Christian Strasser |
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10 September 2012 |
Lecture |
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 |
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3 August 2012 |
Lecture |
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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25 May 2012 |
Lecture |
Dynamic Proof Theories for Reasoning With Conditional Knowledge Bases |
