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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 |
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19 April 2013 |
Lecture |
In this talk I will present a way to evaluate the truth-tracking properties of various belief-revision policies. I will use formal learning theory (Gold, 1967), and the semantic approach to knowledge and belief originating in dynamic epistemic logic (Baltag et al., 1998;... Read more |
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10 April 2013 |
Lecture |
Charles S. Peirce introduced in the late 19th century the notion of abduction as inference from effects to causes, or from observational data to explanatory theories. Abductive reasoning has become a major theme in contemporary logic, philosophy of science, and artificial... Read more |
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25 February 2013 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Jan Willem Wieland. Promotors: Erik Weber and Maarten Van Dyck |
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22 February 2013 |
Lecture |
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 |
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15 February 2013 |
Workshop |
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 |
