25 May 2012 |
Lecture |
The License to Kill: Conflicts between explicit permissions and prohibitions |
25 May 2012 |
Lecture |
Relevance logic as a conservative extension of classical logic |
24 May 2012 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Frederik Van De Putte, Promotor: Joke Meheus and Peter Verdée |
11 May 2012 |
Lecture |
In this lunch talk we'll defend a principle that tells you what you should believe. As it does not tell you what you should eat, you'll have to bring your own lunch. |
20 April 2012 |
Lecture |
I distinguish between what I call ‘substantival’ and ‘functional’ forms of vitalism in the eighteenth century. Substantival vitalism presupposes the existence of something like a (substantive) vital force which either plays a causal role in the natural world as studied by... Read more |
12 April 2012 to 13 April 2012 |
Conference |
PhDs in Logic IV is a graduate conference organized by and for PhD-students. This edition is the fourth one of an annual Belgian–Dutch happening; earlier editions took place in Ghent (2009), Tilburg (2010), and Brussels (2011).
As all previous PhDs in Logic conferences,... Read more |
30 March 2012 |
Lecture |
Het gebruik van empirische data voor normatief georinteerde bioethiek |
19 January 2012 to 20 January 2012 |
Workshop |
"Nothing dictates whether the skies shall be marked off into constellations or other objects. We have to make what we find, be it the Great Dipper, Sirius, food, fuel, or a stereo system." (Nelson Goodman)
Various philosophers have claimed that facts of a... Read more |
18 January 2012 |
Workshop |
People believe, disbelieve, hypothesize, withhold belief about, understand, are ignorant of, etc. all sorts of things. The goal of the meeting is to explore the significant differences between these attitudes. |