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2011
2 May 2011	Workshop	Workshop on Economic Models of Scientific Methodology Workshop on Economic models of scientific methodology
6 April 2011	Workshop	Workshop on the Dynamics of Normative Reasoning DNR is a one-day workshop on the dynamics of normative reasoning 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 workshop include:... Read more
5 April 2011	Doctoral defense	Adaptive Logic Characterizations of Defeasible Reasoning With Applications in Argumentation, Normative Reasoning and Default Reasoning Doctoral Defense Christian Strasser, Promotor: Joke Meheus and Diderik Batens

2010
10 December 2010	Lecture	Relevant Logic and Classical Proofs Adaptive logicians have long treated mathematical theories using non-monotonic logical techniques. Other non-classical logicians are just starting to come around to this idea. In order to have a set theory that is powerful enough, for example, to act as a basis for model... Read more
1 December 2010	Lecture	Aristotle's Fall -- Corruptions in the History of Logic In 1968, in his Inaugural Lecture as the occupant of the first Chair in Logic at the University of Leeds, Peter Geach describes a Fall from Grace. He describes “a disaster, comparable to the Fall of Adam”. This Fall was Aristotle’s invention of Logic. Geach isn’t talking... Read more
1 December 2010	Lecture	Predicate wormism -- A quinean account of de re modality In ‘Worlds away’ W.V.Quine attempts to shew that possible worlds, unlike times, cannot provide robust continuity conditions for the sort of ordinary objects that we want to talk about. Quine thinks of individuals as ‘worms’ constructed as strings of events over times and... Read more
18 November 2010 to 19 November 2010	Workshop	Third Workshop on the Philosophy of Information An ambitious project like the philosophy of information cannot operate in isolation. Not only does it have to rely on input from the sciences of information and computation, it also needs to convince those who are sympathetic to the project (including those who had been... Read more
26 October 2010	Lecture	Is computational structuralism a structuralism? Computational structuralism has been presented by [Halbach-Horsten 2005] and [Quinon-Zdanowski 2007] as a particular type of structuralism with respect to the structure of natural numbers. It has even been claimed that this approach can solve problems of traditional... Read more
20 September 2010 to 22 September 2010	Conference	Logic, Reasoning and Rationality. An International Congress in Honour of Diderik Batens. According to the members of the Wiener Kreis, there was a strong connection between logic, reasoning, and rationality. They believed that human reasoning (and in particular scientiﬁc reasoning) is rational in so far as it is based on logic (which meant for them Classical... Read more
30 June 2010	Lecture	The context-sensitivity of counterfactual accounts of causality That causal claims are context sensitive is uncontroversial; the ranger cites the lightning bolt as the cause of the forest fire whereas the Venusian cites the atmosphere’s being saturated with oxygen (Putnam 1982: 150). Controversy abounds as to whether this context... Read more

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