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Livestream https://youtu.be/4WNU_YmB_f0 Series: HPS Speaker: Charles T. Wolfe (Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) Title: "Vitalism, organicism and 'biological philosophy' in Canguilhem: the state of affairs in 1947 and now" Abstract In a short and rarely discussed paper published in 1947 in the Revue de métaphysique et de morale, entitled “Note sur la situation faite en France… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Charles T. Wolfe, « Vitalism, organicism and ‘biological philosophy’ in Canguilhem: the state of affairs in 1947 and now »

Livestream https://youtu.be/e3DQlF1RfqQ Series: Work-in-Progress Speaker: Florian Marion (UCLouvain) Title: “Special Relativity from a Meta-Ontological Point of View: A Defence of External Relativism” Abstract Abstract: Metaphysicians who are aware of modern physics usually follow Putnam (1967) in arguing that Special Theory of Relativity is incompatible with the view that what exists is only what exists now… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Florian Marion, « Special Relativity from a Meta-Ontological Point of View: A Defence of External Relativism »

Livestream https://youtu.be/pDKGNFWKo7w Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Alexandre Francq (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Institut Gustave Roussy) Title: "The Haunting Specter of Complexity; the Pluralist Metaphysical Crutch" Abstract Broadly defined, Scientific pluralism holds that a plurality of models, theories, and methods is not merely useful but often necessary for understanding complex phenomena. Few would deny the success of… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Alexandre Francq, « The Haunting Specter of Complexity; the Pluralist Metaphysical Crutch »

Livestream https://youtu.be/5STUEjQrhJU Series: MEPHISTO (MEtaphysics and PHIlosophy of Science: Transcendental Orientations) Speaker: Michel Bitbol (CNRS/Archives Husserl, École normale supérieure) Title: "Transcendental epistemologies and probabilism" Abstract Transcendental epistemologies, in their Kantian and Husserlian varieties, can be characterized by two basic tenets: (1) It is possible to regress from objects to the preconditions for their givenness, and… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Michel Bitbol, « Transcendental epistemologies and probabilism »