For many years, CEFISES has hosted a weekly seminar series. Each year, our members organize a number of seminar topics, which bring together speakers from both our local community and across the world. The format encourages both long presentations and extensive discussion (one hour of talk and one hour of question-and-answer period).
If the speakers agree and there aren’t any technical glitches, we broadcast all of our talks online via YouTube Live! Links to YouTube will appear on the pages for each talk on our event calendar.
Seminar Topics and Talks, 2025–26
This list is updated regularly with links to video recordings of past talks, if available. For the most up-to-date information on upcoming sessions, please check the calendar.
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
Organized by Blandine De Becker, Victoria Van Gheem, and Peter Verdée.
- Peter Verdee, “Multiperspectival supervaluationism and deep indeterminacy,” (abstract)
- Alexandre Francq, “The Haunting Specter of Complexity; the Pluralist Metaphysical Crutch,” (abstract)
- Kristine Grigoryan, “The concept of knowability: historical approaches,” (abstract)
- Doan Vu Duc (abstract TBA)
- Vincent Grandjean (abstract TBA)
- Jan Heylen (abstract TBA)
Doing History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Organized by Max Bautista-Perpinyà and Azat Garaev.
- Charles T. Wolfe, “Vitalism, organicism and ‘biological philosophy’ in Canguilhem: the state of affairs in 1947 and now,” (abstract)
- Jana De Kockere, “Nature’s 17th century decay: A history of the controversy between Godfrey Goodman and George Hakewill,” (abstract)
- Charles Pence (abstract TBA)
- Jan Potters (abstract TBA)
- Laurent Loison (abstract TBA)
- Abigail Nieves Delgado (abstract TBA)
- Caterina Schürch (abstract TBA)
- Florian van der Zee (abstract TBA)
MEPHISTO — MEtaphysics and PHIlosophy of Science: Transcendental Orientations
Organized by Danielle Pizzocaro, Julien Tricard, and Kévin Chalas.
- Sami Pihlström, “Putnamian Transcendental Arguments,” (abstract) https://youtu.be/LbseG3XKKDo
- Michel Bitbol, “Transcendental epistemologies and probabilism,” (abstract)
- Harald Wiltsche (abstract TBA)
- Olivier Darrigol (abstract TBA)
- Eran Tal (abstract TBA)
Work-in-Progress Talks
Organized by Alexandre Guay.
- Florian Marion, “Special Relativity from a Meta-Ontological Point of View: A Defence of External Relativism,” (abstract)
- Victoria Van Gheem, “Formalizing Medical Reasoning: Can Fuzzy Logic Account for Normativity?,” (abstract)
- Blandine de Becker (abstract TBA)
- Azat Garaev (abstract TBA)
- Wen Shichao (abstract TBA)
- Pierre Walckiers (abstract TBA)
- Quentin Ruyant (abstract TBA)
- Philemon Kongo (abstract TBA)