Please note the unusual time for this seminar! Series: Life & Cognition Abstract: There is a lack of theoretical elaboration in biology, particularly in the study of organisms' life cycles. The underlying problem is the emergence of an episteme that structurally neglects these questions. In the case of biology, certain issues need to be addressed… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Maël Montévil, “Theoretical biology: some strategic perspectives”

Series: Work in Progress Abstract: The literature on scientific explanation has often focused on various concepts of “depth” – it features in a series of foundational papers on causal explanation by Hitchcock and Woodward, is the title of Strevens’s magisterial 2008 book on the subject, and has been a frequent topic of discussion in the… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Charles Pence, “Breadth in Scientific Explanation”

Series: OLOFOS This seminar has been moved online! Please write us at charles.pence@uclouvain.be for more information and a Zoom link.

Note the unusual location for this seminar! Series: Explanatory Inference Abstract: The notion of grounding is usually conceived as an objective and explanatory relation. It connects two relata if one—the ground—determines or explains the other—the consequence. In the contemporary literature on grounding, much effort has been devoted to logically characterise the formal aspects of grounding,… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Francesco Genco, “The Grounds of Quantified Sentences: A Bolzanian Solution to the Paradoxes of Grounding”