Series: Life and Cognition Abstract: Most accounts of organismic agency run into the problem of dispensability: why describe a behavior of an organism as agential, when a mechanistic explanation would do just fine? In this talk I problematize how organismic agency is often analyzed in terms of goal-directedness, as if it were a naturalization of… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Hugh Desmond, “The Deliberation Model of Organismic Agency”

This talk will exceptionally take place at the Université de Namur! Find us at the Faculté de Philosophie, local L57, Rue Joseph Grafé. We will attempt to stream this talk on YouTube, though we are not sure whether we'll be able to make things work remotely. At worst, we will post a video afterward. Series:… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Jérémy Grosman, “Between Practical Reason and Mathematical Models”

Note that this seminar starts unusually at 15h instead of 14h! Series: Explanatory Inference Abstract: In recent work I have defended the view that logics are best understood metainferentially, as Tarskian consequence relations over sequents. The rationale for rejecting the more familiar inferential determination of consequence include (1) the underdetermination of consequence: inferences alone appear… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Bogdan Dicher, “Non-foundationalist framework for metainferentialism”