Livestream  https://youtu.be/u8cQzDOsHsE Series: Life and Health Abstract: Organoids are three-dimensional stem cell cultures growing in a dish up to the extent that the small physiological system replicates in vitro some functional or architectural features of actual stages of development. Many organs of the human body have been modeled to study organogenesis and development so far,… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Maxence Gaillard, ”Brain organoids and the consciousness issue“

Livestream  https://youtu.be/KnKnePxvuvU Series: WIP Abstract: In this talk I will present some recent progress in the project of developing ground-theoretic semantics. More concretely I will show how (formal) ground-theoretic semantics can be interpreted as individuating the meaning of sentences by the set of the reasons that might be given for their truth and the reasons… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Peter Verdée, “Ground-theoretic semantics: reasons and propositions”

Abstract: Whether or not to vaccinate one’s child is a decision that a parent may approach in several ways. The vaccination game, in which parents must choose whether to vaccinate a child against a disease, is one with positive externalities (herd immunity). In some societies, not vaccinating is an increasingly prevalent behavior, due to deleterious… Continue reading Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar: Philippe De Donder, “Game theoretic analysis of childhood vaccination behavior: Nash versus Kant”

Livestream https://youtu.be/JA3lnVoC2GI Series: OLOFOS Abstract: Many scientific models are representations. But what does it mean for a model to represent something beyond itself? There are number of suggestions available, but none is entirely satisfactory. We present an alternative account of representation, which we call the DEKI account. It offers a complex kind of representation involving… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Roman Frigg, “Re-presenting Scientific Representation”

Livestream https://youtu.be/f9XZbVavyHc Series: Conservation Abstract: Philosophy of science faces increasing calls to use empirical methods to answer its research questions, alongside traditional conceptual work. Or, at least, to improve cooperation with other disciplines studying science, such as history of science, sociology of science, and scientometrics. Empirical research might offer support for descriptive claims about the… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Vincent Cuypers, “Exploring taxonomic disorder: a case study of empirical philosophy of science”