Livestream  https://youtu.be/Pc1fH0OMcuk Series: WIP Speaker: Pieter Thyssen (UCLouvain) Title: Cross-Temporal Necessitation? A Platonist Reply to Leininger Abstract: According to Leininger, proponents of absolute becoming cannot explain why past and present regularities persist in the future. In order to do so, they would have to appeal to enforcers, such as causation, laws or dispositions. But in… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Pieter Thyssen, “Cross-Temporal Necessitation? A Platonist Reply to Leininger”

Livestream  https://youtu.be/e0onQz9nThg Speaker: Vincent Ardourel, IHPST/CNRS Series: OLOFOS Abstract: Most physical theories represent time as a continuous quantity. For example, it is the case in classical mechanics, the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics. But could scientists dispense with a continuous time and instead use a discrete representation of time? Further, should the representation of time… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Vincent Ardourel, “The discrete/continuous representation of time in physics: content or convention?”

Speaker: Zach Weber (University of Otago, New Zealand) Title: Paraconsistency: past, present, future Series: Philosophy & Logic Date and Time: Friday 16/12, 11:00-13:00 (ATTENTION: not at the usual time of the cefises seminar, at 14:00 there will also be the planned CEFISES seminar) Venue:  Bâtiment Socrate, Place Cardinal Mercier, Louvain-la-Neuve, room SOCR24 Hybrid: you can… Continue reading Extra CEFISES Seminar: Zach Weber, “Paraconsistency: past, present, future”

Series: Conservation Speaker: Caroline Nieberding (UCLouvain) Title: "Behavioural Responses of Animals to the ongoing 6th Major Biodiversity Extinction: do Insects Adapt to Climate Warming and to Habitat Fragmentation?" Abstract: The ongoing 6th biodiversity massive extinction crisis has begun and the IPBES Global report (2019) has made it clear that human activities affecting land use are… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Caroline Nieberding, “Behavioural Responses of Animals to the ongoing 6th Major Biodiversity Extinction”