Livestream https://youtu.be/Ty8xc4A_7f0 Series: WIP Speaker: Stijn Conix (UCLouvain) Title: "Measuring the societal relevance of humanities research" Abstract: Research in the humanities is primarily funded by public sources, with taxpayers ultimately bearing the cost. Consequently, it should be expected that such research ultimately serves the betterment of society. Thus, estimating, evaluating and maximizing the societal relevance…

Livestream https://youtu.be/k1xCM8D03DM Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Valeriya Chasova (UCLouvain / Université de Strasbourg) Title: "'Is Faraday in the Same Boat as Galileo?', or Symmetry and Contextuality" Abstract: Healey (2009) argued that Galileo's ship and Faraday's cage empirical symmetries are dysanalogous, because direct empirical status (DES) of the corresponding theoretical symmetries arises in the former case but…

Series: Conservation Speaker: Max Bautista Perpinyà (UCLouvain) Title: "Categories in the making at the European Commission. How to classify nature, demarcate diversity and permit circulation of that which grows in the forest" Abstract “To classify is human,” Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star wrote in Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (1999), but as…

Series: Logic and Philosophy Speaker: Camillo Fiore (CONICET / University of Buenos Aires) Title: "Faithful Recapture." Abstract An old and well-known objection to non-classical logics is that they are too weak; in particular, they cannot prove a number of important mathematical results. A promising strategy to deal with this objection consists in proving so-called recapture…

Livestream https://youtu.be/kqh5kaO-QaE Series: Life and Health Speaker: David Teira (UNED) Title: "What evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the prix Bréant." This is joint work with Clara Uzcanga (UNED). The paper is forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Abstract This article analyses how the French Academy… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: David Teira, “What evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the prix Bréant”