Livestream https://youtu.be/ji5NffK9AWo Series: Chemistry Speaker: Klaus Ruthenberg (University of Applied Sciences Coburg) Title: "Chemistry, Catalysis, and Causality" Abstract: Chemical phenomena inevitably involve materiality. Reactions might even be exposed to the impact of external factors. According to Wilhelm Ostwald “…in certain cases even almost immeasurably small amounts of foreign substance are enough to increase the rate… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Klaus Ruthenberg, “Chemistry, Catalysis, and Causality”

Livestream https://youtu.be/qx7P1n982iU Series: Work-in-Progress Speaker: Stijn Conix (UCLouvain) Title: "Grant writing and grant peer review as questionable research practices" Abstract In the last two decades, academia has witnessed a burgeoning interest in the domains of research integrity and funding allocation. Research on the former topic indicates that questionable research practices (QRPs) are prevalent, and research… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Stijn Conix, “Grant writing and grant peer review as questionable research practices”

Livestream https://youtube.com/live/dakJb9_-N6w Series: Metametaphysics Attention, location change: Salle du Conseil PSP, a.224. Speaker: Pierre Saint-Germier (STMS - CNRS/Ircam/Ministère de la culture/Sorbonne Université) Title: "Hume's maxim, hyperintensionality and the strangeness of impossibility" Abstract "According to Hume's maxim, "nothing of which we can form a clear and distinct idea is absurd and impossible". This maxim provides a justification for… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Pierre Saint-Germier, “Hume’s maxim, hyperintensionality and the strangeness of impossibility”

Livestream Series: Chemistry Speaker: Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences) Talk: "The Computational History of Chemistry and the Questions it Triggers on the Philosophy of Chemistry"   Abstract The increasing amount of data and computing power are turning computational approaches into an integral part of historians’ tools. Beyond providing novel ways… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Guillermo Restrepo, “The Computational History of Chemistry and the Questions it Triggers on the Philosophy of Chemistry”