Speaker: Brian McLoone (Auburn University) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Registration is free, but required for participation via Microsoft Teams: please e-mail dina.geron@uclouvain.be.

Livestream https://youtu.be/mvyA7Dcc7uk Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Tamaz Tokhadze (Ilia State University) Title: “The Problem of Context-Sensitivity for the Formal Theories of Belief-Credence Interaction” Abstract In the past decade or so, new work in formal epistemology has provided novel and precise coherence principles between categorical beliefs and numerical credences (e.g., Lin and Kelly 2012, 2021; Leitgeb 2013,… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Tamaz Tokhadze, “The Problem of Context-Sensitivity for the Formal Theories of Belief-Credence Interaction”

Speaker: Philippe van Parijs (UCLouvain) Title: “Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences” Abstract: "In my Oxford DPhil thesis, which became my first book (Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences. An emerging paradigm, Rowman & Littlefield, 1981), I wanted to explore the space of social-scientific explanations that did not rely on mechanism consisting of the aggregation… Continue reading Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar: Philippe van Parijs, “Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences”

Livestream https://youtu.be/7mGdOJaVcAY Joined roundtable, organised by CEFISES and Centre De Wulf-Mansion (CDWM, ISP) with Tuomas Tahko, Alexandre Guay, and Jacob Schmutz. Organised by Kévin Chalas and Florian Marion.

Livestream  https://youtu.be/XECKl1wMsRI Series: Metametaphysics Speaker: Tuomas Tahko (University of Bristol) Title: "Essence Without Modality?" Abstract I will sketch a theory of modality built on essential dependence relations between actually existing entities. The background is Aristotelian/Finean essentialism, and the idea that modality can be reduced to essence. However, more needs to be said about what essences… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Tuomas Tahko, “Essence Without Modality?”

Speaker: Michael Goldsby (Wash. St.) Title: “Model Aptness, Explanation, and Prediction: What is decision-relevant information and how do we get it from scientific models?” Abstract It is, perhaps, not even worth saying that scientific investigation has value in and of itself. However, what value does scientific investigation have beyond that putative intrinsic value? The standard… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Michael Goldsby, “Model Aptness, Explanation, and Prediction: What is decision-relevant information and how do we get it from scientific models?”