Attention, location and time change! Exceptionally, the session will take place between 14:00 and 16:00 on the Saint-Gilles campus, room AV-02, Bâtiment Lemaire (ground floor in the fore part of the building, just before the courtyard), Rue Wafelaerts, 47-51, Bruxelles. Series: Urban Metabolism Speakers: Daniela Perrotti, Elisabetta Rosa, and Nicola Bertoldi (Urban Metabolism Lab, LAB, Université… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Daniela Perrotti, Elisabetta Rosa, and Nicola Bertoldi, “A conceptual analysis of agency in urban metabolism studies from the standpoint of industrial and social ecology: An exploration of methodological issues”

Livestream https://youtu.be/cwTGTiCs3Es Series: Work-In-Progress Speaker: Pierre Walckiers (UCLouvain) Title: "Science, narrative and argumentation in negotiations on the dematerialization of genetic resources: feedback from the last session of the Plant Treaty Governing body (ITPGRFA, FAO)" Abstract: This presentation examines the use of scientific arguments in the context of negotiations on international instruments that handle the digitization… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Pierre Walckiers, “Science, narrative and argumentation in negotiations on the dematerialization of genetic resources: feedback from the last session of the Plant Treaty Governing body (ITPGRFA, FAO)”

Speaker: Santiago López Cantor (AMSE) Title: "The Impact of Morality on the Political Support for Public Policies: A Theoretical Analysis" Abstract: Individual attitudes toward the environment are commonly motivated by moral imperatives, I study the implicit effect of such morality on the prevalence of public policies. This paper investigates the influence of morality on the… Continue reading Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar: Santiago López Cantor, “The Impact of Morality on the Political Support for Public Policies: A Theoretical Analysis”

Livestream https://youtu.be/HlZ7Wh8UOn0 Series: Metametaphysics Speaker: Markus Schrenk (Düsseldorf University) Title: "The Problematic Properties of Better Best Systems" Abstract Many advocates of the Better Best System Account (BBSA) and variations thereof suggest that Lewis-style best system competitions can successfully be executed for any arbitrary but fixed set of predicates/properties. This affords the possibility to launch system analyses separately for each of… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Markus Schrenk, “The Problematic Properties of Better Best Systems”