Events

Livestream https://youtu.be/UcDEwJSMj9c Series: HPS Speaker: Jana De Kockere (UGent) Title: "Nature’s 17th century decay: A history of the controversy between Godfrey Goodman and George Hakewill" Abstract In this talk I will sketch parts of my thesis (in process) on the 17th century controversy on nature’s decay between Godfrey Goodman and George Hakewill. In The Fall… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Jana De Kockere, “Nature’s 17th century decay: A history of the controversy between Godfrey Goodman and George Hakewill”

Livestream https://youtu.be/JVPmbqriNVs Series: Work-in-Progress Speaker: Victoria Van Gheem (UCLouvain) Title: "Formalizing Medical Reasoning: Can Fuzzy Logic Account for Normativity?" Abstract In his Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine, Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh (2015) defends that fuzzy logic is the most appropriate logic for formalizing medical reasoning. His argument is based on the view that medicine is intrinsically… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Victoria Van Gheem, “Formalizing Medical Reasoning: Can Fuzzy Logic Account for Normativity?”

Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Kristine Grigoryan (KU Leuven) Title: "The concept of knowability: historical approaches" Abstract This dissertation explores the historical foundations of the knowability thesis and situates contemporary debates on the knowability paradox within a broader philosophical context. While recent discussions often approach Fitch’s paradox as a technical issue in epistemic logic, this study demonstrates… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Kristine Grigoryan, “The concept of knowability: historical approaches”

Livestream https://youtu.be/qqcfUHrLXPA Series: MEPHISTO (MEtaphysics and PHIlosophy of Science: Transcendental Orientations) Speaker: Harald Wiltsche (Linköping University) Title: "Phenomenology and Wave Function realism" Abstract This talk reexamines wave function realism (WFR) through the lens of phenomenology. We begin by situating WFR within the broader debate about the ontology of the quantum state and the temptation to… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Harald Wiltsche, “Phenomenology and Wave Function realism”