Events

ATTENTION, location change. The meeting will not take place in the usual Salle Ladrière, but on the Salle du Conseil PSP, room number a.224 (right on top of Salle Ladrière). Livestream https://youtu.be/i7naz6Biu7E Series: HPS Speaker: Charles H. Pence (UCLouvain) Title: "The HPS 'Long View' and the Case of the Journal Article" Abstract It is tempting… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Charles Pence, “The HPS ‘Long View’ and the Case of the Journal Article”

Livestream https://youtu.be/M4ckKTe4HCw Series: Work-in-Progress Speaker: Blandine de Becker (UCLouvain) Title: "Epistemology of models and Supervaluationism" Abstract In this talk, I will present several perspectives in the epistemology of models, focusing on types of types of models, their relationship to target systems, and their scientific usefulness. I will then introduce Supervaluationism and suggest how it could… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Blandine de Becker, “Epistemology of models and Supervaluationism”

Livestream https://youtu.be/3s4giMEFne4 Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Pilar Terrés Villalonga (Universitat de València) Title: "Concept possession for inconsistent concepts" Abstract Inconsistent concepts, understood, following Scharp, Eklund and Liggins, as concepts whose constitutive principles entail something that is not the case, pose a challenge to theories about concept possession. Paradigmatic examples include Prior’s connective TONK, but scientific notions… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Pilar Terrés Villalonga, “Concept possession for inconsistent concepts”