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2024–2025
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
Organized by Alexandre Guay.
- Michel Ghins, “Powers Without Essences: A Metaphysical Foundation for the Natural Necessity of Laws of Nature.” https://youtu.be/H_dYVxg7dZE.
- Alexandre Guay, “Why there is change?” https://youtu.be/1-BMzcLba3Q.
- Till Grüne-Yanoff, “Modalities in Modeling: A Separate Scientific Practice?” https://youtu.be/rkvkuewTXDQ.
- Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard, “Major Transitions in the Evolution of the Universe: The Case of the Inflation-Reheating Transition.”
Digital Approaches
Organized by Charles Pence and Stijn Conix.
- Stefan Reiners-Selbach, “The practice of a ‘psychology of peoples’. A corpus-based analysis of the ‘Journal of Völkerpsychologie and Linguistics’.” https://youtu.be/2sSHIw-LBLg.
- Thomas Feliciani, “Funding lotteries and their impact on conservatism and the wider research landscape.” https://youtu.be/IvHlh1SZZtI.
- Maksim Demin, “Challenging the Prevailing View: How Formal Digital Methods Can Reshape Our Understanding of 19th-Century German Philosophy.” https://youtu.be/5EcEoFCFoec.
- Vincent Holst, “The Curious Case of the Declining Disruption’s Disappearance in Science.”
- Kevin Kaiser, “On modelling interdisciplinary research: An empirical philosophy of science approach.” https://youtu.be/gc4sZ4dMBgY.
- Charles Pence and Stijn Conix, “Understanding Taxonomy Through Journal Papers.” https://youtu.be/b3dhhG7ffP8.
Metametaphysics
Organized by Kévin Chalas and Florian Marion.
- Mario De Cario, “Defending free will against contemporary skepticism.” https://youtu.be/jdeXnbO78T0.
- Naomi Thompson, “Social Metaphysical Explanation.”
- Jade Fletcher, “The Role of Values in Feminist Metaphysics.”
- Giusepinna D’Oro, “Presuppositional Analysis and the Goal of Metaphysical Inquiry.” https://youtu.be/N1EnkXz3I7Y.
MolDevBio
Organized by Charles Pence and Azat Garaev.
- Emmanuelle Maciel, “Hybridizing omics and traditional molecular biology.” https://youtu.be/wX0lKi5gCIY.
- Alejandro Fábregas-Tejada and Matthew Sims, “On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary: Promising Avenues and Cautionary Notes.”
- Maël Lemoine, “Can the aging of an organism be reduced to the aging of its cells?” https://youtu.be/_VDRWKXHisw.
- Ivan Kuzin, “The Concept of Information and New Phenomena in Molecular Biology.” https://youtu.be/X1jFrayaRos.
Work-in-Progress Talks
Organized by Wen Shichao.
- Marco Casali, “Biological Possibility: Can Chance Show Us the Way?” https://youtu.be/a0YSc0kkiJw.
- Peter Verdée, “On indirect verification.”
- Azat Garaev, “Constructive Neutral Evolution: A new perspective on robustness and evolvability?” https://youtu.be/_F72fAyvUAs.
- Max Bautista-Perpinyà, “Towards a political imagination of science.” https://youtu.be/vwkzSdu-rTY.
- Stéphanie Ponsar, “What is a foundation of mathematics?”
- Wen Shichao, “Bell Curves: Reconciling the Dichotomy Between Typological and Population Thinking.” https://youtu.be/2H0f7pNOFLk.
2023–2024
Chemistry
Organized by Pieter Thyssen.
- Klaus Ruthenberg, “Chemistry, Catalysis, and Causality.” https://youtu.be/ji5NffK9AWo.
- Guillermo Restrepo, “The Computational History of Chemistry and the Questions it Triggers on the Philosophy of Chemistry.” https://youtu.be/orzGVkfiX3M.
- Francesca Bellazzi, “Exploring New Forms of Reductionism in Biochemistry.” https://youtu.be/JNvq_71brQQ.
- Sarah Hijmans, “‘A curious exception among the alkalis’: metallic ammonium and the role of chemical analogy in the process of epistemic iteration (1807-1820).” https://youtu.be/PPt_l2UasJE.
- Brigitte Van Tiggelen, “It’s Not Elementary! The Successive Lives of Eka-Manganese aka Element 43.” https://youtu.be/Egi8CmGJ6SM.
- Vanessa Seifert, “Chemical Reactions as Causal Relations.” https://youtu.be/L4P0UtWjF0k.
- Juan-Camilo Martínez, “The measurement of chemical properties in quantum chemistry.”
Metametaphysics
Organized by Kévin Chalas and Florian Marion.
- Pierre Saint-Germier, “Hume’s maxim, hyperintensionality and the strangeness of impossibility.” https://youtu.be/ahGmdvC5hRs.
- Stephen Barker, “Global Expressivism and 2nd-Order Nihilism.” https://youtu.be/nf9f6Dl1PzI.
- Emiliano Trizio, “Phenomenology, philosophy of science, and the idea of metaphysics.” https://youtu.be/zap3Oh8utXo.
- Tuomas Tahko, “Essence Without Modality?” https://youtu.be/XECKl1wMsRI.
- Markus Schrenk, “The Problematic Properties of Better Best Systems.” https://youtu.be/HlZ7Wh8UOn0.
- Barbara Vetter, “Modal Epistemology and the T axiom.” https://youtu.be/xVss8ed1yD0.
Urban Metabolism
Organized by Nicola Bertoldi.
- Nicola Bertoldi, “The concept of urban metabolism: A tool for understanding humanity’s agency over nature in times of global ecological changes?” https://youtu.be/b24YKw_6Th4.
- Nicola Bertoldi and Daniela Perrotti, “Agency and actors in urban social-ecological systems through the concept of urban metabolism: A conceptual framework and computational analysis of research literature.” https://youtu.be/9riFhIlQzxU.
- 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.”
- Urban Metabolism lab, “How can conceptual analysis inform decision-making on model selection? Modelling the urban metabolism in light of the concept of ‘agency’.” https://youtu.be/Nd81pK9G1u8.
Work-in-Progress Talks
Organized by Kévin Chalas and Max Bautista-Perpinyà.
- Stijn Conix, “Grant writing and grant peer review as questionable research practices.” https://youtu.be/qx7P1n982iU.
- Julien Tricard, “Fixed points: on the ontological nature of measurement units.” https://youtu.be/NhDjGI2gDBQ.
- Pierre Walckiers, “Science, narrative and argument in DSI negotiations: feedback from the last session of the FAO Governing Body.” https://youtu.be/cwTGTiCs3Es.
- Alexandre Guay, “Biological Possibilities.” https://youtu.be/0gtOAvewt4U.
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
Organized by Peter Verdée.
- Tamaz Tokhadze, “The Problem of Context-Sensitivity for the Formal Theories of Belief-Credence Interaction.” https://youtu.be/mvyA7Dcc7uk.
Extra
Organized by Charles Pence.
- Michael Goldsby, “Model Aptness, Explanation, and Prediction: What is decision-relevant information and how do we get it from scientific models?”
2022–2023
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
Organized by Alexandre Guay.
- Kévin Chalas, “Gauging What’s Physically Meaningful.” https://youtu.be/p7VsGx__YC0.
- Roman Frigg, “Re-presenting Scientific Representation.” https://youtu.be/JA3lnVoC2GI.
- Vincent Ardourel, “The discrete/continuous representation of time in physics: content or convention?” https://youtu.be/e0onQz9nThg.
- Maarten van Dyck, “The coordination of time in Galileo’s experiments.” https://youtu.be/iHQhAR5fCdg.
- Federica Russo, “On the epistemic and normative benefits of methodological pluralism.” https://youtu.be/eqjlQHS_E-o.
- Valeriya Chasova, “‘Is Faraday in the Same Boat as Galileo?’, or Symmetry and Contextuality.” https://youtu.be/k1xCM8D03DM.
Logic & Philosophy
Organized by Peter Verdée.
- Pierre Saint-Germier, “Hyperintensionality, opacity, and counterpossibles.” https://youtu.be/o5Y-IgQSmSU.
- Peter Verdée, “A new interpretation of intuitionistic logic.” https://youtu.be/1M50_aY-rKI.
- Zach Weber, “Paraconsistency: past, present, future.”
- Pawel Pawlowski, “One framework to rule them all. How to overcome Dugundji’s theorem by using non-deterministic semantics for modal logics.” https://youtu.be/4Law–E1xJM.
- Quentin Ruyant, “A possible situation semantics for Scientific models and theories.” https://youtu.be/eOqafVK8qWY.
- Camillo Fiore, “Faithful Recapture.”
- Nils Kürbis, “Some Systems for Formalising Sentences Containing Definite Descriptions by a Binary Quantifier and some Thoughts on Modal Logic.” https://youtu.be/Hq5irGh_1X4.
Life & Health
Organized by Juliette Ferry-Danini and Maxence Gaillard.
- Maxence Gaillard, “Brain organoids and the consciousness issue.” https://youtu.be/u8cQzDOsHsE.
- Océane Fiant, “Artificial intelligence in pathology: what kind of decision support?” https://youtu.be/hdWbseP0bbI.
- Andrew Barnhart, “The Many Moral Matters of Organoid Models: A systematic review of reasons.” https://youtu.be/cPutOYXoXOs.
- Kim Hendrickx, “Keep biology weird: slowing down with scientific findings.” https://youtu.be/tkcXm7QNihM.
- Sylvia Wenmackers, “Measure in cosmology: convention versus paradox.” https://youtu.be/aHfYrETNnsI.
- David Teira, “What evidence for a cholera vaccine? Jaime Ferrán’s submissions to the prix Bréant.” https://youtu.be/kqh5kaO-QaE.
Conservation of / and Biodiversity
Organized by Max Bautista-Perpinyà and Charles Pence.
- Charles Pence, “Ambiguity in Scientific Language: The Case of Biodiversity.” https://youtu.be/gvBK_2qy2NY.
- Vincent Cuypers, “Exploring taxonomic disorder: a case study of empirical philosophy of science.” https://youtu.be/f9XZbVavyHc.
- Caroline Nieberding, “Behavioural Responses of Animals to the ongoing 6th Major Biodiversity Extinction.”
- Ayelet Shavit, “Meaning and Measure: ‘Diversity’, ‘Heterogeneity’ and ‘Locality’ in Biodiversity Models.” https://youtu.be/CW-KWDCsfP8.
- Robert Frühstückl, “Defending a multidimensional concept of biodiversity: consequences for theory and conservation.” https://youtu.be/sp3nIo9TGvo.
- Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, “Soils as ecosystem services.” https://youtu.be/rxFrWHxJlNs.
- Raf de Bont, “Moving Animals: Global Trajectories, Local Dynamics.”
- Max Bautista-Perpinyà, “Categories in the making at the European Commission. How to classify nature, demarcate diversity and permit circulation of that which grows in the forest.”
Work-in-Progress Talks
Organized by Mathieu Berteloot and Max Bautista-Perpinyà.
- Peter Verdée, “Ground-theoretic semantics: reasons and propositions.” https://youtu.be/KnKnePxvuvU.
- Pieter Thyssen, “Cross-Temporal Necessitation? A Platonist Reply to Leininger.” https://youtu.be/Pc1fH0OMcuk.
- Robert Frühstückl, “Defending a multidimensional concept of biodiversity: consequences for theory and conservation.” https://youtu.be/sp3nIo9TGvo.
- Stéphanie Ponsar, “Foundations of mathematics in terms of fundamentality and of grounding?” https://youtu.be/VfKyJtjZK88.
- Stijn Conix, “Measuring the societal relevance of humanities research.” https://youtu.be/Ty8xc4A_7f0.
GRICE — Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Ecological Crisis (separately organized)
2021–2022
- OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
- Explanatory Inference
- Life & Cognition
- Metaphysics of Science: Laws of Nature, Symmetries, and Modal Structures
- Work-in-Progress Talks
- GRICE — Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Ecological Crisis (separately organized)
2020–2021
- OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
- Explanatory Inference
- Life & Cognition
- Work-in-Progress Talks
- GRICE — Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Ecological Crisis (separately organized)
2019–2020
- OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
- Artifacts of Scientific Practice
- Life & Cognition
- Skepticism and Society
- Work-in-Progress Talks
- GRICE — Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Ecological Crisis (separately organized)
2018–2019
- OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
- GRICE — Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Ecological Crisis
- Historical Explanation
- Work-in-Progress Talks