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2023-2024
Chemistry
- 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,” abstract.
Metametaphysics
- 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
- 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,” abstract.
- 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
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
Extra
- Michael Goldsby, “Model Aptness, Explanation, and Prediction: What is decision-relevant information and how do we get it from scientific models?” abstract.
2022-2023
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
- 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
- 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,” Abstract.
- 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.
- Seminar: Camillo Fiore, “Faithful Recapture,” Abstract.
- 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
- 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
- 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,” Abstract.
- 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 ecoystem services,” https://youtu.be/rxFrWHxJlNs.
- Raf de Bont: “Moving Animals: Global Trajectories, Local Dynamics,” Abstract.
- 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,” Abstract.
Work-in-Progress Talks
- 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
