Seminar Topic Archive

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