For many years, CEFISES has hosted a weekly seminar series. Each year, our members organize a number of seminar topics, which bring together speakers from both our local community and across the world. The format encourages both long presentations and extensive discussion (one hour of talk and one hour of question-and-answer period).
If the speakers agree and there aren’t any technical glitches, we broadcast all of our talks online via YouTube Live! Links to YouTube will appear on the pages for each talk on our event calendar.
Seminar Topics and Talks, 2024–25
This list is updated regularly with links to video recordings of past talks, if available. For the most up-to-date information on upcomig sessions, please check the calendar.
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
- 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
Digital Approaches
- 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: A empirical philosophy of science approach”
Metametaphysics
- Mario De Cario, “Defending free will against contemporary skepticism” https://youtu.be/jdeXnbO78T0
- Naomi Thompson, “Social Metaphysical Explanation”
MolDevBio
- Emmanuelle Maciel, “Hybridizing omics and traditional molecular biology” https://youtu.be/wX0lKi5gCIY
- Fábregas-Tejada & 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?”
Work-in-Progress Talks
- 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