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, 2025–26
This list is updated regularly with links to video recordings of past talks, if available. For the most up-to-date information on upcoming sessions, please check the calendar.
OLOFOS — Ontological Frameworks of Science (groupe de contact FNRS)
- Peter Verdee, “Multiperspectival supervaluationism and deep indeterminacy,” (abstract)
- Alexandre Francq, “The Haunting Specter of Complexity; the Pluralist Metaphysical Crutch,” (abstract)
Doing History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
- Charles T. Wolfe, “Vitalism, organicism and ‘biological philosophy’ in Canguilhem: the state of affairs in 1947 and now,” (abstract)
- Jana De Kockere, “Nature’s 17th century decay: A history of the controversy between Godfrey Goodman and George Hakewill,” (abstract)
MEPHISTO — MEtaphysics and PHIlosophy of Science: Transcendental Orientations
- Sami Pihlström, “Putnamian Transcendental Arguments,” (abstract) https://youtu.be/LbseG3XKKDo
- Michel Bitbol, “Transcendental epistemologies and probabilism,” (abstract)
- Harald Wiltsche (abstract TBA)
- Olivier Darrigol (abstract TBA)
- Eran Tal (abstract TBA)
Work-in-Progress Talks
- Florian Marion, “Special Relativity from a Meta-Ontological Point of View: A Defence of External Relativism,” (abstract)
- Victoria Van Gheem, “Formalizing Medical Reasoning: Can Fuzzy Logic Account for Normativity?,” (abstract)
- Blandine de Becker (abstract TBA)
- Azat Garaev (abstract TBA)
- Pierre Walckiers (abstract TBA)
- Quentin Ruyant (abstract TBA)
- Philemon Kongo (abstract TBA)