Livestream https://www.youtube.com/@CEFISES Series: Work-in-Progress Speaker: Philemon Muanda Kongo Title: “Paraemic Intelligence: Toward a Contextual and Socially Situated Model of Reasoning for Artificial Intelligence” Abstract Artificial Intelligence has made remarkable progress in modeling deductive reasoning, probabilistic inference, belief revision, and large-scale pattern recognition. However, contemporary systems continue to encounter significant difficulties in contextual interpretation, socially grounded…

Livestream https://www.youtube.com/@CEFISES Series: HPS Speaker: Florian van der Zee (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Title: "How do we know it’s good to gift? Bodily donations and some directions for the H&P of moral knowledge" Abstract By attending to science “not as a vacuous generality but in its specific, local formation”, as Peter Galison put it in 2008,…

Livestream https://youtu.be/lphkgzV5kq0 Series: MEPHISTO (MEtaphysics and PHIlosophy of Science: Transcendental Orientations) Speaker: Eran Tal (McGill University) Title: "Measurement, Prediction, and Fact" Abstract Measurement is taken to provide knowledge of the way things are, and not merely of the way things would or could be under some specified set of conditions. In this regard, measurement is…