Livestream https://youtu.be/tkcXm7QNihM Series: Life and Health Speaker: Kim Hendrickx (Université de Liège) Title: “Keep biology weird: slowing down with scientific findings” Abstract: When I worked alongside biologists specialised in the model organism C. elegans, they often said that a particular finding was ‘weird’. Weird is an interesting term, associated with the idea that human attempts at… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Kim Hendrickx, “Keep biology weird: slowing down with scientific findings”

Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar Speakers: Boris van Leeuwen & Ingela Alger Talk: “Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions” Abstract. “Theoretical work suggests that a form of Kantian morality has evolutionary foundations. To investigate the relative importance of Kantian morality and social preferences, we run a laboratory experiment on strategic interaction in social dilemmas. We… Continue reading Post-Darwinian Societies seminar: van Leeuwen & Alger, “Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions”

Livestream https://youtu.be/VfKyJtjZK88 Series: WIP Speaker: Stéphanie Ponsar Title: “Foundations of mathematics in terms of fundamentality and of grounding?” Abstract: Although set theory is universally accepted as a theory of foundations of mathematics, there are several conceptions of foundations of mathematics. Starting from their main characteristics, we will discuss foundations of mathematics as metaphysical fundamentality and… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Stéphanie Ponsar, “Foundations of mathematics in terms of fundamentality and of grounding?”