Livestream https://youtu.be/aHfYrETNnsI Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Sylvia Wenmackers (KU Leuven) Commentator: Pieter Thyssen (UCLouvain) Title: “Measure in cosmology: convention versus paradox.” Abstract: Standard probability theory is restricted to real-valued measures that are non-negative, normalized, and countably additive. Normality is a convention added to the requirement of being non-zero and bounded. The countably additivity axiom was introduced by… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Sylvia Wenmackers, “Measure in cosmology: convention versus paradox”

Series: Conservation Speaker: Raf de Bont (Maastricht University) Title: "Moving Animals: Global Trajectories, Local Dynamics" Abstract: The NWO-sponsored project ‘Moving Animals’ explores how, in the twentieth century, humans have tried to study, represent and manage animals that move (or are being moved) over large distances (see: moving-animals.nl). More in particular, the project – carried out… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Raf de Bont: « Moving Animals: Global Trajectories, Local Dynamics »

Livestream  https://youtu.be/eOqafVK8qWY Series: Logic and Philosophy Speaker: Quentin Ruyant (Complutense University of Madrid) Title: “A possible situation semantics for Scientific models and theories.” Abstract It has become commonplace to understand scientific theories as families of structures, its models, and to use a possible worlds semantics to analyse their content: a model is a "possible world… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Quentin Ruyant, “A possible situation semantics for Scientific models and theories”

Series: Life and Health

Livestream https://youtu.be/Ty8xc4A_7f0 Series: WIP Speaker: Stijn Conix (UCLouvain) Title: "Measuring the societal relevance of humanities research" Abstract: Research in the humanities is primarily funded by public sources, with taxpayers ultimately bearing the cost. Consequently, it should be expected that such research ultimately serves the betterment of society. Thus, estimating, evaluating and maximizing the societal relevance… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Stijn Conix, « Measuring the societal relevance of humanities research »