Livestream https://youtu.be/HlZ7Wh8UOn0 Series: Metametaphysics Speaker: Markus Schrenk (Düsseldorf University) Title: "The Problematic Properties of Better Best Systems" Abstract Many advocates of the Better Best System Account (BBSA) and variations thereof suggest that Lewis-style best system competitions can successfully be executed for any arbitrary but fixed set of predicates/properties. This affords the possibility to launch system analyses separately for each of… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Markus Schrenk, « The Problematic Properties of Better Best Systems »

Livestream https://youtu.be/L4P0UtWjF0k Series: Chemistry Speaker: Vanessa Seifert (University of Athens) Talk: "Chemical Reactions as Causal Relations" Abstract: I consider whether chemical reactions can be understood as causal relations by examining three features to them. The first concerns reaction mechanisms; the second equilibrium states; and, the third catalysis. From their analysis I conclude that establishing reactions… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Vanessa Seifert, « Chemical Reactions as Causal Relations »

Livestream https://youtu.be/xVss8ed1yD0 Series: Metametaphysics Speaker: Barbara Vetter (Freie Universität Berlin) Venue: Online only, link TBA Title: 'Modal Epistemology and the T axiom' Abstract In the epistemology of modality, philosophers often begin by assuming that there is one easy way to learn about possibilities: the inference from actuality to possibility, or ab esse ad posse. I… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Barbara Vetter, ‘Modal Epistemology and the T axiom’ (online only)

Livestream https://youtu.be/0gtOAvewt4U Series: Work-In-Progress Speakers: Alexandre Guay (UCLouvain) Title: "Biological Possibilities"