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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Markus Schrenk\, "The Problematic Properties of Better Best Systems"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/HlZ7Wh8UOn0\n \nSeries: Metametaphysics \nSpeaker: Markus Schrenk (Düsseldorf University) \nTitle: « The Problematic Properties of Better Best Systems » \nAbstract \nMany 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 the special sciences. However\, unnoticed challenges arise: What are the boundaries between the different sets of properties that demarcate the sciences (if there are any)? Also\, the BBSA is in danger of depicting the whole of sciences as a patchwork of unrelated\, maybe even contradictory systems. Is there a unity or a hierarchy to be found after all? The latter issues concern the interrelations across separate best systems and their properties. Relating to scientific progress\, there are internal issues as well: as a science develops it hosts different sets of properties. System analyses for different property sets\, however\, might well be incommensurable. How can the BBSA account for this? This paper aims to offer tentative solutions to these challenges but it remains critical.
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-may-3b/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Vanessa Seifert\, "Chemical Reactions as Causal Relations"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/L4P0UtWjF0k \nSeries: Chemistry \nSpeaker: Vanessa Seifert (University of Athens) \nTalk: « Chemical Reactions as Causal Relations » \nAbstract: \nI 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 as causal relations is far from obvious. First\, the prevalence of reaction mechanisms suggests that a mechanistic account of causation is plausible for chemical reactions. Nonetheless\, a typical reaction isn’t an event where chemical substances irreversibly transform into other substances (just like- say- a rock would irreversibly cause the shattering of a window). Instead\, it is a dynamic process which -once reaching equilibrium- results in a state where the system transforms into the products and reverses back into the reactants. When viewed from the perspective of causation\, this suggests that reactions exhibit causal loops and as such they either shouldn’t be considered as genuine causal relations\, or they pose a challenge for those accounts of causation that require the temporal priority of causes. Moreover\, the presence of catalysts can be said to partly cause a reaction (as their absence often explains why a reaction doesn’t take place)\, even though they don’t substantively participate in it (because they don’t transform into products). So\, it is unclear whether they should be construed as genuine causes or part of the environment which accommodates a reaction’s realisation. While I do not offer an answer to these puzzles\, this analysis shows that construing reactions as causal relations is far from uncontroversial. Some features to reactions offer evidence for understanding them as causal relations\, yet others make the question around their precise nature quite hard to answer.
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-may-10/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Pieter Thyssen":MAILTO:pieter.thyssen@uclouvain.be
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Barbara Vetter\, 'Modal Epistemology and the T axiom' (online only)
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/xVss8ed1yD0 \nSeries: Metametaphysics \nSpeaker: Barbara Vetter (Freie Universität Berlin) \nVenue: Online only\, link TBA \nTitle: ‘Modal Epistemology and the T axiom’ \nAbstract \nIn the epistemology of modality\, philosophers often begin by assuming that\nthere is one easy way to learn about possibilities: the inference from\nactuality to possibility\, or ab esse ad posse. I suggest that\, if we are\nlooking for a cognitive account of our ordinary human knowledge of\npossibility\, the T axiom is not nearly as natural as has been assumed; it\nis a theoretical achievement. My argument draws on historical\nconsiderations from Aristotle as well as recent work in semantics.
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-may-17/
LOCATION:Online (Microsoft Teams)
ORGANIZER;CN="Florian Marion":MAILTO:florian.marion@uclouvain.be
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Alexandre Guay\, "Biological Possibilities"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/0gtOAvewt4U \nSeries: Work-In-Progress \nSpeakers: Alexandre Guay (UCLouvain) \nTitle: « Biological Possibilities »
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-may-31/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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