Livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sSHIw-LBLg Series: Digital Approaches Speaker: Stefan Reiners-Selbach (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) Title: "The practice of a 'psychology of peoples'. A corpus-based analysis of the Journal of Völkerpsychologie and Linguistics." Abstract While modern histories of psychology largely ignore 19th century German Völkerpsychologie (psychology of peoples) and its impact, at the time it presented a new perspective on… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Stefan Reiners-Selbach, « The practice of a ‘psychology of peoples’. A corpus-based analysis of the ‘Journal of Völkerpsychologie and Linguistics' »

Livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_dYVxg7dZE Series: OLOFOS Speaker: Michel Ghins (UCLouvain) Abstract: This paper presents a dualist neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of laws of nature, based on categorical properties and causal powers. Scientific laws are understood as propositions belonging to empirically confirmed scientific theories, which describe regularities and refer solely to categorical properties. The natural necessity of these laws, along… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Michel Ghins, « Powers Without Essences: A Metaphysical Foundation for the Natural Necessity of Laws of Nature »