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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Peter Verdée\, "On indirect verification"
DESCRIPTION:Note the time change: we will start at 14h30 instead of the usual 14h00. \n  \nSeries: Work-in-Progress \nSpeaker: Peter Verdée (UCLouvain) \nTitle: « On indirect verification » \nAbstract: \nIn this explorative talk\, I will discuss a remarkable non-Boolean phenomenon that very diverse aspects of human belief systems have in common: the fact that the truth of or the belief in certain disjunctive properties P-or-Q is not reducible to the truth of or the belief in either of the disjuncts P and Q. We will discuss three important cases from very different parts of our belief systems. The first is the case of measurable properties in quantum mechanics (in the sense of the property of a system being in an eigenstate of a Hermitian operator with a specific eigenvalue – e.g.\, an isolated electron being positioned in a specific region of 3d space). The second case is the supervaluationist interpretation of vagueness where a disjunction can be supertrue without either of the disjuncts being supertrue. The final case concerns what S. Yablo calls reductive truthmakers\, i.e.\, the most parsimonious parts of the domain of discourse that manage to make a sentence true.  I will explore whether there is a common formal structure for all these phenomena and will suggest that the double-orthogonal-complement (DOC) closure of sets of verifiers may provide such a structure. In such a structure\, one can distinguish between direct verifiers (those that correspond to the disjuncts) and indirect verifiers (those that belong to the DOC closure of the union of the verifiers of the disjuncts). We will explore the philosophical meaning of this distinction. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-dec-6/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Fábregas-Tejada & Sims\, "On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary: Promising Avenues and Cautionary Notes"
DESCRIPTION:Series: MolDevBio \nSpeaker: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (Institute of Philosophy\, KU Leuven). Co-author: Matthew Sims (Department of History and Philosophy of Science\, University of Cambridge) \nTitle: « On the Prospects of Basal Cognition Research Becoming Fully Evolutionary: Promising Avenues and Cautionary Notes » \nAbstract \nThe research programme ‘basal cognition’ adopts an evolutionary perspective for studying biological cognition. This entails investigating possible cognitive processes in ‘simple’–often non-neuronal–organisms as a means to discover conserved mechanisms and adaptive capacities underwriting cognition in more complex (neuronal) organisms. However\, by pulling in the opposite direction of a tradition that views cognition as something that is unique to neuronal organisms\, basal cognition has been met with a fair amount of scepticism by philosophers and scientists. The very idea of approaching cognition by way of investigating the behaviour and underlying mechanisms in\, say\, bacteria\, has been seen as preposterous and harmful to both cognitive science and biology. This paper aims to temper such scepticism to a certain degree by drawing parallels with how the evolution of ‘development\,’ another loaded concept that refers to a not-so-easily definable\, contested bundle of phenomena\, has been fruitfully approached in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo). Through this comparison\, we identify four promising features of the basal cognition approach. These features suggest that sweeping scepticism may be unwarranted. However\, each of them comes with important epistemic cautionary notes that should not be disregarded. By presenting these twofold considerations as potential ways to integrate a fully evolutionary perspective into basal cognition\, this paper seeks to provide clarity and direction for the advancement of this research programme.
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-dec-13/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
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