Livestream https://www.youtube.com/live/NTg4Z99LeJM 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… Poursuivre la lecture 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… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Raf de Bont: « Moving Animals: Global Trajectories, Local Dynamics »

Livestream  https://youtube.com/live/GSFtLd0AKnU 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… Poursuivre la lecture CEFISES Seminar: Quentin Ruyant, “A possible situation semantics for Scientific models and theories”

Series: Life and Health