Seminars and Colloquia 2007 - 2008
Colloquia
September 3rd
Statistics Between Inductive Logic and Empirical Science
Jan Sprenger, Tilburg University
November 20th
Craftknowldegde is Knowledge Enough
Diederick Raven, Utrecht University
December 11th
Nature/Nurture and Disciplinary Boundaries: A Case Study and
Further Directions for Research
Maria Kronfeldner, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
February 2nd
The Really, “Really Hard” Problem of Consciousness
Robert Rynasiewicz, John Hopkins University
April 15th
Computer Simulation: Practice and Research
Jack Kleijnen, Tilburg University
May 13th
Do the Right Thing: But Only if Others Do So
Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania
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Seminars
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Winter Semester
September 13th
Relations Between Criteria of Empirical Significance
Sebastian Lutz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
September 27th
The Effective Indexical
Huw Price, University of Cambridge
October 4th
Models and Idealizations
Stephan Hartmann, TiLPS
October 18th
Formal Approaches to Epistemological Contextualism
Dorette van der Tholen, Tilburg University
November 1st
How Can We Disconfirm Our Beliefs about Normative Reasons?
Sander Voerman, Tilburg University
November 8th
Real People and Virtual Bodies: How Disembodied Can Embodiment Be?
Monica Meijsing, Tilbiurg University
November 22nd
Philosophical Intuitions vs. Naturalist Accounts of Intuitions
Filip Buekens, Tilburg University
December 6th
Reductionism and Process Externalism
Maurice Schouten, Tilburg University
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Spring Semester
February 14th
Realist Presuppositions in Psychometrics
Brian Hood, Indiana University and TiLPS
February 28th
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Concepts in Humans and Animals
Albert Newen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
March 20th
A Pragmatist Interpretation of the Science of Consciousness
Herman de Regt, TiLPS
March 27th
Inferential Information-Gain and Negative Information
Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson, University of Oxford and TiLPS
April 3rd
Averaging expert opinions–truth-tracking doubts
Katie Steele, University of Sydney and TiLPS
May 15th
Epistemic Relativism Defended
Martin Kusch, University of Cambridge
May 22nd
Why the Best Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation is an
Epistemic One
Cory D. Wright, Washington University and TiLPS
May 29th
Context and Beliefs
Giovanni Valente, University of Maryland and TiLPS
Philosophy of Physics, Spring Semester
Philosophy of Linguistics, Spring Semester
February 6th
Reductionism I: ‘Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as
a Working Hypothesis)’ by J. Fodor
Discussion
February 20th
Reductionism II: ‘Of Minds and Language’ by N. Chomsky & ‘The
Biolinguistics Manifesto’ by C. Boeckx and K. Grohmann
Discussion
February 21st
Discourse Structure and the Structure of Context1
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Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart
March 12th
Reductionism III: ‘Common Sense in Semantics’ by J.J. Katz
Discussion
March 19th
Conformation I:‘Evidence’ by K. Thomas
Discussion
April 2nd
Conformation II:‘Linguistic Metatheory’ by K. Allen
Discussion
April 16th
Comparative Similarity
Michael Morreau, University of Maryland
April 23rd
What vague objects are like?
Michael Morreau, University of Maryland
May 16th
What counts as a linguistic universal? (On the epistemology of
linguistic theory)
Paul Egré, CNRS, Paris
May 21st
Facts are little theories
Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University
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