Seminars and Colloquia 2014 -2015
Colloquia
11 September 2014
Introduction New Staff Members
Bart Engelen, Raoul Gervais and Andrea Sangiacomo, Tilburg University
26 September 2014
Boxing up the subjectivity in the Sleeping Beauty problem
Sylvia Wenmackers, KU Leuven
31 October 2014
The Rise of Relationals
F.A. Muller, Erasmus University Rotterdam
4 March 2015
The epistemology of climate models and some of its implications for climate science and
the philosophy of science
Joel Katzav, University of Technology Eindhoven
1 April 2015
Kinds and degrees of scientific understanding: the case of phlogiston versus oxygen
Henk de Regt, VU Amsterdam
13 May 2015
A Principled Approach to Defining Actual Causation
Sander Beckers, KU Leuven
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Seminars
EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR:
WINTER SEMESTER 2014
17 September 2014
Bayesian Cognitive Science, Uncertainty and the Value of Specialization
Matteo Colombo , Tilburg University
1 October 2014
Bruna de Finetti’s Philosophy of Probability
Colin Elliot, Tilburg University
8 October 2014
Can Non-Cognitive Values Have a Beneficial Role in the Assessment of Scientific
Hypotheses? Some Problems of Mate Choice Hypotheses
Silvia Ivani, Tilburg University
29 October 2014
Describing and relating explanatory virtues of mechanistic models
Raoul Gervais, Tilburg University
12 November 2014
Epistemic Justice as grounding Affirmative Action
Machteld Geuskens, Tilburg University
19 November 2014
Semantic Faithfulness in Meinong’s Theory of Objects
Janine Reinert, Tilburg University
26 November 2014
Are Bayesian networks useful for clarifying informal reasoning?
Erik Nyberg, Monash
3 December 2014
Truth and Accuracy
Filip Buekens, Tilburg University
17 December 2014
The Probalistic No Miracles Arguement
Jan Sprenger, Tilburg University
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EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR:
SPRING SEMESTER 2015
21 January 2015
Explanatory Value and Probabilistic Reasoning. An Update.
Matteo Colombo, Tilburg University
4 February 2015
Betting Odds and Sincere Degrees of Belief
Colin Elliot, Tilburg University
11 February 2015
The Feeling of Understanding
Hans Dooremalen, Tilburg University
18 February 2015
Are Nudges Manipulative and Does This Actually Matter?
Bart Engelen, Tilburg University
11 March 2015
Expediting the Flow of Knowledge Versus Rushing into Print
Remco Heesen, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
18 March 2015
Varieties of Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Meta-ethics
Eleonora Severini, Sapienza University, Rome
25 March 2015
On the Possibility and Use of Psychological Laws
Raoul Gervais, Tilburg University
15 April 2015
Explaining the Rationality of Testimony
Machhteld Geuskens, Tilburg University
29 April 2015
An Introduction to Basic Statistics
Jun Lai, Tilburg University
12 May 2015
Is Evolutionary Psychology a Progressive Research Programme?
Silvia Ivani, Tilburg University
27 May 2015
Dual Process Theory and Skeptisism
Filip Buekens, Tilburg University
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16 June 2015
Jerzy Neyman on Representative and Cheap Evidence
Adam Kubiak, JPIICUL Lublin
25 June 2015
Perspectives of Actors in a Social Economy
Pieter Ruys, Tilburg University
LOGIC AND LANGUAGE SEMINAR: WINTER SEMESTER 2014
25 September 2014
Quantifiers, connectives, or something else?
Anna Szabolcsi, New York University / ILLC
14 October 2015
Four different ways to believe
Maria van der Schaar, Leiden
30 October 2014
Composing alternatives
Floris Roelofsen and Ivano Ciardelli, ILLC Amsterdam
11 November 2015
Towards a wide-coverage analytic tableau system for natural logic
Lasha Abzianidze, Tilburg University
2 December 2014
Telling Negations from In-Australia Operators
Francesco Berto, UvA Amsterdam
LOGIC AND LANGUAGE SEMINAR: SPRING SEMESTER 2015
3 February 2015
Non-monotonic universal moral grammar theory
Gert-Jan Munneke, ILLC Amsterdam
10 February 2015
Interpreting superlatives − scope of the superlative -est, definiteness of ‘the’ and focus
Barbara Maria Tomaszewicz, Tilburg University
3 March 2015
Sweet Sixteen
Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University
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24 March 2015
Vagueness and Learning: A Type-Theoretic Approach
Raquel Fernández Rovira. ILLC Amsterdam
31 March 2015
The timing and manner of updating quantifier scope representations in discourse
Jakub Dotlačil, RU Groningen
14 April 2015
Collective Obligations, Group Plans and Individual Action
Allard Tamminga, RU Groningen
28 April 2015
Disquotation and the purpose of truth
Thomas Schindler and Lavinia Picollo, MCMP-University of Buenos Aires
22 June 2015
Deontic Reasoning by Cases
Alessandra Marra, Tilburg University
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ETHICS: 2014 / 2015
24 September 2014
Republicanism and Constitutive Power
Titus Stahl, RU Groningen
15 October 2014
Discourse Contextualism: An Application to Normative Language
Alex Silk, University of Birmingham
5 November 2014
Virtue-Attributions, Good-Will, and Mutual Respect
Sven Nyholm, University of Cologne
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