Thursday, December 18, 2008

Flow chart



[Xkcd via Nothing of Consequence]

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Science in Flux '08

The Colloquium "Science in Flux ’08", organized by P.Wagner will be held Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December. Venue : IHPST, 13 rue du Four 75006 Paris.
The theme will be "Formal Approaches to Belief Change and Inquiry, and the Philosophy of Science"
Program :
Friday 12 DECEMBER 2008
9h00
PIERRE WAGNER (IHPST, Paris)
Keynote address
9h15-10h15
BENGT HANSSON (Lund): Explanatory Equilibrium
10h25-11h25
FRANCK ZENKER (Lund): The Formalization of Revolutionary Theory Change
11h45-12h45
SEBASTIAN ENQVIST (Lund): An Architectonic for Scientific Theory Change
14h30-15h30
ISAAC LEVI (Columbia/New York): Doxastic States
15h40-16h40
ERIK OLSSON (Lund): Interrogative Belief Change: Contraction and Ties
17h00–18h00
HANS ROTT (Regensburg): Defending the Ramsey Test for the Interpretation of Conditionals: A Constructive Approach
Saturday 13 DECEMBER 2008
9h15-10h15
EMMANUEL GENOT (Lille): Belief Revision and the Interrogative Approach to Inquiry
10h25-11h25
GERHARD SHURTZ (Duesserldorf): Abduction and Belief Revision In Science
11h45-12h45
HERVÉ ZWIRN (IHPST, Paris): Abductive Logic In A Belief Revision Framework
14h30-15h30
JAAKKO HINTIKKA (Boston): Who is Afraid of Thomas Bayes?
15h40–16h40
GABRIEL SANDU (IHPST, Paris):Probabilistic Reading of Quantifiers

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics : Epistemological and Ontological Aspects

The conference Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics :Epistemological and Ontological Aspects, dedicated to
Per Martin-Löf on the occasion of his retirement, will be held in Uppsala, May 5-8, 2009.
Webpage.