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Bruno David is Director of Research at the CNRS, assigned to the Biogeosciences Laboratory at the University of Burgundy. His research has always focused on biological evolution on different time scales, successively using fossil and present-day models. …

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The fourth lecture looked at a number of methodological issues: how to think about this a posteriori part of the inquiry? We reviewed the history of the relationship between metaphysics and science, and stressed the need to avoid scientistic vertigo in …

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An emblematic article in Nature magazine [ 7] took stock of the major threats facing the planet and humanity today, and listed them: the impacts of climate disruption, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, disruption of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, …

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The first lecture provides an introduction to the general energy context in which the question of CO2 recovery is posed. These include the prospect of a doubling of the planet's energy consumption by 2050, the depletion of fossil energy sources, the …

Another figure in the war novel as a novel of destiny is the Senegalese riflemen, often mentioned, but only fleetingly, and at greater length in La Randonnée de Samba Diouf (1922) by the Tharaud brothers. Their presence is conveyed through clichés such as …

Abstract The so-called "rationality wars" have imposed to find new accounts for the agents' reasoning procedures. I plan to examine the benefits we could draw from an account in terms of narration. Since from an external standpoint an agent's reasons are …

Abstract Earl Conee and Richard Feldman claim that mentalism identifies the core of internalist epistemology. This is what I call identifying ur-internalism. Their version of ur-internalism differs from the traditional one-viz . , accessibilism-by not …

Abstract Traditionally, an important class of empirical investigations on the justification of beliefs consists of experimental studies on the evaluation of argument forms w. r. t. logical validity and the truth of the conclusion given sure premises. …

Conference in English. Communication is of fundamental importance not only for the survival of a social group, but also for everyday sociality in social animals, especially humans. Some argue that communication, particularly through human language, …

Abstract We cite lots of things as reasons for ascribing someone knowledge or for denying that someone knows. Some of these reasons are good ones and some of them bad. Reflection on what counts as good and bad reasons for ascribing/denying someone …

Abstract Nowadays there is a surge of interest in whether perceptions can justify empirical beliefs based on them. The debate, already present in the end of the last century, has been revived thanks to the emergence of new positions with respect to the …

Abstract What David Henderson and I call iceberg epistemology is the view that the justificatory basis for a doxastically justified belief often includes background information that (i) contributes in a holistically evidential way to the belief's …

With the sun and water being our planet's most abundant resources, it's important to know how best to exploit them in today's energy transition. One strategy is to store energy from the sun in chemical form to produce H2 and O2 , and then convert it into …