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Here I explore the benefits of an analogous strategy for a non-exceptionalist epistemology of … 8 Oct 2021 16:20 - 17:20 Event Filipe Drapeau-Contim Necessity without essence : the problem of numerical distinction Symposium Abstract Following Kit Fine, a number of authors today defend a premodal conception of essence: according to them, the modal concept of necessity is too thick to define the notion of essence, and we must instead start from the notion of essence to define … 8 Oct 2021 15:00 - 16:20 Event Anna Marmodoro The Essence of Power Symposium Abstract Modern science cannot do without Aristotelian powers - thus have argued Cartwright and Pemberton (2013) among many others. Aristotelian powers are essentially dynamic entities , which account for causal phenomena, and thus explain how change … 8 Oct 2021 14:00 - 15:00 Event Sonia Roca-Royes Conceptual Engineering and the Epistemology of Essence Symposium Abstract This talk is about knowledge of essence about concrete entities. For those who, like me, have distanced themselves from knowledge-first (or necessity-first) epistemologies of modality, knowledge of essence proves pressing. Especially if, in … 8 Oct 2021 11:20 - 12:20 Event Nathan Wildman Against the Epistemology of Essence Symposium Abstract While recent history has seen significant debate concerning the nature and extension of essence, comparatively little attention has been paid to the epistemology of essence. This is strange, as, plausibly, what answers we give to the metaphysical … 8 Oct 2021 10:00 - 11:20 Event Jean-Baptiste Guillon Essence and common sense Symposium Abstract The term "essence" is not a common term in natural languages, so it needs to be introduced by the philosopher who uses it. But it doesn't seem possible to introduce it by means of a complete definition using common terms: classical definitions … 7 Oct 2021 16:20 - 17:20 Event Stephen Grand Insights into Mantle Dynamics and Thermo-Chemical Structure through Joint Inversions of Seismic and Geodynamic Data Symposium Chair : Piero Poli (University of Grenoble, France) Documents and media Download support … 7 Oct 2021 09:05 - 09:40 Event Alexandre Declos On the " discovery " of gasoline Symposium Abstract Essentialism made a spectacular comeback in metaphysics and the philosophy of science around the 1970s. This revival is mainly due to the seminal work of Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, whose seminal theses articulated the idea that science … 7 Oct 2021 17:20 - 18:20 Event Jean-Marie Chevalier Analysis and the interpretative task of philosophy Symposium Abstract "All men are mortal", " water is H2O ", "an electron has a negative charge": how could such obviously empirical propositions become the object of metaphysics? Some philosophers have invoked principles such as bridge laws (according to Nagel), an … 7 Oct 2021 15:00 - 16:20 Event Roger Pouivet Are we made to know ? Symposium Abstract "Just as, according to his bodily nature, man naturally desires the pleasures of food and sex, so, according to his spiritual nature, he naturally desires to know", says Thomas Aquinas. If this desire to know is not in vain, if knowledge follows … 7 Oct 2021 14:00 - 15:00 Event Guillaume Carlier On a finitely exchangeable version of Hewitt and Savage's theorem Seminar Documents and media Download support … 26 Nov 2021 11:15 - 12:30 Event François Héran Argument typologies. Attempts at classification. The proliferation of fallacies Lecture Recurring arguments in the field of migration: slippery slope, perverse effect, appeal to fear, " Godwin's law ", analogies, dissociation versus amalgam. Ad personam and ad hominem arguments, the fabrication of an imaginary adversary (" straw man "), the … 26 Nov 2021 10:30 - 12:00 Event Benoit Gaultier Which essences for philosophy ? Symposium Abstract In contemporary debates on the knowledge of essences, it is often assumed that one and the same epistemology applies to all essences. Yet it is intuitively unlikely that the essences of things as different as people, numbers or gold can be known … 7 Oct 2021 11:20 - 12:20 Event Yadh Ben Achour The meanings Lecture For their observers and thinkers, revolutions have different meanings. Certainly, revolutions are circumstantially self-executing. But historians differ in their interpretation. This is the case, for example, when it comes to the temporal identification … 22 Nov 2021 14:00 - 15:30 Event Pierre-Louis Lions On transport equations (3) Lecture 26 Nov 2021 09:00 - 11:00 Event Hans-Johann Glock Metaphysics, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Analysis: Historical and Conceptual Connections Symposium Abstract Conceptual engineering (CE) is sometimes presented as (A) a radically novel metaphilosophical stance; (B) either superseding or providing the foundations for all other philosophical projects. My presentation takes issue with both claims. Its … 7 Oct 2021 10:00 - 11:20 Event Philippe Sansonetti " Archaeodeoxyribonucleology of the plague Symposium Abstract This lecture will attempt to decipher what the Yersinia pestis genomes reconstituted from ancient DNA can tell us about the origin, dynamics and evolution of the great plague pandemics. It will nevertheless consider the limits of the molecular … 6 Oct 2021 16:15 - 17:00 Event Barbara Bramanti The Medieval Plagues: Ecology, Transmission Modalities and Routes of the Infection Symposium Abstract This paper will outline the main results of the ERC-supported MEDPLAG program (2013-2018). … 6 Oct 2021 15:15 - 16:00 Event Anne-Marie Moulin The end of the plague : a social and biological challenge in history Symposium Abstract The management of the contemporary Covid-19 pandemic hardly seems to have benefited from the "lessons of history"; on the other hand, it has rekindled the questions that mankind asks itself about epidemics like the plague. Why did the plague … 6 Oct 2021 14:30 - 15:15 Event Étienne Patin The Black Death : what consequences for human evolution and health ? Symposium Abstract The exceptional mortality caused by the plague pandemic that devastated Afro-Eurasia in the 14th century had a profound impact on European society, its economy, literature and art. Contemporary biological research also echoes this significant … 6 Oct 2021 11:45 - 12:30 Event Sacha Kacki Bioarchaeological research on the Black Death : recent advances and prospects Symposium Abstract Archaeological excavations carried out over the last few decades on funerary sites that were part or all part of epidemic contexts have led to the creation of a large corpus of documentation relating to the Black Death and its resurgences. Today, … 6 Oct 2021 10:45 - 11:30 Event Dominique Castex The archaeology of the Black Death : from the identification of burial sites to the development of a thematic strategy Symposium Abstract For a long time, researchers working on issues relating to infectious diseases of the past have regretted the absence of archaeological remains that would allow us to understand the attitude of past societies towards deaths caused by epidemics, … 6 Oct 2021 10:00 - 10:45 Event Patrick Boucheron Biological history of epidemics and funerary archaeology (general introduction) Symposium 6 Oct 2021 09:30 - 10:00 Event Anne Cheng Zhuangzi readings (2) Seminar 25 Nov 2021 15:30 - 17:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 226 Page 227 Page 228 Page 229 Current page 230 Page 231 Page 232 Page 233 Page 234 … Next page Last page
Event Pierre Saint-Germier A counterfactual theory of essence. Logical, metaphysical and epistemological aspects Symposium Abstract Timothy Williamson popularized the project of placing counterfactual reasoning at the center of a non-exceptionalist epistemology of modalities. Here I explore the benefits of an analogous strategy for a non-exceptionalist epistemology of … 8 Oct 2021 16:20 - 17:20
Event Filipe Drapeau-Contim Necessity without essence : the problem of numerical distinction Symposium Abstract Following Kit Fine, a number of authors today defend a premodal conception of essence: according to them, the modal concept of necessity is too thick to define the notion of essence, and we must instead start from the notion of essence to define … 8 Oct 2021 15:00 - 16:20
Event Anna Marmodoro The Essence of Power Symposium Abstract Modern science cannot do without Aristotelian powers - thus have argued Cartwright and Pemberton (2013) among many others. Aristotelian powers are essentially dynamic entities , which account for causal phenomena, and thus explain how change … 8 Oct 2021 14:00 - 15:00
Event Sonia Roca-Royes Conceptual Engineering and the Epistemology of Essence Symposium Abstract This talk is about knowledge of essence about concrete entities. For those who, like me, have distanced themselves from knowledge-first (or necessity-first) epistemologies of modality, knowledge of essence proves pressing. Especially if, in … 8 Oct 2021 11:20 - 12:20
Event Nathan Wildman Against the Epistemology of Essence Symposium Abstract While recent history has seen significant debate concerning the nature and extension of essence, comparatively little attention has been paid to the epistemology of essence. This is strange, as, plausibly, what answers we give to the metaphysical … 8 Oct 2021 10:00 - 11:20
Event Jean-Baptiste Guillon Essence and common sense Symposium Abstract The term "essence" is not a common term in natural languages, so it needs to be introduced by the philosopher who uses it. But it doesn't seem possible to introduce it by means of a complete definition using common terms: classical definitions … 7 Oct 2021 16:20 - 17:20
Event Stephen Grand Insights into Mantle Dynamics and Thermo-Chemical Structure through Joint Inversions of Seismic and Geodynamic Data Symposium Chair : Piero Poli (University of Grenoble, France) Documents and media Download support … 7 Oct 2021 09:05 - 09:40
Event Alexandre Declos On the " discovery " of gasoline Symposium Abstract Essentialism made a spectacular comeback in metaphysics and the philosophy of science around the 1970s. This revival is mainly due to the seminal work of Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, whose seminal theses articulated the idea that science … 7 Oct 2021 17:20 - 18:20
Event Jean-Marie Chevalier Analysis and the interpretative task of philosophy Symposium Abstract "All men are mortal", " water is H2O ", "an electron has a negative charge": how could such obviously empirical propositions become the object of metaphysics? Some philosophers have invoked principles such as bridge laws (according to Nagel), an … 7 Oct 2021 15:00 - 16:20
Event Roger Pouivet Are we made to know ? Symposium Abstract "Just as, according to his bodily nature, man naturally desires the pleasures of food and sex, so, according to his spiritual nature, he naturally desires to know", says Thomas Aquinas. If this desire to know is not in vain, if knowledge follows … 7 Oct 2021 14:00 - 15:00
Event Guillaume Carlier On a finitely exchangeable version of Hewitt and Savage's theorem Seminar Documents and media Download support … 26 Nov 2021 11:15 - 12:30
Event François Héran Argument typologies. Attempts at classification. The proliferation of fallacies Lecture Recurring arguments in the field of migration: slippery slope, perverse effect, appeal to fear, " Godwin's law ", analogies, dissociation versus amalgam. Ad personam and ad hominem arguments, the fabrication of an imaginary adversary (" straw man "), the … 26 Nov 2021 10:30 - 12:00
Event Benoit Gaultier Which essences for philosophy ? Symposium Abstract In contemporary debates on the knowledge of essences, it is often assumed that one and the same epistemology applies to all essences. Yet it is intuitively unlikely that the essences of things as different as people, numbers or gold can be known … 7 Oct 2021 11:20 - 12:20
Event Yadh Ben Achour The meanings Lecture For their observers and thinkers, revolutions have different meanings. Certainly, revolutions are circumstantially self-executing. But historians differ in their interpretation. This is the case, for example, when it comes to the temporal identification … 22 Nov 2021 14:00 - 15:30
Event Hans-Johann Glock Metaphysics, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Analysis: Historical and Conceptual Connections Symposium Abstract Conceptual engineering (CE) is sometimes presented as (A) a radically novel metaphilosophical stance; (B) either superseding or providing the foundations for all other philosophical projects. My presentation takes issue with both claims. Its … 7 Oct 2021 10:00 - 11:20
Event Philippe Sansonetti " Archaeodeoxyribonucleology of the plague Symposium Abstract This lecture will attempt to decipher what the Yersinia pestis genomes reconstituted from ancient DNA can tell us about the origin, dynamics and evolution of the great plague pandemics. It will nevertheless consider the limits of the molecular … 6 Oct 2021 16:15 - 17:00
Event Barbara Bramanti The Medieval Plagues: Ecology, Transmission Modalities and Routes of the Infection Symposium Abstract This paper will outline the main results of the ERC-supported MEDPLAG program (2013-2018). … 6 Oct 2021 15:15 - 16:00
Event Anne-Marie Moulin The end of the plague : a social and biological challenge in history Symposium Abstract The management of the contemporary Covid-19 pandemic hardly seems to have benefited from the "lessons of history"; on the other hand, it has rekindled the questions that mankind asks itself about epidemics like the plague. Why did the plague … 6 Oct 2021 14:30 - 15:15
Event Étienne Patin The Black Death : what consequences for human evolution and health ? Symposium Abstract The exceptional mortality caused by the plague pandemic that devastated Afro-Eurasia in the 14th century had a profound impact on European society, its economy, literature and art. Contemporary biological research also echoes this significant … 6 Oct 2021 11:45 - 12:30
Event Sacha Kacki Bioarchaeological research on the Black Death : recent advances and prospects Symposium Abstract Archaeological excavations carried out over the last few decades on funerary sites that were part or all part of epidemic contexts have led to the creation of a large corpus of documentation relating to the Black Death and its resurgences. Today, … 6 Oct 2021 10:45 - 11:30
Event Dominique Castex The archaeology of the Black Death : from the identification of burial sites to the development of a thematic strategy Symposium Abstract For a long time, researchers working on issues relating to infectious diseases of the past have regretted the absence of archaeological remains that would allow us to understand the attitude of past societies towards deaths caused by epidemics, … 6 Oct 2021 10:00 - 10:45
Event Patrick Boucheron Biological history of epidemics and funerary archaeology (general introduction) Symposium 6 Oct 2021 09:30 - 10:00