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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 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 …

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 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 …

Documents and media Download support Abstract This first lecture in Paris will first give a brief overview of the various subjects covered in all the year's lectures. It will then focus on the tricky problems of multi-clock circuits. Whereas …

Documents and media Download support Abstract This work has several stories. Firstly, a long friendship with Paul Caspi, who was a long-time consultant to the Airbus teams developing flight control software (in Scade). Paul knew that Airbus engineers, …

The last lecture was devoted to biodiversity/ecology/economy interactions. How can ecology and economics be reconciled, as advocated by Robert Barbault and Jacques Weber [11] ? And how can we continue to do so in a world where 20% of humans manage and …

The second lecture aims to provide an overview of the various current research directions concerning the exploitation of CO2 for the synthesis of useful carbonaceous molecules. This begins with an understanding of the fundamental reactivity of the CO2 …

Jules Romains' Verdun (1938), which was not written in the trenches, is a good summary of the balancing act between the doldrums and the laughter of the trenches. He attributes the doldrums to "fathers of families" and the laughter to "young beings", who, …

To this day, the sun remains the only inexhaustible and eco-compatible vector of energy; however, the major difficulty remains converting this energy into electricity efficiently and at low cost. Photovoltaic conversion makes this possible. However, this …

Conference in English. In 1993, when then US President Bill Clinton tried to open up the Japanese rice market, there was an unprecedented outcry. He was seen as the Commodore Perry whose black ship forced the opening of Japan in 1853 and 1854. That …