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Jennifer Pitts has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr   Antoine Lilti. Abstract Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), one of the most radical anti-slavery treatises …

Abstract I shall appeal to teleological considerations to argue that there are no elements in thought that are simultaneously indexical and file-like. So-called perceptual demonstratives are particularly interesting in this …

Abstract I propose a couple of revisions to the standard criterion of difference for modes of presentation attributed to Frege. First, we need to broaden the scope of the criterion so that not merely the thoughts of a given subject at a given time may or …

Abstract In this lecture, I will discuss novel technology pioneered by his group (e.g., intravital imaging of individual NSCs and their progeny in the mouse hippocampus). Together with molecular tools (such as single cell RNA-sequencing), he will present …

Summary The latest conference systematically examines how the European Union could better defend and promote democracy. It explains why the destruction of democracy within member states is a greater threat to the Union than rather technocratic failures …

Abstract This presentation reviews impact studies concerning parenting support interventions and their effects on children's language, cognitive and socio-emotional development. The results accumulated in the literature suggest that these interventions …

Abstract The extraordinary development of sporting performance, which continues to break records and always seems to be pushing back the physical limits, is based on an increasingly detailed knowledge of physiology and the human body. But what do we know …

Abstract The purpose of this talk will be to determine certain special representations (i.e. in the discrete series, but not cuspidal) whose space is generated by spherical automorphic functions. Volker Heiermann 1994  : Doctoral thesis, University of …

Abstract It is generally accepted that restrictive relative propositions, such as "   [which are red]  " in "   les fruits [qui sont rouges]  " , denote properties of individuals, which can be applied to an object and return true or false -   in this …

Abstract Subject and topical share certain interpretative properties, which underline the partial analogy between the subject-predicate relationship and the topical-comment relationship. On the other hand, subject and topical differ in many respects  : in …

Program 10h-11h  : Netta Engelhardt (MIT, USA) Cryptographic Censorship: A Quantum Complexity Approach to (Quantum) Cosmic Censorship Abstract  : Do naked singularities exist as typical states in quantum gravity? Various considerations, from black hole …