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The
seminar is held in hybrid
format, in person (Múzeum
krt. 4/i Room 224) and
online at the following
link:
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April (Friday) 4:15
PM Room 224 + ONLINE
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Andrej
Jandrić
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Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Belgrade
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Best System Account versus
the Package Deal Account of
the Laws of Nature
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Humeanism about
laws is the mainstream view of the
metaphysical status of the laws of
nature. The view was inspired by
the writings of David Hume and
further developed by David Lewis
and his adherents. According to
the Humeans, the laws are
regularities in the Humean Mosaic,
i.e. the totality of facts about
the point-size distribution of
perfectly natural properties. The
laws are thus generalisations
grounded in their instances. In
order to distinguish them from
accidentally true generalisations,
Lewis introduced his Best System
Account: laws are theorems of the
best system for our world, i.e.
the system which best balances
informativeness and simplicity.
Lewis placed a restriction on the
language in which the system is
formulated: the predicates which
appear in the axioms of the system
refer to perfectly natural
properties only. Bas van Fraassen
challenged this restriction and
brought into question the assumed
relation between laws and natural
properties. In order to answer van
Fraassen’s challenge, Barry Loewer
has recently proposed his Package
Deal Account of laws and natural
properties. In my talk, I will
consider several different
readings of the Package Deal
Account and argue that each of
them faces problems which did not
arise for the Best System Account.
Keywords: Humeanism about laws,
the Best System Account, the
Package Deal Account, natural
properties
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April (Friday) 4:15
PM Room 224 + ONLINE
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Andrés
Felipe Arenas Torres
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Department
of Logic, Institute of
Philosophy
Eötvös University Budapest
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| Physical
dispositions as binary
relations
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The definition of
dispositional terms has been a
longstanding topic of debate in
The
definition of
dispositional terms has
been a longstanding
topic of debate in
philosophy. Carnap, D.
Lewis, B. Vetter and
many others have
attempted it. Despite
extensive discussion, no
consensus has emerged,
and some argue that the
challenge of defining
dispositions by formal
means is a fruitless
task. On the other hand,
notions like fragility,
visibility or solubility
are not only a
concern in
philosophy but also in
several fields of
industry and science.
This presentation
proposes that
dispositions could be
properly defined using
logical/formal
expressions drawing on
insights from several
disciplines and
contemporaneous
philosophical work that
argues against the
traditional conditional
analysis.
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philosophy. Carnap, D. Lewis, B.
Vetter and many others have
attempted it. Despite extensive
discussion, no consensus has
emerged, and some argue that the
challenge of defining dispositions
by formal means is a fruitless
task. On the other hand, notions
like fragility, visibility or
solubility are not only a
concern in philosophy but
also in several fields of industry
and science. This presentation
proposes that dispositions could
be properly defined using
logical/formal expressions drawing
on insights from several
disciplines and contemporaneous
philosophical work that argues
against the traditional
conditional analysis.
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April (Friday) 4:15
PM Room 224 + ONLINE
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Joseph
Sonnleitner
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Department
of Logic, Institute of
Philosophy
Eötvös University
Budapest
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Wilcke's
'Machine Learning on
Multimodal Knowledge Graphs'
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Have you ever wondered how a
computer could recognize the
world with different senses? If
it could watch a video, listen
to music or read a book, very
similar to what you do? In his
PhD thesis Wilcke's shows that
with a combination of Machine
Learning, and a way to represent
knowledge — knowledge graphs —,
this could become reality. In
the talk I will provide general
background information, discuss
a study he conducted with a team
on excavation data, and I will
give more details on how this
could be achieved.
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