The Herman Roelants Lectures on Science

The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science organizes every two years the Herman Roelants Lecture on Science in honour of the founder of the centre, Prof. Herman Roelants. The upshot is to invite distinguished philosophers of science to give public lectures on science. The lectures are open to everyone and they are accessible to non-specialists as well.

Lectures

• Wednesday 22 May, 2024 (Kardinaal Mercierzaal, 17:00): Prof. Eric Winsberg, From Modelling Climate Change to Modelling Epidemics and Beyond: Moral-Epistemic Duties in Model Building
• Thursday 9 June, 2022 (Kardinaal Mercierzaal, 17:00): Prof. Jenann T. Ismael, "Nowhere Else but in the Here and Now"; Temporality, incompressibility, and creativity in human action
• Thursday 16 May, 2019 (Kardinaal Mercierzaal, 17:00): Prof. Roman Frigg, Hurricane! Making confident decisions under severe uncertainty
• Thursday 27 April, 2017 (Kardinaal Mercierzaal, 17:00): Prof. John Dupré, Are organisms things or processes? And why you should care
• Tuesday 19 May, 2015 (Kardinaal Mercierzaal, 17:00): Prof. James Ladyman, Why atoms are not atoms and particles are not particles and why it matters