CENTER LEO APOSTEL Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Date : Nov. 12, 1996 (modified); Sep. 1995 (created)

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

The Center Leo Apostel is responsible for organizing workshops and seminars on fundamental scientific problems and research methodologies. These are part of the interdisciplinary program for PhD. students (in collaboration with the PhD. program of the University of Antwerp).

Several of these seminars are available on video and can be borrowed. The following seminars have already taken place:

• "The Systems Science Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies" by Dr. Cliff Joslyn (NASA, Washington), on Dec. 6., 1995
• "Non-classical logic's, non-classical sets and non-classical physics" by Prof. Dr. Jaroslaw Pykacz (University of Gdansk) on Feb. 16, 1996
• "Rationality and Spiritual Experiences in Central Asia" by Dr. Rima Urkhanova (East-Siberian State Technological University), March 25, 1996
• "Scale Dimensions: An Approach to Understanding Multiple Levels in Natural and Artificial Systems" by Prof. Dr. Ivan Havel (Center for Theoretical Study, Prague) on April 15
• "Foundations of a New Economy" by Prof. Dr. Ricardo Petrella (Université Catholique de Louvain, chairman Group of Lisbon) on ,April 19
• "Economics in a boundedly rational world: beyond the competition-versus-planning contradiction" by Bertin Martens (CLEA and European Commission): May 10
• "Le Vide et le Bruit" by Prof. Dr. Simon Diner (Fondation Louis de Broglie, Paris): May 20
• "Studying the origins of language and meaning through robotic experiments" by Prof. Dr. Luc Steels (AI-lab, VUB): June 7
• "Is the question of a specific African culture versus an European culture an adequate question?" by Dr. Osaru Iguisi (University of Limburg Maastricht, Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation): June 14
• "Politics, Governance, Technology: a Postmodern Story" by Prof. Dr. P.H.A. Frissen (Professor of Public Administration, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands), Sept. 27, 1996
• "Reflections on Space and Time" by Prof. Dr. Fons Elders (University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht), October 15, 1996.
• "Second order cybernetics and organizational change" by Prof. Dr. Gerard De Zeeuw (University of Amsterdam), October 23, 1996
• "A New Window on World Reality. Quantum Theory without Quantification" by Prof. Dr. Constantin Piron (University of Geneva), November 8, 1996
• "Globalization and Worldviews" by Prof. Dr. Robert Maier (Faculty of social sciences, Utrecht), November 12, 1996.
• Prof. Dr. H.J. Achterhuis (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Twente) on" Unravelling the Principle of Scarcity in Modern Society", November 21, 1996.
• Dr. Joël de Rosnay (Cité des Sciences et Technologies, Paris), on "The Future of Symbiosis: Birth of a Planetary Superorganism", December 18, 1996
• Dr. Francis Heylighen (CLEA), on "Towards a Global Brain: integrating individuals into the world-wide electronic network", January 16, 1997 at 5 p.m. in room B306.
• Louis Van Geyt (UCOS) on "Managing Conflicts, Reconciling (human) Interests: a Must for Our Future?", on Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. in auditorium L210
• Dr. D. Gooding on "Visualisation and Thinking: an abductive model of scientific inference" and "Visualisation and Understanding: the case of quantum theory" by Dr. Henk De Regt, on March 14, 1997 at 2 p.m. in room 219 (2nd floor), Universiteit Gent, Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Blandijnberg 2, Gent
• Jiri Rosicky (Masaryk University, Brno) on "The history and importance of Category Theory", April 22, 1997
• Prof. Dr. György Kampis (Dept. of Behavior genetics, L. Eötvös University of Budapest) on "Endophysics, Or Causal Systems Which Are not Deterministic", April 25, 1997
• Harold M. Hochman (Department of Economics, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania) on "Distributional Preferences and Public Choice", May 5
• Jaroslaw Pykacz (Institute of Mathematics, University of Gdansk) on "Quantum logic as a basis for quantum computations", May 21
• Gödel Colloquium: "Everything you always wanted to know about Godel, but were afraid to ask."(with J-P. Van Bendegem and Eva Colebunders), May 22 at 4 pm.
• Prof. Dr. Hermann Haken (Institut für theoretische Physik und Synergetik, Stuttgart), Synergetics: An interdisciplinary approach to Self-Organization in Nature, June 17, 1997
• Prof. Dr. Valentin Turchin (Computer Science, City University of New York) on "Metasystem Transition as the Quantum of Evolution": cancelled.