CENTER LEO APOSTEL Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

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

• "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.
• Prof. Dr. Marek Zukowski (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdansk, Poland): "Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) correlations: paradox within the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox", 17 September 1997
• Prof. Dr. Ruut Veenhoven (Erasmus University of Rotterdam): Understanding Happiness, Oct. 17, 1997
• Prof. Dr. Robert Scott Gassler (Vesalius College): Foundations of Economics, Dec. 9, 1997
• Prof. Dr. Hans Radder (Free University Amsterdam): A referentially realist epistemology for the experimental sciences: conceptual interpretation, material realisation and formal correspondence, February 13, 1998
• Prof. Dr. Mark H. Bickhard (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania), Foundations of Cognitive Science, May 5, 1998.
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Nickles  (University of Nevada, Reno), The Crowbar Model of Method and Some Implications, May 20, 1998
• Prof. Dr. Koen Raes (University of Ghent), Arguments for moral realism, May 22, 1998
• Liane Gabora (Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, UCLA) The emergence of individual worldviews and consensus reality through cultural evolution, July 1, 1998
• Prof. Dr. Laszlo E. Szabo (Eötvös University, Budapest): Correlations, common causes and the EPR-Bell situation in nature, July 13, 1998
• Prof. Dr. John Corbett (Macquarie University, Sydney - Australia): The Need to Vary the Real Number Continuum: 15 September 1998