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TiLPS

The Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) studies knowledge, reasoning, and value in all their forms. TiLPS researchers investigate questions about scientific reasoning and the knowledge produced by it, but are also very much interested in reasoning in daily life, with the help of ordinary language. What should rational people believe, given the evidence they possess? How do they reason about this and come to acceptable conclusions? What resources do their languages give them to make this possible? This includes questions about how people come to conclusions about facts, but also about values, norms, and actions. Deliberation about what ought to be done, given certain norms and in a particular context, is just as much in focus as careful argumentation about what is in fact the case.

TiLPS offers a Visiting Fellows Program, through which logicians, ethicists, and philosophers of science reside in Tilburg for several months. The center also supports a full calendar of events, including regular research seminars, workshops, conferences and a lecture series.

TiLPS maintains relations and sponsors programs with other units at Tilburg University, especially the Department of Philosophy and the Tilburg School of Economics and Management.

News

Two PhD students in the Department of Philosophy (TiLPS) will defend their thesis in October:
Chiara Lisciandra on 25 October 2013 and Kristina Liefke on 28 October 2013.

A forthcoming paper by Stephan Hartmann, Richard Dawid (former TiLPS fellow) and Jan Sprenger has been discussed in the English journal The Guardian. Read the article