Olivier Sartenaer

@osartenaer.bsky.social

Professor (epistemology/philosophy of science) at UNamur (Belgium). Director of SPiN (Science & Philosophy in Namur). Académie royale de Belgique - Collegium. Philpeople page: https://philpeople.org/profiles/olivier-sartenaer

My recent take in @science.org about Etienne Klein losing his PhD. While some believe that this may undermine public trust in science, I see it instead as an opportunity to remind us that scientific institutions have oversight mechanisms that do (mostly) work. www.science.org/content/arti...

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

University punishes Étienne Klein after investigation shows he plagiarized part of his Ph.D. thesis

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Call for participation: Transitions in Emergence Two-day conference at UNamur (Belgium) - May 12-13, 2026. Keynote speakers: K. Crowther, S. Fletcher, T. O'Connor, E. Onnis, J. Heil and J. Wilson. Contributed speakers: M. Stürmer, D. Bella, M. Paolini Paoletti, M. Pedroni, F. Eskens #philsci

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"On Meta-Expertise, Dissent and Epistemic Trespassing: A Reply to Neil Levy [@neillevy.bsky.social]" to appear in Erkenntnis: doi.org/10.1007/s106... First paper with my first PhD student, who incidentally uses Goldman's criteria of expertise evaluation in classes of Belgian teenagers. #philsci

On Meta-Expertise, Dissent and Epistemic Trespassing: A Reply to Neil Levy - Erkenntnis

In his recent paper “No Trespassing! Abandoning the Novice/Expert Problem”, Levy (Erkenntnis, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00794-8 ) urges (social) epistemologists to give up on trying to ...

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Appel à contributions : la Société de Philosophie des Sciences organise sa 12ème édition des RDIPS (Rencontres Doctorales Internationales de Philosophie des Sciences), qui se tiendra à Namur les 24 et 25 septembre 2026. Informations ici : rdips2026.sciencesconf.org

RDIPS - Rencontres doctorales internationales de philosophie des sciences - Sciencesconf.org

Rencontres Doctorales Internationales de Philosophie des Sciences (RDIPS) - 2026

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Plus belge c'est difficilement possible. Quand Saint Nicolas passe en auditoire, ça finit avec des bonbons pour les étudiants et une bière pour le professeur, le tout avec une petite chansson tous en choeur. Il faut dire que la logique formelle, ça donne soif !

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Call for paper - Conference on Diachronic Emergence - May 12-13, 2025, UNamur (Belgium) Invited speakers: - Karen Crowther - Samuel Fletcher - Timothy O’Connor - Erica Onnis - Jessica Wilson - John Heil More detail on how to submit a proposal: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsci

Diachronic Emergence

This conference will bring together researchers in metaphysics and philosophy of science to discuss the foundations, viability, and prospects of a distinctively diachronic account of emergence—n...

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Emergence seminar at UNamur: Anna Marmodoro (Durham University) "Essences as Emergent Entities" September 26, 2025, 11am (Brussels time) To attend on-line, please send an email to maxime.hilbert@unamur.be Our October speaker will be John Heil (Washington University St Louis). Date TBC. #philsci

Join us live for our emergence seminar at 11am (Belgian time): - Feb. 14: J. Tricard - Changing Laws - Mar. 14: A. Guay - Change in Physics - April 18: G. Militello - Emergence in Major Evol.Transitions - May 16: E. Onnis - Emergent Novelty - June 13: A. Marmodoro - Emergence of Emergence #philsci

Conference: Reductionism in Transitions. October 10-11, 2024. Namur (Belgium). Jeremy Butterfield, Vincent Ardourel, Eleanor Knox, Patricia Palacios, Kohei Morita, Andreas Hüttemann, Samir Okasha, Johannes Martens, Fridolin Gross, Tarja Knuuttila, Alexandre Guay, and Margarida Hermida. #philsci

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Call for papers - Conference: Reductionism in Transitions. philevents.org/event/show/1... October 10-11, 2024. Namur (Belgium). Invited speakers: Jeremy Butterfield, Fridolin Gross, Margarida Hermida, Andreas Hüttemann, Eleanor Knox, Tarja Knuuttila, Samir Okasha, Patricia Palacios. #philsci

Reductionism in Transitions

We invite submissions of papers broadly related to the topic of reductionism (and/or emergence) concerning transitions in physics/chemistry (e.g. phase transitions) and biology (e.g. evolutionary tran...

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