Serge Robert
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Université du Québec à Montréal
Participates in 6 items
Serge Robert is a professor of logic, philosophy of science and cognitive science at the theUniversité du Québec à Montréal. He has been one of the founders of the Institut des sciences cognitives at UQAM and has participated in most of the summer schools of the Institute. His field of investigation is the study of the reasoning processes at work in human cognition and in decision-making. He works at modeling cognitive processes and has been teaching for many years the modeling of environmental systems in the doctorate in environmental science. His work is at the interdisciplinary intersection of logic, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, computer science and environmental science.
Sessions in which Serge Robert participates
Monday 24 May, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:25 AM
8:29 AM EDT -
8:30 AM EDT |
1 minute
Tuesday 25 May, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:25 AM
9:29 AM EDT -
9:30 AM EDT |
1 minute
10:50 AM
10:50 AM EDT -
12:05 PM EDT |
1 hour 15 minutes
The presentation will first explain what a system is and will then give some basic notions about how to build a model of a system. It will insist on the role of entropy and neguentropy in systems, describe the different components of the modeling of an environmental system and show how modeling has contributed to understand climate change. Finally, it will put the modeling of our environmental problems in an evolutionary perspective, address its cognitive foundations and get to the ethical di...
3:30 PM
Monday 31 May, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM EDT -
12:55 PM EDT |
55 minutes
Tuesday 1 June, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:55 AM
9:59 AM EDT -
10:00 AM EDT |
1 minute