2024
“Is Implicit Bias Real? On the Applicability of the Vera Causa Ideal in Social Science.” Peer-reviewed talk at the Quadrennial Fellows Conference of the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Miami, June 2024.
“Perspectives in Evidence-Based Policy: Lessons from Feyerabend” Invited talk at P. K. Feyerabend Centennial International Colloquium “Feyerabend Elsewhere”, Université de Douala, Cameroon (Zoom presentation with Simon Lohse), April 2024.
“Perspectives in Evidence-Based Policy: Lessons from Feyerabend” Invited talk at celebratory event for Paul Feyerabend’s 100th anniversery, Klassik Stiftung, Weimar (with Simon Lohse), April 2024.
“Feyerabend’s Pluralism: Past and Present.” Invited talk at Symposium in Memory of Paul Feyerabend, ETH Zurich, February 2024.
“The Current Relevance of Feyerabend’s Pluralism.” Invited talk at the Workshop on Paul Feyerabend’s legacy, UM6P Science Week 2024, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Benguerir, Morocco, February 2024.
2023
“What is ‘humanitarian’ about Feyerabend’s pluralism?” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology CLMPS, University of Buenos Aires, July 2023.
“Zum Problem der pluralen Wissenssynthese an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und
Öffentlichkeit.” Invited talk at the workshop Medien, Populismus, Wissenschaft: Facetten einer dynamischen Dreiecksbeziehung, University of St. Gallen, June 2023.
“Pluralism at the Science-Policy Interface.” Invited talk at the workshop The Role of Experts in Democratic Societies In Honor of Paul Feyerabend, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, June 2023.
2022
“Kuhn and Feyerabend in Berkeley: The Birth of Pluralism in Modern Philosophy of Science.” peer-reviewed presentation at the Kuhn Centennial Conference: Thomas Kuhn and the 21st Century, University of Kent, July 2022.
“Zur Integration von Fakten und Werten in der wissenschaftsbasierten Politikgestaltung.” Invited presentation at Workshop “Wissenschaft und Politik in der Pandemie: Lektionen der COVID-19 Krise”, Luebeck, June 2022.
2021
“Against myopic expertise: epistemic pluralism in public health policy.” Peer-reviewed symposium at the 8th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Turin, September 2021 (with Jonathan Birch, Stefano Canali, Saana Jukola, Sabina Leonelli, Simon Lohse).
“Corporate Funding of Public Research: A Feyerabendian Perspective.” Peer-reviewed presentation Public Research and Private Knowledge – Science in Times of Diverse Research Funding, Erlangen, July 2021.
“Pandemics, Policy, and Pluralism: A Feyerabend-inspired Perspective on COVID-19 in Europe” (with Simon Lohse). Invited presentation at Kolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie, Universität Dresden, May 2021.
2020
“Corporate Funding of Public Research: A Feyerabendian Perspective.” Peer-reviewed presentation Public Research and Private Knowledge – Science in Times of Diverse Research Funding, Erlangen, March 2020. POSTPONED to 2021.
2019
“Perspectivism in Current Epigenetics.” Invited presentation lgBIG Seminar, Geneva, December 2019.
“Perspectivism in Current Epigenetics.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 7th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Geneva, September 2019.
“Corporate Funding of Public Research: A Feyerabendian Perspective.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology CLMPS, Prague, August 2019.
“Un-blackswaning Scientific Prediction.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the Third International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science GWP, Cologne, February 2019.
2018
“Predicting under Structural Uncertainty: Why not all Hawkmoths are Ugly.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the the 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Seattle, November 2018.
“Good predictions and bad decisions: Philosophical thoughts on science-based decision-making” Invited talk at an international workshop of the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Zurich, Zurich, October 2018.
“Conceptual Innovation and Deep Ignorance: A View from the History and Philosophy of Science.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the Conference on Unexplored Realities in Qualitative Research, University of St. Gallen, September 2018.
“Managing Ignorance Through Disagreement.” Invited Talk at the International EURIAS Workshop on Knowledge and the Management of Ignorance, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, June 2018.
“Success and Failure in Science: The Philosophy of Science Perspective.” Invited talk at an international workshop Rethinking Progress via Ignorance and Failure: Insights from Science, Medicine and Humanities, ETH Zurich, March 2018.
2017
“Why Good Science Need Not Be Value Free.” Invited talk at an international workshop of the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Zurich, October 2017.
“Predicting Under Structural Uncertainty: Why not all Hawkmoths are Ugly.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 6th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Exeter, September 2017. (Co-authored paper with Lydia Braunack-Mayer).
“Wissen, handeln, zweifeln: Vom klugen Umgang mit Fakten.” Invited talk at the Center for Palliative Care, University Hospital Berne, August 2017.
“Predicting Under Structural Uncertainty: Why not all Hawkmoths are Ugly.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences (SILFS) Bologna, June 2017. (Co-authored paper with Lydia Braunack-Mayer).
2016
“Man braucht nur an das Wetter zu denken… – Wissenschaftliche Vorhersagen und ihre Rolle in der Wissenschaftsphilosophie.” Invited talk at the Kolloquium Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion, Leibinz Universität Hannover, November 2016.
“Manipulability and Realism in Wet-Lab Research: The History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.” Invited talk at Realism and Antirealism in the Philosophy of Biology – International Conference, University of Sassari, Italy, October 2016.
“Predictions in Science and Predictions in the Philosophy of Science: A Discrepancy.” Peer-reviewed presentation at Quadrennial Fellows Conference of the Center for Philosophy of Science, Lund, July 2016.
“Does Epistemic Pluralism Foster Scientific Progress?” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 6ieme congrès de la société de philosophie des sciences (SPS), Lausanne, June 2016.
“What Is Wrong With Our View of Prediction?” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 6th Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Glassboro NY, June 2016.
“To be or not to be? Das ist hier nicht die Frage.” Invited talk at the workshop „Was heisst wirklich sein?“ Collegium Helveticum, Zürich, March 2016.
“Manipulability and Entity Realism in Wet-Lab Research: The Story of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.” Peer-reviewed presentation at History of Science and Contemporary Scientific Realism, Indianapolis, February 2016. (Co-authored paper with Ann-Sophie Barwich).
2015
“Reality as a Relational Property: The Story of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 5th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Düsseldorf, September 2015. (Co-authored paper with Ann-Sophie Barwich, Columbia University).
“Feyerabend and Popper on Theory Proliferation and Anomaly Import.” Invited symposium contribution for the 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, August 2015.
“Precaution in Scientific Model Building: The Case of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern Approach in Food Toxicology.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 5th Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Aarhus, June 2015.
“Realism, Empiricism, and Ontological Relativity: A Happy Ménage à Trois?” Invited talk at the Kolloquium für theoretische Philosophie, Universität Bern, April 2015.
2004-2014
“Dealing with Scientific Uncertainty. The Case of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern Approach in Health Risk Assessment.” Lunchtime Talk, Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, October 2014.
“Realism, Empiricism, and Ontological Relativity. A Happy Ménage a Trois?” Peer-reviewed presentation at the Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences (SILFS), Rome, June 2014.
“Decisions under Uncertainty: A View from Philosophy.” Invited talk the Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Zurich, October 2013.
“The Concept of Potentiality in Current Debates in the Philosophy of Nature.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the Postgraduate Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Urbino, May 2013.
“The Concept of Potentiality in Natural Philosophy.” Invited talk at the Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences, Charles University Prague, February 2013.
“The Concept of Potentiality in Modern Science.” Invited talk at the Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, Sacramento State University, October 2012.
“Popper and Feyerabend on Theory Proliferation and Anomaly Import.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the International Conference FEYERABEND 2012, Berlin, September 2012.
“The Implications of Szabó’s Physicalist Account of Mathematical Truth for Scientific Realism.” Invited talk at the Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Eötvös University Budapest, April 2012.
“Uncertainty in Science.” Kolloquium der Zentralen Einrichtung für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsethik (ZEWW), University Hannover, April 2012.
“Decoherence: A View from Topology.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the 3rd EPSA conference, Athens, October 2011. (Co-authored paper with M. Epperson and E. Zafiris).
“Scientific Realism as the Quest for a Universal Criterion of Reality.” Tea Time Talk, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, February 2010.
“Akategorialität, Archetypen, Emotionen und die Grenzen der Sprache.” Reply to Prof Reinhard Nesper in the lecture series Empirie der Emotionen at the Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, February 2009.
“Scientific Realism and Immediacy.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the World Congress of Philosophy 2008, National University Seoul, July 2008.
“Die Rolle der Wahrheit in der Wissenschaft.” Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, May 2008.
“Wirklichkeit ohne Sprache? – Der vorsprachliche Weltbezug der Wissenschaft.” Peer-reviewed presentation at the International Graduate Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, December 2007.
“Realismus und wissenschaftliche Praxis.” Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, June 2007.
“Erfahrung und Realität – Ein Beitrag zur Realismusdebatte in der Wissenschaftsphilosophie.” Poster presentation at the symposium of the Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich, June 2007.
“Zur Metapher des genetischen Codes.” Invited talk at the Centre for History of Science, ETH Zurich, July 2006.
“Die Mathematisierung der Physik und der Erfahrungsbegriff bei Galilei.” Kolloquium für Theoretische Philosophie, University of Zurich, December 2005
“Zu Putnam’s Sense, Nonsense, and the Senses.” Kolloquium für Theoretische Philosophie, University of Zurich, June 2004.