Talks

Talks

Invited talks are marked with an [I]. Peer-reviewed talks are marked with a [R]. Talks at co-organized events are marked with an [O].

    1. October 2023: Comments on Dan Greco’s book “Idealizations in Epistemology”. Philosopher Meets Critics: Dan Greco’s book “Idealizations in Epistemology”. Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition. University of Cologne. [I]
    2. September 2023: Comments on Elizabeth Miller’s talk on “Backtracking and Down-Tracking.” 55th Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy. UNC Chapel Hill. [I]
    3. June 2023: Understanding Philosophical Progress [with F. Dellsén, T. Firing, and J. Norton] Philosophical Progress Lab Workshop. University of Iceland. [O]
    4. April 2023: Misalignments between research hypotheses and statistical hypotheses UNCG Experimental Psychology Seminar. Greensboro, NC. [I]
    5. March 2023: On plain why questions. 2023 Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society. Durham, NC. [R]
    6. October 2022: The gradability of explanatory understanding. Duke University. [I]
    7. September 2022: Would disagreement undermine progress? Conference “What is Metaphilosophy?” EBS University for Business and Law. [I]
    8. August 2022: Scientific progress and idealization. Seminar “Scientific Progress: Individual and Collective.” Amsterdam [I]
    9. June 2022: Would disagreement undermine progress? Workshop “Understanding progress and progress in understanding“. University of Iceland. [O]
    10. June 2022: Would disagreement undermine progress? University of Duisburg-Essen. [I]
    11. June 2022: The gradability of explanatory understanding. Understanding III conference. University of Bucharest. [I]
    12. October 2021: Would disagreement undermine progress? [with F. Dellsén and J. Norton] Conference “Agreement and Disagreement Beyond Ethics and Epistemology”. University of Kent. [R]
    13. October 2021: Would disagreement undermine progress? [with F. Dellsén and J. Norton] Philosophy Colloquium. Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. [I]
    14. June 2021: Explananda of model-based explanations. Online seminar on surrogative reasoning. University of Salzburg. [I]
    15. January 2021: Progress, understanding, and gradability. University of Salzburg. [I]
    16. June 2020: Knowledge-wh and context-sensitivity. Bielefeld University. [I]
    17. March 2020: Progress, Understanding, and Gradability. Panel “Understanding and progress” at the second workshop on scientific understanding and representation (SURe 2020). Emory University. [O]
    18. October 2019: A shotgun wedding? Non-declarative sentences and truth-conditional theories of meaning. Agnes Scott College. [I]
    19. July 2019: Misalignment between research hypotheses and statistical hypotheses – A threat to evidence-based medicine? [with G. Zimmermann]. Conference “Statistical Reasoning and Scientific Error”; Munich. [R]
    20. June 2019: Misalignment between research hypotheses and statistical hypotheses – A threat to evidence-based medicine? [with G. Zimmermann]. 8th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable; Paris. [R]
    21. June 2019: Measurement in Neurolinguistics: The Case of the N400 effect. Workshop “Measurement in cognitive science”. Ruhr University Bochum. [O]
    22. June 2019: David Lewis on non-declarative sentences: Setting the record straight. Conference “David Lewis and his Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy”; Manchester, UK. [R]
    23. May 2019: Misalignment between research hypotheses and statistical hypotheses – A threat to evidence-based medicine? [with G. Zimmermann]. Workshop “Philosophical Perspectives on Medical Knowledge”; Genoa, Italy.  [R]
    24. February 2019: Scientific understanding and felicitous falsehoods. UNC Greensboro. [I]
    25. February 2019: Understanding based on distorted models and toy models – Towards a unified account. Workshop on scientific understanding and representation. University of Bordeaux-Montaigne. [I]
    26. December 2018: Co-speech iconic gestures and the cognitive penetrability of perception. Workshop on new perspectives on the cognitive penetrability of perception. University of Turin. [I]
    27. November 2018: Knowing why and gradability. University of Hamburg. [I]
    28. October 2018: Knowing why and gradability. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. [I]
    29. October 2018:Understanding why and answers to why-questions. Workshop on the varieties of relevance. University of Hamburg. [I]
    30. September 2018: Is knowledge-wh context-sensitive? GAP 10; Cologne. [R]
    31. July 2018: Knowing why and gradability. European Epistemology Network Meeting 2018; Amsterdam. [R]
    32. June 2018: Understanding why and answers to why-questions. Models of Explanation; Turin. [R]
    33. May 2018: Understanding in the case of holistically distorted models and how-possibly models  –  A unified account. Workshop “Explanation and understanding”; Ghent. [R]
    34. April 2018: Is knowledge-wh context-sensitive? Research colloquium “Philosophy meets cognitive science”. Ruhr University Bochum. [I]
    35. March 2018: Felicitous falsehoods from a factivist point of view. Symposium on C. Elgin’s monograph “True enough”. University of Innsbruck. [I]
    36. February 2018: Knowing why – Depth & Gradability. Vienna Colloquium Analytic Philosophy. University of Vienna.  (canceled because of illness) [I]
    37. January 2018: What precisely is the epistemic issue regarding null hypothesis significance testing? Work in Progress Seminar. University of Salzburg. [I]
    38. November 2017: Reduktionismus bezüglich Verstehen-warum im Lichte der Mehrstufigkeit von Gründen. Workshop on knowing, understanding, and explaining. TU Dresden. [I]
    39. September 2017: Ist Wissen-warum gradierbar? XXIV. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie; Berlin. [R]
    40. September 2017: How do model-based explanations depend on their respective models? 2017 meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA17); Exeter. [R]
    41. July 2017: Gesture meaning needs speech meaning to denote – A case of speech-gesture meaning interaction  [with F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. ESSLLI 2017-Workshop “Formal approaches to the dynamics of linguistic interaction”; Toulouse. [R]
    42. July 2017: Knowing why and explanatory knowing how. Workshop “The varieties of knowing how”. University of Duisburg-Essen. [O]
    43. June 2017: How to semantically interpret co-speech iconic gestures – A process algebra approach. Research colloquium “Philosophy meets cognitive science”. Ruhr University Bochum. [I]
    44. February 2017: Lässt sich Verstehen-warum auf Wissen-warum reduzieren? TU Dresden. [I]
    45. December 2016: Explanatory knowledge and the idealization challenge from model-based explanations. Research colloquium “Logic and epistemology”. Ruhr-University Bochum. [I]
    46. November 2016: How do idealizing models provide understanding-why? Twenty-Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2016); Atlanta. [R]
    47. September 2016: A formal semantics for iconic gestures. Graduate seminar “Meaning in speech, sign and gestures”. Department of Linguistics. New York University. [I]
    48. July 2016: Knowing-why. European Epistemology Network Meeting 2016; Paris. [R]
    49. May 2016: How do model-based explanations provide understanding-why? Workshop “Explanation and understanding”; Aarhus. [R]
    50. May 2016: (How) Do models provide understanding-why? Models and simulations 7; Barcelona. [R]
    51. May 2016: Wissen und explanatorisches Verstehen. TU Darmstadt. [I]
    52. May 2015: Knowledge and understanding-why. Osnabrücker Philosophie-Kolloquium. University of Osnabrück. [I]
    53. April 2016: How do idealizing models provide understanding-why? Fourth Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science; Pärnu. [R]
    54. March 2016: The epistemic value of scientific idealizations for understanding-why. “Values in science” University of Washington graduate student conference; Seattle. [R]
    55. September 2015: Knowledge-why revisited. GAP 9; Osnabrück. [R]
    56. April 2015: Does statistical null hypothesis significance testing provide knowledge? Third Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science; Helsinki. [R]
    57. February 2015: Non-declarative sentences in intensional semantics – Re-evaluating the Lewisian solution. Graduate workshop “Language and world”. University of Hamburg. [I]
    58. December 2014: Putting the notion of context-free gesture meaning to test [with F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. Workshop “Embodied meaning goes public”; Stuttgart. [R]
    59. September 2014: Non-declarative sentences in intensional semantics – A defense of a Lewisian solution. Venice graduate conference in philosophy; Venice. [R]
    60. August 2014: Putting David Lewis’ analysis of non-declarative sentences back in the game. Eighth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy; Bucharest. [R]
    61. July 2014: Speech-gesture-interface constructions for gestures accompanying German verb phrases [with F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. 6th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies; San Diego. [R]
    62. July 2014: The role of perspective in thinking about mechanisms. Open Minds IX; Manchester. [R]
    63. November 2013: Das Bielefelder Speech and Gesture Alignment Korpus: SaGA. Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, University of Stuttgart [together with F. Hahn]. [I]
    64. October 2013: The Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS); Berlin [together with F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. [I]
    65. October 2013: Using parameterised semantics for speech-gesture integration [with U. Klein, H. Rieser & F. Hahn]. Investigating semantics. Empirical and philosophical approaches; Bochum. [R]
    66. April 2013: Mechanistic descriptions and  perspectival knowledge. Graduate conference in theoretical philosophy 2013; Groningen. [R]
    67. March 2013: Interface constructions for gestures accompanying verb phrases [with F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. The 35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society; Potsdam. [R]
    68. September 2012: The role of perspective in thinking about mechanisms. Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis 2012; Salzburg. [R]
    69. September 2011: Watching the growth point grow. Gesture and speech in interaction 2011; Bielefeld. [R]

Peer-reviewed poster presentations

  1. December 2016: Multi-modal context-dependency [with F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. Situations, Information, and Semantic Content; München.
  2. September 2014: First observations on a corpus of multi-modal trialogues [with F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. The 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue; Edinburgh.
  3. December 2013: Abduction and parameterised semantic composition in speech-gesture integration [with U. Klein, H. Rieser & F. Hahn]. The 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue; Amsterdam.
  4. August 2013: Gesture semantics reconstruction based on motion capturing and complex event processing: a circular shape example [with Th. Pfeiffer, F. Hofmann, F. Hahn & H. Rieser]. The 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue; Metz.
  5. June 2013: Integrating gesture meaning and verbal meaning for German verbs of motion: Theory and simulation [with K. Bergmann, F. Hahn, St. Kopp & H. Rieser]. The Tilburg gesture research meeting; Tilburg.

Commentary on other talks

  1. April 2016: Commentary on H. Sova’s talk “The Dialectics of H. Putnam’s model-theoretic arguments”. Fourth Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science; Pärnu.
  2. April 2015: Commentary on A. Reutlinger and H. Andersen’s talk “Are explanations non-causal by virtue of being abstract?”. Third Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science; Helsinki.
  3. January 2015:  Commentary on C. Picazo’s talk “Underdeterminacy and the Role of Context”. XVII Taller d’Investigació en Filosofia; Barcelona.