Upcoming talks
- Convergence on the Kuhnian picture of theory choice. PSA, New Orleans, November 2024
- Beyond Footnotes: Lakatos’s meta-philosophy of science, HOPOS, Vienna, July 2024
Recent talks
- ‘Rationality and Normativity in Normal Science’, The Kuhn Centennial Conference: Thomas Kuhn and the 21st Century Philosophy of Science, University of Kent, UK, July 13-15
- Beyond footnotes: Lakatos’ meta-philosophy and the history of science, Imre Lakatos Centenary Conference, LSE, November 3-4.
- ‘Novel success and ad hoc-ness: an empirical study’, colloquium talk at the EXTRA group at the University of Bochum, April 27
- ‘The two-stage model of theory confirmation re-assessed’, The Role of Theory Confirmation in Science, Stockholm University, May 5-7 2022.
- Theoretical Virtues: do scientists think what philosophers think they ought to think?
- Bristol Centre for Science and Philosophy, April 20 2021
- Online Poster Forum of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), January 2021.
- Online XPhi Europe Conference, June 2021,
- “Putting Philosophical Expertise to the Test” (w/ Pierre Saint-Germier),
- Annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June/July 2021
- Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), Vancouver, March, 2019
- Buffalo XPhi conference, September 2018
- ‘Constructive Theories and Explanation by Necessitation’, Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, November 1-4, 2018
- Armchair Physics and the Expertise Defense
- GAP10 in Cologne, September 2018
- APA, Pacific, March 2018
- Biennial workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group, Osnabrueck, Germany, November 2017
Previous peer-reviewed major conferences
- Annual meeting of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (8x): 2006, 2008, 2010-2013, 2019, 2020
- APA: Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) (2x): 2018, 2019
- Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (6x): 2006, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020/1
- Biennial Conference in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS )(5x): 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014
- 10th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference (2006)
- Biennial Meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2013, 2015, 2017)
- Annual meeting of the History of Science Society (2008)
Previous peer-reviewed workshops and smaller conferences
- Understanding from Models at IHPST, Paris, October 2017
- Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism?, University of Durham, August 2017,
- The History of Science and Contemporary Realism, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Feb 19-20 2016
- Bergen Philosophy of Science workshop, University of Bergen
- Testing Philosophical Theories Against the History of Science, Oulu Centre for Theoretical and Philosophical Studies of History, University of Oulu, Finland, Sept. 2015
- New Thinking about Scientific Realism, University of Pretoria, Cape Town, South Africa (2014)
- Summer Workshop of the International Society for Philosophy of Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2009)
- Data-Phenomena-Theories workshop, University of Heidelberg (2008)
- Novel Predictions, University of Düsseldorf (2011)
- Workshop on the Philosophy of Scientific Experiment, University of Pittsburgh (2010)
- Joint History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, UK (2007, 2008)
- Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophical Society (2012-5)
Previous invited lectures
… at the universities of Amsterdam (Dept of Philosophy and Stevin Centre), Belgrade (Philosophy), Bern (HPS), Bielefeld (Philosophy), Durham (Philosophy), Konstanz (Philosophy; Zukunftskolleg), Leiden (Philosophy), Utrecht (HPS), and Wuppertal (IZWT)