Recent & Upcoming Talks

2020

Representing and Understanding (Im)Possible Targets?

One strategy that scientists use to understand targets of interest is by representing them with models. Understanding the world by …

mars 12, 2020 — mars 14, 2020 Emory University, United States

2019

Inferentialism and representation: chasing factivity

In this paper, I argue that two brands of inferentialism (Suárez 2004; Suárez 2015) and what I call the factive inferentialist account …

septembre 11, 2019 University of Geneva, Switzerland

Philosophical methodology in theoretical modelling: the case of herd behaviour

Naturalism is the view according to which philosophy should solve its problems using the empirical scientific methodology. It assumes a …

juillet 2, 2019 Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Italy

2018

Hamilton’s rule: understanding the disagreement about its explanatoriness

novembre 9, 2018 University of Twente, The Netherlands

with Vaios Koliofotis

Learning and understanding with models: same same but different?

juin 11, 2018 University of Turin, Italy

Hamilton’s rule: understanding the disagreement about its explanatoriness

mai 23, 2018 Ghent University, Belgium

with Vaios Koliofotis

Learning and understanding with models: same same but different?

mars 15, 2018 University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States of America

2017

Learning and understanding with models: same same but different?

octobre 12, 2017 University of Helsinki, Finland

Models and how-possibly explanations: a demarcation problem

septembre 6, 2017 University of Exeter, United Kingdom

How possibly could how-possibly explanations explain?

mars 24, 2017 Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2016

The inferentialist conception of model-based understanding: A new hope or return of the puzzlement?

décembre 10, 2016 Groningen, The Netherlands

Non-causal understanding with economic models: the case of general equilibrium

juin 16, 2016 Aix-en-Provence, France

A case for non-causal understanding with models

mai 18, 2016 University of Barcelona, Spain

2015

A case for non-causal understanding with economic models

novembre 22, 2015 University of Cape Town, South Africa