─CURRICULUM
VITAE─
PAUL WILLIAM
HUMPHREYS
Department of
Philosophy, 120 Cocke Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
22904-4780.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.,
Philosophy, Stanford University, l976.
M.S.,
Statistics, Stanford University, l974.
M.A.,
Philosophy, Stanford University, l974.
B.Sc.,
Logic and Physics, University of Sussex, l97l.
EMPLOYMENT:
Commonwealth Professor of
Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2013-
Co-Director, Centre for the
Study of Data and Knowledge, 2014-
Professor, University of
Virginia, 1991-2013
Associate
Professor, University of Virginia, l984-1991.
Assistant
Professor, University of Virginia, l978-84.
Research Associate,
Sociology Department, Stanford University, Fall l975.
Visiting appointments at
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; Institut d'Histoire et Philosophie des
Sciences et des Techniques, Paris; UCLA (twice); Stanford University;
University of Arizona; University of Pittsburgh (Center for Philosophy of
Science and Philosophy Department); C.S.U. Long Beach.
BOOKS:
Philosophical Papers. New York: Oxford University
Press (to appear) (A collection of my papers on emergence, simulations,
probability, and general philosophy of science.)
Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of
Science. (Editor-in-Chief). New
York: Oxford University Press, (print edition and on-line edition to appear,
2015)
Models, Simulations, and
Representations (edited collection, with Cyrille Imbert). Routledge, 2011.
Emergence:
Contemporary Readings in Science and Philosophy
(edited collection, with Mark Bedau). MIT Press (hardback and paperback
editions, April 2008; second corrected printing 2010; second edition in
planning stage)
Extending
Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method . Oxford
University Press, 2004. Paperback edition, 2007,
Kindle edition 2014.
The
New Theory of Reference (edited collection, with James Fetzer).
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Paperback edition, 1999
Patrick
Suppes, Scientific Philosopher (edited collection). Volume
1: Probability and Probabilistic Causality. Volume 2: Philosophy of Physics,
Theory Structure, Measurement Theory. Volume 3: Philosophy of Language, Logic,
Action and Learning Theory. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
The
Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical
Sciences. Princeton University Press, l989. Paperback
edition, 1992. Reissued in Princeton Legacy Library
2014. [Portions reprinted in Scientific
Inquiry, Robert Klee (ed). Oxford: Oxford
University Press].
ARTICLES:
`X-ray
Data and Empirical Content’ in Logic,
Methodology and Philosophy of Science XIV: Logic and Science Facing the New
Technologies. Peter Schroeder-Heister,
Gerhard Heinzmann, Wilfrid Hodges, and Pierre Edouard Bour (eds).
London: College Publications, 2015.
`Models of Data and Inverse Methods’ in Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience: Essays
Inspired by Patrick Suppes. Edited
by Colleen E. Crangle, Adolfo
Garcia de
la Sienra, and Helen E. Longino. Stanford: CSLI
Publications. 2015.
`More
Is Different…Sometimes: Ising Models, Emergence, and Undecidability’, pp.
137-152 in Why More Is Different:
Philosophical Issues in Condensed Matter Physics and Complex
Systems, Brigitte Falkenburg
and Margaret Morrison (eds). Berlin: Springer, 2015.
`Explanation
as Condition Satisfaction’, Philosophy of
Science 81 (2014), pp.
1103-1116.
`Data Analysis: Models or
Techniques?’, Foundations
of Science 18 (2013), pp.
579-581.
`Emergence’
in Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the
Social Sciences, Byron Kaldis (ed). SAGE
Publications, Inc. 2013.
`What Are Data About?’ in Computer Simulations and the Changing Face
of Experimentation, Eckhart Arnold and Juan Duran (eds). Cambridge:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
`Scientific Metaphysics and
Speculative Metaphysics’, pp.51 – 78 (Chapter 3) in Scientific Metaphysics, Don Ross, James Ladyman, and Harold Kincaid
(eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
`Computational
Science’ in Oxford Bibliographies Online. Published online at www.oxfordbibliographies.com,
2012.
`Unknowable Truths’, Logos & Episteme II (2011), pp. 543-555.
`Contextual
Emergence’ Philosophical Research,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. November 2011 (in Chinese)
`Computational
Science and Its Effects’, pp. 131-142 (Chapter 9) in Science in the Context of Application, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 274. Martin Carrier and Alfred Nordmann (eds). Springer, 2011. (Previously
published in a slightly different version as `Computational Science and Its
Effects’, ZiF
Mitteilungen, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, 2008.)
`What Simulations Can Do
That Experiments Cannot, and Vice Versa’, Artificial
Life XII, Harold Fellerman et al. (eds).
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.
`Some Relations Between Formal Structure and Conceptual Content in
Simulations’, pp. 1-8 in CoSMoS 2010: Proceedings
of the 2010 Workshop on Complex Systems, Modeling, and Simulation, S.
Stepney et al. (eds). Frome: Luniver Press, 2010.
`Conceptual Sea Changes’, Spontaneous Generations 4 (2010), pp. 111-115 online at http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations
`Causation and Reduction'
pp. 632-646 (Chapter 30) in The Oxford Handbook on Causation,
Peter Menzies and Christopher Hitchcock (eds). Oxford:
Oxford University Press (2009).
`Network Epistemology’, Episteme 6 (2009), pp. 221-229.
`The Philosophical Novelty
of Computer Simulation Methods’, Synthese
169 (2009), pp. 615-626.
`Computational Economics',
pp.371-385 (Chapter 13) in Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Economics,
Harold Kincaid and Don Ross (eds). Oxford: Oxford
University Press 2009
`Thinking Outside
the Brain’ Collapse V: The Copernican Imperative (2009),
pp.___ (To help support the publishers of Collapse, copies
of this article are available by purchase only from http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/archives/2006/01/orders.html)
`Computational and
Conceptual Emergence’ Philosophy of Science 75 (2008), pp. 584-594
`Synchronic and Diachronic
Emergence', Minds and Machines 18
(2008), pp. 431-442
`Probability Theory and Its
Models' pp. 1-11 in Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A.
Freedman, Terry Speed and Deborah Nolan (eds).
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections, 2007.
`Andrei Nikolaevich
Kolmogorov', New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles
Scribners and Sons, 2007.
`Self-Assembling Systems', Philosophy
of Science 73 (2006)
`Epistemolog del Siglo XXI' Anthropos
214 (2007)(in Spanish)
`Foreword'
to Four Decades of Scientific Explanation by Wesley Salmon. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2006.
Articles on `Emergence',
`Patrick Suppes', and `Wesley Salmon' in The
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Second Edition), Donald Borchert (ed). New York: MacMillan, 2006.
`Teorías de caución y
explicación:¿necesariamente verdaderas o
dominio_específicas?' pp. 19-33 in Causalidad
y explicación: Homenaje a Wesley Salmon. Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia 37,
José Díez Calzada and Carl Hoefer (eds). Bellaterra:
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2006. ( in Spanish
and Catalan) Also appeared in English as `Theories of Causation and Explanation:
Necessarily True or Domain-Specific?’, London School
of Economics Technical Report CTR 15-04.
Articles on `Closure',
`Crucial Experiments', `Definitions: Explicit and Implicit', `Falsifiability',
`Observation and Theory', `Scientific Revolutions', `Theory-Ladenness' for The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
(Second Edition), Ted Honderich (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
`Some
Thoughts on Wesley Salmon's Contributions to the Philosophy of Probability', Philosophy of Science 71 (2004)
pp. 942-949.
`Some Considerations on
Conditional Chance' British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science 55(2004), pp. 667-680.
`Scientific Knowledge' in The Handbook of Epistemology. I.
Niiniluoto, M. Sintonen, and J. Wolenski (eds).
Dordrect: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
`Computational
Models', Philosophy of Science 69 (2002),
pp. S1-S11.
`Mathematical Modeling in
the Social Sciences'' in Guidebook to the
Philosophy of Social Science, P. Roth and S. Turner (eds).
Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
`Analytic and Synthetic
Understanding'' in Science, Explanation,
and Rationality: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel. J. Fetzer (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Reprinted in a
revised form (in Spanish) in Causación,
explicación, y contrafácticos, Hernan Miguel (ed).
Cuidad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2014.
`Extending Ourselves'' in Science at Century's End: Philosophical
Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science. J. Massey et al (eds). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
`Probability:
Interpretations of' in The Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E. Craig (ed),
Routledge, 1999. Reprinted in abbreviated form in The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of
Philosophy and in its entirety in The
Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
`Are There Algorithms that
Discover Causal Structure?'' (with David Freedman) Synthese 121(1999),
pp. 29_54. (Earlier version appeared as "Rejoinder to Korb and
Wallace and to Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines" U.C. Berkeley, Dept of
Statistics, Technical Report #514, March 1998.)
`Causation' in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science,
W.H. Newton_Smith (ed), Blackwells, 1999
"Instrumentation and
Observation" in M. Dalla Chiara, R. Guintini, F. Landisa (eds), Philosophy of
Science in Florence, 1995.Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998
"Sociological
Models", pp. 253_264, in P. Blau and A. Sica (eds).
What is Social Theory?:
The Philosophical Debates. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
`Emergence, Not
Supervenience', Philosophy of Science
64 (1997), pp.. S337-S345
"How
Properties Emerge", Philosophy of
Science 64 (1997), pp. 1-17. [Reprinted in Bedau
and Humphreys (2008)]
`Escaping the Propositional
Prison`, The Monist 80 (1997),
pp.368-388.
"A Critical Appraisal
of Causal Discovery Algorithms", pp. 249-263 in Causality in Crisis?: Statistical Methods and
the Search for Causal Knowledge in the Social Sciences. Vaughn. McKim and
Stephen Turner (eds). University of Notre Dame Press,
1997.
"The
Grand Leap" (with David Freedman) British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47(1996) pp. 113-123. [Reprinted in Statistical
Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with the Social Sciences, David A.
Freedman (edited by David Collier, Jasjeet Sekhon, and Philip Stark). Cambridge University Press, 2009.]
`Aspects of Emergence', Philosophical Topics 24 (1996),
pp. 53-70.
Articles on Alonzo Church,
John von Neumann, and Wesley Salmon in The
Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers, S. Brown et al (eds). Routledge (1996).
"Understanding in the
Not-So-Special Sciences", Southern
Journal of Philosophy,XXIV(Supplement)
(1995), pp. 99-114.
"Computational
Empiricism" Foundations of Science,
1 (1995), pp. 119-130. [Reprinted in Topics
in the Foundations of Statistics, Bas van Fraassen (ed).
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996]
"Computational Science
and Scientific Method", Minds and
Machines 5 (1995), pp. 499-512.
"Abstract and
Concrete", Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 55(1995), pp. 157-161.
`Philosophy
of Science' in The Encyclopedia of
Bioethics, Warren Reich (editor). (1st and 2nd editions) New
York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1995. Updated version in
3rd edition, 2003. Updated version in Bioethics, 4th
Edition. Edited by Bruce Jennings.
Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2014.
"Numerical
Experimentation" in Patrick Suppes:
Scientific Philosopher, Volume 2. P. Humphreys (ed.).
Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, 1994.
"Greater Unification
Equals Greater Understanding?" Analysis
53 (1993), pp. 183-188.
"Seven Theses on
Thought Experiments" in Philosophical
Problems of the Internal and External World: Essays Concerning the Philosophy
of Adolf Grünbaum, G. Massey, A. Janis, N. Rescher (eds).
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. (European
edition, Konstanz: Universitäätsverlag Konstanz, 1993).
"Computer
Simulation" pp. 497-506 in PSA 1990,
Volume 2, A. Fine, M. Forbes, and L. Wessels, (eds), East Lansing,
Philosophy of Science Association, 1991.
"A
Conjecture Concerning the Ranking of the Sciences", Topoi 8 (1990), pp. 67-70.
"Scientific
Explanation: The Causes, Some of the Causes, and Nothing but the Causes"
in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of
Science, Volume XIII. P. Kitcher and W. Salmon (eds). University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989.
`Degenerescence (Lakatos)';
Dependence functionelle et explication functionelle';
and `Niveau d'explication' in Encyclopedie
Philosophique, Vol II, Andre Jacob (Directeur de la Publication), Presses
Universitaires de France, l989.
"Causal, Structural,
and Scientific Realisms" pp. 24l-252 in Midwest Studies in Philosophy XII, P. French, T. Uehling,
and H. Wettstein (eds.). University of Minnesota Press,
Minneapolis, l988.
"Sull'Interpretazione
dei Modelli Causali" pp. 113-129 in Epistemologia
ed economia, M.C. Galavotti and G. Gambetta (eds), CLUEB Editrice Bologna,
Bologna, l988.
"Non-Nietzschean
Decision Making" pp. 253-268 in Probability
and Causality. J. Fetzer (ed).
Dordrecht: D. Reidel and Company, l988.
`Induction' in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic
Theory and Doctrine, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman (eds.). The MacMillan Press, London, l988. [Reprinted
in The New Palgrave: Selected Reprints,
Utility and Probability. The MacMillan Press, l990.]
"How Scientific Is
Quantitative Risk Analysis?" in Biomedical
Ethics Reviews l986 R. Almeder and J. Humber (eds.).
Clifton, N.J.:Humana Press.
"Quantitative
Probabilistic Causality and Structural Scientific Realism" pp. 329-342 in PSA 1984,Proceedings
of the l984 Biennial Meetings, Volume 2: Symposia, P. Asquith and P.
Kitcher (eds). Philosophy of Science Association, East
Lansing, l986.
"Causality
in the Social Sciences: An Overview" Synthese
68 (l986), pp.l-l2.
"Why Propensities
Cannot Be Probabilities", The
Philosophical Review 94 (l985), pp.557-570. [Reprinted in Philosophy
of Probability: Contemporary Readings, Antony Eagle (ed).
Routledge, 2011]
"Philosophical
Explanations and Scientific Explanations", pp. l72-l89 in Principles of Philosophical Reasoning,
J.H. Fetzer (ed.), A.P.Q. Library of Philosophy. New
York: Rowman and Littlefield, l984.
"Aleatory Explanations
Expanded", pp. 208-223 in PSA 1982,
Proceedings of the l982 Biennial Meetings, Volume 2: Symposia, P. Asquith
and T. Nickles (eds.). East Lansing: Philosophy of
Science Association, l983.
"Probabilistic Causality
and Multiple Causation", pp. 25-37 in PSA
1980, Proceedings of the l980 Biennial Meeting, Volume 2: Symposia, P.
Asquith and R. Giere (eds.). Philosophy
of Science Association, East Lansing, l98l.
"Aleatory
Explanations", Synthese 48
(l98l), pp.225-232. [Reprinted in Theory, Evidence and Explanation.
P. Lipton (ed). Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1995.]
"Is `Physical
Randomness' Just Indeterminism in Disguise?", pp.
98-ll3 in PSA 1978, Proceedings of the
l978 Biennial Meeting, Volume 2: Symposia, P. Asquith and Ian Hacking
(eds.). East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, l98l.
"Theoretical
Consequences of the Status Characteristics Formulation" (with Joseph
Berger),American Journal of Sociology 86 (l98l),
pp. 953-983.
"Cutting the Causal Chain"
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 6l
(l980), pp. 305-3l4.
"A Note on Demopoulos'
Paper "Locality and the Algebraic Structure of Quantum Mechanics",
pp. l45-l47 in Studies in the Foundations
of Quantum Mechanics, Patrick Suppes (ed.). East Lansing: Philosophy of
Science Association, l980.
"Randomness,
Independence, and Hypotheses" Synthese
36 (l977), pp.4l5-426.
REVIEWS:
`Scientific
versus Analytic Metaphysics’. A review essay of Everything Must Go by James Ladyman and Don Ross
(with John Collier and Don Spurrett). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Metascience 19 (2010)
`Invariance,
Explanation, and Understanding’. A review
essay of Making Things Happen by
James Woodward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Metascience
Review of Models as Mediators, M.Morgan and M.
Morrison (eds). Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33B
(2002), pp. 374_377.
Review Essay on Causation and Explanation by Wesley
Salmon. The Journal of
Philosophy 97(2000).
Review
of Four Decades of Scientific Explanation
by Wesley Salmon; Mind. (1992).
Review of Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
by Jon Elster, Philosophy of the Social Sciences(1991).
Review of Scientific Explanation and the Causal
Structure of the World by Wesley Salmon, Foundations of Physics (l986).
Review of One World and Our Knowledge of It by Jay
F. Rosenberg, British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science 34 (l983).
Review of Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist, W.
Salmon (ed.), Philosophy of Science 49(l982).
Review of Science, Belief, and Behaviour: Essays in
Honour of R.B. Braithwaite, D.H. Mellor (ed.), Philosophical Review 9l(l982).
Review
of Inference, Method, and Decision by
Roger Rosenkrantz, International Studies
in Philosophy l3 (l980).
Review of Plausible Reasoning by Nicholas Rescher,
Journal of Symbolic Logic 43
(l978).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
"Rationality and the New Philosophy of Science", Loki Science Magazine, May l983.
"Runway" pp. 72-74
in See 'Ville Run: A Collection of
Running Tales. Heather H. Ramsey (ed).
Charlottesville: Pathbinder Publishing, 2005.
Preface
(in French) to Marion Vorms, Qu’appelle-t-on
<<théorie
scientifique>> aujourd’hui?
Paris:
Vuibert, 2012
Preface to Emergences, Gilbert Belaubre (ed) (Springer, to appear)
Foreword to Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for
Modeling and Simulation, Andreas Tolk (ed). Springer Intelligent Systems Library, 2012.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Co-PI (with S. Hartmann
(Tilburg), R. Frigg (LSE), J. Dubucs (Paris), J. Diez (Barcelona)) for Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) grant `Modeling in the
Social and Behavioral Sciences’ 2010-2012.
American Council of Learned
Societies Fellowship, 2008-2009.
Professeur des Universités
1ère classe, Ecole Normale Supérieure ,June 2008.
NSF Scholars Award `Concepts
of Dynamic Emergence' for Spring 2006.
Chercheur associé étranger
research fellowship, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris,
September 1 2005-November 30 2006.
Co-Director
(with William Wimsatt) Two conferences on Modelling and Simulation, March 1998
and October 1998. NSF Grant SES 9618078.
NSF Travel Award, Summer 1995.
IUHPS/AFOS Grant, Summer
1994.
ACLS Travel Award, Summer 1994.
NSF Research Grant
SBER93-11982 "Levels of Scientific Understanding" Summer
1993.
Director,
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers "Explanation, Causation and
Empiricism". University of Virginia, June 10 - August 2,
1991. Repeated in new form as "Causation, Explanation and Empiricism"
University of Virginia, June 19 - August 11, 1995.
NSF Research Grant
DIR-89-ll393 "Methodological Issues in Computer Simulation", Summers l989, l990.
Project Director, NEH
conference on The Autonomy of Philosophy. University of
Virginia, April l986.
NSF
Scholars Award SES 84-l0898 "The Bearing of Formal Methods in the Social
Sciences on the Unity of Science Thesis" l984_85.
Fellowship,
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, l983-84.
Sesquicentennial Awards,
Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, l983-84, Fall 1990, Spring 1996, Fall 2001, Fall 2008.
National Science Foundation
Research Grant SES-82-05563, Summer l983.
University of Virginia
Faculty Research Awards, Summer l982, Summer l988,
Summer 1996.
National Science Foundation
Research Grant SOC-77-08837, Summer l978.
Fulbright-Hays
Travel Award l97l.
English
Speaking Union Fellow l97l.
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC:
Series Editor, Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science
1999-
Senior Editor, Oxford Research Reviews 2012 -
Editor, Synthese, 1990-1998. Area editor, General philosophy of science and
methodology, 2007-2011 ; Editorial Board 2012 - ; Review
Editor, l988-1998.
Executive and Founding
Editor, Foundations of Science,
1993-1998
Editorial Boards, Philosophy of Science, 1991-2009 ; Foundations of
Science, 1999 - ; Consulting Editor, Episteme,
2003-. Scientific Committee Lato Sensu:
Revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences 2011 - ; American Philosophical Quarterly
l985-89, 1990-93, 1999-2006; Advisory Board Logos
and Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology. (Romanian
Academy of Sciences).
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews 2010-2014
Guest Editor, The Monist issue on Models and
Simulations (June 2014)
National Board of Officers,
American Philosophical Association, July 2007- 2010
Chair, Committee on
International Cooperation, American Philosophical Association, July 2007-July 2010
Governing
Board, Philosophy of Science Association, 1997-2001.
Chairman,
Nominating Committee, Philosophy of Science Association l988-89.
Chair,
Philosophy of Science Association Essay Prize Competitions 1998, 2004.
Vice-President, Association
for the Foundations of Science, 1995-99.
Philosophy Documentation
Center Governing Board, 2001-
National
Review Panel, Philosophy Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities,
2005; NEH Philosophy and Religion Summer Seminars, 1992, 1995.
Associate, Center for
Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-
University of Virginia:
Chairman, Philosophy Department, 1996-97; 1999- 2004. Summer Chairman, l980,
l98l, 1999-2001, 2002-2004. Director of Undergraduate
Studies, l98l-83, 85-89, 92-94. Director of Graduate Studies, 1989-90,
1994-95. Director, Graduate Admissions, 2011 - , Cognitive
Science Program Supervisory Committee 1992-. Arts
& Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee 1994, 1995. Lower Division
Advisor, l98l-83, 2002-. Echols Scholars advisor 1993-2001 .
Echols Faculty Fellow 2014- ,Faculty Associate,
Echols-Humphreys Association, l982-83.
SELECTED TALKS AND LECTURES
Upcoming invited talks: Symposium
on the Humanistic and Societal Implications of Astrobiology, Library of Congress,
May 2015; Principal Lecturer, summer school on The Computational Turn, Vienna,
July 4-18 2015; Studying Knowledge Transfer and its Context, Center for
Advanced Study, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, September 2015; Keynote
speaker, Conference on Emergence, University of Colorado at Boulder, October
2015; `World-making through physical and biological modeling representation’
workshop, University of the Basque Country, December 2015; Computer Simulations
in Science symposium, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division
meetings, Washington DC, January 2016.
`Ontological Emergence’,
invited symposiast, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division
meetings, Philadelphia, December 2014
`The Dynamics of Emergence’,
Emergence and Reduction workshop, IHPST Paris, October 2015.
`Propensities and
Statistical Models’ Institute of Philosophy, London, October
2015.
`Inferring the Explanatory
Role of Causal Models in Complex Systems’, Causality and Complexity in the
Sciences conference, University of Cologne, September 2014.
"Emergence: A
Tutorial for Astrophysicists and Philosophers", Cognitive Astrophysics
workshop, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, January 2014
`The
Dynamics of Emergence’ Between Biology and Physics Conference, Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute and Tel Aviv University, Israel, December 2012.
`Testing
Models of Complex Systems’, PSA 2012, San Diego, CA, November 2012.
"The Use of Stylized Facts in Social Models", Explanation, Models, And Simulation In Social And Behavioral Sciences Workshop, Barcelona October 2012.
`The Epistemological Status of Data from Computed
Tomography’ Models and Simulations 5, Helsinki,
June 2012
`”Models of Data” Fifty
Years On’, symposium for Patrick Suppes’ 90th birthday, Stanford University
March 2012
`Ising Models:
Interpretation and Computational Issues, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V.,
Berlin, March 2012
`What
Counts as Data? Simulations, CT Scans, and Optical Telescopes’, Computer
Simulations and the Changing Face of Experiments conference, University of
Stuttgart, September 2011.
'Some
Differences Between Data from Simulations and
Experiments', invited lecture, 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and
Philosophy of Science, Nancy, France, July 2011
'Scientific Ontology and
Speculative Ontology', University of Valparaiso, Chile, July 2011
'Contextual Emergence' ,
Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2011;
University of Barcelona, June 2011, Center for Philosophy of Science Annual
Lecture Series 50th Anniversary, University of Pittsburgh, November 2010.
'The Simulation Game',
Conference on Knowing
and Understanding Through Computer Simulations, Paris,
June 2011
`Analytic and Scientific
Metaphysics’, APA Pacific Division meetings, April 2011
`The Solitary Philosopher
and the Collaborating Scientist’, APA Pacific Division meetings, April 2011
`Unknowable Truths’ Virginia
Commonwealth University, February 2011
`Modern Computational
Science’, Guangzhou Higher Education MegaCenter, December 2010.
`The Mind and Its Relation
to Physics’, South China Normal University, December 2010.
`The
Knowledge Paradox and Cognitive Capabilities.'
Plenary address, Limits of the Knowledge Society conference, Romanian Academy,
Iasi Romania, October 2010.
`The Limits of Knowledge',
Scientific Achievement: Progress and Problems workshop, University of
Pittsburgh, September 2010.
`What Simulations Can Do
That Experiments Cannot', Artificial Life XII Conference, Odense, Denmark,
August 2010
`Some Relations Between Formal Structure and Conceptual Content in
Simulations', Keynote Talk, 3rd Complex Systems Modeling and Simulations
Workshop, Odense, Denmark, August 2010
`Causality in Science',
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, June 2010.
"Qualitative versus Quantitative Modeling in
the Social Sciences", Paris, May 2010
Plenary workshop participant
on Exploring the Methodology of Simulations, Models and Simulations 4
conference, University of Toronto, May 2010.
`Reduction and Emergence',
Conference in Honor of Bill Wimsatt, University of Chicago, April 2010
`Origins,
Foundations, and Philosophical Views on Emergence',
CNRS conference on The Origins of the Universe, Paris, March 2010
`Computer
Simulations and Materiality', IHPST workshop on Thought Experiments and Computer Simulations,
Paris, March 2010
`Metaphysics for
Metahumans’, Does Scientific Naturalism Exclude Metaphysics? conference,
University of Alabama, Birmingham, November 2009. (video
available on-line)
`Holism, Self-Organization,
and Conceptual Emergence in Physical and Social Systems', Institute for
Complexity Sciences, Arrábida, Portugal, July 2009
`The Interface
Problem of Computer Simulations', keynote address at Science College, Ruhr
University Bochum, June 2009
`Emergence and Logical
Analysis’ Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 2009
Seminar Presentation on Extending Ourselves, Chinese Society for
the Dialectics of Nature, Beijing, May 2009.
`Why is Mathematics
Applicable?’ Beijing Normal University, China, May 2009
`Probabilities
and Chances’ IHPST/Konstanz conference on probability and causality in physics
and biology, Paris, February 2009.
Three
lectures on emergence. University of Hyderabad, India, December 2008.
`Templates, Complexity, and
Automated Science’, Keynote Address, APCAP, Indian Institute of Technology,
Bangalore, India.
`Endogenous Uncertainty and
the Dynamics of Social Constraints’, poster presentation at National Academy of
Sciences Keck Futures Initiative on Complexity Theory, November 2008
`Computational Epistemology:
Avoiding the Anthropocentric Trap’, Conference on Simulations and Social
Epistemology, University of Leuven, October 2008
`Emergence’, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, October
2008.
`Analytic Metaphysics and
Scientific Metaphysics’, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 2008
`Propensities and
Probabilities’, IHPST, Paris, June 2008
`On Computational Templates,
IHPST, Paris, June 2008
`A Defence of Ontological
Emergence’, International School on Complexity 9 :Emergence in the Physical and
Biological Worlds, Ettore Majorana Foundation, Sicily, April 2008.
`Computational Templates:
Representation and Application’, University of Helsinki, November 2007.
`Theories for Agent Based
Simulations’ Models and Simulation 2,
Tilburg University, Netherlands, October 2007.
Presentation at
Idealizations Workshop, Tilburg University, Netherlands, October 2007.
`Computational Science as a
Revolutionary Development’ ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany, September 2007.
`Three Concepts of
Emergence’ Ohio University, September 2007, Virginia Commonwealth University,
January 2008, University of Chicago, February 2008.
`Computational Templates as
Representations’ 7th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium,
University of Illinois, May 2007.
Presentation of an agent
based model of constrained search strategies (with Tiha von Ghyczy), Max Planck
Institute for Human Development, Berlin, February 2007.
Presentation at Symposium on
Complex Systems Engineering, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, January 2007.
`Computational and Conceptual
Emergence', Philosophy of Science Association
Biennial Meetings, Vancouver, November 2006.
`Computational Templates as
Cross-Disciplinary Bridges', Unity of Science Conference, Lisbon, October 2006.
`Synchronic and Diachronic
Emergence' Philosophy Department, University of Pennsylvania, September 2006.
`Philosophy of Computational
Modeling', Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of
Pennsylvania, September 2006.
`Computer Simulations and
the Philosophy of Science', North American Computing and Philosophy Conference,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, August 2006. Abbreviated version given at
HOPOS meetings, Paris, June 2006.
`Some Methodological Issues
in Computer Simulations', Keynote Address, First Annual Conference on
Philosophical Issues in Models and Simulations, Paris, June 2006.
`From Telescopes to
Transhumans', Western Michigan University, February, 2006.
`Computer Assisted
Mathematics', Invited Address, Philosophy of Mathematics Special Interest Group
at American Mathematical Society/Mathematical Association of America Joint
Meetings, San Antonio, January 2006.
`Some Philosophical Issues
in Computer Simulations' (discussion with Peter Galison), IHPST, November 2006.
`Comments on Jean-Paul
Delahaye's `Ressemblance entre objets', Ecole Normal Supérieure, September
2005.
`Horizontal Emergence',
Rutgers/Columbia conference on philosophy of physics, April 2005; symposium at
APA Central Division meetings, April 2005, London School of Economics, June
2006.
`Response to Paul Teller and
to Malcolm Forster', Author Meets Critics session on Extending Ourselves, APA
Pacific Division meetings, San Francisco, March 2005.
`Computational Science',
University of Maryland, College Park, February 2005
`Self-Assembling Systems',
symposium at Philosophy of Science Association meetings, Austin, Texas,November
2004
`Genetic Engineering,
Nanotechnology, and the Human Future' University of Virginia, June 2004.
Comments on James Woodward's
Making Things Happen, Author Meets Critics session, APA Central Division
meetings, April 2004.
`Pattern Emergence',
conference on emergence, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et
des Techniques, University of Paris I, April 2004; revised version given at
Yale University, October 2004 and Western Michigan University, February 2006.
`Conflicts in Knowledge' New
Literary History symposium, University of Virginia, October 2003.
`Theories of Causation and
Explanation: Contingently or Necessarily True?' conference on Wesley Salmon's
work, Barcelona, August 2003.
`Computer Modelling',
conference on simulation and representation, ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany, June
2003.
`Two Models of Emergence',
Center for Complex Systems, University of Michigan, March 2003.
`Metaphors as Thought
Amplifiers', Santa Fe Institute, February 2003.
`A Taxonomy of Constraints'
conference on Space and Constraints, University of Virginia, August 2002.
`Philosophical Aspects of
Causal Inference', Graduate Student Summer Workshop on Methodology, Population
Research Institute, Penn State University, July 2002.
`Agent-Based Models for
Imitation and Strategy', University of Konstanz, June 2002
`Chances', All Souls
College, Oxford, April 2002; University of Konstanz Philosophy Department, June
2002; University of Michigan Philosophy Department, March 2003.
Invited participant,
National Cancer Institute Conference on Causal Inference, Snowbird, Utah,
August 2001
`Automated Causal
Reasoning'' talk to UVA Cognitive Science Workshop, April 2001
`Judea Pearl's Account of
Causality'', Pacific Division APA meetings, March 2001
`Empiricism and the Limits
of Scientific Knowledge'', Limits of Scientific Knowledge Workshop, University
of Pittsburgh, February 2001.
`Twenty-First Century
Empiricism'' (3 lectures), Third Summer School on the Theory of Knowledge,
Warsaw, Poland, August 2000.
`Complexity as a Modeling
Tool'', University of Virginia Systems Engineering Department, March 2000.
`Scientific Empiricism'',
Johns Hopkins University, April 2000 and University of Virginia, February 2000.
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