─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:
Professor, University of
Virginia, 1991-
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:
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)
Extending
Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method . Oxford
University Press, 2004. (Paperback edition, 2007; Chinese translation in
preparation with Science Press, Beijing)
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) [Portions reprinted in Scientific
Inquiry, Robert Klee (ed).
Oxford: Oxford University Press].
ARTICLES:
Humphreys,
Paul. “Computational Science.” In Oxford
Bibliographies Online: Philosophy. Ed. Duncan Pritchard.
New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
`Scientific Metaphysics and
Speculative Metaphysics’ to appear in Does
Scientific Philosophy Exclude Metaphysics?, Don Ross, James Ladyman, and Harold Kincaid (eds).
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
`Unknowable Truths’ Logos & Episteme 2 (2011), pp. 543-555.
`Contextual
Emergence’ Philosophical Research,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. December 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 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' 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?'
in 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 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 a volume on explanation, Hernan Miguel (ed), to appear).
`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.
"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,
(to appear)
Preface to Emergences, Gilbert Belaubre
(ed) (Springer, to appear)
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.
Member, National Academies
Keck Futures Initiative Award: `Is Sustainability
Possible? Frontiers in Collective Modeling via Scientific
Open Source’, June 2009-June 2011. (PI James Crutchfield)
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-
Vice-President, Association
for the Foundations of Science, 1995-99.
Executive
and Founding Editor, Foundations of Science, 1993-1998.
Editor, Synthese,
1990-1998. Area editor, General philosophy of science and methodology, 2007- ;
Review Editor,l988-1998.
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-
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.
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-
Chair,
Philosophy of Science Association Essay Prize Competitions 1998, 2004.
Philosophy Documentation
Center Governing Board, 2001-
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 .
Faculty Associate, Echols-Humphreys Association, l982-83.
SELECTED TALKS AND LECTURES
'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
`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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