2024_10

"On the connection between topological and mechanistic explanations"

Conference „Reasons, Explanations, and Models“

Germany, Hamburg

invited

2024_09

"Individuating Cognitive Capacities in Terms of Cognitive Homology"

Keynote at conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science (AISC)

Italy, Rome

invited

2024_03

"Ist unbewusstes Sehen wirklich SEHEN? - Wie wir mit neuen Anwendungskontexten von alten Begriffen umgehen sollten"

Workshop "Intelligenz"

Germany, Heidelberg

invited

2023_8

"Is this really VISION?"

Loops

Germany, Berlin

invited

2023_7

"Topological explanations as mechanistic explanations - and what we learn regarding other seemingly non-mechanistic explanations"

NeuroExp2023

Germany, Berlin

organized

2023_6

"How to carve up the mind? Horizontally, vertically, or both?"

Conference for Three Generations RTG ‘Situated Cognition’

Germany, Bochum

invited

2023_5

"Cognitive ontology through the lens of biology - How an evo-devo approach shows that cognitive capacities are extended"

TXM@25 - "The Extended Mind" at 25

USA, Boulder

invited

Mariel Goddu

2023_4

"What are Cognitive Character Identity Mechanisms?"

Traits of Contention: Character Identification and Comparative Thinking in Evolutionary, Developmental, and Behavioural Biology

Belgium, Leuven

peer-reviewed

Mariel Goddu

2023_3

"Warum die Psychologie die Philosophie braucht"

Ringvorlesung ChatTGWT, TU Berlin

Germany, Berlin

organized

2023_2

"Implicit Bias & Repression"

Online workshop on "Knowing one's own mental dispositions" organized by S. Arango-Muñoz, Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín/Colombia)

Online

invited

2023_1

"Philosophie als Mediatorin für innerpsychologische Diskussionen - Die Moderne Debatte Über Den unbewussten Geist"

Tagung der AG "Philosophie und Psychologie"

Germany, Cologne

invited

2022_9

"How to carve up the mind? - On the connection between mechanistic explanation of cognition and cognitive ontology"

MPI Cognition Academy

Germany, Berlin

invited

2022_8

"Can Mechanistic Explanations of Cognition be Computational or Representational?"

Symposium “Searching for Causes and Mechanisms in the Brain"

Institute of Computational Neuroscience, Germany, Hamburg

invited

2022_7

"Can Mechanistic Explanations of Cognition be Computational or Representational?"

GeSiMEx Final Symposium

Germany, Berlin

invited

Matej Kohár

2022_6

"The relation between mechanisms and natural kinds in cognitive neuroscience – and consequences for the philosophy of mind"

Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind Conference

Online

peer-reviewed

2022_5

"How to carve up the mind? – On the connection between mechanistic explanation and cognitive ontology"

Philosophy Seminar

Sweden, Umea

invited

2022_4

"What is the Role of Mechanisms for Cognitive Ontology?"

Workshop in the context of my RJ-fellowship

Sweden, Uppsala

invited

2022_3

"What mechanisms can do for (the philosophy of) cognitive science and psychology other than explaining"

GWP

Germany, Berlin

peer-reviewed

2022_2

"Where is the mind? – Why this question makes sense only if understood normatively"

Philosophy Colloquium

Sweden, Stockholm

invited

2022_1

"Three questions about the nature of the mind"

Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

Sweden, Uppsala

invited

2021

"Was konstituiert den Geist?"

Departmental Colloquium HU Berlin

Online

invited

2021

Comment on Sanja Dembic's book "Mental Disorder"

G27, Hamburg

Online

comment

2021

"The Unconscious Mind Worry: A Mechanistic-Explanatory Strategy"

Research Colloquium of R. Hufendiek & V. Hoffmann-Kolss, Bern

Online

invited

2021

"The Unconscious Mind Worry: A Mechanistic-Explanatory Strategy"

Research Colloquium, IUSS Pavia

Online

invited

2021

"The Causation/Constitution Distinction, Mechanisms, and the Challenge of Trivial Extendedness"

Workshop "Methodology of Situated Cognition Research", Germany, Kassel

Online

invited

2021

"Constitution Of Mind and Cognition as a Normative Concept"

Research colloquium Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Hannover

Online

invited

Birgit Beck

2021

"Was konstituiert den Geist?"

krino - Philosophische Gesellschaft Bern

Online

invited

2020

"The Unconscious Mind and the Mark of the Mental – A Mechanistic Approach"

ECAP10

Online

peer-reviewed

2020

"How to defend representation realism (or how to reject it)"

Workshop "Representation, Computation, Mechanism: What is the Best Explanation of Cognition?"

Online

organized

2020

"Saving the Mutual Manipulability Account of Constitutive Relevance"

On-line Chats "Philosophy and the Life Sciences" by A. Tramacere & J. Bickle, Mississippi State University

Online

invited

2020

"Der Sitz des Geistes und das Unbewusste Philosophische Probleme im Lichte situierter Ansätze"

Kortizes, Germany, Nürnberg

Online

invited public

2019

"A Cognitive How-Possibly Model of Repression and the Meaning of ‘Unconscious’"

Fellow-talk

Belgium, Antwerp

invited

2019

"Compare and contrast: How to assess the completeness of mechanistic explanation"

Neural Mechanisms Online

Online

invited

Matej Kohár

2019

"Unconscious mental representations in a mechanical world"

META4E-workshop on Mental Representations in a Mechanical World

Germany, Bochum

organized

2019

"Consequences of the New Mechanistic Account for Mental Representations and Extended Cognition"

Summer School of the RTG "Situated Cognition"

Germany, Bochum

organized

Matej Kohár

2019

"The Mechanisms of the Unconscious Mind"

Workshop "What is Translation? Exploring the Missing Link Between Neuroscience and Psychiatry", Lorentz Center

Netherlands, Leiden

invited

2019

"Mechanisms - From Metaphysics to Explanation"

Conference "Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Biology"

Turkey, Bilkent

invited

2019

"Is there Unconscious Mentality?"

Workshop at The Science of Consciousness Conference

Switzerland, Interlaken

invited

2019

"Das Unbewusste in der gegenwärtigen Psychologie"

Public Lecture Series

Germany, Hamburg

invited public

2019

"Mechanical Causation and Causal Relevance"

Symposium at ISHPSSB on Stuart Glennan's book

Norway, Oslo

peer-reviewed

2019

"Are there Unconscious Mental Phenomena? – Five Challenges for the Empirical Investigation of the Unconscious Mind"

EuroCogSci

Germany, Bochum

peer-reviewed

2018

"Das Unbewusste in der gegenwärtigen Psychologie - Unbewusste Vorurteile, Verdrängung und warum wir alle eine Therapie brauchen"

Verein für Lebenslanges Lernen

Germany, Essen

invited public

2018

"The Repression Model of Implicit Bias"

LOGOS Colloquium

Barcelona, Spain

invited

2018

“The Causation/Constitution Distinction: Can the New Mechanistic Approach help?”

GAP-Satellite Workshop, RTG Situated Cognition

Germany, Cologne

organized

2018

"Mechanistic Constitution - How many relations?"

Workshop "Causation vs. Constitution: Loosening the Friction"

Norway, Bergen

invited

2018

"Surprised by your negative IAT results? - The role of emotion repression in implicit bias"

Workshop on implicit bias

Germany, Dortmund

invited

2018

"The Unconscious Mind: Implicit Bias and Repression"

GAP10, BEST PAPER AWARD

Germany, Cologne

peer-reviewed

2018

"Repression: Impulsive Removal from Consciousness and Protective Miscategorization"

Panel symposium, Congress of the International Society for Neuropsychoanalysis

Mexico, Mexico City

peer-reviewed

2018

"Theories of repression and the meaning of ‘unconscious mental processing’"

Workshop "Self, Memory, and the Unconscious Mind"

Germany, Bochum

organized

2018

"Repression: A Scientific Concept?"

Departmental Colloquium, Uni Osnabrück

Germany, Osnabrück

invited

2018

"Activity Causation & The Metaphysics of Mechanisms"

Workshop "Difference-Making vs. Mechanistic Approaches to Causation"

Denmark, Copenhagen

invited

2018

"Implizite Vorurteile & Verdrängung“

Departmental Colloquium, Uni Regensburg

Germany, Regensburg

invited

2018

"Are implicit attitudes unconscious? Analyzing cases of implicit/explicit attitude match and mismatch"

Workshop "How implicit is implicit bias?"

Belgium, Antwerp

peer-reviewed

2018

"Can cells cause behaviors of organisms? - Why philosophers think that interlevel-causation is problematic and how we can solve these problems"

Dept. of Systems Biology & Bioinformatics

Germany, Rostock

invited non-philosophy department

2018

"Self image-defense, repression and the meaning of ‘unconscious"

Workshop "The Self and Its Realizations"

USA, Boulder

invited

2018

"Can cells cause behaviors of organisms? - Why philosophers think that interlevel-causation is problematic and how we can solve these problems"

Dept. of Biophysics

Germany, Bremen

invited non-philosophy department

2017

"Mechanisms - from Metaphysics to Explanation"

Workshop "Models of Mechanisms in Neuroscience"

Germany, Witten

invited

2017

"Phenomena in the Life Sciences"

Paper Discussion, Colloquium of Prof. C. Nimtz

Germany, Bielefeld

invited

2017

"Are the mental states underlying implicit biases unconscious? – A Neo-Freudian Answer“

PLM4

Germany, Bochum

peer-reviewed

2017

"The Causation/Constitution Distinction and Extended Cognition - Can the mechanistic mutual manipulability approach help?"

Symposium "Causation and Computation in Neuroscience"

Israel, Jerusalem

invited

2017

"Activity Causation in Mechanisms"

Symposium "The Power to Change" SOPhiA

Austria, Salzburg

invited

2017

"Rejecting Two Objections Against Interlevel Causation in Mechanisms: Part-Whole Causation and the Exclusion Argument”

Workshop "Theories of causation: mental causation, negative causation, and other challenges"

Germany, Düsseldorf

invited

2017

"Does the Notion of Mechanistic Constitution Provide a Solution to the Situated Cognition Dispute?“

ECAP

Germany, Munich

peer-reviewed

2017

"Mechanistic Constitution - How many relations?“

Philosophy of Science Conference

Croatia, Dubrovnik

invited

2017

"In which sense are implicit biases unconscious? – A Neo-Freudian Answer“

Joint Session

Schotland, Edinburgh

peer-reviewed

2017

"In which sense are implicit biases unconscious? – A Neo-Freudian Answer“

Paper discussion, Colloquium of Prof. T. Krödel and Prof. M. Schulz

Germany, Hamburg

invited

2016

"Constitutive Relevance – What it is and How it can be Defined in Terms of Interventionism“

Workshop "Mechanistic Integration and Unification in Cognitive Science"

Poland, Warsaw

peer-reviewed

2016

"Empirically Assessing Constitution by Means of Interventions"

GWP

Germany, Düsseldorf

peer-reviewed

2016

"What is mechanistic constitution? - Fat-handedness, Horizontally Surgical Interventions, and Real Mutual Manipulability“

Workshop "Ground in Philosophy of Science"

Switzerland, Geneva

peer-reviewed

2016

Comment on Michael Baumgartner and Lorenzo Cassini's paper "A Bayesian Theory of Constitution"

SMS-Meeting

Switzerland, Geneva

comment

2016

"Implizite Verzerrungen & Verdrängung - Inwiefern implizite Verzerrungen unbewusst sind & warum wir alle eine Therapie brauchen"

Departmental talk, Uni Leipzig

Germany, Leipzig

invited

2016

"In Which Sense are Implicit Biases Unconscious? - A Neo-Freudian Answer"

Workshop on Implicit Cognition

Germany, Duisburg-Essen

invited

2016

"Against Activities“

Workshop "Explanation and evidence of mechanisms across the sciences"

UK, Canterbury

invited

2016

"Mechanismen, Interlevel-Verursachung und das Exklusionsargument"

Departmental "Mittelbau" talk

Germany, Duisburg-Essen

invited

2016

"Repression and Implicit Bias - Conceptual Clarifications"

Neuropsychology Colloquium RUB

Germany, Bochum

invited

2015

"Squaring the Circle? Assessing Mechanistic Constitution With Interventions"

EPSA

Germany, Düsseldorf

peer-reviewed

Lena Kästner

2015

"The Metaphysics of Constitutive Mechanistic Phenomena"

Workshop "Causality and Causal Explanation in the Sciences Workshop" with Phyllis Illari

Germany, Cologne

invited

Marie Kaiser

2015

"What is a Mechanism? Or: Different Ways of Being Regular"

NNPS

Finnland, Helsiniki

peer-reviewed

2015

"Interlevel Causation in Mechanisms"

Carnap Lectures

Germany, Bochum

peer-reviewed

2015

Comment on Marianne Schark's Paper "Can the biological notion of function be naturalized?"

Workshop "Teleology in Nature and Action"

Germany, Berlin

comment

2015

"The Flat vs. the Dimensioned View of Constitutive Mechanisms"

ISHPSSB

Canada, Montreal

peer-reviewed

2015

"Grounding Constitutive Mechanistic Explanation"

Hempel and Beyond

Germany, Cologne

peer-reviewed

2015

"The Flat vs. The Dimensioned View of Constitutive Mechanisms; Or: Three Types of Mechanistic Explanation"

Workshop on Explanations of Cognition

Schotland, Sterling

invited

2015

"Constitutive Mechanistic Explanation - A Challenge for Interventionism"

Departmental Talk, RUB

Germany, Bochum

invited

2015

"Arguments Against the Flat View of Constitutive Mechanisms"

GAP.9

Germany, Osnabrück

peer-reviewed

2015

"A Solution to the Problem of High Failure Mechanisms: Reverse Regularity"

Workshop "Inference, Explanation & Prediction in the Mind/Brain Sciences" with E. Machery, School of Mind & Brain

Germany, Berlin

invited

2014

"Mechanisms vs. Mere Causal Sequences - Regularity vs. Reverse Regularity"

History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine Seminar Series, Washington University of St. Louis

USA, St. Louis

invited

2014

"Mechanisms vs. Mere Causal Sequences"

Workshop on Realization

France, Paris

invited

2014

"What are Mechanisms?"

Current Issues in Philosophy, School of Mind & Brain

Germany, Berlin

invited

2013

"How Mechanisms explain Phenomena"

Workshop on Embodiment, Realization and Function

Switzerland, Lausanne

invited

2013

"What are Mechanisms?"

GAP PhD-Workshop

Germany, Berlin

peer-reviewed

2013

"The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and Phenomena"

Workshop "Mechanisms and Causation" with Stuart Glennan

Germany, Cologne

invited

2013

"The Metaphysics of Mechansitic Explanation"

Workshop "Interlevel Relations in Cognitive Neuroscience"

Germany, Cologne

invited

Marie Kaiser

2013

"Der neue mechanistische Ansatz in der Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften"

Departmental Talk, HU Berlin

Germany, Berlin

invited

2012

"Constituting Mechanisms"

Conference "Mind, World, and Action"

Croatia, Dubrovnik

invited

2012

"Constitution and Causation - A Problem for the Mechanist and How It Might Be Solved"

Workshop "The Metaphysics of Mind and Brain"

Germany, Berlin

organized

Lena Kästner

2012

"Making Sense of Mechanistic Interlevel Causation"

GAP.8

Germany, Konstanz

peer-reviewed

2011

"The Mechanistic Part-Whole-Relation and Interlevel Causation"

GAP PhD-Workshop

Germany, Osnabrück

peer-reviewed

2011

"Thinking about Causation makes Exclusion Arguments Dispensable"

DGPhil

Germany, Munich

peer-reviewed

2010

"Neuroscience and the Mind-Body-Problem"

PhD-Symposium, KogWis

Germany, Potsdam

peer-reviewed