Talks
(at conferences, workshops, etc.)
2026
- Workshop Understanding and Epistemic Responsibilities, September 8-9 2026, University of Zurich: The Right to Understand and the Duty to Explain. (Invited)
- Sophia2026 (Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophers), September 2-4 2026, University of Salzburg: Trust and Understanding. (Invited)
- Ecap12 (The 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy), August 24-28 2026, Complutense University of Madrid: The Role of Disagreement in Scientific Understanding.
- International Conference Religious Imagination, Prayer and Faith, June 18-20 2026, University of Innsbruck: Imagination as a Source of Religious Understanding? (Invited)
- SURe2026 (Scientific Understanding and Representation Workshop), May 27-29 2026, University of Warsaw. Discussion within the book Panel on my book The Social Fabric of Understanding. (Invited)
- International Workshop: Trust in the Age of AI, May 12 2026, University of Innsbruck: Can AI Understand? (With Matteo Baggio)
- Lecture Series within the Project Humanizing Mathematical Knowledge (PI: Silvia de Toffoli), May 7 2026, IUSS Pavia: AI Understanding? (Invited)
- AI as a colleague? Workshop on the Social Epistemology of AI, March 26-27 2026, University of Berne: Can AI Systems Generate Understanding? (Invited)
- Conference ‘Può un modello linguistico comprendere? Questioni logico-filosofiche sulla semantica dei LLM’, January 2026, University of Sassari: Imparare dalla macchina? Riflessioni sul ruolo dell'IA come mediatore epistemico. (Invited)
2025
- EPSA25, August 27-30 2025, University of Groningen: Scientific Understanding and Scientific Disagreement: The Gravitational Waves Detection Case Study (With Giovanni Galli).
- Weekly Speaker Series, July 7 2025, University of Cologne, CONCEPT — the Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition: Understanding, Trust, and Deference (invited).
- Bled Epistemology Conference, June 2-5 2025: Understanding-Disagreements with Epistemic Authorities (invited).
- Studium Generale, May 25 2025, UniBZ: Realismus und Antirealismus in der Wissenschaft (invited).
- Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop, May 13-14 2025, University of Miami: Elgin on Reasonable Disagreements (invited).
2024
- World Congress of Philosophy, Workshop on Understanding and Rationality, August 1-8 2024, University of Rome: Reasonable Disagreements in Understanding (invited).
- XI Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, July 16-19 2024, University of Oviedo: The Role of Puzzlement in Inquiry and Understanding.
- Understanding Science and Technology, April 3-4 2024, Institute for Advanced Studied (IAS), Amsterdam: Can Communities Understand? (invited).
- Workshop on Understanding, February 17 2024, University of California L.A.: Disagreements in Understanding (invited).
2023
- Conference "New Waves in the Epistemology of Epistemic Authority and Expert Testimony", October 5-6 2023, University of Dresden: How and What Do We Learn from AI Systems? (invited).
- Conference "Kann Theologie eine Wissenschaft sein?", September 28-30 2023, University of Innsbruck. Comment on Markus Kunze's paper (invited).
- Conference "Understanding: One or Many?", July 18-20 2023, Ruhr University Bochum: Understanding Quantum Mechanics (with Mario Hubert).
- Research Seminar, July 5 2023, KIT, University of Karlsruhe: Understanding the Quantum World - The Role of Mechanisms (invited).
- Conference "Truth in Evaluation", June 12-13 2023, University of Alghero: Truth in Understanding between the Arts and the Sciences (invited).
- SURe5 Workshop, May 19-20 2023, University of Toronto: Understanding Quantum Mechanics. How Physics Can Represent Our Epistemic Wishes (with Mario Hubert).
- Conference on Mario Alai's Work, April 11-13 2023, University of Urbino: Understanding Realism (invited).
- Workshop with Catherine Z. Elgin on Her New Book "Epistemic Ecology", March 27-29 2023, Humboldt University of Berlin: Elgin on Teaching and Understanding (invited).
2022
- Workshop on The Epistemology of Understanding, October 2022, University of Zurich: Modelling Understanding (Phenomena) (Invited.)
- GAP11, September 2022, University of Berlin: From Knowledge to Understanding? What Testimony Cannot Teach.
- Testimony and Communication Workshop, August 2022, University of Oslo: The Role of Trust in Understanding (Invited.)
- Conference Reflective Equilibrium: 51 Years after A Theory of Justice, May 2022, University of Bern: Is Understanding a Collective Achievement? Insights from Elgin's View of Reflective Equilibrium. (Invited.)
- Workshop Authority and Autonomy, May 2022, University of Innsbruck. Comment on the paper "Science or Science Fundamentalism?" by Katherine Dormandy.
2021
- Research Seminar, December 2021, University of Dresden: Epistemisches Vertrauen und Autonomie: Konflikt oder Bündnis? (Invited.)
- Nottingham Department Seminar, October 2021, University of Nottingham: What Is This Thing We Call Grasping? (Invited.)
- Workshop on Epistemic Autonomy and Understanding, organised by Jesús Vega Encabo, September 2021, Universitad Autonoma de Madrid: Understanding and the Division of Epistemic Labor. (Invited.) (Cancelled)
- Colloquium in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), July 2021: Seeing in Understanding. (Invited.)
- 3rd Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop, Radboud University, April 2021: Ideal understanding (with Mario Hubert).
- Caltech Reading Group in the Philosophy of Physics, Caltech University, March 2021: Ideal Understanding (with Mario Hubert). (Invited.)
- The Cologne Knowledge Router, March 2021. Commentary on the paper "In Defense of Epistemic Autonomy: A Kantian Proposal" by Alix Cohen (Edinburgh).
2020
- Workshop Testimony and Beyond, University of Fribourg, November 2020: Do We Deserve Credit for Everything We Understand? (Invited.)
- Colloquium in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), December 2020: Understanding Phenomena (to Some Extent). (Postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.) (Invited.)
- Understanding and Progress, University of Reykjavik, July 2020: Degrees of Understanding in Science (online due to the Covid-19 pandemic). (Invited.)
- Epistemology Seminar, organised by Peter Brössel, Anna-Maria Eder, and Branden Fitelson, June 2020: Reflective Equilibrium, Authority, and Understanding (online due to the Covid-19 pandemic). (Invited.)
- Colloquium in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), May 2020: On Understanding Theories. (Postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.) (Invited.)
- Research Seminar, organised by Jesús Vega Encabo, January 2020, Universitad Autonoma de Madrid: Understanding and its Relation to Knowledge. (Invited.)
2019
- Research Seminar, organised by Gerhard Schurz, Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS), November 2019, University of Düsseldorf: Modelling Understanding. (Invited.)
- Austrian Neuroscience Association Conference, September 2019, University of Innsbruck: What Is This Thing We Call "Model"? (Invited.)
- Bled Epistemology Conference - Social Epistemology and the Politics of Knowing, June 2019: On Understanding and Testimony. (Invited.)
2018
- Workshop on Understanding, December 2018, University of Hannover: Understanding, Truth, and Awareness of Limits. (Invited.)
- VII Congreso Mundial de Metafísica, October 2018, University of Salamanca: On How to Understand an Ineffable Being (declined).
- Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference - SMS, August 2018, University of Milan: Worrall's Structural Realism, Knowledge, and Scientific Understanding.
- European Epistemology Network - EEN, June 2018, University of Amsterdam: Understanding and Explaining. What is the Role of Truth?
- Workshop Realismo Scientifico e Spiegazione, May 2018, University of Urbino: Sul Rapporto tra Spiegazione e Comprensione Scientifica. (Invited.)
- International Workshop Explanation and Understanding, May 2018, University of Ghent: On the Possibility of Understanding Without (True) Explanation.
- International Book Symposium True Enough? with Catherine Z. Elgin, March 2018, University of Innsbruck: Epistemic Authority, Reflective Equilibrium, and Understanding (with Christoph Jäger).
2017
- Copenhagen Political Epistemology Workshop, December 2017, University of Copenhagen: Toward an Inquirer Model of Epistemic Authority (with Christoph Jäger). (Invited.)
- International Workshop: Understanding Quantum Mechanics, December 2017, University of Lausanne: Do We Understand (Through) Quantum Mechanics? (Invited.)
- Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy - SOPhiA2017, September 2017, University of Salzburg: On Worrall's Structural Realism.
- 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy - ECAP9, August 2017, LMU: What Worrall’s Structural Realism Might Have Been About. From the Limits of Knowledge to the Possibility of Understanding.
- Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science - SILFS2017, June 2017, University of Bologna: Understanding Quantum Mechanics: a Tentative Modal Account.
- New Trends in Epistemology, June 2017, University of Pavia: Testimony as a Source of Understanding? (with Johannes Findl).
- Workshop Riflessioni sul Realismo Scientifico, May 2017, University of Urbino: La Verità e i Suoi Limiti. (Invited.)
- International Workshop Believing on authority? with Arnon Keren, May 2017, University of Innsbruck: Epistemic Authority, Testimony, and the Transmission of Understanding.
2016
- 8th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy - SEFA, November 2016, University of Oviedo: How We Understand Through Models in Science.
- Conference of the Portuguese Philosophical Society, September 2016, University of Oporto: Understanding Through Models. The Role of Structure.
- XII Conference of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy - SIFA, August 2016, University of Pistoia: Scientific Realism as the Most Reasonable Choice?
- Third Postgraduate Conference of Logic and Philosophy of Science - SILFS, June 2016, University of Urbino: Scientific Models, Structure, and Understanding.
2014
- GAP Doktorandenworkshop, November 2014, University of Cologne/Bonn: Ontologische Relativität: Was bleibt von Quines Realismus übrig?