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Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    November 2007: “Coherence and indirect confirmation across scientific models: a case study and its epistemological implications", EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.

    November 2007: “Local reductionism, epistemic injustice, and the epistemology of testimony", Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin. (invited talk)

Recent Talks and Conferences (past two years)
For a more complete list (since 2002) click here.

    September 2007: "Scientific Models, Simulation, and the Experimenter's Regress", Science, Technology and Society Research Cluster, National University of Singapore.

    August 2007: “Philosophy of Science and Technology: Implications for Professionals in Education", National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (invited talk)

    July 2007: “Model-based Representation and the Minimality Constraint", Annual Meeting of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Bristol, England.

    May 2007: “Learning from others: testimony and the cognitive role of culture", International Conference on Cognition and the Study of Culture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

    May 2007: “Coherence and indirect confirmation across scientific models: a case study and its epistemological implications", Dept. of History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. (invited talk)

    March 2007: “Testimonial warrant and the incoherence of local reductionism", Departmental Seminar, Dept. of Philosophy. National University of Singapore.

    June 2006: “Simulating many-body systems: the epistemic role of cross-model justification", LSE/CNRS Conference "Models and Simulations", Paris.

    April 2006: “Georg Simmel's social epistemology of history", Second Annual Workshop in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. (invited talk)

    March 2006: “Philosophische Perspektiven des Anachronismus-Problems" (in German, with simultaneous translation; Hertie-NEC Program), New Europe College (Institute for Advanced Study), Bucharest, Romania. (invited talk)

    January 2006: “Cognitive biases and historiography of philosophy, or: How to invent a philosophical tradition", Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study), Budapest, Hungary. (invited talk)

    January 2006: “A Kantian perspective on social epistemology", Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of the Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. (invited talk)

    December 2005: “Mathematical rigor and mathematical models", Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. (invited talk)

    November 2005: “Locke a tanúbizonyságról és a tudás kommunikációjáról" (Locke on testimony and the communication of knowledge), Department of History of Philosophy, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary. (invited talk)

    September 2005: “Kant on Testimony”, International Symposium "Testimony and Knowledge", Canadian Society for Epistemology, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

    July 2005: “Vindicating Locke on Testimony”, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Manchester

Awards

    2005: Graduate Essay Prize of the British Society for the History of Philosophy

    2004: Conference Grant, National Science Foundation

    2001: Jennifer Redhead Prize, Graduate programme in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, University of Cambridge

    2000: Fourth Prize in the German National Research Competition for Students of the Körber-Stiftung (Deutscher Studienpreis 1998/99), topic: "Risk and Systems Theory: From Control Theory to the Sustainable Management of Complex Systems."

Professional Service and Conference Organization

Miscellaneous Activities

    since 2001: Associate (since 2002: partner) of mediheld, leading German manufacturer of medical software for handheld devices (Palm)

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