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Talks Invited Lectures • ‘Models and Fiction’, Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture, University of Bradford, November 2011. • 'Explaining Thermodynamic-Like Behaviour in Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity', 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Nancy, France, July 2011. • ‘Climate Forecasting with Chaos, or Chaos in Climate Forecasting?', Climate Science and Climate Change: Epistemological and Methodological Issues. Symposium of the Société de Philosophie des Science. Nancy, France, July 2011. • ‘Climate Forecasting with Chaos, or Chaos in Climate Forecasting?', British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Plenary Lecture, July 2011. • ‘Fiction and Scientific Modeling’, Descartes Centre, University of Utrecht, November 2010. • 'Fiction and Scientific Modeling', Caltech, April 2010. • ‘Models and Fiction’, IHPST Colloquium, University of Toronto, March 2010. • ‘Determinism and Chance', British Society for the Philosophy of Science, November 2009. • ‘Statistische Mechanik, Reduktionismus und Wahrscheinlichkeit', Zentrale Einrichtung für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsethik (ZEWW), Universiät Hannover, January 2009. • ‘Probability in Deterministic Systems', Università di Bologna, April 2008. • ‘The Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: Is There a Safe Way Between Scylla and Charybdis?', Imperial College London, October 2007. • ‘Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics’, Università di Bologna, February 2006. • ‘Properties in Quantum Mechanics’, Imperial College London, October 2005. • ‘Entropy – One Word, Many Concepts’ (two lectures), International Summer School 'Philosophy, Probability and Physics', Universität Konstanz, August 2005. • ‘Auf der Suche nach einer Theorie der wissenschaftlichen Repräsentation’, Inaugural meeting of the ‘Arbeitskreis Philosophie’ of the German Physical Society, Universität Heidelberg, October 2004. • ‘Experiment und Kausalität’, Universität Basel, May 1999. • ‘Kausalität, Determinismus und Chaos’, Universität Basel, May 1998. International Conferences • ‘Climate Forecasting with Chaos, or Chaos in Climate Forecasting?', Conference 'Knowing and Understanding trough Computer Simulations', Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (Sorbonne Paris 1) and Ecole Normale Supérieur (Paris), June 2011. • ‘Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction?’, Third conference of the ESF Research Networking Programme ‘The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective’ (PSE), London, December 2010. • 'Why Boltzmann Got It Almost Right After All', PSA 2010, Montral, November 2010. • 'Explaining the Approach to Equilibrium in Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity', British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Dublin, July 2010, with Charlotte Werndl. • 'Decision-Making with Climate Models', Modeling in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Paris, May 2010, with Seamus Bradley. • 'Make-Believe and Scientific Modelling', Model -Building and Make-Believe, Harvard University, March 2010. • ‘Explaining the Approach to Equilibrium: A New Account of Typicality', 2nd biannual conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Free University Amsterdam, October 2009. • ‘Explaining the Approach to Equilibrium: A New Account of Typicality', British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, July 2009. • ‘Fiction and Scientific Representation’, ‘Models and Fictions’ Conference, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, May 2009. • ‘Why We Need Fictions to Understand Models', 'Models and Fictions' Conference, London, March 2009. • ‘Probability in Deterministic Systems’, The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, opening conference of the ESF Research Networking Programme ‘The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective’ (PSE), Vienna, December 2008. • ‘Why Typicality Does Not Explain the Approach to Equilibrium’, The Probable and the Improbable: The Meaning and Role of Probability in Physics, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, December 2008. • ‘Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics’, PSA 2008, Pittsburgh, November 2008. • ‘Models and Fiction’, Centre for Literature and Philosophy Inaugural Conference, University of Sussex, June 2008. • 'Reductionism in Statistical Mechanics: Problems and Projects', 'Reduction, Emergence and Physics', workshop accompanying the conference 'Reduction and the Special Sciences', University of Tilburg, April 2008. • 'Fact and Fiction in the Neuropsychology of Art – Reply to Dahlia Zaidel', Aesthetic Psychology, Durham, September 2007. • 'Chance and Determinism', Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, April 2007. • 'Objective Chance in Statistical Mechanics', PSA 2006, Vancouver, November 2006. • 'The Interpretation of Probability in Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics', Causal and Classical Concepts in Science: II International Workshop. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, October 2006. • ‘Chance in Classical Statistical Mechanics’, Annual Conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Southampton, July 2006. • ‘Probability in Spontaneous Localisation Approaches to Quantum Mechanics’, 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, May 2006. • ‘Chance in Classical Statistical Mechanics’, Time, Chance and Reduction - Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics, Munich, March 2006. • ‘Entropy and Randomness in Dynamical Systems’, 2nd Workshop on Special Philosophy of Science, Universitat de Barcelona, October 2005. • ‘Models, Explanation, and Understanding’, Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 2005. • ‘Why Scientific Representation Cannot Be Naturalised’, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Kent at Canterbury, July 2004. • ‘Why Current Accounts of Scientific Representations Are Blind Alleys’, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of Kent at Canterbury, July 2004. • ‘In What Sense Is the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy a Measure for Chaotic Behaviour? – Bridging the Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory and Communication Theory’, European Science Foundation Conference on Philosophical and Foundational Issues in Statistical Physics, Universiteit Utrecht, November 2003. • ‘In What Sense Is the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy a Measure for Chaotic Behaviour? – Bridging the Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory and Communication Theory’, 12th Foundations of Physics Conference, University of Leeds, August 2003. • ‘Why Structuralism in the Natural Sciences Is a Dead End’, 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, August 2003. • ‘The Ergodic Hierarchy, Decay of Correlations, and Chaos’, New Directions in the Philosophy of Physics, American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, May 2002, together with Joseph Berkovitz and Fred Kronz. Scholarly Presentations • 'Models of Modelling - Difference or Unity?' Conference 'Historical, Social and Philosophical Aspects of Modelling and Their Implications for Synthetic Biology', BIOS, LSE, London, June 2011. • ‘Climate Forecasting with Chaos, or Chaos in Climate Forecasting?', Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol, May 2011. • ‘Modelling Nature: Representation in Philosophy and Sociology of Science’, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, May 2011. • ‘Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction?’, Universidad de Buenos Aires, April 2011. • ‘Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction’, Heythrop College, London, March 2011. • ‘Fiction and Scientific Modeling’, Technical University Eindhoven, February 2011. • ‘Explaining the Approach to Equilibrium in Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity’, University of Oxford, January 2011. • ‘Explaining the Approach to Equilibrium in Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity’, University of Utrecht, November 2010. • ‘A new Approach to the Approach to Equilibrium', Universidad de Buenos Aires, April 2010. • ‘Decision-Making with Chaotic Models’, Workshop on Chaotic Models, University of Toronto, March 2010. • ‘Making Decisions with Climate Models’, Choice Group, LSE, February 2010, with Seamus Bradley. • ‘Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction’, Templeton Project Research Seminar, LSE, January 2010. • ‘GRW Theory’, Philosophy of Physics Reading Group, University of Sydney, May 2009. • ‘Explaining the Approach to Equilibrium: A New Account of Typicality’, Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of Sydney, May 2009. • ‘The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew?’, School of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, May 2009. • ‘Chance and Determinism: Compatibilism from a Humean Perspective’, Departmental Seminar of the Philosophy Department, Australian National University, Canberra, May 2009. • 'Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Reduction’, Departmental Seminar of the Philosophy Department, SUniversity of Sydney, April 2009 • 'Chance in Classical Physics', Philosophy of Natural Science Research Seminar, LSE, November 2008. • ‘Models and Fiction’, Choice Group, LSE, October 2008. • ‘Intertheoretic Reduction’, Second London-Paris-Tilburg Workshop in Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Tilburg, October 2008, with Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Stephan Hartmann. • 'Humean Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', Philosophy of Physics Discussion Group, University of Oxford, June 2008. • 'Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics', Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of Oxford, May 2008. • 'Models and Fiction’, Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics Research Seminar, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, March 2008. • ‘Models and Fiction’, First London-Paris-Tilburg Workshop in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (Paris), December 2007. • ‘Models and Fiction’, Logos Research Colloquium, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, November 2007. • 'Models and Imagination', Workshop 'Models in Science: Semantics and Ontology', Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, July 2007.
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Evidence: The Role of Idealisation and • 'Probability and Determinism', Universidad de Buenos Aires, December 2006. • 'Probability in Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics', Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico and Universidad de Buenos Aires, December 2006. • 'Science and Fiction - Outline of a Research Programme', Universitat de Barcelona, September 2006. • ‘Chance in Classical Statistical Mechanics’, University of Bristol, June 2006. • ‘Probability in Spontaneous Localisation Approaches to Quantum Mechanics’, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, La Sorbonne (Paris I), April 2006. • ‘Entropy and Randomness in Dynamical Systems’, Sigma Club Workshop on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, LSE, January 2006. • ‘Re-presenting Scientific Representation’, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, April 2005. • ‘In Search of a Theory of Scientific Representation’, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico and Universidad de Buenos Aires, April 2005. • ‘The Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy and Dynamical Randomness’, Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, Universidad de Buenos Aires y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, April 2005. • ‘Re-presenting Scientific Representation’, Moral Science Club, Cambridge, February 2005. • ‘On the Property Structure of Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics’, Philosophy, Probability and Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, La Sorbonne (Paris I), December 2004. • ‘Why Boltzmann and Maxwell Were not Irrational after All – Reply to Anouk Barberousse’, Formal versus Historical Accounts of Scientific Theory Change, Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, La Sorbonne (Paris I), December 2004. • ‘What Is a Substantive Theory of Idealisation?’ (Reply to the key note speaker, Bernard Nickel), University of London Graduate Conference, November 2004. • ‘In Search of a Theory of Scientific Representation’, University of Leeds, November 2004. • ‘On the Property Structure of Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics’, Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of Oxford, June 2004. • ‘Why Current Accounts of Scientific Representation Are Blind Alleys’, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, February 2004. • ‘The Ergodic Hierarchy, Randomness, and Chaos’ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, March 2003. • ‘What’s Wrong with the Inferential Conception of Scientific Representation?’, Universitat de Barcelona, March 2003. • ‘In What Sense Is the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy a Measure for Chaotic Behaviour? – Bridging the Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory and Communication Theory’, LSE, December 2002. • ‘Models and Representation: Why Structures Are Not Enough’, Expert Workshop ‘Measurement in Economics and Natural Sciences’, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, May 2002. • ‘How does Entropy in Information Theory and in Dynamical System Theory Relate?’, Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar at LSE, February 2002. • ‘Structuralism and the Applicability of Mathematics in the Empirical Sciences’, paper given in the Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar at LSE, December 2001. • ‘Models and Representation – Identifying the Problems’, paper read to the group for ‘Epistemology and Scientific Practice’ at LSE, November 2001. • ‘Is Self-Organised Criticality the New Theory of Everything?’, paper read to the group for ‘Epistemology and Scientific Practice’ at LSE, March 2001. • ‘Is There, after All, Really a Counting Anomaly?’, Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar at LSE, February 2001. Public Lectures • ‘Climate Forecasting with Chaos, or Chaos in Climate Forecasting?', Philosophy@LSE public lecture, LSE, February 2011. • ‘Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science', The Machine Project, Los Angeles, April 2010. • ‘Scientific Modelling and the Mirror of Nature’, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE , December 2009. • ‘Scientific Modelling and the Mirror of Nature', Munich Reinsurance, London, July 2009. • ‘Does Science Meet Religion on the Cosmological Scale?’, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London, March 2009.
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