conference talks
'What is Understanding?' vs. 'What is to Have Understanding?' Understanding vs. Knowledge in Science, Fiction and Art. March 17-19 2025, Sofia.
Representational Specificity and the Uses of Representation. Varieties of representations. September 13-15, Sofia.
Understanding the Output of Black Box AI Models: Interpretable and Explainable AI Are Not the Only Games in Town. 5th EENPS conference. September 9-10 2024, Krakow.
From Explanation to Prediction and Back to Integrative Modeling. EPSA 2023. September 20-23, 2023. Belgrade.
Prediction and Understanding. Experience, Language, Knowledge. Romanian-Bulgarian Workshop in Analytic Philosophy. October 7-8 2022, Veliko Tarnovo.
Mere Prediction Without Understanding? 4th EENPS conference. August 17-19 2022, Tarty. (online)
Understanding and Inference in Recent Works on Scientific Understanding. Understanding III. June 3-4 2022, Bucharest. (online)
The Uses of Truth: Is There Room for Reconciliation of Factivist and Non-factivist Accounts of Scientific
Understanding? EENPS 2021. June 9-11, 2021, Belgrade. (online)
Is There Non-explanatory Predictive Understanding? 3rd SURe Annual Workshop. April 15-17, 2021, Nijmegen. (online)
Reassessing the Role of Narratives in Psychiatry: The Issue of Conflicting Narratives. ISHPSSB. July 7-12, 2019, Oslo.
Comparing Two Approaches to Assessing Explanatory Power: Inferential Content vs Statistical Relevance. Explanatory Power. June 14-15, 2018, Geneva.
Some Non-trivial Implications of the View that Good Explanations Increase Our Understanding of Explained Phenomena. ECAP9. August 21-26, 2017, Munich.
An Inferential Criterion for Goodness of Explanation. 8th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference. July 11-13, 2016, Lund.
Why Dispositional Explanations Should Not Be Construed as Causal Explanations Even if Such a Construal Is Possible. The Inaugural Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science. June 24-26, 2016, Sofia.
Are Causal Accounts of Explanation Always Useful? In the Case of Personality Trait Explanations They Are Probably Not. 5th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association. September 23-26, 2015, Dusseldorf
In Virtue of What Do Personality Traits Explain? 15th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. August 3-8, 2015, Helsinki
How Personality Traits Explain. Explanation Beyond Causation. October 23-24, 2014, Munich.
Entitling Explanations. IV Madrid Workshop on New Trends in the Philosophy of Science, November 11-13, 2013, Madrid.
Principles vs. Mechanisms Across the Sciences. 7th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference. June 12-14, 2012, Mugla, Turkey.
Principles vs. Mechanisms in Cognitive Science. 3rd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association. October 5-8, 2011, Athens.
The Principle Based Explanations are not Extinct in Cognitive Science: The Case of the Basic Level Effects. 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. July 19-26, 2011, Nancy.
Thirty Years Cognitive Studies of Categorization: What’s behind the Reported Progress. XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology. July 28-August 2, 2009, Budapest.
Models as Inferential Machines. 6th Quadrennial Fellows Conference. July 21-23, 2008, Athens OH, US.
Categorization in Science and in Cognitive Science. 13th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. August 9-15, 2007, Beijing.
A Plea for a Moderate Anti-justificationism. Confirmation, Induction and Science. March 8-10, 2007, London School of Economics, London.
Theory-based vs. Model-based Explanations of Experimental Findings. 31st Annual Philosophy of Science Conference. April 11-15,2005, Dubrovnik.
Image and Logic in Thought Experimentation. Thought Experiments Rethought. September 24-25, 2004, Ghent.
Concepts: False Dilemmas, Neglected Dilemmas. 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. August 7-13, 2003, Oviedo.
Piaget and the Categorization Debate in Cognitive Science. 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, August 20-26, 1999, Krakow.
Representational Specificity and the Uses of Representation. Varieties of representations. September 13-15, Sofia.
Understanding the Output of Black Box AI Models: Interpretable and Explainable AI Are Not the Only Games in Town. 5th EENPS conference. September 9-10 2024, Krakow.
From Explanation to Prediction and Back to Integrative Modeling. EPSA 2023. September 20-23, 2023. Belgrade.
Prediction and Understanding. Experience, Language, Knowledge. Romanian-Bulgarian Workshop in Analytic Philosophy. October 7-8 2022, Veliko Tarnovo.
Mere Prediction Without Understanding? 4th EENPS conference. August 17-19 2022, Tarty. (online)
Understanding and Inference in Recent Works on Scientific Understanding. Understanding III. June 3-4 2022, Bucharest. (online)
The Uses of Truth: Is There Room for Reconciliation of Factivist and Non-factivist Accounts of Scientific
Understanding? EENPS 2021. June 9-11, 2021, Belgrade. (online)
Is There Non-explanatory Predictive Understanding? 3rd SURe Annual Workshop. April 15-17, 2021, Nijmegen. (online)
Reassessing the Role of Narratives in Psychiatry: The Issue of Conflicting Narratives. ISHPSSB. July 7-12, 2019, Oslo.
Comparing Two Approaches to Assessing Explanatory Power: Inferential Content vs Statistical Relevance. Explanatory Power. June 14-15, 2018, Geneva.
Some Non-trivial Implications of the View that Good Explanations Increase Our Understanding of Explained Phenomena. ECAP9. August 21-26, 2017, Munich.
An Inferential Criterion for Goodness of Explanation. 8th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference. July 11-13, 2016, Lund.
Why Dispositional Explanations Should Not Be Construed as Causal Explanations Even if Such a Construal Is Possible. The Inaugural Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science. June 24-26, 2016, Sofia.
Are Causal Accounts of Explanation Always Useful? In the Case of Personality Trait Explanations They Are Probably Not. 5th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association. September 23-26, 2015, Dusseldorf
In Virtue of What Do Personality Traits Explain? 15th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. August 3-8, 2015, Helsinki
How Personality Traits Explain. Explanation Beyond Causation. October 23-24, 2014, Munich.
Entitling Explanations. IV Madrid Workshop on New Trends in the Philosophy of Science, November 11-13, 2013, Madrid.
Principles vs. Mechanisms Across the Sciences. 7th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference. June 12-14, 2012, Mugla, Turkey.
Principles vs. Mechanisms in Cognitive Science. 3rd Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association. October 5-8, 2011, Athens.
The Principle Based Explanations are not Extinct in Cognitive Science: The Case of the Basic Level Effects. 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. July 19-26, 2011, Nancy.
Thirty Years Cognitive Studies of Categorization: What’s behind the Reported Progress. XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology. July 28-August 2, 2009, Budapest.
Models as Inferential Machines. 6th Quadrennial Fellows Conference. July 21-23, 2008, Athens OH, US.
Categorization in Science and in Cognitive Science. 13th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. August 9-15, 2007, Beijing.
A Plea for a Moderate Anti-justificationism. Confirmation, Induction and Science. March 8-10, 2007, London School of Economics, London.
Theory-based vs. Model-based Explanations of Experimental Findings. 31st Annual Philosophy of Science Conference. April 11-15,2005, Dubrovnik.
Image and Logic in Thought Experimentation. Thought Experiments Rethought. September 24-25, 2004, Ghent.
Concepts: False Dilemmas, Neglected Dilemmas. 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. August 7-13, 2003, Oviedo.
Piaget and the Categorization Debate in Cognitive Science. 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, August 20-26, 1999, Krakow.
talks at seminars, invited talks
- "Understanding, Prediction, and Inference". Contemporary Philosophy Meets Philosophy of Science: Trends and Perspectives: II, September 26-27, 2024.
- "Feigned Narratives Do Not Always Satisfy Needs: The Case of Factitious Disorders". Philosophy of Cognitive Science Seminar, Polish Academy of Sciences, March 26, 2021 (online).
- "Explanation, Understanding, and Inference". International workshop "Perspectives on Explanation", Prague, Czech Republic, May 19, 2017.
- "The Controversy Over Non-causal Explanations in Philosophy of Science and its Relevance to Psychology". Inaugural meeting of POND: Network of Philosophy of Science around the Mediterranean, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, September 5, 2016.
- "Do We Need a Theory of Concepts and What Should It Account For?" Seminar for the Epistemology of Cognitive Science, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, November 21, 2013.
- "What Models Do that Theories Can’t". Seminar of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February, 2006.
- "Concepts: Where the Critics of the Classical View Went Wrong". Seminar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, April, 2002.
- "Meaning and Action". Seminar of the Institute of Philosophy of Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, April, 2001.
- "The Categorization Debate in Cognitive Science" and "The Human Free Will in a World of Causes". International Spring Seminar in Cognitive Science, April 17-22, 2000, Bucharest.
