Presentations -> 2015

  • 11/2015: “The journey from psychological theories to behavioural policy – and back”, 12. Conference of the International Network for Economic Method, University of Cape Town

  • 11/2015: “Social heuristics”, Invited lecture (in Finnish). Action, cognition and sociology (graduate course), University of Turku.

  • 11/2015: “Cognitive diversity in science.” Invited lecture (in Finnish). Cognitive science research seminar, University of Helsinki

  • 9/2015: “Will psychiatry become clinical neuroscience?” Philosophy of Psychiatry Summer Symposium, University of Helsinki

  • 6/2015: “Behaviorally informed policy and decision theory”, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Fifth Biennial Conference, Aarhus. (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 8/2015: “What, when, and how do rational analysis models explain?” CLMPS, Helsinki.

  • 12/2014: “Navigating an epistemic landscape,” Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy, LMU Munich.

  • 11/2014: “Behaviorally informed policy and social interaction”, Philosophy of Science seminar, University of Helsinki (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski et al.)

  • 9/2014: “Sidestepping complexity: Rational analysis explanations in cognitive science”, Causality and Complexity in the Sciences, University of Cologne.

  • 6/2014: “Science without natural kinds”, Kinds workshop, University of Tampere.

  • 6/2014: “Cognitive building blocks for social mechanisms”, Workshop on Social Explanation, University of Helsinki.

  • 6/2014: “Social scientific kinds and mechanisms”, Current Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences II, University of Helsinki (w/ Petri Ylikoski)

  • 6/2014: “Cognitive building blocks for social mechanisms,” Workshop on Social Explanation, University of Helsinki (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 5/2014: “Computer simulations as tools for data integration in the social sciences: an inferential approach” Models and Simulations 6, University of Notre Dame. w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski

  • 3/2014: “Science without natural kinds.” Theoretical philosophy research seminar, University of Helsinki.

  • 11/2013: “The epistemic role of virtual experiments – an inferentialist account”, Inferentialism in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Madrid (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 9/2013: “Ilmiöiden jäljillä. Luokittelu ja käsitteenmuodostus ihmistieteissä”, Philosophical Society of Finland meeting, Helsinki.

  • 9/2013: “Addiction as a neuro-social kind”, European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) / Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable joint meeting, Venice (w/ Petri Ylikoski)

  • 9/2013: “Debating natural kinds” symposium, commentator. EPSA13, Helsinki.

  • 6/2013: “Invisible hand in the scientific community”, poster presentation, ABC Summer Institute, Max Planck Institute Berlin.

  • 12/2012: “Eliminating concepts”, ConChaMo workshop, Mustio / University of Helsinki

  • 11/2012: “Understanding non-modular functionality – lessons from genetic algorithms”, PSA 2012, San Diego (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 11/2012: “Philosophy of science perspective on pathological gambling: classification, mechanisms and interdisciplinary relations”, Neurogambling workshop, University of Helsinki (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 10/2012: “Addiction as a natural kind”, Addiction: What Is The Added Value Of The Concept Today?, Helsinki (w/ Petri Ylikoski)

  • 9/2012: “Mechanism-based extrapolation. The case of neuroscience of addiction”, Evidence and Causality in the Sciences, University of Kent (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 6/2012: “Understanding non-modular functionality – lessons from genetic algorithms”, Models and Simulations 5, Helsinki (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 5/2012: “Explanatory turn in extended cognition”, philosophy colloquium, Berlin School of Mind and Brain

  • 3/2012: “Explanatory turn in extended cognition”, Helsinki Philosophy of science research seminar

  • 2/2012: “Understanding non-modular functionality – lessons from genetic algorithms”, Helsinki Philosophy of science research seminar (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 1/2012: “Invisible hand in the science community. Models of division of cognitive labor”, Finnish Philosophical Association annual meeting, Helsinki

  • 11/2011: “Where was my mind again? Explanatory turn in extended cognition”, Doctoral student congress, Tampere

  • 10/2011: “Should I split or should I lump? The epistemic-tool approach to scientific concept formation” EPSA 11, Athens.

  • 7/2011: “Should I split or should I lump? The epistemic-tool approach to scientific concept formation” 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Nancy

  • 7/2011: “Conceptual change and conceptual games”, 11th International IHPST and 6th Greek History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Joint Conference, University of Thessaloniki.

  • 6/2011: “Category-based induction in science: the new toolkit”, POS summer seminar, Helsinki-Tallinn.

  • 5/2011: “The extended mind thesis – implications for scientific research” AivoAalto seminar

  • 5/2011: “Addiktio ja neurotiede” (Addiction and neuroscience). Psykologian filosofia -kollokvio, Jyväskylän yliopisto. (w/ Petri Ylikoski)

  • 10/2010: “Olemukset piilopremisseinä argumentaatiossa”, Philosophy research seminar, University of Tampere. (w/ Tomi Kokkonen)

  • 9/2010: “Intentional concepts in cognitive neuroscience”, “A science of the soul” seminar, University of Helsinki

  • 9/2010: “Natural kinds with extended mechanisms”, Philosophy of science research seminar, University of Helsinki

  • 8/2010: “Intentional concepts in cognitive neuroscience”, ESPP 2010, Bochum

  • 8/2010: “Psychological Essentialism and Hidden Premises in Philosophical Argumentation”, ESPP 2010, Bochum (w/ Tomi Kokkonen)

  • 7/2010: “Inferentialism and scientific representation”, ISSCSS summer school, Latvia

  • 4/2010: “Natural kinds with extended mechanisms”, PPIG seminar, University of Edinburgh

  • 3/2010: “Interactive kinds and social mechanisms”, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable 2010, St. Louis (w/ Jaakko Kuorikoski)

  • 12/2009: “Explanations or grammatical errors? The Wittgensteinian critique of cognitive neuroscience”, Philosophy of science research seminar, University of Helsinki.

  • 11/2009: “Essences as hidden premises” (olemukset piilopremisseinä), Suomalainen argumentaation tutkimus, Turku.

  • 9/2009: “Carving the psyche by its joints: Natural kinds and social construction in psychiatry”, Kazimierz naturalism workshop, Kazimierz, Poland.

  • 4/2009: “Towards a middle-range theory of looping kinds”, Purpose of social theory –workshop, University of Tampere.

  • 3/2009: “Ihmistieteelliset luokitukset ja sosiaalisen todellisuuden takaisinkytkentämekanismit”, Sosiologipäivät, Helsinki.

  • 6/2008: ”Essentialist reasoning and social categories”, Mechanisms and Everyday Reasoning –workshop, University of Helsinki.

  • 4/2008: ”Carving social reality by its joints. The theory of natural kinds and classifications in the human sciences”, Philosophy of science research seminar, University of Helsinki.

  • 11/2007: ”Dialectic of sign and referent. Looping effects of representations in the human sciences.”, Current European Semiotics, Tarto.