Refereed Conference Presentations

“Idealization, Machine Learning, and Understanding with Models.”

• 2022     Philosophy of Science Biannual Conference, 10-13 Nov. Pittsburgh, PA (Joint presentation with Michael Tamir)

“Understanding and Information Flow in Deep Learning Representations.”

• 2022     Machine Wisdom Workshop in Pittsburgh, PA on May 12-14, 2022. (Joint presentation with Michael Tamir)
• 2020     The 2nd Scientific Understanding and Representation,” Workshop March 12-14, 2020 at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (Joint presentation with Michael Tamir)

“Understanding from Deep Learning Models in Context.”

• 2022     4th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop April 21-23, 2022 Fordham University, New York, NY (Joint presentation with Michael Tamir)

“The Curve Fitting Problem, Data Validation, and Inductive Generalization in Machine Learning.”

• 2021     Philosophy of Science Biannual Conference, 11-14 Nov. Baltimore, MD (Joint presentation with Michael Tamir)

“Anti-realism (Selectionist) Explanation of the Success of Science, Material Induction, and Mathematical Platonism”

• 2020     The Fourth Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium: A Workshop on Realism-Antirealism Debates, 8-10 Jan., Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

“Fundamentality, Scale, and the Fractional Quantum Hall”

• 2019     Fifth Society for the Metaphysics of Science Annual Conference, 7-9 Nov., Victoria College & University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Presented by Patrick McGivern)

“Historical Inductions Meet the Material Theory”

• 2018     Philosophy of Science Biannual Conference, 1-4 Nov. Seattle, WA

“Fundamentality, Scale, and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect”

• 2018     Philosophy of Science Biannual Conference, 1-4 Nov. Seattle, WA (Joint presentation with Patrick McGivern)

“The Exploratory Role if Idealizations and Limiting Cases in Models”

• 2018     Symposium on “Perspective on Exploratory Modeling” at the Philosophy of Science Biannual Conference, 1-4 Nov. Seattle, WA (Joint presentation with Axel Gelfert)
• 2018     Models and Simulations 8 at University of South Carolina, 15-17 March. Columbia, SC. (Joint presentation with Axel Gelfert)

“Easy Road Nominalism, Mathematical Explanation, and Fractional Quantum Statistics”

• 2017 Annual Meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, 6-9 September. Exeter, UK

“Idealizations, Essential Self-Adjointness, and Minimal Model Explanation in the Aharonov-Bohm Effect’”

• 2016 Biannual Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 3-5 November. Atlanta, GA, USA

“Topological Idealizations, Asymtotic-Minimal Model Explanation, and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect”

• 2016 Society for Exact Philosophy Annual Meeting, 6-8 May. Miami, FL, USA
• 2016 Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conferences, 28 May – 3 June. Calgary, AB, Canada.

“Can an Idealization be Essential?’”

• 2014 Biannual Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 6-8 November. Chicago, IL, USA (cancelled due to illness)
• 2013 Irvine-Pittsburgh-Princeton Conference on the Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations of Physics, 4 April. Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• 2013 Meeting of the South Carolina Society for Philosophy, 8-9 March. Charleston, SC, USA.
• 2013 32nd Meeting of the Kansas Philosophical Society, 16th February. Overland Park, KS, USA.

“Phase Transitions and Scientific Representation”

• 2013 Israeli Society for History and Philosophy of Science Fourteenth Annual Conference, 22 Dec. Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem, Israel.

“Phase Transitions and Essential Idealizations”

• 2013 Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy: New Directions in the Philosophy of Physics Conference, 24-26 May. University of Bucharest. Bucharest, Romania.

“Phase Transitions, Ontology and Earman’s Sound Principle”

• 2013 Ontology and Methodology, 4-5 May. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA, USA.

“Is Death Harmful to the Person Who Dies?”

• 2013 Three Rivers Philosophy Conference, 12-14 April. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC, USA.

“Leibniz’s 1691 Demonstration of the Conservation of ‘Vis Viva’ and Refutation of the Conservation of ‘Quantitas Motus’”

• 2012 Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, 15-17 November. Sad Diego, CA, USA

“What is the ‘Paradox of Phase Transitions?’”

• 2012 Biannual Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 15-17 November. Sad Diego, CA, USA
• 2012 New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association Conference, 10 November. Bergen Community College – Meadowlands Campus. Lyndhurst, NJ, USA.

“Justification in Boltzmanian Statistical Mechanics”

• 2009 British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, 13-14 July. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

“Comparative Study of Experimentation in the Physical Sciences in the 17th and 18th Centuries”

• 2008 Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, 6-9 November. Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Joint presentation with Paolo Palmieri & Eric Hatleback)

Invited Talks

“Scientific Understanding, Modal Reasoning, and (Infinite) Idealization”

• 2022     Seminar at the Department of Humanities and Arts at Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
• 2021     Mini-workshop in the Harvard Foundations of Physics series April 27, 2021 at Harvard University. https://harvardfop.jacobbarandes.com/20210427iip My talk can be found here: https://youtu.be/8L6PKzXGhHw

“Are Mesoscale Structures Natural Kinds? Reconsidering Batterman’s Middle Way”

• 2022     Annual Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop, Sep. 20-21, 2022 at University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway: https://sites.google.com/site/sorinbangu/bpsw

“What Powers Logical Inference?”

• 2022     Seminar Series in Philosophy, August 11, 2022 at National University of Singapore, Singapore.

“Remarks on Representation and Inference”

• 2020     The 2nd Scientific Understanding and Representation Workshop March 12-14, 2020 at Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

“Scientific Realism and the Material Theory of Induction”

• 2019     Utrecht Philosophy of Science Seminar at Utrecht University, 7 June in Utrecht, Netherlands.
• 2019     Centre for Philosophical Psychology Seminar at Antwerpen Universiteit, 23 May in Antwerp, Belgium.

“Do Idealizations Afford Understanding? The Case of the AB Effect”

• 2019     Auburn University 11^th Annual Philosophy Conference: “Representation, Idealization, and Explanation in Science” at Auburn University on 5-6 April in Auburn, AL.

“Colors, Perceptual Variation, and Science”

• 2019     Edelstein Colloquium at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 3 January. Jerusalem, Israel.

“Objectivity”

• 2018     Guest lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s “First Year Graduate Student Orientation Seminar” at Auburn University, 01 October. Auburn, AL.

“Infinite Idealization in Science”

• 2018     Graduate Seminar at University of Bristol, 02 July. Bristol, UK.

“Philosophy of Mathematics: Indispensability & Explanation”

• 2018     Guest lecturer in Professor Michel Smith’s History of Mathematics class at Auburn University, 25 April. Auburn, AL.

“Historical Inductions Meet the Material Theory”

• 2018     Auburn University Philosophical Society at Auburn University, 20 April. Auburn, AL, USA.
• 2018     Departmental Lecture at University of Bristol’s Department of Philosophy, 03 July. Bristol, UK.

“The Exploratory Role of Models and Idealizations”

• 2018     CERT Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, 24 May. Pittsburgh, PA.
• 2018     Research Seminar at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel-Aviv University, 1 January. Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem.

“Scientific Explanation and Understanding in the Aharonov-Bohm Effect”

• 2017     Understanding, Causations, and Representation: A Workshop in Philosophy of Science at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center at the Hebrew University, 27 December. Jerusalem, Israel.

“Anyons and Indispensability”

• 2017     Hebrew University Discussion Club in Philosophy of Physics at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center, 5 December. Jerusalem, Israel.

“Fiction, Depiction, and the Complementarity Thesis in Art and Science”

• 2017     Philosophy Colloquium at Vitoria University of Wellington, 17 August. Wellington, New Zealand
• 2017     Philosophy Colloquium at University of Canterbury, 15 August. Christchurch, New Zealand
• 2017     History and Philosophy of Science Research Seminar Series at University of Sydney, 7 August. Sydney, Australia
• 2016     Cognition and Culture Reading Group at Exeter University, 19 November Exeter, UK
• 2016     Auburn University Philosophical Society at Auburn University, 8 April, Auburn, AL

“Philosophy of Time in Statistical Mechanics: the Past Hypothesis”

• 2017 Sydney International Winter School in Philosophy and Physics of Time at University of Sydney, 20 July. Sydney, Australia

“Rethinking the Paradox of Phase Transitions”

• 2017 The Infinite Limit in Phase Transitions: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Philosophy and Physics at Université Catholique de Louvain, 23 June. Louvain-la- Neuve, Belgium

“Comparing Strong and Weak Emergence in Phase Transitions and Anyons”

• 2016 Emergence and the Limit: A Workshop in Philosophy of Physics at London School of Economics, 25 November. London, UK
• 2016 Workshop on Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Fundamental Physics at Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, at University Paris-6 (Jussieu), 2 December. Paris, France
• 2016 Scale and the Sciences: A One-day Workshop at The Institute for advanced Study at Durham University, 7 December. Durham, UK

“The Exploratory Role of Idealizations and Limiting Cases in Models”

• 2016 Philosophy of Science Seminar at University of Bristol, 16 November. Bristol, UK.
• 2016 Senior Seminar Series at Centre for HPS at University of Leeds, 26 October. Leeds, UK

“Idealizations, Essential Self-Adjointness, and Minimal Model Explanation in the Aharonov-Bohm Effect’”

• 2016 Sigma Club Lecture at London School of Economics, 17 October. London, UK.
• 2016 Philosophy Seminar Series at National University of Singapore, 30 June, Singapore.

“The Exploratory Role of Idealizations: Anyons and More”

• 2016 Representing the Quantum World, workshop on issues in the philosophy of quantum physics at National University of Singapore, 28 June. Singapore.

“Can an Idealization be Essential? The Curious Case of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect.’”

• 2015 Nanyang Technological University, 12 February. Singapore.
• 2015 Auburn University, 30 January. Auburn, Alabama.
• 2015 Elizabethtown College, 2 February. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

“Idealizations and Approximations in Cosmology”

• 2013 University of Notre Dame Workshop: Evidential Reasoning in Astronomy, 22-24 February. Notre Dame, IN.