Referred presentations

I include here those presentations where the selection process was based on blind reviews. Some presentations below have links to papers with abstracts on zotero.org. Sometimes retrieving the abstracts takes a couple of seconds. Thanks for your patience.

Recent events

• January 2025: The problem-solving and risk-taking components of creativity in science. Meeting of the Eastern APA Division, New York.
• November 2024: Function, constraints, and aggregation of mechanisms: a functional perspective. The 29^th Biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, New Orleans.
• July 2024: Creativity in science, epistemic environments and epistemic risk. XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, Italy.
• May 2024: Distributive creativity, epistemic environments, and scientific progress. Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Columbia, SC.
• July 2023: Algorithmic explanations in machine learning: in search of (some) explananda, CLMPST-2023, 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• April 2023: Autonomy and intelligence of artificial agents: modeling, experimentation, and simulation in AI. The Pacific APA Division Meeting. San Francisco.
• March 2023: A functional and interventionist approach to scientific progress: computational science at work. &HPS9, The 9th Conference of the Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. The University of South Carolina, SC. 
• July 2022: Algorithmic explanations in machine learning: in search for explananda. The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), Santa Clara University, CA.
• April 2022: Model building, understanding, and explanation in “digital self-knowledge”. Digital Worlds Workshop organized at UTRGV.
• April 2022: Explanation without representation in computational models. The Pacific APA Division Meeting. Vancouver, Canada.
• February 2022: Functionalism for perspectivism: the argument for model pluralism. The APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL.
• January 2022: Being functionalist about scientific perspectivism. The APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
• November 2021: Models and experiments in AI research: exploring autonomy and intelligence. The 27th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA2020/2021). This meeting of the PSA was held virtually in 2020 and as a face-to-face event in Baltimore in November 2021.
• September 2021: Computational Models beyond representation: explanation, exploration, and multi-scaling of Machine Learning Algorithms. Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA 2021), Noto, Italy.
• September 2021: Autonomy and intelligence of artificial agents: between experimentation and simulation. Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation (PSX6), Saint Louis U.
• August 2021: Computational Models beyond representation: explanation, exploration, and multi-scaling of Machine Learning Algorithms. The ‘Models and Modeling in the Sciences’, 12th Principia International Symposium. Brazil.
• July 2021: A Bayesian approach to trust: metacognition, confidence, autonomy. CEPE-IACAP join conference, University of Hamburg.
• November 2020: Science and Humanism between Accuracy and Confidence: A Plea for a Metacognitive Approach to Trust in Science. “Science and Humanism” workshop. U. of Miami. (abstract)
• August 2020: A probabilistic-functional approach to perspectivism and a case study. European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP10) organized online by Utrecht U., the Netherlands (slides, abstract).

The 2010s

• May 2019: AI: risk, fallibilism, and trust. A Bayesian approach. Computer Ethics—Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) & The International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT). Old Dominion University, VA (slides).
• May 2018: Fictions, maps, and structures in forecast models. 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy (SEP). University of Connecticut, Storrs.
• March 2018: Aggregating multilevel mechanistic models from Big Data with Machine Learning, Models and Simulations 8 (MS8). University of South Carolina (slides).
• January 2018: Mapping the future. Fictions, predictions, and forecast models. APA Eastern, 2018. Savannah, GA.
• October 2017: Bettering the Best System with Big Data, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature. University of Colorado, Boulder.
• July 2017: The artifact turn in philosophy. The summer school for the future of philosophy. UNC Asheville.
• June 2017: The small from the Big: discovering models and mechanisms with machine learning. International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP 2017). Stanford University.
• May 2017: ‘Unconceived alternatives’ or ‘expected unifications’? An eliminative argument against K. Stanford’s New Induction. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy. University of Calgary, Canada.
• February 2017: Forecast models: a case for fictionalism?. 2017 North Carolina Philosophical Society, UNC, Wilmington.
• November 2016: Artificial moral agency: learning, autonomy and creativity. Humanities and Technology Association. 2016 HTA conference, Salve Regina University, RI.
• June 2016: Generalized Moral Agency: Artificial Moral Functionalism and Moral Behaviorism. International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP 2016), University of Ferrara, Italy.
• June 2016: Fictions, the Future, and Maps in Forecast Models. Models and Simulations: a series of conferences devoted to exploring philosophical issues arising from the construction and use of models and computer simulations. MS7. University of Barcelona, Spain.
• May 2016: Unification, decoupling, and identification in the “Palatini formalism”. Fourth meeting of the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime. Varna, Bulgaria.
• May 2016: Structure realism meets pluralism. Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy (SEP44). University of Miami, FL.
• March 2016: The artificial autonomous moral agent (AAMA): a minimalist model (co-authored with Don Howard. Symposium within AAAI Spring 2016 series. Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents. Stanford University.
• February 2016: Strong-weak dualities and scientific realism: history and present cases. The ‘Scientific realism and the challenge from the history of science’ workshop. The History of Science and Contemporary Scientific Realism. Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. (slides)
• March 2015: AdS/CFT duality beyond emergence of spacetime: A case for unification, Beyond Spacetime II, San Diego.
• February 2015: Virtue in Machine Ethics: An Approach Based on Evolutionary Computation (co-author: Don Howard, University of Notre Dame). American Philosophical Association (APA Central). St. Louis, Missouri. (slides)
• November 2014: Genetic algorithms in scientific discovery: a new epistemology?. Philosophy of Science Association Meeting (PSA2014). Chicago.
• October 2014: Plurality of Models, Optimization and Mechanisms in Climate Studies. The Role of Feedback in the New IPCC Report. Rotman-Climate Change Knowledge and Models in Climate Science. University of Western Ontario, London.( Slides/handouts).
• July 2013: The Digital Guesswork: a Philosophical Appraisal of Genetic Algorithms and their Epistemology. The 2013 Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy,(IACAP2013). University of Maryland at College Park.
• May 2013: Principles, Constraints, and Equivalence in String Theory. Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy. New Directions in the Philosophy of Physics (BCAP 2013). Bucharest. Slides/handouts
• February 2013:“’Model-building’, Identity, Individuation, and Individuality in Cognitive Neurosciences”, (APA-Central). The American Philosophical Association, Central Division, New Orleans.
• October 2012: Different is better: possibility in metaphysics and science. Society for Exact Philosophy (SEP-2012). Columbus, OH (Slides/handouts).
• September 2012: Structures, dualities and emergence: the case of string theory. Structuralism in Physics and Mathematics. International Closing Conference. University of Bristol.  Slides/handouts
• October 2011: Metaphysical Possibility and Scientific Practice. Indiana Philosophical Association (IPA-2011). Hanover College, IN.
• April 2011: Genetic numerical simulation and the ‘upward epistemology’. Indiana Philosophical Association (IPA-2011, Spring). Muncie, IN.
• November 2010: String theory: explanation and foundationalism. Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting (PSA-2010).  Montreal, Canada (Slides/handouts.
• July 2010: A structural guide to string theory. Conference on Structure and Identity. University of Bristol.
• July 2010: Genetic simulations and their role in scientific discovery. The 2010 North American Conference on Computing and Philosophy (NACAP-2010). Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.
• July 2010: Digital guesswork: discovery and genetic algorithms. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association (Aristotelian/Mind-2010). University College, Dublin.
• July 2010: Two types of explanation in string theory. Annual Meeting of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS-2010), University College Dublin, Ireland.
• July 2010: Can a quantum theory explain spacetime? The String Theory case. Royal Institute of Philosophy: the 16th U.K. and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, U. of Aberdeen.

The 2000s

• October 2009: “Fiber Bundles: Interpretation and Formalism”, The European Philosophy of Science Association, Amsterdam, Holland.
• May 2009: “A Nascent Work on Universals: T.Maudlin’s Fiber Bundle Metaphysics”, Society for Exact Philosophy, Edmonton, Canada.
• March 2009:“Simulation and Stability of Theories”, Models and Simulations , U. of Virginia.
• July 2008: “Allostasis and homeostasis in life sciences and in robotics. Philosophical implications.”, (presentation). The 2008 North American Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington.
• April 2008: “Dynamics and Emergence in the Definition of Living Systems”, (presentation). 7th Annual Conference in Philosophy and Biology, Duke University.
• April 2008:“Holism or Mechanism for Noise? A case study analysis”, (presentation). Mind, Brain, and Experience: At the Intersections of Philosophy, Science, and Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver.
• March 2008: “Dynamics and Emergence in the Definition of Living Systems”, (presentation). South Carolina and North Carolina Philosophical Societies, Joint Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• November 2007:“Are Noise and Chaos Mechanistic? Ichiro Tsuda’s Model of Episodic Memory and Olfactory System”, (Poster panel). Third Annual Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, San Diego.
• August 2007:“How to Apply Structures to the World: Non-aprioristic Logic and Structural Realism”, (did not attend). 13th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• June 2007:“Autonomy, Allostatic Mechanisms, and AI: A Biomimetic Perspective”, (with Cory Wright). 7th International Computer Ethics Conference, University of San Diego.
• June 2006:“Unification and Explanation in Kaluza-Klein Theory”, (presentation). Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada).
• April 2005: “Modal Fantasies of Factualism and What They are About”, (Commenter: John Kuczynski). Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Conference in Philosophy, University of California, Davis.
• October 2004: “A Bohmian Answer to the Identity Crisis”, (presentation). 9th Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference, University of California, Irvine.
• August 1999: “Logic for Time Intervals and Synchronicity”, (presentation). 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland).