Forthcoming Talks:
Selected Talks:
  • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany (1.10.2018)                                                                                                Talk on "On the Use and Misuse of Non-Empirical Theory Assessment"
  • Analogue Experimentation, Bristol University, UK (16 -17. July 2018)                                                                                                                           Talk on "Putting Analogue Experiments on the Methodological Map"
  • Foundations of Physics; Utrecht, Netherlands (10.-13. July 2018)                                                                                                                         Talk on "What Constitutes a Problem in Physics?"
  • DPG Frühjahrstagung; Berlin, Germany (15.03.2018)            
    Talk on "Emergent Phenomenon and their Minimimal Model Explanations in Physics and Econophysics"
  • Black Hole Initiative Colloquium, Harvard University (11 April 2017)                                                                                                               Talk on "Methodological Foundations of Analogue Gravity"
  • European Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting (EPSA17) in Exeter (6 - 9 September 2017)                                             Talk on "Dual Simulation and the AdS/QCD Correspondence" as part of the Symposium "Towards a Methodology of Quantum Gravity"
  • Reasoning in Physics, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich (12.-13. Dec. 2016)                                                                                      Talk on "Scientific Reasoning in Theory Space"
  • Foundations of Physics, London (16.-18. July 2016)                                                                                                                                             Talk on “The Epistemology of No-go Theorems“
  • 6th Congress of the Sociéte de Philosophie des Sciences, Lausanne (29. June - 1. July 2016)                                                                     Talk on “The Epistemology of No-go Theorems“
  • ​UIC Seminar Talk, Chicago (17. June 2016)                                                                                                                                                            Talk on "Testing Theories, Theory Space and Scientific Practice"
  • Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy?, Munich (2-4- June 2016)                                                                                      Talk on "What Are No-Go Theorems Good for?"
  • Geneva Symmetry Group Seminar, Geneva (19. May 2016)                                                                                                                              Talk on "Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: A Bayesian Analysis"
  • Why Trust a Theory? Reconsidering Scientific Methodology in the Light of Modern Physics, Munich (7.-9. December 2015)                              Talk on "Physics Without Experiments". (discussed e.g. here, here and here; video of my talk can be found here)
  • European Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, Düsseldorf (23.-26. September 2015)                                                                    Talk on “Non-empirical Evidence in the Case of the No Alternatives Argument.“
  • 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki (3.-8. August 2015)                                                                  Talk on “Non-empirical Evidence in the Case of the No Alternatives Argument.“
  • 4th Tübingen Summer School in the History and Philosophy of Science: Idealizations in Physics (27.-31. July 2015)                             Talk on "What Do No-go Theorems in Physics Imply"
  • Britisch Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Manchester, UK  (2.–3. July 2015)
    Talk on “Non-empirical Evidence in the Case of the No Alternatives Argument.“
  • Philosophy of Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA (6. – 8. Nov. 2014 )                                                                                 Talk on “Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: What Dumbholes Could Tell Us About Gravity“
  • Britisch Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK  (10. – 11. July 2014)
    Talk on “Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: What Dumbholes Could Tell Us About Gravity“
  • Colloquium in Logic, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy, Munich, Germany (2. July 2014)
    Talk on “The Distinction Between Internal and External Symmetries“
  • DPG Frühjahrstagung, Berlin, Germany (17.03 - 21.03.2013)            
    Talk on "The Internal/External Distinction in the Light of Supersymmetry"
  • Foundations of Quantum Mechanics LMU-Stanford Joint Seminar (04. Nov. 2013)
    Talk on “Non-Classical Probabilities, Quantum Mechanics and No-Go Theorems“
  • Foundations of Physics Conference, LMU Munich (29. – 31. July 2013)
    Talk on “Group Structuralism in Particle Physics“
  • Reduction and Emergence in Physics, LMU Munich (21.06 – 22.06.2013)                                                                                                       Talk on “What Dumbholes can tell us about Gravity“
  • Quantum Gravity in Perspective, LMU Munich (31.05 – 01.03.2013)    
    Comment on Richard Dawid’s Talk “String Theory, Final Theory Claim and Scientific Realism“
  • DPG Frühjahrstagung, Jena, Germany (25.02 - 01.03.2013)   
    Talk on "The Explanatory Capability of Physical Theories"
  • Formal Informal: Research Seminar on Foundations of Statistics, LMU Munich (04. Feb. 2013)
    Talk on “Upper and Lower Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics”
  • LSE Graduate Philosophy Conference, LSE London (30. Apr. 2012)
    Talk on "Explaining the Unexplainable"
  • Research Seminar Theoretical Philosophy, HHU Düsseldorf, Germany (24. Apr. 2012)
    Talk on "On Explaining the Dimensionality of Space and Time"
  • DPG Frühjahrstagung, Berlin, Germany (25.-30.03.2012) 
    Talk on "How to Gain Insights into the Dimensionality of Space and Time"