Selected talks

Teleology, Goal-Directedness and Self-Organization. Teloi.org, CEU, Center for Religious Studies, January 28, 2021

Metameric colours and the problem of realization. (A realizáció problémájának esete a metamer színekkel) X. Budapest Workshop on Emergence, 18 December 2018, Budapest University of Technology, HPS Department (in Hungarian)

Excluding difference-making causation from the exclusion argument. (A különbségtevő okság kizárása a kizárási érvből)  XI. Budapest Workshop on Emergence, 15 December 2018, Budapest University of Technology, HPS Department (in Hungarian)

The intransitivity of causation revealed in the contrastive theory of causation.  Hamburg Summer School on Contrastivism: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Language led by Jonathan Schaffer, University of Hamburg, Germany, 18-22 July 2016

Realization and the role of structural properties. Durham Emergence Project Concluding Conference. St. Chad’s College, Durham University, UK, 18-22 April 2016

Mental causation and proportionality. (Mentális okozás és proporcionalitás) Presentation at the Institute of Philosophy Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Group for the History and Philosophy of Science, 12 January 2016 (in Hungarian)

Difference-making on different levels. VII. Budapest Workshop on Emergence, 18 December 2015, Budapest University of Technology, HPS Department (in Hungarian)

Autonomy, Multiple Realization and the Way Reduction is Done. 23-26. September 2015, EPSA15, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany

Does causation make a difference? Emergence Summer School, Hatfield College, Durham University, UK, 9-12 July 2015

with Fazekas Péter, Gábor-Szabó Hofer & Gyenis Balázs: A dynamical systems approach to causation. July 10-11, 2014, The BSPS Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College

with Fazekas Péter, Gábor-Szabó Hofer & Gyenis Balázs: A dynamical systems approach to causation. 25-27 June, 2014, Ve Congrès de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences, Lille, France

with Fazekas Péter: A Hamiltonian account of causation. January 29-31, 2014, Sixth Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy, University of Groningen

The problem of causal autonomy and the notion of a productive cause. (Az oksági autonómia problémája és a produktív okozás fogalma) IV. Budapest Workshop on Emergence, 14 december 2012, Budapest University of Technology, HPS Department (in Hungarian)

Against the causal autonomy of the special sciences. Seventh European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. (University of Milan, 1-6 September 2011)

with Zemplén Gábor: Strategic maneuvering before even saying a word. 2010 Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, (University of Amsterdam, 29 June - 2 July 2010)

An epistemological perspective on teaching evolution. History and Philosophy in Science Teaching, (University of Kaiserslautern, 11-14 March 2010)

with Fazekas Péter: Mechanisms and the Metaphysics of Causation. Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences, (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 2009 September 9-11.) 

Historical Artefacts - Direct and Indirect Evidences for Evolution in Biology Curricula. XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Ideas and Instruments in Social Context, (Budapest, BUTE, 28 July - 2 August 2009)

Lamarckism and evolutionary epistemology. (Lamarckizmus és evolúciós episztemológia) XVI. MAKOG Hungarian Cognitive Sciences Conference (Budapest, Tan Kapuja Buddhist University, 28-30 October 2008) (in Hungarian)

On the role of Lamarckian factors in knowledge processes. Kazimierz Naturalised Epistemology Workshop (Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 6-10 September 2008)

Farmer Popper's advice, or how to breed better theories. Kazimierz Naturalised Epistemology Workshop (Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, September 1-5. 2007)