Talks

Upcoming talks:


Papers presented at conferences:

  • [32] “Change, Hylomorphism, and Mereology”, Change and Changemakers in Ancient Philosophy, online conference, 01.07.2021

  • [31] (With Ludger Jansen) “Essences as Metaphysical Explanantia”, ECAP10, The Tenth Congress of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP), online conference, 24–28.08.2020

  • [30] (With Ludger Jansen) “Essences as Metaphysical Explanantia”, Metaphysical Explanation III, Lund, 9.1.2020

  • [29] “Grounding and Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics”, Aristotle on Grounding, Definition, Explanation, Essence, Ligerz, 12.09.2019 (non-refereed)

  • [28] (With Ludger Jansen) “Kinds and Explanations”, Jonathan Lowe and Ontology: Memorial Conference, Warsaw, 21.05.2019 (invited talk)

  • [27] “A Re-evaluation of E. J. Lowe’s Account of Laws of Nature”, GWP 2019—the third international conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Cologne, 26.02.2019

  • [26] (With Ludger Jansen) “Formal Causation Regained: a Non-Hylomprophic Account”, Formal Causation, Rostock, 23.10.2018 (not peer-refereed)

  • [25] “Form, Stability-Makers, and Homeostasis”, Change and Change-Makers: New Perspectives on the Problem of Persistence, SPOT organized satellite workshop at GAP10, Cologne, 21.09.2018

  • [24] “Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics: Euclidean Axiomatic Sciences or Husserlian Regional Ontologies?”, SOPhiA 2018, Salzburg, 12.09.2018

  • [23] “Formal Causation Regained”, 92nd Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Open Session, Oxford, 08.07.2018

  • [22] “Formal Causation Regained”, Poster presentation, Models of Explanation, 11th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg/Turin (MuST) conference, Turin, 11.06.2018

  • [21] “Time for Universals: A Temporally Relativized Non-Rigid Dependence Relation”, (non-refereed), It’s About Time, Bonn, 10.11.2017

  • [20] “Essence, Essentiality, and Potentiality”, The third annual Conference of the Nordic Network in Metaphysics, Tampere, Finland, 26.10.2017

  • [19] “Ryle’s ‘Conditional’Analysis of Dispositions”, the Seventh Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA 2017), Salzburg, 15.09.2017

  • [18] “Formal, not Internal, Relations Allow Rich Ontologies to Avoid Bradley’s Regress”, ECAP9 The Ninth Congress of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP), LMU Munich, 26.08.2017

  • [17] “Strawson, Metaphysics, and Ordinary Language Philosophy”, 8th Nordic Wittgenstein Society conference, What’s wrong (and what’s right) with Ordinary Language Philosophy? Turku, 05-06.05.2017

  • [16] “Formal Causation and Scientific Methodology”, The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science, Copenhagen, 20.04.2017

  • [15] “Essentiality without Necessity”, presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS 2), Geneva, 17.09.2016

  • [14] “Essentiality without Necessity”, presented at the Sixth Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA 2016), Salzburg, 09.09.2016

  • [13] “Grounding and Aristotelian Formal Causation”, invited talk for Grounding in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Geneva, 07.07.2016

  • [12] “The Formal Cause in the Posterior Analytics”, presented at Aristotle 2400 Years, Thessaloniki, 24.05.2016

  • [11] “The Formal Cause in the Posterior Analytics”, presented at Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, Maribor, 06.10.2015

  • [10] “Dependence, Attributes and Kinds”, presented at the Swedish Congress of Philosophy, Linköping, 13.06.2015

  • [9] “Expert-analogies in Ancient Greece: a type of logically valid analogies”, presented at AREW: Analogical Reasoning – East and West, Universität Heidelberg, 25.11.2014

  • [8] “Aristotle on exceptions in biology”, presented at the the 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS 2014), Ghent University, 05.07.2014

  • [7] “Aristotle on exceptions in biology”, presented at the conference Applied epistemology in ancient philosophy and science, Universität Trier, 03.07.2014

  • [6] “Powers & Kinds – exemplified through a study of waves”, presented at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, LMU Munich, 31.07.2013

  • [5] “Powers & Kinds – exemplified through a study of waves”, presented at the Swedish Congress of Philosophy, Stockholm, 16.06.2013

  • [4] “Qûa-predicating attributes to kinds – a set-theory based on Cook Wilson”, presented at the workshop Information Systems and the Four-Category Ontology, Durham University, 20.05.2013

  • [3] “Philodemus on the joint Method of Agreement and Difference”, presented at the 9th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS 2012), Halifax, Canada, 21.06.2012

  • [2] “J-B Say as a proponent of induction”, presented at the conference Discovery in the Social Sciences, KU Leuven, 23.03.2011

  • [1] ”The methodological lessons of Say’s Introduction to his Treatise”, presented to The History of Economics Society, Syracuse University, 27.07.2010

Papers presented to departments:

  • [4] “Grounding and Aristotelian Formal Causation”, University of Helsinki, 04.05.2017

  • [3] “Arguments in Metaphysics Ζ and Η against some variants of neo-Aristotelianism: especially Armstrong’s immanent realism and Koslicki’s hylomorphism”, presented at the Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 23.11.2016

  • [2] “Formal Causation”, presented at Wendel Colloquium, Universität Rostock, 14.11.2016

  • [1] “Gyldige analogiske slutninger – et forsvar av en diskreditert metode”, presented at Filosofisk Fredagsseminar, University of Oslo, 05.04.2013

Comments on papers:

  • [5] Comment on Julie Godfrey’s “The Problem of Meta-laws for Dispositional Essentialism and Ontic Structural Realism”, The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science, Copenhagen, 21.04.2017

  • [4] Comment on Zdenka Brzovic’s “Natural Kinds: Toning Down the Realist Hype”, SMS 2, Geneva, 16.09.2016

  • [3] Comment on Matthew Tugby’s “Instantiation as Manifestation”, Dispositions and Manifestations, University of Cologne, 22.08.2015

  • [2] Comment on Nancy Cartwright’s “How Do Dispositions Do What They Do?” Dispositions and Manifestations, University of Cologne, 21.08.2015

  • [1] Comment on Claire Silvant’s “Inheritance, Property Rights and Taxation in the mid-19th Century French Liberal Thought”, The History of Economics Society, Syracuse University, 27.07.2010