Selected Talks

Upcoming

Understanding Large Language Models: from benchmarks to cognitive ontologies (with Charles Rathkopf)

27-29 May 2023 - Congress of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science

Models of (Artificial) Intelligence: idealisation and behaviour

18 July 2023 - Philosophy and Computer Science Summer School, University of Bayreuth.

Past

The Vector Grounding Problem (with Raphaël Millière)

18 November 2022 - Philosophy Colloquium, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris

Saving representational formats: A teleocomputational view (with Alfredo Vernazzani)

28-29 October 2022 - Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind Online Conference

Models of (Artificial) Intelligence: idealisation and behaviour

14-15 November 2022 - Workshop 'Thought in Humans and Machines: Multidisciplinary Perspectives', University of Hamburg

The Vector Grounding Problem (with Raphaël Millière)

8-9 September 2022 - Workshop 'Representation in Cognitive Science', University of Barcelona

Modelling Intelligence: the good, the bad, and the plural

10-12 Jun 2022 - Filosofidagarna, Swedish Congress of Philosophy 2021, Lund, Sweden.

Toward a science of intelligence: models and behaviour

9 Feb 2022 - LOGOS Colloquium (online)

Symposium: Idealised Modelling of Mind and Life

15-18 Sep 2021 - EPSA 2021 Conference, Turin, Italy.

Grasping Complexity in AI

23-26 Aug 2021 - Summer Academy 'Artificial Intelligence and International Politics', Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie für Internationale Politik, Bonn, Germany.

Looking for a Mark of Intelligence

5-9 Jul 2021 - CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference 2021 (online).

Modelling Intelligence:  the good, the bad, and the plural (poster)

28 June-2 Jul 2021 - SSP 2021 Conference (online)

Participation in the KI-Camp 2021

27 April 2021 - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung and Gesellschaft für Informatik, Berlin, Germany.

Unifying the Sciences of Intelligence

22-23 March 2021 Workshop "Intelligent Abilities", Science of Intelligence Cluster & Human Abilities Centre Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Unificando as ciências da inteligência: em busca de uma marca da inteligência (Unifying the sciences of intelligence)

09 Oct 2020 2nd International Conference on Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Saving representational formats: A computational theory (with Alfredo Vernazzani)

01 Oct 2020 On-line weekly chats on Philosophy & the Life Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Mississippi State University.

Cognitive Representations as Idealised Models

03-04 Feb 2020 Workshop "Representation in Cognitive Science", Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

The Teleocomputational View of Representation

28-29 Nov 2019 Workshop "Mental Representations in a Mechanical World", Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

2-4 Sep 2019 EuroCogSci 2019 Conference, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

Computational Individuation, Computational Explanation: matters of substance

18-19 Dec 2018 Workshop "Causation and Computation in Cognitive Neuroscience", University of Cologne, Germany.

The Representational Pattern

10 Sep 2018 26th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Rijeka, Croatia.

 Deflating Representational Content

8 Jul 2016 British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK. 

14 Jun 2016 International Association for Computing and Philosophy Annual Meeting, Ferrara, Italy.

25 Mar 2016 New College of the Humanities Mind and Brain Conference, London, UK.

Mechanism, Computational Structure, and Representation in Cognitive Science 

16 Oct 2015 Situating Cognition, 2nd International Conference in Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, Warsaw, Poland.

8 Oct 2015 3rd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC), Pisa, Italy.

 Structural Representation and the Causal Efficacy of Content 

15 Jul 2015 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Tartu, Estonia.

 Structural Representation and the Problem of Liberality 

11 Jun 2015 Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Helsinki, Finland.

Structural Representation and the Problem of Representational Error 

5 Sep 2014  11th National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA), L'Aquila, Italy.