Publications and Talks
Publications
Peer-reviewed
2 papers currently under review (European Journal for Philosophy of Science; History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences)
Agent-based modeling for SARS-CoV-2 epidemic prediction and intervention assessment. A methodological appraisal (with Mariusz Maziarz), Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jep.13459)
Conceptual Analysis in the Philosophy of Science, Balkan Journal of Philosophy 11 (2), 107-124, 2019.
Selective realism and the caloric theory of heat (in Czech), Filosoficky Casopis 65 (1), 77-95, 2017.
Scientific realism as spiritual cultivation (in Czech), Filozofia 72 (5), 381-391, 2017.
Reviews and reports
Perspectives on Explanation, 18-19 May, The Reasoner 11 (6), 30-31, 2017.
Axel Gelfert: How to do science with models: A philosophical primer, Organon F 24 (4), 546-552, 2017.
Talks (an excerpt) - for a list of all talks click here
· "Revisiting abstraction and idealization in molecular biology", 7th Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA19), Geneva (Switzerland), 6.-9.9.2019
· "Revisiting abstraction and idealization in molecular biology", British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference (BSPS 2019), Durham (UK), 17.-19.7.2019
· "The case of mechanistic explanation in molecular biology: abstraction or idealization?“, International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology biennial meeting (ISHPSSB 2019), Oslo (Norway), 7.-12.7.2019
· "On Abstraction and Idealization in Molecular Biology", workshop Idealization Across the Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic), 12.-14.6.2019
· "Idealization and understanding with diagrammatic biological models“, Third International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP2019), Cologne (Germany), 25.-27.2.2019
· "Scientific understanding and the facticity condition", IX Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (SLMFCE), Madrid (Spain), 13.-16.11.2018
· "A case for factive scientific understanding" (poster), 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA2018), Seattle, WA (USA), 1.-4.11.2018
· "Mechanistic explanation in agent-based modeling", Joint European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable Conference, Hannover (Germany), 30.8.-1.9.2018
· "There is no (special) problem of ontology of theoretical models", Fourth Annual Conference of the Society for Metaphysics of Science (SMS4), Milan (Italy), 22.-24.8.2018
· "Similarity in practice", Seventh Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP7), Ghent (Belgium), 29.6.-2.7.2018
· "Scientific representation: Resituating the similarity account", Second conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS 2018), Bratislava (Slovakia), 20.6.-22.6.2018
· "Mechanistic explanation in agent-based modeling" (poster), 11th MuST conference in Philosophy of Science: Models of Explanation, Turin (Italy), 11.6.-13.6.2018
· "Similarity judgments and scientific representation", Representation in Science, Prague (Czech Republic), 28.-29.5.2018
· "Factive understanding with model sketches", Explanation and Understanding, Ghent (Belgium), 23.-25.5.2018
· "Applying pretense to scientific models. Its merits and limits" (invited), XIII. Prague Interpretation Colloqium, Prague (Czech Republic), 23.-25.4.2018
· "Minimal models, representation, and explanation", Models and Simulations 8, Columbia, SC (USA), 15.-17.3.2018
· "Pluralism and minimal models" (poster), What to make of highly unrealistic models?, Helsinki (Finland), 12.-13.10.2017
· "Against the direct fiction view of scientific models“, Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association 2017, Exeter (United Kingdom), 6.-9.9.2017
· "Against the direct fiction view of scientific models“, Ninth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Munich (Germany), 21.-26.8.2017
· "Conceptual analysis in philosophy of science", Triennial Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Bologna (Italy), 20.-23.6.2017
· "Modifying the fiction view of scientific models“, Fifth Annual Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science, Copenhagen (Denmark), 20.-21.4.2017
· "Why the fiction view of scientific models is not your enemy“, Scientific contents: Fictions or abstract objects?, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 26.-27.1.2017
· "Naturalized philosophy of science: Two accounts of the method of conceptual analysis”, Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science, Lisbon (Portugal), 14.-16.12.2016
· "Cesta k naturalizované teorii vědy” (The road to naturalized theory of science), 4th Hradec philosophical days, Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), 6.-7.10.2016
· "Otázka dedukce a pravdy u vědeckých modelů” (The question of deduction and truth in scientific models), XX. Czech-Slovak symposium on analytical philosophy, Prague (Czech Republic), 14.-16.9.2016
· "Science and scientism“, The Inaugural Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS 2016), Sofia (Bulgaria), 24.-26.6.2016