Professor of Philosophy
TU Berlin
email: axel@gelfert.net
   
 
   

Brief Introduction Top

Axel Gelfert joined the Technical University of Berlin as a Full Professor at the end of 2017, having previously spent just over a decade as an Assistant/Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He completed his PhD in 2005 at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. In 2009, and again in 2011, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh. From 2019 until 2021 he was Head of Department at TU's Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature.

Teaching Areas Top

Philosophy of Science and Technology, Epistemology, History of Philosophy.

Current Research Top

  • Epistemology of testimony, Philosophy of knowledge (historical, social, and applied epistemology)
  • General philosophy of science (esp. scientific models, theory change, scientific evidence and consensus/dissent, agnotology)
  • Philosophy of language, mind, and (social & extended) cognition
  • Philosophy of technology and technoscience (emerging technologies, thing knowledge, epistemic tools)


Publications Top

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • How to Do Science with Models: A Philosophical Primer Dordrecht: Springer 2016. (147 pages; pdf excerpt: )
     

    From the reviews:

    “This is a truly excellent book. Not only does it provide insightful analysis of contemporary philosophical accounts of modelling, but it draws our attention to important yet unexplored questions related to the exploratory function of models and their connection to issues in the philosophy of technology. By focusing our attention on a broad range of examples it provides the best systematic treatment of scientific modelling to appear in many years. Highly recommended!” –  Margaret Morrison, University of Toronto
     

  • A Critical Introduction to Testimony. London: Bloomsbury 2014. (264 pages; pdf excerpt: )
     

    From the reviews:

    “Axel Gelfert has written a lucid, comprehensive, fair and balanced introduction to the epistemology of testimony, clearly useful for students and scholars alike. If you're interested in learning about how we learn from others, this is the place to start.” –  Peter Graham, University of California, Riverside

    “Gelfert has left no stone in the epistemology of testimony unturned, providing an impressively comprehensive treatment of the issues in this vast area, and doing so with clarity and fair-mindedness. This is a must-read for anyone interested in social epistemology.” –  Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University

EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • "Kant on Scientific Pedantry and Epistemic Populism", Inquiry (online first)
  • "A Kantian Perspective on the Assault on Scientific Expertise", Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 10, No.1, 2022, 113-122
  • "The Exploratory Role of Idealizations and Limiting Cases in Models", Studia Metodologiczne, No. 39, 2019, 195-232 (with E. Shech)
  • "Cultures of Modelling: Rudolf Peierls on 'Model-Making in Physics'", Studia Metodologiczne, No. 39, 2019, 49-71
  • "Beyond the 'Null Setting': The Method of Cases in the Epistemology of Testimony", Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2019, 60-76
  • "'Fake News': A Definition", Informal Logic, Vol. 38, No.1, 2018, 84–117
  • "Inner Speech, Natural Language, and the Modularity of the Mind", Kairos Vol. 14, 2015, pp. 7-29
  • "Symbol Systems as Collective Representational Resources: Mary Hesse, Nelson Goodman, and the Problem of Scientific Representation", Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Vol. 4 (6) 2015, pp. 52-61
  • "Disattendability, Civil Inattention, and the Epistemology of Privacy", Philosophical Analysis Vol. 31, 2014, pp. 151-181
  • "The 'Extendedness' of Scientific Evidence", Philosophical Issues Vol. 24 (1) 2014, pp. 253-281 (with E. Kerr)
  • "Applicability, Indispensability, and Underdetermination: Puzzling over Wigner's 'Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics' ", Science & Education Vol. 23 (5) 2014, pp. 997-1009
  • "Observation, Inference, and Imagination: Elements of Edgar Allan Poe's Philosophy of Science", Science & Education Vol. 23 (3) 2014, pp. 589-607.
  • "Climate Scepticism, Epistemic Dissonance, and the Ethics of Uncertainty", Philosophy and Public Issues (New Series), Vol. 3 (1) 2013, pp. 167-208
  • "Hume on Curiosity", British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 21 (4) 2013, pp. 711-732.  
  • "Synthetic Biology Between Technoscience and Thing Knowledge", Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 44 (2) 2013, pp. 141-149
  • "Before Biopolis: Representations of the Biotechnology Discourse in Singapore", East Asian Science, Technology and Society Vol. 7 (1) 2013, pp. 103-123
  • "Strategies of Model-Building in Condensed Matter Physics: Trade-Offs as a Demarcation Criterion Between Physics and Biology?" Synthese Vol. 190 (2) 2013, pp. 252-273.
  • "Coverage-Reliability, Epistemic Dependence, and the Problem of Rumor-Based Belief", Philosophia, Vol. 41 (3) 2013, pp 763-786. 
  • "Art History, the Problem of Style, and Arnold Hauser’s Contribution to the History and Sociology of Knowledge", Studies in East European Thought, Vol. 62 (1-2) 2012, pp. 121-142
  • "Nanotechnology as Ideology: Towards a Critical Theory of ‘Converging Technologies’", Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 17 (1) 2012, pp. 143-164
  • "Who is an Epistemic Peer?", Logos & Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol. 2 (4) 2011, pp. 507-514.
  • "Expertise, Argumentation, and the End of Inquiry", Argumentation Vol. 25 (3) 2011, pp. 297-312.
  • "Mathematical Formalisms in Scientific Practice: From Denotation to Model-Based Representation", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42 (2) 2011, pp. 272-286.
  • "Steps to an Ecology of Knowledge: Continuity and Change in the Genealogy of Knowledge", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Vol. 8 (1) 2011, pp. 67-82
  • "Reconsidering the Role of Inference to the Best Explanation in the Epistemology of Testimony", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 41 (4) 2010, pp. 386-396
  • "Hume on Testimony Revisited", Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy Vol. 13 (2010) pp. 60-75.
  • "Kant and the Enlightenment's Contribution to Social Epistemology", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Vol. 7 (1) 2010, pp. 79-99
  • "Indefensible Middle Ground for Local Reductionism about Testimony", Ratio, Vol. 22 (2) 2009, pp. 170-190
  • "Rigorous Results, Cross-Model Justification, and the Transfer of Empirical Warrant", Synthese, Vol. 169 (3) 2009, pp. 497-519
  • "Kant on Testimony", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 14 (4) 2006, pp. 627-652
  • "Mathematical Rigor in Physics: Putting Exact Results in Their Place", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 72 (5) 2005, pp. 723-738
  • "Manipulative Success and the Unreal", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 17 (3) 2003, pp. 245-263
  • "Perception and prejudice. Uncertainty and the investment in gender", Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 37 (2002) 4382-4389 (with P.H.L. Nillesen)
  • "The absence of finite-temperature phase transitions in low-dimensional many-body models: a survey and new results" (Topical review), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Vol. 13 (2001) R505-R524 (with W. Nolting)
  • "Absence of a Magnetic Phase Transition in Heisenberg, Hubbard, and Kondo-lattice Films", physica status solidi (b), Vol. 217 (2000) 805-818.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • "Fake News: There's no App for Truthfulness", in Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings , ed. J. Tsou and G. Robson, New York: Routledge 2023, pp. 185-196.
  • "Gesellschaftliche Erwartungen an 'Big Data' in der Wissenschaft: Zur Mär vom 'Ende der Theorie'", in Kalibrierung der Wissenschaft: Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis, ed. N. Mößner and K. Erlach, Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag 2022, pp. 23-42.
  • "Thinking With Notations: Epistemic Actions and Epistemic Activities in Mathematical Practice", in Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century, ed. M. Friedman and K. Krauthausen, Wien: Birkhäuser 2022, pp. 333-362.
  • "Der Newsfeed als algorithmischer Palimpsest" / "The Newsfeed as an Algorithmic Palimpsest", in Textfetzen, ed. E. Wessel, Berlin: Kadmos-Verlag 2022, pp. 8-14.
  • "Fake News, False Beliefs, and the Fallible Art of Knowledge Maintenance", in The Epistemology of Fake News, ed. A. Flowerree, S. Bernecker, Th. Grundmann, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021, pp. 310-333.
  • "Von Fakes und Frauds: Können wissenschaftliche Hoaxes ein legitimes Erkenntnisinstrument sein?", in Wahrheit und Fake, ed. P. Klimczak and Th. Zoglauer, Heidelberg: Springer 2021, pp. 27-44.
  • "What is Fake News?", in The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, ed. M. Hannon and J. de Ridder, New York: Routledge 2021, pp. 171-180.
  • "We Are the End of the World: Stories of Anthropocenic Hyperarousal", in Technology, Anthropology, and Dimensions of Responsibility, ed. B. Beck and M. Kühler, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2020, pp. 75-94.
  • "Probing Possibilities: Toy Models, Minimal Models, and Exploratory Models", in Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology (MBR18), eds. F. Salguero-Lamillar, C. Bares-Gomez, M. Fontaine, Cham: Springer 2019, pp. 3-19.
  • "Assessing the Credibility of Conceptual Models", in Computer Simulation Validation, eds. C. Beisbar and N. Saam, Cham: Springer 2019, pp. 249-269.
  • "Rumor", in The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology, eds. D. Coady and J. Chase, New York: Routledge 2019, pp. 259-271.
  • "The Passion of Curiosity: A Humean Perspective", in The Moral Psychology of Curiosity, eds. I. Inan, L. Watson, D. Whitcomb and S. Yigit, London: Rowman & Littlefield 2018, pp. 57-76.
  • "Saving Models from Phenomena: A Cautionary Tale from Membrane and Cell Biology", in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. Proceedings of the 5th Conference, ed. F. Stadler, Dordrecht: Springer 2017, pp. 17-30. (with J. Mok)
  • "The Ontology of Models", in Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science, ed. L. Magnani and T. Bertolotti, Heidelberg/New York: Springer 2017, pp. 5-23.
  • "'Keine gewöhnlichere, nützlichere und selbst für das menschliche Leben notwendigere Schlussart': Ein neues Bild von David Hume als Theoretiker menschlichen Zeugnisses", in Über Zeugen: Szenarien von Zeugenschaft und ihre Akteure, ed. M. Däumer, A. Kalisky & H. Schlie, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2017, pp. 195-211.
  • "The Unreasonable Attractiveness of Mathematics to Artists and Scientists", in Towards the Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Mathematical Bridges, ed. K. Fenyvesi and T. Lähdesmäki, Boston/Bastel: Birkhäuser 2017, pp. 63-80.
  • "What is Science?", in What Is This Thing Called Philosophy?, ed. D. Pritchard, London: Routledge 2016, pp. 239-252.
  • "Can We Trust Scientific Models?", in What Is This Thing Called Philosophy?, ed. D. Pritchard, London: Routledge 2016, pp. 253-264.
  • "Is Science Getting Closer to the Truth?", in What Is This Thing Called Philosophy?, ed. D. Pritchard, London: Routledge 2016, pp. 265-276.
  • "Between Rigor and Reality: Many-Body Models in Condensed Matter Physics", in Why More Is Different: Philosophical Issues in Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems, ed. B. Falkenburg & M. Morrison, Heidelberg: Springer 2015, pp. 201-226.
  • "Das Zeugnis anderer", in Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie, ed. N. Kompa & S. Schmoranzer, Münster: mentis 2014, pp. 225-240.
  • "Communicability and the Public Misuse of Communication: Kant on the Pathologies of Testimony", in Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht: Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010 (Proceedings of the 11th International Kant Congress), Ed. by S. Bacin, A. Ferrarin, C. LaRocca & M. Ruffing. Berlin: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 257-268.
  • "Rumour, Gossip, and Conspiracy Theories: Pathologies of Testimony and the Principle of Publicity", in Rumours and Communication in Asia in the Internet Age, ed. G. Dalziel. London: Routledge 2013, pp. 20-45.
  • "Hume on Testimony Revisited", in David Hume and Contemporary Philosophy, ed. I. Kasavin. Newcastle: CSP 2012, pp. 79-99. (Reprinted from Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 2010.)
  • "The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry", in Conflicting Values of Inquiry: Ideologies of Epistemology in Early Modern Europe, ed. T. Demeter, K. Murphy, and C. Zittel, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming)
  • "The Unreasonable Attractiveness of Mathematics to Artists and Scientists", in Towards the Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Mathematical Bridges, ed. K. Fenyvesi and T. Lähdesmäki, Boston/Basel: Birkhäuser (forthcoming)
  • "Scientific Models, Simulation, and the Experimenter's Regress", in P. Humphreys and C. Imbert (eds), Representation, Models and Simulations, London: Routledge 2011, pp. 145-167.
  • Encyclopedia article "Zeugnis" [Testimony], in Kant-Lexikon (3 vols.), eds. G. Mohr, J. Stolzenberg, and M. Willaschek. Berlin: de Gruyter (forthcoming)
  • "Learning from Testimony: Cognitive Cultures and the Epistemic Status of Testimony-Based Beliefs", in Culture, Nature, Memes: Dynamic Cognitive Theories, ed. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. Newcastle: CSP 2008, pp. 34-56.
  • "Education and the Republic of Science", in Philosophical Reflections for Educators, ed. Charlene Tan. Singapore: Cengage Publishing 2008, pp. 115-140.
  • Encyclopedia articles "Aufklärung" [informed consent], "Forensik" [forensics], "Lebensqualität" [quality of life], "Placebo", "Prion", "Simulation/Dissimulation" in Literatur und Medizin. Ein Lexikon [Encyclopedia of Literature and Medicine], eds. Bettina v. Jagow and Florian Steger, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005.
  • "Das Zweifelhafte und das Pathologische: Skeptizismus zwischen Therapie, 'philosophischer Krankheit' und Bioethik" [The doubtful and the pathological: scepticism between therapy, 'philosophical disease' and bioethics], in Repräsentationen: Medizin und Ethik in Kunst und Literatur der Moderne [Representations of Medicine and Ethics in Art and Literature of the Modern Age], eds. Bettina v. Jagow and Florian Steger. Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag 2004. pp. 115-140
  • "Zeugnis und Differenz: Über die Epistemologie des Beim-Wort-Nehmens und In-Erfahrung-Bringens" [Testimony and difference: on the epistemology of experience and the word of others], in Differenzerfahrung und Selbst [Experiences of Difference and The Self], eds. Bettina v. Jagow and Florian Steger. Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag 2003. pp. 123-140

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTIONS

  • "Introduction: Philosophical Perspectives on Synthetic Biology" (Editorial introduction to special issue; with G. Gramelsberger and T. Knuuttila) Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44 (2) 2013, pp. 119-121
  • "Introduction: Technologies, Lives and Futures in Asia" (Editorial introduction to special issue; with C. Coopmans, C. Graham, and G. Clancey) Science, Technology, and Society 17 (1) 2012, pp. 1-10
  • "Model-Based Representation in Scientific Practice: New Perspectives" (Editorial introduction to special issue), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42 (2) 2011, pp. 251-2.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Review of Eric Winsberg: Philosophy and Climate Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018). Journal for General Philosophy of Science Vol. 51, 2020, pp. 199-202.
  • Review of Benjamin McMyler: Testimony, Trust & Authority (New York: Oxford University Press 2011). Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 30 (1) 2013, pp. 101-103.
  • Book note of Sanford Goldberg: Relying On Others. An Essay in Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010). Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 90 (3) 2012, pp. 616-617.
  • Review of Miranda Fricker: Epistemic Injustice. Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007). Times Literary Supplement, 3 October 2008, p. 25
  • Critical notice of Tamás Demeter (ed.) Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy (Amsterdam: Rodopi 2004). Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (Vol. 10, 'Philosophy of Mind', 2007), 206-211
  • Critical notice of Richard Foley Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001). Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (Vol. 8, 'History of Epistemology', 2005), 220-227
  • Review of Freeman Dyson: The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet, and of Michio Kaku: Visions. Science and Public Policy Vol. 28 (2001) 230-232

CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES

  • "The Narcissism of the Plagiarist", The Berlin Review of Books, 23 February 2011.
  • "Letter from Singapore: Where the Ivory Tower Meets the Crystal Palace", The Philosophers' Magazine No. 46 (July 2009) pp. 36-39.
  • "Lektionen für die Elite", Deutsche Universitäts-Zeitung, No. 9/2007, pp. 8-9 (with M. Vogt)
  • "How democratic is the New Left?", International Herald Tribune, 03 Sept 2005
  • "Nobelpreise zählen ist nicht genug: Ein Plädoyer für die Lehre", Berliner Republik, No. 3/2005, pp. 12-13 (with M. Vogt)
  • "Random Realism", Navigationen: Siegener Beiträge zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft, Vol. 3 (2003) 113-118 (first published in Foreign Policy in Focus)

Other Information Top

  • Since 2022: President, German Society for Philosophy of Science.
  • Since 2018: Member of the Berlin International Graduate School in Model and Simulation based Research, TU Berlin.
  • 2013-2015: Member of the International Network of the AHRC-funded project "Extended Knowledge", based at the EIDYN Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind & Normativity.
  • 2009, 2011: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
  • 2009-2012: Member, Scientific Board, Collaborative Research Project "Embodied Information: Conceiving and Envisioning 'Converging Technologies'" (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
  • Since 2009: Editor, The Berlin Review of Books.


Recent Talks and Conference Presentations Top

  • March 2017: “Models in Search of Targets: Exploratory Modeling and the Case of Turing Patterns”, Workshop ‘Models in Science’, Department of Philosophy Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China. (invited talk)
  • July 2016: “Exploration als Wissensform am Beispiel der wissenschaftlichen Modellierung”, Wissenschaftlicher Probevortrag im Rahmen eines Auswahlverfahrens für die W3-Professur "Philosophie mit Schwerpunkt Theoretische Philosophie", Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. (job talk)
  • July 2016: “Explorative Modellierung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Agnotologie und Technoscience”, Wissenschaftlicher Probevortrag im Rahmen eines Auswahlverfahrens für die W3-Professur "Wissenschaftstheorie und Technikphilosophie", Philosophische Fakultät, RWTH Aachen, Germany. (job talk)
  • April 2016: “Exploratory Models: The Missing Dimension of Scientific Inquiry?”, Workshop ‘Models and the Imagination’, EGENIS Centre for the Study of Life Science, University of Exeter, England. (invited talk)
  • May 2015: "Zum explorativen Gebrauch wissenschaftlicher Modelle", Institut für Philosophie, Arbeitsbereich Sprachphilosophie und Medienphilosophie (Professor Sybille Krämer), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. (invited talk)
  • May 2015: "'Keine gewöhnlichere, nützlichere und selbst für das menschliche Leben notwendigere Schlussart‘. David Hume über das Zeugnis anderer als Wissensquelle", Inaugural lecture of the Immanuel Kant Forum, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany. (invited talk)
  • April 2015: "Das Explorative im wissenschaftlichen Modell" (Joint research seminar with Professor Alfred Nordmann), Department of Philosophy, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. (invited talk)
  • January 2015: "Explorative Modellierung als strategisches Erkenntnisinstrument in den Naturwissenschaften", Wissenschaftlicher Probevortrag im Rahmen eines Auswahlverfahrens für die W3-Professur "Theoretische Philosophie, insbesondere Wissenschaftsphilosophie", Institut für Philosophie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. (job talk)
  • January 2015: "Enlightenment Perspectives on the Problem of Testimony", International Conference 'Testimony/Bearing Witness. Current Controversies and Historical Perspectives', Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. (invited talk)
  • August 2014: “How Does Science Travel?”, International Workshop ‘Globalizing History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects’, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore. (invited talk)
  • August 2014: “Assessing Evidence in Biology: The Case of Models in Membrane and Cell Biology”, Second Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (invited talk)
  • July 2014: “Toward a Conception of Technoscientific Objectivity”, International Workshop ‘Spaces of Technoscience’, STS Research Cluster, National University of Singapore.
  • June 2014: “Styles of Reasoning in Biology: The Case of Models in Membrane and Cell Biology” (with J. Mok), Fifth Integrated History & Philosophy of Science Conference (&HPS5), University of Vienna, Austria.
  • June 2014: “Towards a Genealogy of Epistemic Injustice”, Conference ‘Understanding Epistemic Injustice’, University of Bristol, England.
  • June 2014: “Style and Anticipation; Aspects of Arnold Hauser's Philosophy of Art History”, Department of Sociology, University of Pécs, Hungary. (invited talk)
  • March 2014: “The emergence of biotechnology discourse in Singapore: Global ambitions and local impacts”, International Conference on Global STS, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  • February 2014: “Gossip, the Public/Private Distinction, and the Principle of Disattendability”, Joint NUS/Kyoto University Workshop on Applied Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore. (organiser)
  • February 2014: “The Dual Role of Inference to the Best Explanation in Generating Testimonial Justification”, International Workshop ‘Current Trends in Analytic Philosophy’, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. (invited talk)
  • January 2014: “On Agnotology and the Study of Ignorance”, International Workshop ‘Crafting Ignorance: Secrecy and Suggestion in Science and Technology’, STS Research Cluster, National University of Singapore. (organiser)
  • January 2014: “Knowing Objects in Synthetic Biology: The Epistemic Life of Things”, International Workshop ‘From Model Organisms to Synthetic Biology: STS Perspectives on Experimentation in the Life Sciences’, STS Research Cluster, National University of Singapore. (organiser)
  • January 2014: “The Pursuit of Biological Form and the Embodied Dimension of Models”, SOKENDAI-Singapore Workshop, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan. (invited talk)
  • November 2013: “Technoscientific Imaginaries in the Anthropocene and Changing Environmental Attitudes”, Workshop on 'Emplacing Climate Change: Changing Environmental Realities', National University of Singapore. (organiser)
  • July 2013: “The Quest for Certainty in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty: A Paradox of Technofideism”, Biennial Conference of the Asia-Pacific STS Network, National University of Singapore. (invited panelist)
  • June 2013: “Kant on the Pathologies of Testimony: Against Disrespecting Others as Knowers”, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of the Sciences, Budapest. (invited talk)
  • June 2013: “Hume, the “Indian Prince”, and the Line Between Miraculous Testimony and Probable Belief”, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of the Sciences, Vienna. (invited talk)
  • June 2013: “A Humean Perspective on Scientific Curiosity”, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria. (invited talk)
  • May 2013: "'No species of reasoning more common, more useful, and even necessary to human life...': Ein neues Bild von David Hume als Theoretiker menschlichen Zeugnisses", Symposium 'überZEUGEN: Die Produktion von Gewissheit und ihre Akteure', Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin, Germany. (invited lecture)
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