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    • AN EMERGING BOOK >
      • 0. INTRODUCTION
      • 1. MANIFESTO
      • 2. 12 THESES
      • 3. THE AGE OF MACHINES
      • 4. DEATH TO THE DEMON
      • 5. A LARGE WORLD
      • 6. MECHANISTIC MAPS
      • 7. CHURCH-TURING-DEUTSCH
      • 8. THE LOST NARRATIVE
      • 9. WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A SCIENTIST
      • 10. EPISTEMIC CUTS
      • 11. THE ART OF MODELLING
      • 12. THE WORLD IS NOT A SET
      • A1: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
      • A2: DOES IT COMPUTE?
      • A3: SOME WORDS ABOUT SET THEORY
      • A4: LIMITATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
      • A5: WHAT IS CATEGORY THEORY?
    • PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
    • PRESENTATIONS
    • ONLINE ESSAYS
    • ONLINE DISCUSSIONS
    • PODCASTS
    • OUTREACH
  • EVENTS
    • FINAL WORKSHOP
    • OUTREACH - rewilding (exhibition)
    • OUTREACH - intangible (exhibition)
    • OUTREACH - dialogführung
    • OUTREACH - open studio #3
    • OUTREACH - landmachine (exhibition)
    • OUTREACH - open studio #2
    • OUTREACH - lecture performance
    • INTERNAL WORKSHOP
    • OUTREACH - open studio #1
    • OUTREACH - performance
  • QUICK THOUGHTS

Presentations

At scientific conferences and workshops and elsewhere ...
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Johannes Jaeger:

Aug 4, 2025   - IIASA, Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSB), Laxenburg, "Agential systems are not (completely) formalizable"
Apr 29, 2025  - Mathbio Seminar, Charles University Prague, "How (not) to model an organism"
Nov 27, 2024 - Google Research Seminar: Paradigms of Intelligence, "Artificial Intelligence is Algorithmic Mimicry"
Jul 31, 2024   - Workshop: "The Organic and the Normative", Ljubljana, "Organizational Continuity through Immanent Causation"
Mar 1, 2024   - Computational Phenomenology Working Group (Karl Friston), "Beyond Abduction & Active Inference"
Nov 25, 2023 - Workshop: "What is Life? - Beyond Reductionism" (see also here), Ljubljana, "Life is all about relations"
Nov 8, 2023  - FIAS Workshop, Frankfurt: "Condensed Complexity", "Cognition is a Form of Agency, not Computation"
Oct 25, 2023 - Invited Seminar, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna, "Pushing the Boundaries - Modeling Organismic Agents and their Evolution"
Oct 17, 2023 - ÖAW Colloquium: Convergence: Interfaces of the Digital and Living, "Disruption or convergence? Cognition redistributed between the biological and the artificial" (with Tarja Knuuttila)
Sep 26, 2023 - Bernstein Conference (Satellite Workshop), "Brains are not machines ... and why this really matters in practice"
Jul 12, 2023  - ISHPSSB 2023, Toronto, "The Roles of Agency in Open Evolution"
Jul 4, 2023    - JTF Workshop "Agency & Life", University of the Aegean, Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece, "An Evolutionary Account of Relevance Realization"
Jun 16, 2023 - Ronin Institute, Lighting Talk, "Beyond the Age of Machines - An Emerging Book"
May 26, 2023 - Séminaire Philbio, IHPST - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, "The Fourth Perspective: The Reproducer as the Minimal Unit of Evolution"
Apr 24, 2023 - Conferencia Amazónica
: Universidad Regional Amazónica, Colombia, "The Fourth Perspective: Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Agency"
Apr 14, 2023 - Optimist 
Café (online), "Are we misunderstanding AI?"
Mar 22, 2023 - Workshop: "Toward a Science of Intrinsic Purposiveness", Paris, "Ontogenesis, Organization, and Organismal Agency"
Feb 22, 2023 - IIASA/ÖAW/UNDP, Flash Talk (at 49:20 of the recorded video), "Human Development, Sustainability, and Agency"

Feb 15, 2023 - Institute for Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), EvoLunch Seminar, "Life finds a way: open-ended evolution and the limits of formalization"

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Tarja Knuuttila

Jun 20, 2024, Seminar: Inst for Quantum Optics & Information, "The Biography of a Model Template" (with Andrea Loettgers)
Jun 13-15, 2024, Conference: Models, Representation, and Computation, École Normale Supérieure, "The Kuramoto Model: The Biography of a Model Template" (with Andrea Loettgers & Max Noichl)
Nov 9-10, 2023, Workhop: Open Historicity of Life, École Normale Supérieure, "Model Templates: Transdisciplinary Application - Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science" (with Andrea Loettgers)
Oct 17, 2023 - ÖAW Colloquium: Convergence: Interfaces of the Digital and Living, "Disruption or convergence? Cognition redistributed between the biological and the artificial" (with Johannes Jaeger)


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Andrea Loettgers

Apr 2-4, 2025, Workshop: LLMs for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, TU Berlin, "Investigating the transdisciplinary application of model templates through projective methods"
Nov 14-17, 2024 - PSA 2024, New Orleans, "Model Templates and Analogies in Model Transfer: From Physics to Biology 
Jun 20, 2024, Seminar: Inst for Quantum Optics & Information, "The Biography of a Model Template" (with Tarja Knuuttila)
Jun 17, 2024, Workshop: Scientific Understanding & Representation (SURe), LSE, "On Machine-Learning-Generated Representational Artifacts" (with Max Noichl & Rona Avrim)
Jun 13-15, 2024, Conference: Models, Representation, and Computation, École Normale Supérieure, "The Kuramoto Model: The Biography of a Model Template" (with Tarja Knuuttila & Max Noichl)
Nov 9-10, 2023, Workhop: Open Historicity of Life, École Normale Supérieure, "Model Templates: Transdisciplinary Application - Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science" (with Tarja Knuuttila)
Sep 20-23, 2023, EPSA 2023, Belgrade, "The combinatorial possibilities of synthetic biology"


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Paul Poledna

Feb 17-19, 2025 - Inaugural Symposium on Logic in the Arab World, Kuwait, "On the Foundations of Biological Logic: A Meta-theoretical Investigation" 
Nov 25, 2023 - Workshop: "What is Life? - Beyond Reductionism" (see also here), Ljubljana, "Mind the Gap Between Physics and Syntax"


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Kevin Purkhauser

Sep 17-22, 2024, Philosophicum, Lech, Essay Presentation: "Philosophie der Störung"
Aug 19-23, 2024 - Robophilosophy, Aarhus, "Sensual Robots"
Dec 12, 2023 - Astronomy Symposium, Vienna, "Water Delivery to Earth"
Nov 25, 2023 - Workshop: "What is Life? - Beyond Reductionism" (see also here), Ljubljana, "Mind the Gap Between Physics and Syntax"
Jul 3-5, 2023 - Colloquium "Emergence and Time", Braga, "Quantum Thermodynamics and Emergence: A Heat Bath"


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Rami Koskinen

Jul 25, 2025 - ISHPSSB 2025, Porto, "Assembly possible and the role of biological contingency in biological modality"
Jun 13, 2025 - STS Italia, Milan, "Constructivism is dead, long live (modal) constructivism!" (with I. Pättiniemi & I. Hirvonen)
Nov 14-17, 2024 - PSA 2024, New Orleans, "Design spaces in synthetic biology" (with C.-H. Lin)

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  • Home
  • ABOUT
    • OVERVIEW
    • PEOPLE
    • CONTACT
  • ACTIVITIES
    • AN EMERGING BOOK >
      • 0. INTRODUCTION
      • 1. MANIFESTO
      • 2. 12 THESES
      • 3. THE AGE OF MACHINES
      • 4. DEATH TO THE DEMON
      • 5. A LARGE WORLD
      • 6. MECHANISTIC MAPS
      • 7. CHURCH-TURING-DEUTSCH
      • 8. THE LOST NARRATIVE
      • 9. WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A SCIENTIST
      • 10. EPISTEMIC CUTS
      • 11. THE ART OF MODELLING
      • 12. THE WORLD IS NOT A SET
      • A1: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
      • A2: DOES IT COMPUTE?
      • A3: SOME WORDS ABOUT SET THEORY
      • A4: LIMITATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
      • A5: WHAT IS CATEGORY THEORY?
    • PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
    • PRESENTATIONS
    • ONLINE ESSAYS
    • ONLINE DISCUSSIONS
    • PODCASTS
    • OUTREACH
  • EVENTS
    • FINAL WORKSHOP
    • OUTREACH - rewilding (exhibition)
    • OUTREACH - intangible (exhibition)
    • OUTREACH - dialogführung
    • OUTREACH - open studio #3
    • OUTREACH - landmachine (exhibition)
    • OUTREACH - open studio #2
    • OUTREACH - lecture performance
    • INTERNAL WORKSHOP
    • OUTREACH - open studio #1
    • OUTREACH - performance
  • QUICK THOUGHTS