Recordings
Here are links to some media appearances and filmed lectures:

• During the COVID pandemic I gave a very brief lecture on the science-policy interface in times of global crisis. You can see me lecturing from my study here.
  
• In the spring of 2020 I was interviewed for a podcast by Business News Radio on deploying the wisdom of the crowd in decision making.
• In 2018 I was interviewed for national radio, for an item on statistical inference in science. A stub for the interview can be found here.
• In October 2017 I took part in a debate at the public library in Amsterdam. You can relive the events of the evening here.
• From 2016 onwards the University of Groningen offers an online course for 10-12 year olds, in which I talk about philosophy of science. Have a look at the trailer with subtitles and at the short introduction in Dutch. The whole series can be viewed here, scroll down to see the philosophy items.
  
• In December 2015 I was interviewed for local radio about science and how it shapes our world. Listen to the interview here.
• In November 2015 I gave a short interview about my lectures to legal professionals, as part of a film for the Kenniscentrum Filosofie at the University of Groningen.
• For the 400-year anniversary of the University of Groningen in 2014 I participated in a short film about reorienting ourselves on renewable energy. (The password for the film is "Bart".)
• In July 2011 I gave a presentation on frequentism and chance at the Ludwig-Maximilians university in Munich. My presentation was filmed and can be found among the many other MCMP presentations here.
• In October 2010 the local television network TV-Noord dedicated an edition of their science programme Adamsappel to probability and statistics. Enjoy the interview with footage from the casino and the racing track.
• In February 2010 I won the university-wide Lecturer of the Year Awards. Have a look at my 7-minute lecture on Reasoning with Probabilities. (Downloading Silverlight normally takes only a few seconds.
• In the autumn of 2009 I appeared on local television to talk about the direction of time. Have a look at Adamsappel and fast forward to 6:40 minutes, which is where the part on the philosophy of time starts.

Slides
The following is a strict selection of the presentations that I gave over the past years.

• Machine Learning, or: the Return of Instrumentalism, Philosophy of Science and Machine Learning conference, Tübingen, October 2022
• Data-driven science and undercover theory, workshop on New Directions in the Foundations of Statistics, Singapore, May 2022
  
• Howson on Induction, with applications to machine learning, Howson memorial conference, London School of Economics, March 2022
• Thick descriptions in Psychopathology: Kraepelin meets Geertz, seminar series at Max Planck HPS institute, Berlin, February 2022
  
• Data-driven medicine? The case of automated disease classification, EPSA conference, Turin, September 2021
  
• Perspectival Realism about Mental Disorders, conference on Metaphysics from a Human Point of View, Edinburgh, April 2021
• Shrinking and Extremizing, research seminar at Utrecht University, January 2020
  
• The Epistemology of Machine Learning, Society for Learning Algorithms, University of Stuttgart, October 2019
• Epistemic Diversity and Editor Decisions, ColAForm workshop, Center for Bubble Studies, Copenhagen, May 2019
  
• Epistemic diversity and Editor Decisions, conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP-10), September 2018
• Psychiatric classification: an a-reductionist perspective, conference on Conceptual Issues in Psychiatry V, Kopenhagen, May 2018
• Retaining diversity and seeking the extreme, workshop on Social Deliberation, Lund, May 2018
• Data-driven Science and Undercover theory, Philosophy of Machine Learning conference, UC Irvine, March 2018
• Resiliency in Psychiatric Science, Topics in Scientific Philosophy, UC Irvine, February 2018
• Classifying in Psychiatry, talk in a workshop on Puzzles of Classification at the LSE, November 2017
• Levels of Description in Psychiatric Research, research seminar at the Virginia Institute of Health, August 2017  
• Stein’s paradox and Group Rationality, during a workshop of the ColAForm network in Paris, October 2017. Other versions of this talk were given at the EPSA17 conference in Exeter in September 2017 and at Düsseldorf, Tilburg, and Bristol.
• Inherent Complexity: A problem for Statistical Model Evaluation, contributed talk at the PSA conference in Atlanta, November 2016
• How Data becomes Evidence: theory-ladenness in statistics, contributed talk at the PSF conference in Doorn, May 2016. An earlier version of this talk was given in Padua in April 2015.
• What are the chances?, research seminar at the University of Salzburg, November 2015. An earlier version of this talk was given at the Chance workshop in London, June 2015
• Onderzoek en engagement, column for the Night of the University at the University of Groningen.
• Social epistemology from Condorcet to Aumann, tutorial at a summer school on Formal Epistemology at the University of Bristol, June 2015
• De waarde van meervoud, presentation for the judges of appeal courts on collective decision making, September 2015
• Analogical Predictions by Proximity among Predicates, talk at a workshop on inductive logic at the Department for Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine, March 2015
• Pooling as a Bayesian update: relations with Condorcet and Aumann, presentation at the Synthese conference of the ILLC, University of Amsterdam. This talk combined two contributions to a symposium about Learning from others at the PSA conference in Chicago, November 2014
  
• Statistics and Full Belief, Or: How to Judge if You Must, presentation at the occasion of Hannes Leitgeb's Descartes Lectures at the TiLPS institute, University of Tilburg, October 2014
• Kansen voor het individu, presentation at meeting of various healthcare stakeholders (Zorginstituut, Zorgverzekeraars Nederland, Orde van Medisch Specialisten, etc.), June 2014
• Statistics and Full Belief, talk at the IPSP conference in Munich, June 2014
• Schnorr randomness and Autonomous Chance, talk at the occasion of Michael Strevens' visit, June 2014
• Comorbidity in Psychiatry, invited talk at the Philosophy Departments of the Universities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, March 2014
• All Agreed. Aumann meets Wagner at a workshop on Deliberation, Agreement, and Consensus, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris, October 2013
• Inductive Logic for Rich Language, keynote lecture at a conference on Inductive Logic and Confirmation in Science, University of Kent, Paris campus, October 2013. More or less the same presentation was given at the MCMP in December 2013
• Filosofie voor de Wetenschappen, lecture for students of the Honours Programme, University of Ghent, October 2013
• Comorbidity in Psychiatry, talk at the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, Columbia University, New York. An earlier version of this talk was given at a workshop on embedded and embodied perspectives on psychiatry, Radboud University Nijmegen, September 2013, and at Philosophy of Science in the Forest, Leusden, May 2013
• Implicit complexity at the EPSA conference 2013, Helsinki University, August 2013. An earlier version was given at a research seminar in Gent University, June 2013
• What is a counterexample? at a Lorentz workshop, Leiden University, March 2013
• Collectieven en collecties at a conference in the Drents Museum, April 2013
• Epistemic Statistics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, February 2013. An earlier version of this talk was given at the EIPE seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, November 2012
• Humanities' new methods at the Conference on the Making of the Humanities III, Instituto Hollandese in Rome, November 2012
• Probability and the Problem of Induction at the Munich-Groningen summer school, Faculty of Philosophy Groningen, August 2012
• Belief Dynamics for Conditionals at a workshop on conditionals in Bristol, August 2012
• Implicit Complexity at the Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, July 2012
• Verrassing! at a symposium on new epistemology of the Dutch Philosophy of Science association (NVWF), June 2012
• De Onvermijdelijkheid van Theorie at the Center for Psychiatry of the University of Groningen, May 2012
• Commentary on Sheldrake at the occasion of Rupert Sheldrake's visit to Groningen, April 2012
• Wat is Tijd? at the Groningen Philosophy Night, April 2012
• Frequencies, Chances and Undefinable Sets at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh, November 2011
• A new resolution of the Judy Benjamin problem at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science of the University of California at Irvine, October 2011
• One size does not fit all: a prior-adapted BIC in the Simplicity seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, October 2011
• Learning Juror Competence: a generalised Condorcet Jury Theorem in the Decisions and Games seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, October 2011
• How to Frame Experimental Facts? at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto, October 2011
• Observations and objectivity in statistics in the colloquium series of the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, September 2011
• Meaning shifts and Conditioning at the Graduate Center of the University of New York, September 2011
• Frequencies, Chances and Undefinable Sets at the Combined research seminar for the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy and the Statistics Department of the Ludwig Maximilians University, July 2011
• How to Frame Experimental Possibilities? at the kick-off workshop for the research project on "Possibility" of Th. Mueller at the Philosophy Department of Utrecht University, May 2011
• Specificity, Accommodation and the Sub-family Problem at the Conference on Novel Predictions, University of Duesseldorf, February 2011
• Interventions and Discovery at the Conference on Discovery in the Social Sciences at the University of Leuven, February 2011
• Modelling Experimental Interventions at the Annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, University of Kwazulu-Natal at Durban, January 2011
• A new resolution of the Judy Benjamin problem at the research seminar at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) at the University of Amsterdam, January 2011
• Objectivity in statistics at a workshop preceding the Descartes Lectures by Ian Hacking at the Tilburg Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, November 2010
• One size does not fit all at a meeting of the European Science Foundation in Kent, September 2010
• Modelling experimental interventions at a workshop on causality in the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, July 2010
• Interventions: a case-study in formalisation at the Future of the Philosophy of Science conference at the Tilburg Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, April 2010
• Rationeel kiezen at an introduction day for the University of Groningen, April 2010
• Testing Indistinguishable Hypotheses? at a research meeting in Valencia, February 2010
• Reasoning with Probabilities at the Lecturer of the Year Awards, University of Groningen, February 2010
• Steele on optional stopping at the SWAP session of the workshop on Decisions, Logic, and Games, University of Lausanne, June 2009
• A new resolution of the Judy Benjamin problem at the Groningen-LSE exchange workshop, London School of Economics, February 2009
• What is a Statistical Hypothesis?, research seminar for the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, February 2009
• A new resolution of the Judy Benjamin problem at the workshop in honour of Bas van Fraassen, Leuven University, December 2008
• Wetenschapsfilosofie in het onderzoek, public lecture for the book series launch "Wetenschapsfilosofie in Context", Boom Uitgevers, De Balie, Amsterdam, November 2008
• Soft evidence: uncertain inference from data at the NWFT workshop on "Evidence in Science and Philosophy of Science", Soeterbeeck, October 2008
• Testing indistinguishable hypotheses at the Workshop on "Inequality Constrained Modelling", Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, October 2008
• Formal methods in the philosophy of science at the LogiCCC Launch conference, European Science Foundation, Prague, October 2008
• A Condorcet jury theorem for unknown juror competence at the Conference on Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology, Tilburg Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science, October 2008
• Intervention, underdetermination, and theory generation at the Causality Study Fortnight, University of Kent at Canterbury, September 2008
• A Condorcet Jury Theorem for Unknown Juror Competence at the 2008 Conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of St Andrews, July 2008
• What is a Statistical Hypothesis? at the Conference on Induction: Historical and Contemporary Approaches University of Ghent, July 2008
• Updating on Conditionals at the Conference What If So What, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, December 2007
• De Galerie als Laboratorium (1.5Mb) at art gallery NP3 in Groningen, November 2007
• Introduction to Bayesian Inference and Bayesian Statistical Inference at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Valencia, November 2007
• Formal Models of Explorative Experiments at the First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Complutense University of Madrid, October 2007
• De Keuze als Rekensom (1.2Mb) at the Humanistisch Verbond, Leeuwarden, October 2007
• A Philosophical Analysis of Inequality-constrained Models at the Workshop on Null, Alternative and Informative Hypotheses, Department of Psychological Methods, Utrecht University, July 2007
• Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks at the Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, May 2007
• Kuddebeesten: hoe redelijk is de groep? (1.0Mb) for the Groninger Stichting voor Wijsbegeerte, Groningen, 2007
• Mirror Images: philosophical reflections on space (2.0Mb) at the Philosopher's Rally, Faculty of Philosophy, Groningen, 2007
• Between Recklessness and Despair. Comments on Douven at the Epistemology Workshop, University of Leuven, February 2007
• Abducted by Bayesians? at the research seminar of the Philosophy Department, University of Duesseldorff, January 2007
• The Discursive Dilemma as a Lottery Paradox at the International Workshop for Computational Social Science, Amsterdam, November 2006

Last updated
23 May 2023. If you wish to obtain the slides of more recent talks, please contact me.