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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
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